Packers tight end review: Hooping or Hunting?

As is tradition this time of year, the possibility of the Green Bay Packers adding a big-name tight end through free agency is nigh. This idea may feel fans with either hope or despair. After negotiations with Jared Cook fell through after 2016, the Packers compensated by signing Martellus Bennett (bringing ultimate despair) and Lance Kendricks in 2017 and Jimmy Graham and Marcedes Lewis in 2018.

With the exception of Lewis as a solid TE2, none of these moves really helped the Packers shore up the deficiency at the tight end position. Yet just because these moves didn’t work well doesn’t mean every free agent signing is cursed, right? While Sternberger is primed for a year-two leap, the…