For the last few years, there’s been a debate going on in the National Football League about which tight end is the best in the league.
When Rob Gronkowski burst onto the scene, he quickly took the consensus title from the standard bearers: an aging Antonio Gates and Jimmy Graham — a different type of tight end. The difference between Gronkowski and the others was superior blocking — and superior might have been an understatement compared to many of the other top NFL tight ends.
But by 2016, it was becoming apparent that Gronkowski was injury-prone, and clearly starting to move a little differently on the football field.