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Steelers 2016 Free Agents Analysis: TE Rob Blanchflower – Exclusive Rights

Player: Rob Blanchflower

Position: Tight End

Experience: 1 Year

Free Agent Status: Exclusive Rights

2015 Salary Cap Hit: $435,000

2015 Season Breakdown: Tight end Rob Blanchflower was a 2014 seventh-round draft pick of the Steelers, which has been the typical spot for the team to find their tight ends in the recent years between the drafting of Matt Spaeth in the third round in 2007 and, finally, Jesse James last year in the fifth round.

Because the Steelers have had a reliable one-two punch with Heath Miller and Spaeth for the better part of the past decade or so, they have not spent a great deal of time or resources in the intervening years on the position, but that focus has begun to change as their two stalwarts reach their mid-30s and near the end of their careers.