Crowning the NFL's best tight end

While many have focused on how difficult it’s been for NFL franchises to scout the receiver position in recent years, another position has seen a similarly dismal track record over the past decade. There simply aren’t a lot of true difference-makers as the tight end position in today’s NFL, even though teams consistently go searching for them early in the draft. Here are all the first-round picks at the position over the past decade.

Player Year Pick No. Jermaine Gresham 2010 21 Tyler Eifert 2013 21 Eric Ebron 2014 10 O.J. Howard 2017 19 Evan Engram 2017 23 David Njoku 2017 29 Hayden Hurst 2018 25 T.J. Hockenson 2019 8 Noah Fant 2019 20 That list reads like a who’s who of tantalizing yet…