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UTEP Football 2016 Position Group Preview: Tight Ends

Tight End Depth Chart

  • Kent Taylor, 6'5, 240 lbs, Senior, 2015 stats: 15 catches, 179 yards, 30 targets, 50% catch rate
  • Hayden Plinke, 6'4, 255 lbs, Senior, 2015 stats: 37 catches, 410 yards, 64 targets, 57.8% catch rate
  • Sterling Napier, 6'4, 255 lbs, Junior
  • Augie Touris, ,6'4, 250 lbs, Sophomore

Heading into the summer, tight end was a big question mark, and apparent weakness coming out of spring practices.

But then Kent Taylor decided to transfer to UTEP, teaming up with Hayden Plinke to form a legitimate duo at tight end that can not only help UTEP's to-be-named starting quarterback, but make UTEP's passing game a legit threat.