Vanderbilt opens 2021 fall camp with five scholarship tight ends on the roster — and four of them have one career reception among them.
That happens when one guy at the position has established himself as THE guy at a position that generally doesn’t rotate all that much. While Vanderbilt under Derek Mason would sometimes use two tight ends in a set, there’s no guarantee that Clark Lea will continue doing that. And inevitably one of the tight ends would be used mostly as a blocker, with one featured guy — sequentially in Mason’s tenure, Steven Scheu, Jared Pinkney, and the current incumbent — handling the bulk of the pass-catching at the position.