He’s a guy that is a really really good blocker and also catch the ball. If we dont get him though, i think Celek can do a good job this season. I think he’ll step up.

But the utterly obscene amount of highly touted TE prospects that turned out to be misses is nothing short of horrific. Tight ends really aren’t worth a first-round pick unless you know what you’re getting, and since you never know what you’re getting…yeah.

…stated here is not good. So I say, buyer beware.

its Pettigrew and its our 2nd, 1st round pick. ie.after we get Knowshon or DBrown.

Even the most elite TE prospects are barely worth late 1st round status IMHO. They should start to be picked up late 1st or early 2nd, but certainly not within the first 10-15 picks. Just my opinion.

Also, if you are athletic/talented enough to get drafted in the top 10 as a TE, then you shouldn’t be a TE, you should be playing another position where you can be used to your full potential. Most TE’s are busts anyway, and the position seems very hard to evaluate, so that’s why I would lay low and commit a lower round pick (2nd, 3rd, 4th) for a TE.

How Cook and Ingram are blocking wise?

I believe, with the talent out there, we have an opportunity to fill other gaps before tight end. I have faith in Celek, the kid seems very legit. If Pettigrew is around at 28, maybe I’d consider. We do need somebody who can block on the outside that is for sure. But I think we grab one of the RBs first, then who knows what Andy and Co. will do..For some reason I feel RB coupled with a lineman in the first round, if we even still have 21 & 28 on draft day..anything can happen on draft day, us as Eagles fans know this first hand! The Eagles love wheelin’ and dealin’ their picks..Although, I’m pretty confident we’ll actually have a pick in the first round this year!

I do see them making a trade somewhere in the 2nd or 3rd and maybe addressing TE then with Cook or Ingram.. I just hope we have Moreno or McCoy but the end of the first day.

I just think they need to get rid of Schobel. He can’t block and isn’t a game breaking TE or anything like that. His lack of blocking skills in the 3 TE sets is pretty much worthless. I don’t think there is a single LB in the league he can block.

So basically what I’m saying is we need a TE. On the other hand, I don’t think we need one in the first round. There are plenty of athletes that can be had later in the draft. Pettigrew is only being considered a first round pick because he’s the best of the TEs in this draft. I don’t think that means he has 1st round talent. He’s just the best of the mediocre.

But of course, I’m also not an NFL scout

NO

I hate to call a guy out because I’m as much an armchair quarterback as the rest of you BUT when would be the appropriate time to question a positions coach on this team?

Tom Melvin is entering his 11th season as a member of the Eagles offensive coaching staff and his eighth as the club’s tight ends coach. He served his first three seasons as the team’s offensive assistant/quality control coach.

Melvin has played a key role in the development of tight ends Brent Celek and L.J. Smith. Smith was a second-round draft choice in 2003, who has hauled in 249 passes and 19 TDs (including playoffs) over his first six NFL campaigns, and Celek led the team in the 2008 postseason with 19 receptions and 3 touchdowns.

EIGHT SEASONS and your resume is LJ Smith and Brent Celek!? Is that acceptable?

Not sure if anyone watched HBO’s Hard Knocks last year, but the one positive thing I could give Dallas cedit for was their TE coach – a Princeton guy: John Garrett. At first he seemed like a total tool and he rode the hell out of his TE’s, the rookie especially. But you can’t knock the position. Garrett jumped on board in 07 & you have to wonder how much credit a positions coach should get for strength at a position. In the two seasons there, Witten had his best season and Dallas developed/is developing Fasano, Curtis and Bennett into better players.

I want more from Melvin, I want more from our TEs, I want blocking, I want ball security at the position, I want red zone production, I want first downs, I want yards after the catch.

If we need to spend a 1st round pick to get those things out of the position then so be it.

I have to think most of it comes down to talent. I can’t say that I’ve been overly impressed w/ the developmental progression of the TE position for us; which is strictly a coaching problem. We def. need depth at the position and I think the Grew would be able to step in and challenge for the #1 spot from day 1.