Kaptain Poop said:It seems like the quickest way for a white reciever to be replaced by the NFLs "real" recievers and find his way back to the bench or get cut from the team altogether is to have a good performance(s) (see Mike Furrey above, Patrick Jeffers, Mark Boerigter etc etc).
Zach Hilton's story is no different. Last year he was one of the most productive TEs in football the final 8 games of the season - starting only 6 of them. In the final 8 games he lead the Saints recieving core with 32 receptions! That's the Arron Brooks lead Saints no less! The guy is 6'8" and in his fourth year he finally got a chance to prove he can play. One would think any NFL team would be drooling to have young 6'8" proven talent like Hilton on their team. No sirree, Hilton was cut by the Saints in the preseason and then picked up by the Jets. They even fooled the jock-sniffing fantasy football sites. Now it looks like he will take the route of all the other white proven talent and be bounced around the league before disappearing for good. This just in from FF update:
Zach Hilton, TE NYJ
News: The Jets released TE Zachary Hilton on Saturday.
Analysis: That's the second team that's released him in the past month. So much for his sleeper TE value. He may re-sign with some other team, or even the Jets, but should be ignored until then.
When you consider how many crappy black receivers get recycled over and over it just boggles my mind what happened to Zach.