Shadowlight
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He could have been a star. I don't know if the curtain is closing on the career of TE Coby Fleener ( he was drafted in 2012) but he has been released by the Saints. He has had several concussions thanks to head hunting black DBs who relish taking out athletic white skill receivers with vicious skull shots.
Of course somebody could sign him and I sure hope so.
Truth of the matter Fleener has always been underused. He teamed up fairly well with his former Stanford teammate Luck and had his best season in 2014 with a 51-774-8 TD stat line. But for someone with his explosive athletic skills ( 4.51 40 with a 37 inch vertical) at 6'6 250 we are talking about a real athletic TE like Mike Gesicki. Very smooth and agile. He should have had Kelce like stats.
Predictably when he landed with the caste slanted Saints in 2016 his stats were ok (50-631) but they used him as an afterthought. Last season they rarely involved him at all. The Saints just didn't seem interested in integrating him into the offense in any meaningful way.
The oddity about Fleener is when he did get involved you could see his Kelce like explosiveness in the open field.
I would like to see him land with a team that can exploit his talents better. We will have to wait and see.
Of course somebody could sign him and I sure hope so.
Truth of the matter Fleener has always been underused. He teamed up fairly well with his former Stanford teammate Luck and had his best season in 2014 with a 51-774-8 TD stat line. But for someone with his explosive athletic skills ( 4.51 40 with a 37 inch vertical) at 6'6 250 we are talking about a real athletic TE like Mike Gesicki. Very smooth and agile. He should have had Kelce like stats.
Predictably when he landed with the caste slanted Saints in 2016 his stats were ok (50-631) but they used him as an afterthought. Last season they rarely involved him at all. The Saints just didn't seem interested in integrating him into the offense in any meaningful way.
The oddity about Fleener is when he did get involved you could see his Kelce like explosiveness in the open field.
I would like to see him land with a team that can exploit his talents better. We will have to wait and see.
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