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Tight ends

Average touchdown lengths

I posted the average touchdown lengths of wide receivers yesterday. Figured I’d follow that with the same for tight ends – which guys are tending to score their touchdowns from the farthest away.

I used stats for the last five years, and I’m including all tight ends with at least 15 touchdowns in that span.

Jared Cook comes in at No. 1, with his average touchdown coming from over 25 yards. That’s not surprising. Cook has good speed, and he’s been pretty lousy in the red zone. (That is, he’s not scoring many 1-, 2- and 3-yard touchdowns to bring that average down). With Cook’s lack of effectiveness around the goal line, that’s the primary reason I’m a lot lower on him than most everyone else seems to be. I can promise you he won’t be on any of my teams.

Four other players have averaged touchdowns from over 18 yards – Delanie Walker, Coby Fleener, Vernon Davis and Lance Kendricks.

During the same span, Heath Miller, Tony Gonzalez, Owen Daniels and Anthony Fasano have scored the shortest touchdowns, on average. Not sure if any of those guys will ever catch another one, but whatever.

TIGHT ENDS, TD LENGTHS (2011-15)
PlayerTDAvg
Jared Cook1525.5
Delanie Walker2218.6
Coby Fleener1718.6
Lance Kendricks1518.4
Vernon Davis2618.2
Greg Olsen2916.1
Rob Gronkowski5515.8
Julius Thomas2915.1
Jimmy Graham4813.7
Jason Witten2413.0
Scott Chandler2113.0
Antonio Gates3512.5
Kyle Rudolph2212.0
Tyler Eifert1511.9
Jermaine Gresham2111.6
Martellus Bennett1910.6
Benjamin Watson1510.5
Brent Celek1610.4
Anthony Fasano1910.4
Owen Daniels1910.0
Tony Gonzalez239.0
Heath Miller166.9

—Ian Allan

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