[tps_title]Tight End Rico Gathers[/tps_title]
More practice squad Dallas Cowboys football players! The Baylor basketball star turned Cowboys tight end, sixth round pick Rico Gathers spent the season on the scout team simply learning the tight end position and the game of football as a whole.
The team is hoping that Gathers can be the latest “basketball style” TE to dominate the NFL, and they paid him as such this season – giving him an active player’s salary to continue working his way towards game day with the Cowboys.
I am always all for this team drafting the best player available to them in the first round of the draft (the philosophy that’s brought us the Space Cowboys, Byron Jones, and Ezekiel Elliott), and the BPA pick at 28 would likely be Alabama TE O.J. Howard if he somehow slips that late into the first round.
Miami TE David Njoku is also an intriguing name at the position, and there is no doubt that both hyper-athletic, versatile TEs would add a missing element to Dallas’ passing attack. Do the Cowboys already have this type of player in Rico Gathers though?
Gathers doesn’t necessarily have to be ready to start behind Jason Witten in week 1 of 2017, as Geoff Swaim and possibly James Hanna will be healthy once again, but his development progress is pivotal to the Cowboys draft strategy.
What if I told you that in 2016 the Cowboys drafted Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott, Jaylon Smith, and a TE with as high of a ceiling as OJ Howard – a consensus first round pick in the upcoming draft?
This could be the case with Rico Gathers, as he looks to go from a rebounding star to a football star at The Star.
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