All-Ferentz Team: Tight End

For sure, when the 10th rated guy has played in the NFL, it's a loaded position.
 
If I'm being honest on what my eyes saw and what I remember about Dallas Clark, I would rate them as follows:

1) TJ Hockenson
2) Dallas Clark
3) Noah Fant

I don't remember Clark being the bruiser that Hockenson was in the running game, but I do know that team ran the ball better than any Iowa team, without Shonn Greene, so Clark must have been a very good blocking TE. I was tempted to put Fant #2 also. People don't give Fant the credit he is due. Opposing defenses needed to prepare for him and he was often doubled with safety over the top. He got Hock one on one all the time. The other thing is that Stanley couldn't hit him for some reason...I have several memories of him running wide open and the ball being no where near him. I put Fant #3 because he wasn't as good a blocker as the other two guys.
 
Fant & Kittle were bulked up WRs.

Considering how loaded we were at TE during their reign, the offense probably would be more potent with them at the WR position. Please save you story about "slow". Kittle ran a 4.52 and Fant ran a 4.5, plenty fast enough in the B1G.
 
KF is on record (albeit before Fant and Hockenson showed up) as saying that Tony was not only the best TE he ever coached, but the best FOOTBALL PLAYER he's ever coached at Iowa. Had he not constantly been injured, I think Tony would have gone down as an all timer.
 
Looking at that list, if anyone still claims that Miami is TE U, they are nuts. Iowa owns that title, and our best alum at the position didn't just get tried for unspeakable things.....
 
For me, there are two buckets.

You have the uber athletic TEs like Fant, Kittle, and Moeki. Moeki was the best athlete of the group, which is saying something, but he had a glass jaw. Kittle is in the conversation for what he is doing in the NFL, but at Iowa, Fant is the best of this bucket. All of them were freaks of nature.

As for the more traditional, inline TEs, you have Hock and Clark. Dallas was a slightly better receiver, but Hock's blocking ability is otherworldly. There is a reason he went 10th overall. My vote for this bucket, and overall, is Hock.

So loaded....
 
Even Tony Jackson got three years on NFL practice squads. So which starting TE's didn't get at least a sniff at the NFL?
 
First one of these that I disagree with, I would take Hock over Dallas. I wonder if Fant's brother is tweeting out something about it being KF's fault that Noah didn't make this list.
 
WinOneThisCentury said:
If I'm being honest on what my eyes saw and what I remember about Dallas Clark, I would rate them as follows:

1) TJ Hockenson
2) Dallas Clark
3) Noah Fant

I don't remember Clark being the bruiser that Hockenson was in the running game, but I do know that team ran the ball better than any Iowa team, without Shonn Greene, so Clark must have been a very good blocking TE. I was tempted to put Fant #2 also. People don't give Fant the credit he is due. Opposing defenses needed to prepare for him and he was often doubled with safety over the top. He got Hock one on one all the time. The other thing is that Stanley couldn't hit him for some reason...I have several memories of him running wide open and the ball being no where near him. I put Fant #3 because he wasn't as good a blocker as the other two guys.
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It was strange how it seems like Hock always received a perfect pass and Fant always had bad ones. It kinda makes you wonder if Fant lacks the ability to track the ball a little bit. Some receivers are better at knowing exactly where the ball will end up as soon as it leaves the QBs hand. Obviously there were overthrows he had no chance at. But maybe with some underthrows some of it was on him.
 
I think people are forgetting what a good blocker Kittle was. Yes, he was/is very athletic, but it is his blocking that got him noticed first by the NFL (and then the combine 40 time solidified things).
 
AreWeThereYet said:
Even Tony Jackson got three years on NFL practice squads. So which starting TE's didn't get at least a sniff at the NFL?
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I think Duzey got some sniffs as well. I mean, a kid who scored on a 80+ yard TD at Ohio State by outrunning their secondary isn't even good enough to get on the final 10 list. Just insane.
 
okeefe4prez said:
I think Duzey got some sniffs as well. I mean, a kid who scored on a 80+ yard TD at Ohio State by outrunning their secondary isn't even good enough to get on the final 10 list. Just insane.
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Erik Jensen also got some time in the NFL.
 
just an absolutely stud list and remember how many really great offensive linemen hayden and kirk have had who were initially slated as TEnd types, Alt being one.
 
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