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BALLER MOVE: Target Around ~181 Overall
CURRENT ADP: ~211
ANALYSIS: After five seasons with the New York Giants, Engram now finds himself in Jacksonville after signing a one-year, fully guaranteed $9 million contract with the Jaguars. The last two seasons in New York have been a blur for all involved, and that includes Engram.
He scored just five total touchdowns and averaged 5.9 targets per game over that stretch compared to 7.8 targets per game in 31 fully healthy games between 2017 and 2019. Recall, Engram finished as a top-seven tight end on a per-game basis his first three seasons in the NFL. The talent is there, but the situation wasn't with the lackluster coaching and play-calling from head coach Joe Judge and offensive coordinator Jason Garrett in 2020 and 2021.
But things are different now, and we almost need to erase what happened in the last two seasons in order to properly project Engram's output in 2022. He's now playing with what is supposed to be one of the best young quarterbacks in the league in Trevor Lawrence and for a head coach that prioritizes pass-catching tight ends in Doug Pederson. From 2016 to 2020, Zach Ertz averaged 8.3 targets per game on a Pederson-coached Eagles team. He finished as a top-five tight end in four of those five seasons.
He's got the workout metrics (97th percentile speed, 87th percentile burst, 91st percentile agility, and 93rd percentile catch radius per PlayerProfiler), the past performance (TE7 or better between 2017 and 2019), and now the ambiguous situation we look for when identifying breakout players. There's a chance that between Christian Kirk, Marvin Jones Jr., and Zay Jones, Engram could find himself as a preferred option in the passing game. In fact, Jags beat writer John Shipley believes he could really break out.
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