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Welcome back to our series in which we’re grading each position group based on how it performed in spring practice, and ranking the respective units within the team. We continue with tight ends.

If spring is any indication, the tight ends matter in this offense. This year’s, at least. First-year OC Graham Harrell can only work with the pieces he’s given, and it was good to see that a position group fully capable of making a significant contribution won’t be neglected. There are no promises for just how much these tight ends will produce in 2019, but they were targeted enough in spring to assume they won’t simply occupy space on the field. Even quarterback JT Daniels looked their way regularly, this after they were regarded mostly as an afterthought last fall.