NY Giants’ TE Evan Engram’s Pro Bowl selection was met with skepticism, and rightly so.
If the Pro Bowl is the measure of success of the selected player’s season, then by most metrics NY Giants tight end Evan Engram should not have been picked.
To be fair, I personally do not believe in the Engram hype. And though there are plenty who feel like Engram was a bust of a pick from a regime that was ultimately fired, there are plenty of people who are paid to evaluate NFL talent that believe in him.
An AFC scout told FanSided’s Matt Lombardo earlier this year, just before the trade deadline, that Gettleman’s top priority should be moving Engram.
“If I were the Giants, trying to trade Evan Engram would be my top priority. I’d try to find a team that actually knows how to use him, and accumulate as many picks as I can over the next week.”
But the Giants seemed to rather hang onto Engram’s potential than move him for other assets.
Perhaps the Giants were right to; even during a down year on a bad offense, he was viewed as one of the four best representations of what a tight end is in today’s NFL.
So to make sense of his pick, if just for myself, let’s review some of the metrics that show why Engram was selected as a Pro Bowl tight end.