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Martellus Bennett TE Texas A&M
STRENGTHS
Martellus is a long, lanky TE that has good overall athletic
talent. He does a decent job blocking at the college level
and looks to be a solid teammate. He runs his routes,
ummm...oh
crap. The truth is, I don’t have a clue why this kid is
coming out early for the draft. He is not close to being
ready to be productive at the next level.
NEEDS TO IMPROVE
I’m not sure if Martellus can catch a ball with any kind of
consistency down the field. He doesn’t run routes with any
kind of authority at all. His blocking is solid, but he is
not strong enough to sustain his blocks at the college level
much less in the NFL. He does an excellent job of
keeping his feet moving when he blocks and believe me, that
is a big positive. When he runs his routes, he shows no
explosion off the line and no interest in freeing himself up
and making a good target for his QB. I am not convinced by
the way this kid plays that he understands the
responsibility of his position and how it relates to the
whole team concept. I think he feels because his QB is not
very good, that he's free from having to try and improve. I’m sure this kid is a good
kid, but I'm just not sure from his play on the field
that he will be any better than a # 2 TE in a two TE
offense.
TALENT BOARD ROUND 5 C
This boy is still a child in football maturity years. I
know that at this writing that this kid is being pushed as a
pretty good TE for the next level. I don’t see it! Now, I
have been wrong before, but from the film I have on him, there
is nothing that impresses me except for the fact that when
he blocks he keeps his feet moving. I know the QB for this
team is weak, but that has never stopped me from
profiling a player for the next level. A player who has
talent will show it. It will stick out like a sore thumb.
Most of the time when they move this kid around in the
passing game, he runs his routes late and doesn’t seem to
understand what to do. The few balls that were thrown to
him, he did not make much of an effort to go after them and
he seems to have hands of stone. He does seem to give good
effort when he blocks but he has very little strength to
execute the in-line blocking assignments that will be
required of him at the next level. As far as I’m concerned,
this kid is being rated way too high, but let's see what
happens after the combine. Maybe his workouts will shock
the hell out of me and make me change my mind. But
something tells me that what I see on the film is going to
override anything that he can do at the combine because this
kid is not ready for the next level. It’s just that
simple.
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