Madden NFL 17 Player Ratings - Top 5 Tight Ends

[charter04]

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These seem fine to me. I'm always biased towards Cowboys players just because I watch all their games. Witten is in my top 5 but, I understand why he's lower.

Gronk is a 99 if anyone is. Dude is a beast. Probably not an 89 RTE though. He uses his size more than great RTE.


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[Datninja619]

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Definitely a position that, depending on your scheme, mileage will vary. Hard for them to get a "perfect list" when some people look for blocking TEs or receiving TEs with varied preferences.

Tis true. With the Chargers, Gates is a Hall of Fame player. With a smash mouth team like the 49ers, he's probably a situational blocker.

Jimmy Graham is also a good example of scheme vs production

[solmon]

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Agree with many here. Kelce wildly overlooked, Walker rated much too high.

[angels eclipse7]

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Walker absolutely deserves to be where he is. It could be argued he should be higher. He's one of the best blocking tight ends in the league who put up elite tight end receiving stats last season.

[jpdavis82]

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Replace Graham with Reed I'm good


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[underdog13]

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A lot of people don't know much about Delaine Walker apparently.

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[showstoppert61]

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The Saints always have a top TE. Look out for Fleener!

[ASUBoy93]

Jeez, a guy has one sub-par year (by Graham standards) and now he is no longer a top 5 TE to you guys. Jordan Reed is good and Kelce should be in the top 5, but Graham has been an elite TE for several seasons now. He was just fitting into the offense when he had his injury. It takes some time to develop rhythm with a new QB, especially when you were working with a much different QB and playbook for multiple seasons. By next season if Graham plays the same way, then yeah, that would be a trend. But cut the guy a break. If he's healthy then you should expect to see a more typical Graham season.

[J.Cole]

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Jeez, a guy has one sub-par year (by Graham standards) and now he is no longer a top 5 TE to you guys. Jordan Reed is good and Kelce should be in the top 5, but Graham has been an elite TE for several seasons now. He was just fitting into the offense when he had his injury. It takes some time to develop rhythm with a new QB, especially when you were working with a much different QB and playbook for multiple seasons. By next season if Graham plays the same way, then yeah, that would be a trend. But cut the guy a break. If he's healthy then you should expect to see a more typical Graham season.

Its not that he played bad for him to be not top-5 it's that other Tight Ends played much better.

Jimmy Graham should still be a solid 6th or 7th in the rankings but luckily for us there is a reason they have roster updates.

[Wildcats302]

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A lot of people don't know much about Delaine Walker apparently.

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Yeah Walker was the Titans offense last year and he still dominated. I'm very excited about Walker in the pass game as I expect the Titans to go run heavy with Murray and Henry and Mariota even to a small extent. Whatever it takes to keep that defense off the field for long periods of time...only shot the Titans have of winning more games this year IMO is ball control. Walker will be huge again, but maybe some WRs step up to help him some.

[Mattanite]

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I will wait until the game comes out to confirm this but like with the overall boost in QB DAC this year, it looks like a boost and spread for TE RBK.


I would hazard a guess that like QB DAC being increased due to new DB mechanics (like swat) and real ball physics, the TE RBK will make a difference against the new read and react/lanes run defence. So a decent RBK TE will actually make a block and be more valuable there even though he could be an average catcher, but a poor blocking TE will barely rub the edge defender and your run play will get blown up, despite them being a "power forward" superstar catcher.


As with rating spread adjustments last year (looking at you rookie DAC and player speed), I hope, I hope, I hope the rookie rosters have been tuned for these adjustments!!!!!!! (and don't give me the excuse about roster editing, if we can see the problems coming a mile off, so should they!).


p.s. plus, hopefully in the game, but to this point, there are no real "freak" rookies in the draft classes like Gronk, or OBJ, or Von Miller, or Cam Newton... just different shades of average to good... hopefully I am wrong.


Update: It looks like a recent tweet has shown that there could actually be some "freak" type athletes and that rosters have been tuned for changes... wait and see.