Is this guy any good? I read he is another 6 foot 3 dude ... and seems in the past most of our 6'2 6-4 dudes have all been only average or below.
Originally Posted by: Dulak
Kendricks stinks! If GB paid more than 1.5M per I’ll be disappointed, for 1.5M or less, it’s a good signing to give Angelichio a chance to catch lightning.
Didn’t really know much about Kendricks. I re-watched his 39 snaps in 2015 LA/GB game where LA brought their two stud franchise TEs [Cook and Kendricks] and ended with a 24 passer rating. Hyde covered Cook who caught 1 for 8 yards w/ 6 targets; but at least Foles had a bad overthrow of a wide open Cook on 20-25 yard catch that could have gone for TD and Cook got a 32 yrd PI call.
Kendricks was blanketed all day mostly by Nate Palmer and some by Joe Thomas! 3 targets 2 catches for 12 yards and his blocking was perfectly Richard Rodgers like. Makes 1 nice block, then like a cop that just fulfilled his speeding ticket quota spends the rest of the day acting much more like a speed bump rather than an active studly Martellus Blocking Ed West courage award professional pro bowl blocking TE stud. He played on one STs unit [FG kick unit].
In 2016 PFF gave him a 48.7 season grade and graded him the worst NFL player week 13. For comparison in 2015 R.Rodgers had a 76.5 grade.
The Outsiders have Kendricks ranked #42 of 46 qualifying TEs. He had 318 “Effective yards” showing way too many of his 499 yards are garbage yards. By comparison Rodgers has 254 E-yards of 272 actual.
From 2012-15 he had 7 penalties with Rams [Cook in same period had 12] and he only has 1 fumble in last 4 years. IN 2016 he had 2 penalties, both false starts and both in same game [Miami]. Kendricks was tied for 8th in drops [#2 to Ebron for TEs] with 6 in 87 targets. By comparison “Dropvonte” had 5 in 121 and some of his drops were bad, dropped an easy 5 yard TD v. Carolina and dropped an easy one that led to an INT v. NE. In 2015 he had 3 drops in 40 targets; in ’14 1 in 38; ’13 2 in 46.
In 2016 Kendricks had a 250K escalator for having 500 yards, he ended up with 499.
The fan sites gave as much love to Kendricks as R.Rodgers gets on GB sites and the outrage over his cutting matches the outrage that overwhelmed many Packer forum servers when Brad Jones was cut.
I cant believe the deals some of these mediocre TEs have gotten: Gresham 4y/28M [led all TEs with 9 penalties]; Griffen 3yr/9M; Davis 3yr/15M [2nd in penalties with 7]. The Rams had Kendricks for 2 yr/8.5M/Zero guaranteed and they cut him. And obviously they could not trade him for even a swap of 6-7th round picks. This means 32 GMs think he stinks because mediocre TEs get 5-7M per.
His agent didn’t disclose the deal; because it was embarrassing; I’m guessing 1 yr 1.5M tops and Kendricks took it because he feared he’d end up with a min deal.