Cade Otton Leads All Rookie Tight Ends
October 25th, 2022
Rookie tight end Cade Otton.
It seems that Bucs rookie tight end Cade Otton may be getting warmed up.
Tight end and defensive end are tough positions for rookies. You don’t see many rookies at those positions ball out right away.
So Joe finds it interesting that in the past few weeks, Otton’s production is improving.
Sunday at Carolina, Otton caught four balls for 64 yards, his most yardage in a game. Otton did catch seven passes against the Dixie Chicks.
Per Scott Smith of Buccaneers.com, Otton now leads all rookie tight ends in receiving yards (159), has hauled in 15 passes for 159 yards and has taken over the NFL lead in receiving yards among rookie tight ends in 2022.
Joe thought Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht got a good deal on Otton for a fourth-round pick. With Cam Brate out who knows how long, if the Bucs are going to turn things around, Joe has a hunch Otton will be a key part of that.
October 25th, 2022 at 5:19 am
Good news! We certainly need some. 🙂
October 25th, 2022 at 5:34 am
Ten yards a catch. that is a step in the right direction. Several things have contributed to our losses. We have not got any big plays from our defense recently to set up easy scores. Teams have figured out how to disrupt our passing
game. Put pressure on Brady and he will rely heavily on the short passing game.
At only 6 yards per catch average the last two weeks and a ineffective running game, it takes too many plays to finish a drive. That is when missed assignments,
incompletions and penalties stall drives. Chunk plays inspire the offense, we need to help out our inexperienced O line with pass protection from backs or extra lineman so that we get more chunk plays from our passing game. Our
predictable running game should also improve once that happens.
October 25th, 2022 at 5:42 am
We should also point out that our other under utilized tight end Ko Kief is 2 for 2 for 18.5 yards a catch. He has not been given enough opportunities to show his potential.
October 25th, 2022 at 7:13 am
^not accurate, Kief also dropped one earlier in the season, but I like the kid.
October 25th, 2022 at 7:54 am
Valrico Bob has a good point on Ko. I was thinking the exact same thing.
October 25th, 2022 at 8:07 am
BA’S Red Pen,
Both ESPN and Pro Football have Kief with 2 targets and two receptions.
I try to be accurrate, but have typed some errors before. My bad for those.
October 25th, 2022 at 8:08 am
^ reference
October 25th, 2022 at 8:16 am
Cam, Ko, Cade & Kyle……
October 25th, 2022 at 9:20 am
Wasn’t able to watch the game Sunday, but he has been nasty and only going to progress. Right when Brate is soon to be walking out, perfect timing.
October 25th, 2022 at 9:35 am
Cade Otten is the future at Tight End for us, and he is going to be a good one.
I was never a Can Brate Fan, and simply could not believe Licht paid him all that Money.
Gronk is not coming back, Kyle Rudolph is done, and is as slow as a Tampa Airport Taxi Cab.
Ko Kief may turn out to be a real sleeper. The narrative on him is that he can not catch very well, but that simply is not true!
He played College Ball for our old Receivers Coach PJ Fleck. No way to be any kind of receiver playing for PJ Fleck, if you can not catch.
October 25th, 2022 at 9:49 am
Otten is good, real good. If the QB had been in camp, working and bonding with him, instead of “on vacation” for two weeks nobody would be crying over the Gronk retirement!
October 25th, 2022 at 11:59 am
maybe in time he will be good but i think we need to give some of that playing time to finding a more productive player
October 25th, 2022 at 12:49 pm
I watch the condensed version a few times after every game. I barely got into this one before I had to go but I was focusing on Otton (I’m in WA state and Buca/Huskies fan). It looked like he eas getting open often and early on plays that didn’t go his direction. Hoping Brady keeps trusting him.
October 25th, 2022 at 2:00 pm
Otten is a good receiver and needs a few more pounds to improve as a blocker.
He isn’t that athletic but you can see that he’s tough and has good fundamentals, is a coaches’ son.
I like his length and stride. In a strange way he reminds me of a skinny Dave Casper. I think with a good offensive coordinator he could be a vertical guy making over the shoulder catches and jump balls in the red zone.
Cam Brate is done, he is too slow to react to the defenses and is incurring bad hits everytime he makes a catch.
October 25th, 2022 at 4:20 pm
Ed, Skinny Dave Casper is Correct! Great comparison
October 25th, 2022 at 4:22 pm
Ed, your comparison of Otten to a skinny Dave Casper is perfect
October 25th, 2022 at 5:27 pm
Otton makes some plays and is a good receiver, but needs to bulk up bigtime and get much stronger. He is more of a move TE at present. Nobody is Gronk, but it’s hard not to miss such a unique specimen and complete package.
October 25th, 2022 at 5:56 pm
Brady will be leaning on him and he’ll come through.
Ko is catching well and one day he’ll catch one and punish the poor guy tackling him
October 25th, 2022 at 6:02 pm
If anything, gronk would want to come back more now then if they were playing great. Bradys always been there for him and they are best mates. I can see gronk coming in to save the day after the bye week