Fishman (Trautman) unhappy with his role this past year... Asked for a trade.(Merged)

Rouxble said

Good luck to him, I’m not going to hate him for wanting more opportunities. Johnson took over as a receiving TE, so Trautman handled more run blocking and pass protection duties.

Still shoes to fill, as he played the third most snaps on offense among skill position players (only behind Kamara and Johnson).

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Yeah, I went to have a look at the snap counts and noticed that too.

I still hold the position that most of this talk about our TE group doesn't recognise how the team platoons the players.

It's not a matter of one TE strictly playing over the other, there's a lot of personnel groupings where it calls for one or other of the TEs and their skill sets to be deployed.

Most of the time it's the best blocker, Trautman in this case, just as Josh Hill took majority snaps for almost every year he played here, over and above the flashier 'receiving' TEs we might remember sharing time with him (Hill).

Meanwhile, the search for a true blocking/receiving player goes on. To be fair, there's more NFL teams than we might think doing the same with their platoons, too.