{"id":818049,"date":"2026-03-17T23:40:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/818049\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:40:25","slug":"tyler-conklin-ive-got-a-lot-of-good-football-left-in-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/818049\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Conklin: I&#8217;ve got a lot of good football left in me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite playing with one of the league\u2019s best quarterbacks last season with the Chargers, tight end Tyler Conklin had his worst season since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He played a career-low 13 games and saw the second-fewest offensive touches of his career (169), finishing with seven receptions for 101 yards in his only season with the Chargers.<\/p>\n<p>Conklin, 30, signed with the Lions in free agency and expressed confidence in being able to rebound this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I can <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/lions\/2026\/03\/17\/detroit-lions-te-tyler-conklin-still-has-a-lot-of-good-football-left\/89196593007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">definitely be very productive<\/a> in the pass game still,\u201d Conklin said, via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. \u201cI think just because one situation didn\u2019t quite work out the way anybody wanted it doesn\u2019t mean you just, like, can\u2019t do it anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conkin, who arrives as the No. 3 tight end behind Sam LaPorta and Brock Wright, caught 50-plus passes for four consecutive seasons for the Vikings (2021) and Jets (2022-24) before landing with the Chargers. New Lions offensive coordinator Drew Petzing ran more three-tight-end sets than any play-caller in the NFL the past three seasons with the Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether I\u2019m catching passes, whether I\u2019m blocking more, whether I\u2019m playing special teams, whether I\u2019m just mentoring, whatever that role is, I want to help this team win,\u201d Conklin said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve definitely got a lot of good football left in me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite playing with one of the league\u2019s best quarterbacks last season with the Chargers, tight end Tyler Conklin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-818049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116247162196395967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}