Monken tends to run a wideout-dominant passing game — at least, he has in the pros. But Monken had a stint with the Georgia Bulldogs between his NFL gigs, and he coached Brock Bowers there. Monken compared Fannin to Bowers last month, saying, \u201cHe\u2019s a little like Brock Bowers in the fact that his body type is more of an H and F, run after the catch \u2026 more than length, more as a C-gap blocking Y. So, you love his athleticism, you like his ability to run after the catch, his ball skills like Brock \u2026 very similar in that regard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Comparing anyone to Bowers is a bad idea, but I see Monken\u2019s point. Both are simply far quicker than typical tight ends. They don\u2019t lumber or lag, but rather spring off the ground and create a ton of extra yardage on heavy-footed linebackers or sleeping safeties. As receivers, they\u2019re preternaturally comfortable.<\/p>\n
Monken rightfully built his Georgia systems around Bowers. Does Fannin demand that level of heliocentrism? Not yet. Bowers has a rugged toughness that serves him well downfield, and I\u2019m not all the way there on Fannin as a three-level threat. But Fannin has everything that elite receiving tight ends need to have in the modern NFL. As long as he clears the manageable bar of \u201cfunctional blocking,\u201d he\u2019ll become a household name as one of the league\u2019s most dangerous tight ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monken tends to run a wideout-dominant passing game — at least, he has in the pros. But Monken…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,1864,2337,7,6],"class_list":["post-892950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-browns","tag-browns","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-cleveland-browns-news","tag-clevelandbrowns","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116585256981610388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892950","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=892950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}