I’d say you’re over thinking it. I don’t think these are “strategic narratives”.

I think the draft is a crap shoot and they know that. When they finally see these guys enough to identify who they’re excited about, they start to feed info to media they trust.

They must have seen enough to be confident that Gray will be making an impact and become a good #2 by year end.

If anything, it will help extend Kelce’s career a little. Takes some of the focus off of him. It’s very hard to cover two good TE’s while still having run personnel in.

Let's just make sure he can catch in the damn game.

The Chiefs also seemed pretty high on Nick (makes Jonathan Hayes look like Stephone Paige) Keizer.

Exactly, things are completely when it really matters.

Just having Mahomes has to be ****ing nerve wrecking, you definitely don’t wanna piss him off.

I have a friend that told me Mahomes was generational prior to the 2017 draft.

So I often ask him about his take on college players coming out because he has pretty good eyes.

He said Gray was noticeable at Duke when he was watching film on Daniel Jones.

Who knows but he looks great on tape. A real talent with jump ability to get the ball. He may be the answer we have needed for a young TE. Just meaning Travis isn't young and we have whiffed on a back up a lot.

Exactly! Prior to Gray the gap between Kelce and TE#2 was probably the largest of any position on the field outside of QB. To have a legit #2 is nice.

And it sounds like they like Gray enough that they might be using him in special red zone/run packages.

I like that Reid is looking at ways to diversify. He is a genius but our offense had gotten a bit stale last year.

Maybe.

But also maybe.

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We’re talking backup TE, dude. And who’s going to beat out Gray?

That’s not great white hyping the player at all

Two f-ups and a very nice TD grab. Silky smooth route on the TD grab.

At least he's capable of making a big play, which is more than can be said for the other backup TEs we've had since Harris.

The Jody Fortson loss still stings because I really liked him, but if Gray is capable of being that tertiary short yardage/goal line option that teams forgot to account for, we're still in pretty good shape.

That big Darrell Williams run was bc of a block by Noah Gray. It was beautiful. He also had another nice block on a screen.

Can’t wait to see Kelce, 2nd year Gray and 2nd year Fortson next season

Hopefully his TD boosts his confidence. I heard everything about this guy being a training camp hero, and haven't seen shit but dropped passes and missed opportunities.... until that TD.

I think similarly to Nick Bolton, he will start getting confident and more involved. I think theyll make it a point to get him involved and let Kelce get some pine time.

It's also notoriously difficult to get TEs going during their rookie seasons. Not just in Andy's offense either, it's across the board. Most of the all-time great TEs did jack squat in their rookie seasons in terms of receptions and yards. Some of them were even probably terrible. Remember Tony G's rookie year?

I'll bet Gray will be regularly contributing in his 2nd year. Might even see a dual threat kind of situation between him and Kelce.

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