Dawson Knox was motivated to attend ‘Tight End U’

Dawson Knox just doesn’t want to be a Tight End on the Buffalo Bills.
Knox wants to be the next George Kittle, Travis Kelce, or Greg Olsen. Insert any well-known TE in that sentence and that’s the company the Bills best-performing tight end himself wants to be included in. For Knox, this is exactly the way to win over Bills fans after a struggling rookie campaign that saw him drop 10 targets.
Those numbers improved in 2020, dropping from 10 to 4. However, there still is a long way to go for Knox to cement his status as a permanent resident as the Buffalo Bills TE1. While Stefon Diggs and Cole Beasley will get their fair share of targets (Emmanuel Sanders will too), there’s got to be a bigger threat from this position for Buffalo.
I’m not saying every player has to be at an Antonio Gates-like level. But 288 yards and 3 touchdowns last season are not going to cut it.
Is Dawson Knox feeling the pressure of a potential Zach Ertz move?
With how much speculation that the entire league has done about the fed-up Philadelphia Eagles star, it is a question that’s worth thinking about. Ertz has been a topic of discussion everywhere, but arguably his biggest impact would be here in Buffalo.
To have a legitimate receiving threat can help take a linebacker out of the box on any run play, and can also be a nice safety blanket over the middle. There’s also the fact that 3 out of the top 5 players in red-zone targets were tight ends.
All three of those teams made the playoffs and Ertz’s 2019 season saw a 4/5 run on red-zone targets, with those 4 receptions all being touchdowns. If the Bills did actually orchestrate a trade for Ertz, it would immediately put Knox on the bench.
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The Bills still have some cap space available, and maybe with another move or two could actually have the entire thing covered. We’ll see if it happens.