Dallas Cowboys tight ends leave something to be desired

In the fourth installment of our divisional position review, we will examine where the Dallas Cowboys tight ends and how they rank amongst NFC East foes.

Welcome to the fourth installment of my division positional review series. After reviewing the quarterback, running back and receiving corps within the NFC East, today’s attention goes towards the tight ends. As it pertains to your Dallas Cowboys, this will be a tough one to read.

For purposes of review, here is how teams earn points towards an overall score. In order to make it both fun and competitive at the same time, the premise is similar to the Olympics. With four teams in the division, only three can receive medals. As we move along in this review, as they do in the real Olympics, I will keep a running tally of the medal count for each team.

Currently, the leaderboard has Dallas all alone in second place with five points. Philadelphia is leading with six, while Washington and New York are tied for last with four.

Dallas Cowboys (no medal)

Blake Jarwin, Geoff Swaim, Rico Gathers, Dalton Schultz

The retirement of Jason Witten, somewhat impromptu, leaves a crater-sized hole in the Cowboys tight end room. With 82 no longer in the building, every NFL catch made by this group is currently owned by Geoff Swaim. All nine of them. Blake Jarwin is the only other guy who has even put a helmet on and participated in a NFL game.

For now, it appears that Dallas is going to move forward with this youth movement. The free agent pool was not very deep anyways meaning the Cowboys were smart to pass on that option. If there is a camp cut somewhere that moves their needle, Dallas may look for help, but as of June 5, this is what they’re going to camp with.

Maybe Jarwin surprises people? Maybe Gathers stays healthy, at least attempts to learn how to block and becomes special. The future will tell us how much of a need this will be in 2019. As of now though, this is clearly the worst unit on the entire team.