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Cincinnati Bengals TE Jermaine Gresham ready for a breakout season

By Jason Marcum

Aug 24, 2013; Arlington, TX, USA; Cincinnati Bengals tight end Jermaine Gresham (84) runs with the ball while Dallas Cowboys inside linebacker Sean Lee (50) attempts to tackle him in the first quarter at AT
Aug 24, 2013; Arlington, TX, USA; Cincinnati Bengals tight end Jermaine Gresham (84) runs with the ball while Dallas Cowboys inside linebacker Sean Lee (50) attempts to tackle him in the first quarter at AT /
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Aug 16, 2013; New Orleans, LA, USA; New Orleans Saints tight end Jimmy Graham (80) during pre game warmups prior to kickoff against the Oakland Raiders. Mandatory Credit: Crystal LoGiudice-USA TODAY Sports
Aug 16, 2013; New Orleans, LA, USA; New Orleans Saints tight end Jimmy Graham (80) during pre game warmups prior to kickoff against the Oakland Raiders. Mandatory Credit: Crystal LoGiudice-USA TODAY Sports /

Gresham has been one of the most enigmatic players in the NFL since coming out of Oklahoma in the 2012 NFL Draft. Joining him in that draft were some of the best TEs in the game today, including the New Orleans Saints’ Jimmy Graham and the New England Patriots’ Rob Gronkwoski.

Those have been the two best TEs in the league over the past two seasons, and while Gresham has at times shown the potential to be in the same class as them, he’s had too many games like the one vs the Texans in which he just didn’t play like he cared about winning the game.

Gresham doesn’t play with an edge like those two consistently do. Passiveness plagues him far too often for him to be considered an elite TE, even though he has all of the tools to be just that.

But the comments he made this week is just another example of how he’s changed his mentality this offseason, and how the first-round selection of Notre Dame TE Tyler Eifert has lit a fire under him that has him poised to have a breakout season, and finally start to live up to his immense potential.

You also might want to at least have him on your watch list in fantasy football, as a big year by him would likely also involve him becoming an elite fantasy TE.

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