5 NFL teams that should trade for David Njoku

Would Bill Belichick do it, though? We know the New England Patriots head coach/general manager despises his former employer. However, he has built a reputation out of evaluating other teams’ talent better than they do their own. It is the eating of the lunch that stands as why Belichick has won six Super Bowls as a head coach and Cleveland has never been to one.

Understandably, drafting skill position players has never been Belichick’s forte. You give him four wide receivers to choose from, three will become future Pro Bowlers and he’ll draft the one who busts out of the league catastrophically in four years. Again, reputations are there for a reason. So why would Belichick call up new Browns general manager Andrew Berry about a player like Njoku?

If you look at the Patriots’ tight end room, it’s just a bunch of dudes who don’t move the needle. We’ve seen what tight ends can do in Josh McDaniels’ offense. Rob Gronkowski built a Pro Football Hall of Fame career in New England. For as horrifying of a human he was off the field, Aaron Hernandez thrived in those two tight end sets with the Patriots for a few years.

With New England adding former Carolina Panthers starting quarterback Cam Newton in free agency, they’ll need a competent tight end to help bring him along in the passing game. If Njoku can be one-third as good as what Greg Olsen was for years in Charlotte, this could be a potential partnership that keeps the Evil Empire alive to fight for another season of relevancy.