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You bring up an interesting point. All these ranking are projecting a big jump from Caleb this year, a big jump in coaching this year, yada yada yada.Lions have the best safeties. They are worst as far as corners go, unless Arnold takes a big old jump this year.
Laporta had a better 24 than an injured Hockenson, but CJ Ham (yes, I know he’s used more as a FB, but I’ll lump him in because he is sometimes used as a Y TE) is better as a blocker than Detroits TE2. Oliver, minnesota’s actual TE2, has better range/route tree as well. If we’re strictly looking at individual TE1, it’s Detroit. If we’re looking at TE room as a whole, it’s Minnesota.
However, then, when ranking the other three teams, the OP is only using 24 data, and does not allow for the same improvements on the younger players for the other three teams. If you can project a big jump for Caleb this year, why can't I in turn project a big jump for Arnold, and another improvement for Campbell? And they are far from the worst at CB (cough cough GB), Davis was outstanding last year, and by all accounts DJ reed is an upgrade over him.
And I disagree with you about Minnesota vs Detroit in the TE department. As far as Hock being hurt last year, so was LaPorta.