Mike Gesicki Looks Ready To Become The NFL’s Next Elite Tight End

The 4th-year player for the Miami Dolphins could build on his very productive 2020 season, in a (very) big way.

Since we’re coming of the recent summer Olympics in Tokyo just a handful of weeks ago, to borrow an Olympiad-based metaphor: the hypothetical “medal stand” for the title of the best player at the tight position in the NFL would almost certainly be comprised of Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs, George Kittle of the San Francisco 49ers, and Darren Waller of the Las Vegas Raiders. Which player gets which ‘medal,’ I’ll leave up to you to decide.

But with all due respect to the Mark Andrews’ or TJ Hockenson’s (or even Kyle Pitts’) of the world, the player who seems most ready to break up the composition of the current troika of top tight ends in the NFL appears to be Mike Gesicki of the Miami Dolphins.

Such a notion really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s been paying close enough attention. Gesicki finished with 723 receiving yards last year (the 4th-most among tight ends) and 6 touchdowns (tied for 9th in the NFL). But as respectable as those numbers already are, there is ample reason to believe that Gesicki could improve on his statistical output in 2020 — perhaps by a lot.