The Baltimore Ravens have aligned an impressive list of starry ends during their short term as a team, including the Shannon Sharpe renown temple, Todd Heap, Dennis Pitta and Mark Andrews. Ravens almost potentially landed the best tight end of all time to add to this list during the 2010 NFL draftHowever, the Patriots of New England jumped a place in front of them in the second round to take Rob Gronkowski before they could.
Gronkowski recently revealed more information on the moment defining the franchise for patriots while speaking on the DuDes on Dudes podcast. The quarter Super bowl The tight End champion revealed that the Ravens were going to write it in the first round with the overall choice n ° 25 before exchanging entirely from the first round with the broncos of Denver, who selected the winner winner of Heisman, Tim Tebow.
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“Ravens have the 43rd choice now,” said Gronkowski. “Well, the Patriots of New England sniff and they exchanged a place before the Baltimore Ravens at number 42, where I was drafted.”
Gronkowski continued to have a career at the temple of fame with Tom Brady throwing the ball in New England and then with the Buccaneers of Tampa Bay. Meanwhile, the Ravens selected the defensive Sergio Kindle with the overall choice n ° 43. Kindle barely saw the field for Baltimore and was released during his third season in the NFL. The Ravens would leave the draft of 2010 with a pair of good tight ends, however, in Pitta and Ed Dickson. Pitta played a crucial role in the Baltimore Super Bowl race in 2012, although his career was unfortunately interrupted due to multiple hip injuries. We do not know how different things could have been for the quarter-Arrière Joe Flacco if he had Gonkowski to throw throughout his career with the Ravens.
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