Buffalo Bills sign TE Dalton Kincaid

[Woodman]

Buffalo Bills sign TE Dalton Kincaid to four-year rookie contract - Buffalo Rumblings (https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2023/5/13/23722640/buffalo-bills-sign-te-dalton-kincaid-to-four-year-rookie-contract-nfl-draft-news)

On Saturday afternoon, the Buffalo Bills (https://www.buffalorumblings.com/) signed tight end Dalton Kincaid to a four-year contract. The rookie tight end had been the last of the team’s six draft picks to sign their first NFL contract. Now, Kincaid can put negotiations aside and fully focus on learning offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey’s offense inside and out.

[Woodman]

The 25th pick in the 2023 NFL Draft (https://www.sbnation.com/nfl-draft), Dalton Kincaid may key the engine to help usher in a new era of Bills football. His skill set and ability to line up almost anywhere as a receiver should provide the Bills with plenty of matchup advantages on game days.

Interestingly, Kincaid didn’t play football until his senior year of high school, when he earned all-state and all-conference honors. He brings a basketball background to his role as a receiving tight end — which should help him in finding soft spots in zone coverage and allow him to make difficult catches in tight man coverage. Kincaid remarks that he was always interested in football growing up, and would spend every opportunity he could catching passes from his dad while bounding on the family’s trampoline.

[Woodman]

A basketball background, learning to catch a football via trampoline, decorated high school football player in his lone high school season. Kincaid should fit right in at One Bills Drive, utilizing unorthodox methods to bring out his best and exploiting his competition as a result of such a diverse investment in learning sports.

[ghz in pittsburgh]

I think it is part of OBD's conviction and willingness to trade up for him in a year where there are so many highly rated TEs and the Bills value him enough to give up a forth round to move 2 spots (that in itself is a higher than normal price).

If anyone has kids in serious youth sports, you know parents put forth a mapped path for them so they are trained for whatever specific sports, specific position head-to-toe, 24 by 7, all the nuances, just to have a edge up on other kids. Now comes this kid who just shows up on the field playing the sports first time and dominate others... Does that scream a "natural" for the sport? If that person is also a dedicated hard worker, with natural physical ability, which he apparently has, you know the ceiling is unlimited.

[Woodman]

Hope we hit Gold!

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