NY Giants Tight End Adrien Robinson Is Slowly Emerging from the Shadows

December 14, 2014   ·   Patricia Traina   ·   Jump to comments


New York Giants tight end Adrien Robinson came into the NFL as a fourth-round draft pick in 2012 with so many expectations.
However, it was an innocuous comparison to a teammate made by general manager Jerry Reese after Robinson was plucked by the team out of Cincinnati that really set the bar high for a rookie who recorded 12 receptions for 183 yards and three touchdowns in his final year of college ball.
"We really think this guy has a huge upside," Reese told reporters after the Giants concluded that year’s draft.
“He is a big, big man [with] long arms. He didn't catch a lot of balls for them. But he is kind of a late bloomer who has really come on. And we think this guy is kind of a JPP [Jason Pierre-Paul] of tight ends.”
And thus, a legend was born.
There was only one problem. The “JPP of tight ends” hasn’t been on the field nearly as much as the JPP of defensive ends has. 
That could be changing, though,...

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