I see Tonielli and Hansen as receiver-first TEs. Hoffman and Marshall were more blocky last year

Posted on September 15, 2026 at 08:59:08 AM by jon

It make their blocking struggles harder to understand. It has to be that the transition to a new offense is more complex than we can see, because they're struggling to make blocks that appear on the surface to be the same kind of blocks they made pretty well last year.

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The fall camp buzz looks a lot more accurate after the OU game - By jon September 15, 2026 at 08:37:29 AM
- Except, it seems, for OL run blocking.* - By ftb September 15, 2026 at 09:13:23 AM
- We also return Tonielli at TE and Hansen, who is always hurt - By Rich September 15, 2026 at 08:48:56 AM
  - I see Tonielli and Hansen as receiver-first TEs. Hoffman and Marshall were more blocky last year - By jon September 15, 2026 at 08:59:08 AM
    - Hoffman got more snaps vs OU (not many but 15 ish instead of 5 vs WMU), but I think in all of them he was split out....often wide to the sideline - By Rich September 15, 2026 at 09:01:36 AM

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I see Tonielli and Hansen as receiver-first TEs. Hoffman and Marshall were more blocky last year