Tennessee Titans: Comparing Delanie Walker vs Jared Cook

Oct 6, 2013; Nashville, TN, USA; Tennessee Titans tight end Delanie Walker (82) leaps for yardage against Kansas City Chiefs free safety Kendrick Lewis (23) during the second half at LP Field. Kansas City won 26-17. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports

Ratings

Sometimes statistics can skew our view of which players are the best. So to take a step back from statistical data, let’s examine the ratings for these two tight ends from Pro Football Focus.

Jared Cook

20

Tight End Ranking

42

1.6

Overall Production

-4.2

-0.4

Pass Blocking

0.7

2.4

Run Blocking

-7.0

When taking the entire tight end position into consideration, Pro Football Focus has Walker ranked as the 20^th tight end in the NFL and Cook all the way down at 42^nd.

Neither tight end graded out particularly well in the pass-blocking category. Walker is behind in this category with a negative grade, but Cook doesn’t have much to be proud of with a 0.7 grade.

Run blocking is an asset that interested the Titans in Walker from the start. He is known as an effective blocker, and graded out as such with a 2.4.

Cook normally has to leave the field in obvious running situations because of his weakness at run blocking, and he graded out predictably very low in that department with a -7.0.

Walker clearly graded out as the better of the two tight ends.