Garret Mills (1 Viewer)

[remote controller]

I am very high on his potential in this offense. With Graham leaving, it seems to me Mills will be more involved. I know they line him up everywhere, when they use him. Anybody got anything on this sleeper TE/FB?

 

[Sigmund Bloom]

From our interview with Mike Reiss of the Boston Globe last week:

SB: Mike, speaking of targets for Tom Brady, you just wrote this week about a possible emerging target, a guy that they drafted in the fourth round last year. Great hands out of Tulsa, extremely productive in college, really chalked up all of 2006 to injury. We're seeing Garrett Mills take more of a role in the practices, now you said maybe he could play a Larry Centers role. Do you see him hitting the ground running and becoming an important target for Tom Brady out of the backfield?MR: Well, I think he's going to face a long battle. He looked good in the practices, but I guess I'd caution against saying - no pads, and this was a player who was undersized a little bit coming out of college, I don't think I'd go that far yet. He looked good in shorts and a T-shirt, and I guess I'll leave it at that. You look at the depth chart for the Patriots. Mills is sort of a hybrid tight end/running back, so I guess you'd put him in the H-back category. You look at who they have at tight end, Kyle Brady's going to be on the roster, David Thomas, a second year guy who showed a lot of promise last year, is going to be on the roster at tight end behind Brady, and then you also have Benjamin Watson, who's probably tops in that group. If Garrett Mills is going to make it in that tight end group, he's probably going to be the fourth guy. I think he faces an uphill battle, but he's certainly going to make it tough on the coaches if he performs like he did, like what I saw here in this recent minicamp.

 

[Bri]

He's an H-back of sorts. Patrick Pass is no longer with the team and always seemed to be at risk to get cut. I expect Mills to go thru a similar scenario each year.

Dave Thomas is out right now so Mills has some time to show what he can do.

 

[David Yudkin]

As Reiss suggested, I don't see how Mills gets anywhere near the playing time to even make a dent. Kyle Brady was brought in to fill the role of Graham and word is that he's been catching the ball in mini-camp as well. There's also Watson to fill the pass catching TE role and I know they like Thomas. And there are more WRs than you can count at this point and Faulk out of the backfield.

 

[PatsWillWin]

At times, Thomas looked like New England's best pass catching tight end lsat season.

 

[Boston]

As Reiss suggested, I don't see how Mills gets anywhere near the playing time to even make a dent. Kyle Brady was brought in to fill the role of Graham and word is that he's been catching the ball in mini-camp as well. There's also Watson to fill the pass catching TE role and I know they like Thomas. And there are more WRs than you can count at this point and Faulk out of the backfield.

Agreed...I could see Mills potentially helping out in a real football sense due to his versatility but I would be absolutely shocked if he has any fantasy value at all. The Pats have far too many options right now for Mills to put up any type of numbers that would help a fantasy owner.