Tim Tebow is going to try his hand at being a professional tight end in the NFL, a position he has never played before at the age of 33-years-old.
To be fair, he does have one NFL target at the position, and it went about as well as you think it would.
ESPN’s Jeff Darlington reported details that some members of the Jacksonville Jaguars organization reportedly don’t think signing former quarterback Tim Tebow to try out for the team as a tight end “sends the proper message.”
“When you cite the resume, when you talk about all of these things, it sounds pretty wild, and that certainly is the mindset of those in the Jaguars building. Not everybody—obviously Urban Meyer is the one behind all of this—but not everybody in the Jaguars building is thrilled with this. They don’t think that it necessarily sends the proper message to the rest of the team in the locker room and the guys trying to make this team. Urban Meyer, though, is quite the opposite. They said this can be a ‘cultural jolt’ in the locker room to kind of send a message that Urban wants.
“Now, I covered Tebow pretty extensively back in 2011 and basically lived in Denver throughout that whole experience, and what I can tell you is that Tebow’s leadership might be a little bit different in the NFL than what it was in college when Urban Meyer remembered him. So, when I talk to coaches and players in the NFL, they do look at this and say, ‘If you’re looking for somebody to change culture, it’s not necessarily a guy like Tebow, especially at this point in his career.’
“So, there’s definitely some differences of opinions within Jacksonville, but hey, Urban Meyer runs the show now. So, he’ll get the chance to show that Tebow does deserve the chance in the NFL—something obviously other people don’t necessarily think he does.”
As you already know, Tebow played under Meyer at the University of Florida from 2006 through 2009. It resulted in two national championships, two SEC Player of the Year Awards and the 2007 Heisman Trophy.
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His NFL career as a QB never got anywhere close to notable as Tebow completed just 47.9 percent of his passes across 35 career appearances with the Denver Broncos and New York Jets.
