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The hype train for New York Giants tight end Evan Engram is quite long as we near Week 1 of the 2020 regular season, and it has recently picked up another passenger.
Giants head coach Joe Judge offered effusive praise for Engram on Thursday, suggesting that the sky is literally the limit when it comes to the tight end’s potential.
“I’ll tell you what, the way he works every day and the attention to detail he’s shown with everything he gets coached on, to me, it’s always a question of can this guy reach his potential based on the way he’s working. I think this guy can,” Judge told reporters. “Knowing what time this guy has got, he has a high ceiling. He’s very, very talented. A lot of guys have a lot of talent and aren’t as open to coaching. What I see from Evan is, he’s very in-tune, he’s very intelligent, he’s very deliberate about how he works and what he’s focusing on within each period.”
Once the floodgates of praise opened, Judge simply couldn’t stop himself. It’s as if he were talking about his brand new $250,000 exotic sports car.
“He listens to everything you say and tries to apply every technique as detailed as he can. That’s critically important. I’m very pleased with him, I’m very excited to work with him,” Judge continued. “He’s a guy that showed up from that time off really in great shape. He put on some good weight. He came in ready to really train. We talked earlier in the interviews about the difference between being in shape and training, and he came in ready to train.”
In the words of the late, great Billy Mays, “but wait, there’s more!”
“You watch the way this guy runs through conditioning through the day. He has a high motor. He has a large gas tank to keep pushing through the day,” Judge gushed. “I’m really, really pleased with him coming to work every day. He’s one of those guys… look, one of the comments I give him, he’s a guy that I kind of just tell him, ‘Man, I love watching you practice. Let’s not disappoint me out there today.’ I turn his tape on and see him flying around. He’s a fun guy to watch play because he has a lot of ability, but he loves the game, too.”
In terms of hype, Judge’s Thursday comments on Engram pretty much take the cake. And like many others around the league, Judge believes that Engram could establish himself as one of the league’s truly elite superstars so long as he can remain healthy.
That, of course, will be the key.
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