Former NFL Coach Says it’s ‘Too Late’ for Tebow to Transition to Tight End

Tim Tebow may have missed the boat. The former NFL star hasn’t been on a 53-man roster since 2012 and hasn’t played tight end since his freshman year of high school. On an episode of “The Herd” with Colin Cowherd, former NFL Head Coach Eric Mangini said that it’s too late in Tebow’s career for him to switch positions like this.

The man formerly known as ‘Mangenius’ shared his thoughts:

“Urban’s going through a learning curve with a lot of things…and this looks like one of those situations where he had a guy he likes and cares about and wanted to give an opportunity,” Mangini said to Cowherd, according to transcripts obtained from 247Sports. “As he comes in, looks at him and realizes, not just age, but the transition to a different position and the other skill guys he has available. It’s just not going to work. Maybe it works from a practice squad perspective, maybe he can keep him around in that way. Maybe he just wants the presence in the locker room and that becomes a practice squad type role, coaching in the locker type of thing. But it’s too late to make this transition and not enough to make it work.”

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Tebow could still be a practice squad candidate if he doesn’t make the 53-man roster, which is probably what’s going to happen.

The Tebow experiment is just like everything else Tebow does: Just a big circus.

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