Reed offers cost efficiency despite limited healthy sample size last season.

One analyst actually prefers Reed on pure cost efficiency, despite acknowledging Watson has the clearest individual ceiling. Watson's 11 games last year were extremely boom-or-bust on a week-to-week basis, and he never played a full healthy game alongside the team's returning tight end Tucker Kraft, leaving real uncertainty about how their target competition nets out this year. Reed played just four games last year and likely wasn't fully healthy for any of them, making last year a poor sample for him specifically, while Golden remains unproven at the NFL level.