Well you make a good point. In 2010 "the next great TE" that came out that year was named Jermain Gresham. Everyone was all over him as a prospect. I wasn't nearly as enamoured with him, as he seemed like just another athlete that was a mediocre football player. The guy I was pounding the table for (and the floor for when we drafted) was Rob Gronkowski ... who had similar measurables to Eifert and proved to be a dynamite collegiate TE that profiled to be a dynamite professional TE. Similar to Eifert, Gronkowski would probably have been drafted around 20th in the first round except for the fact he sat out a year from a broken back, and many teams took him off their draft boards as a medical risk (Miami was probably one of them because Parcells hates injured players). So yeah, I'd agree that there's always a Jermain Gresham every year ... and we almost grabbed one in free agency, Cook.
But, great football players who also have the measurables to be great in the NFL don't come along every year. Tyler Eifert reminds me of Tony Gonzalez. Eifert dominated every team he played against, even Alabama when he was the only receiving threat and had no QB. Passing on guys like that when you have a chance to draft them is a mistake. When they fit the value chart, fit a need, and tick every single box of a coaching staff that has a bazillion boxes to tick, when he is exactly what your rebuilding around a young QB plan needs ... and you pass him up. That's a recipe for mediocrity ... something we know a lot about here in Miami unfortunately.