Cleveland Browns tight end David “The Chief” Njoku believes the second year of his relationship with quarterback Deshaun Watson will prove pivotal.
“The sky’s the limit,” Njoku told Chris Easterling of the Akron Beacon Journal. “We have an opportunity to do something that never has ever been done here. So we try to take it one day at a time, focus on what we can control and just handle it like that.”
Njoku is eying the upper echelon of the league, knowing that the partnership between Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs is the best the NFL has to offer.
“I’ve known Trav for a while and as well as Patrick, they are elites,” Njoku said. “So I would hope that most, if not all tight ends and quarterbacks aspire to be up to that stature, because they are just for years now, consistency, rolling. You know what I mean? So they are amazing. And we try to be the best we can be, especially together.”
Watson, however, knows that the work must come to produce those kinds of results.
“Next step is just get 1% better every day, really,” Njoku said during last month’s minicamp. “That’s pretty much been the steps throughout my career. Just find one thing and then just get better at that and see how we all progress.”
If the Njoku and Watson can even be mentioned in the same breath as Mahomes and Kelce, that will go a long way toward fixing last year’s 7-10 overall record.
