Ben Skowronek Trade Creates Clear Bar for Wideouts on Texans
The addition has a variety of benefits
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In combat sports, there is a term for a combatant who isn’t quite capable of being a champion or even a headliner. Still, he’s useful to the greater good in a very specific role: gatekeeper.
The gatekeeper is there so the young and promising fighter can see if they’re ready for the big time. The older fighters make sure they have one last run in them by getting past a gatekeeper.
It isn’t a glorious position, but it keeps a fighter employed.
The Texans traded for a wide receiver gatekeeper on Thursday.