All he can do is look at his fellow receivers or talk to them. But even that's got him excited. Multiple 1,000-yard receivers in A.J. Green and Tyler Boyd. A top ten pick in John Ross. The 40-catch seventh-rounder. The 253rd pick in the draft.
"I think it's kind of how it is when I came in. A lot of competition," Tate said. "If anything, that's what's going to make us better and give us a bigger jump. Everybody is a good person. So there's no drama. Everybody is just grinding and trying to be better."
Rookie wide receiver Tee Higgins, the Bengals' next pick after Burrow, has famously said the Bengals were his favorite team growing up in Tennessee because of Green. Tate also grew up following Green because their towns were 100 miles apart in South Carolina, Tate in Irmo and Green in Summerville. When the Tates moved to Tampa when he was 14, his guys in the NFL were Green and Dez Bryant.
Tate's style is closer to Bryant's big bodying, but he definitely has Green's modest, reserved personality. Tate's middle school team beat Summerville Middle before he moved and the high school he would have attended has gone on to dominate Summerville and South Carolina.
But Tate hasn't mentioned it to the man they call, "Dream."
"Nah. He was gone and I was gone," Tate said. "But we kid. We joke. That's the nice thing about this receiver corps. We can all joke and play and there's no hard feelings."
Think of this. Tate has three inches and ten pounds on the 6-2, 220-pound Bryant and they've got the same kind of box-out game.
"He was just so physical," Tate said. "I just loved the way he would go up and attack the ball. With the fade ball in the red zone, he was just unstoppable."
Tate thinks Higgins is picking it up well for a rookie and he chalks that up to the playbook.
"The way our offense is set up," Tate said. "It's good because he can learn it fast. I feel like we're all in a good position even though the Covid stuff is going on."
And, oh yeah, that other rookie. Burrow. Tate says he and the receivers have agreed to get together and throw on their own before training camp
"We're just trying to figure out where and when. Soon," Tate said. "He's real cool. He's real assertive. He talks up. He's not a normal rookie that comes in kind of shy. He comes in real sure of who he is. You can see his confidence."
But Tate's hands had already done the biggest work of the week even before the Zooms and routes began.
"I'm always proud of him. Ever since he was little, he always had that attitude. Trying to help someone," said Heanon Tate of his role of a lifetime. "We already had a lot to work with."
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