Mike Ditka and Pettis Norman were tied for the oldest tight ends in 1971. They were 32 years old.

	NAME	Age	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	REC YDS	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Mike Ditka M. Ditka	32	1971	DAL	14	30	360	12.0	25.7	1	2	2	1.0	0.1	0
2	Pettis Norman P. Norman	32	1971	SD	14	27	358	13.3	25.6	1	1	1	1.0	0.1	0
3	Gary Ballman G. Ballman	31	1971	PHI	6	13	238	18.3	39.7	0	0	0		0.0	0
4	Ray Poage R. Poage	31	1971	ATL	4	4	71	17.8	17.8	0	0	0		0.0	0
5	Jackie Smith J. Smith	31	1971	STL	9	21	379	18.0	42.1	4	10	1	10.0	1.1	0
6	John Mackey J. Mackey	30	1971	BAL	14	11	143	13.0	10.2	0	18	3	6.0	1.3	0
7	Dave Parks D. Parks	30	1971	NO	14	35	568	16.2	40.6	5	-2	2	-1.0	-0.1	0
8	Marv Fleming M. Fleming	29	1971	MIA	14	13	137	10.5	9.8	2	0	0		0.0	0
9	Willie Frazier W. Frazier	29	1971	TOT	14	10	154	15.4	11.0	0	-2	1	-2.0	-0.1	0
10	John Hilton J. Hilton	29	1971	MIN	7	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
11	Rich Kotite R. Kotite	29	1971	NYG	14	10	146	14.6	10.4	2	0	0		0.0	0
12	Milt Morin M. Morin	29	1971	CLE	14	40	581	14.5	41.5	2	1	1	1.0	0.1	0
13	Bob Windsor B. Windsor	29	1971	SF	13	2	32	16.0	2.5	0	21	1	21.0	1.6	0
14	Bob Brown B. Brown	28	1971	MIN	8	6	141	23.5	17.6	0	0	0		0.0	0
15	Fred Hill F. Hill	28	1971	PHI	7	7	92	13.1	13.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
16	Pete Lammons P. Lammons	28	1971	NYJ	14	8	149	18.6	10.6	1	3	0		0.2	0
17	Jerry Smith J. Smith	28	1971	WAS	8	16	227	14.2	28.4	1	5	1	5.0	0.6	0
18	Billy Truax B. Truax	28	1971	DAL	12	15	232	15.5	19.3	1	0	0		0.0	0
19	Jim Whalen J. Whalen	28	1971	TOT	5	8	165	20.6	33.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
20	Tom Beer T. Beer	27	1971	NE	14	12	191	15.9	13.6	3	0	0		0.0	0
21	Austin Denney A. Denney	27	1971	BUF	1	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
22	Kent Kramer K. Kramer	27	1971	PHI	10	6	65	10.8	6.5	1	0	0		0.0	0
23	Billy Masters B. Masters	27	1971	DEN	14	27	382	14.1	27.3	1	71	7	10.1	5.1	0
24	Tom Mitchell T. Mitchell	27	1971	BAL	14	33	402	12.2	28.7	0	9	2	4.5	0.6	0
25	Alvin Reed A. Reed	27	1971	HOU	14	25	408	16.3	29.1	1	0	0		0.0	0

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