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The TRUTH: Top 10 Fantasy TEs + House of False Hope | Fantasy Football 2024 - Ep. 1547

The final TRUTH episode of the year! On today’s fantasy football podcast, a deep dive look at the TE position! Was Travis Kelce or Sam LaPorta more consistent last year? Which TEs can take a step forward in 2024? Plus, Super Bowl predictions and more! Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast. -- Fantasy Football Podcast for February 8th, 2024. (00:00) - Intro (06:30) - Quick Question: Drake London (12:35) - NFL News (21:55) - The TRUTH About Fantasy TEs from 2023 (27:35) - Sam LaPorta (31:45) - Evan Engram (38:05) - Travis Kelce (43:45) - TJ Hockenson (48:30) - George Kittle (51:40) - David Njoku (55:35) - Cole Kmet (57:25) - Jake Ferguson (1:00:10) - Trey McBride (1:03:05) - Dalton Schultz (1:04:40) - Mark Andrews / Isaiah Likely (1:06:05) - Dallas Goedert --------------------------------------------------- Connect with the #1 Fantasy Football Podcast: https://www.TheFantasyFootballers.com Support the show! -- http://www.JoinTheFoot.com Follow on Twitter -- http://www.Twitter.com/TheFFBallers Follow on IG -- https://www.instagram.com/fantasyfootballers Check out the DYNASTY podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@footballers-dynasty Check out our comedy channel: https://youtube.com/spitballers Join our Discord: https://www.discord.gg/fantasyfootballers Image Credit: Getty Images #FantasyFootball #FantasyFootballAdvice #NFL

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What's up, Foot Clan? We've got the Super Bowl on Sunday. We'll be talking about some news on today's show, and then we'll dig into the tight end truth, breaking down the reality of a very interesting year at the tight end position. Do not miss a minute. Click the subscribe button and stay tuned. Welcome in. The Fantasy Footballers Podcast Thursday. Days away from the big game. They call it the big game. They do. Which, now that hearing you say it, it's a little unlike the NFL, because it's the
big game. But that implies there are, there's a bigger and a biggest. You're saying bigger than big? Yeah. I thought you were going to say it implies the other ones are small. I'm saying if I'm the NFL, it's the biggest game. None shall be bigger. No, that's just a big game. They do put the in there though. The, like it's the big game. Well, the biggest game is the Pro Bowl. We all know that. Oh, yeah. Did that happen? Yeah, I did. It's just a whisper in the wind. I saw Justin Tucker winning a t
ic-tac-toe. Who's watching this stuff? I mean, it's cool to see the highlights of it later. I saw CJ Stroud throw a dime to Jamar Chase in a flag football game. I saw Jaylen Hertz hit no targets at all in the quarterback challenge. Zero. Whenever you talk about it, it's all stuff. Oh, I would watch that. I just, you don't know it's, I don't ever remember the brain. When you're the huge playoff weekend is done, your brain kind of just shuts down until the big game. It's not something you carve ou
t of your, like if it's on and it's in front of you, you know, if I'm eating at a restaurant and that's on the TV, I'd be like, this is awesome. But I'm not going out of my way to be like, whoa, whoa, whoa. There's no appointment television stuff. There's tic-tac-toe kicking going on. Brooks put it pretty well here. Brooks, you said it's like what? SNL? Yep, you watched the highlights after. Yeah, I think that's fairly true. That's sad. That makes me sad. Once upon a time SNL was, you know, oh,
it's Saturday night. Now it's like, yeah. Well, we're old. That's true. I can't even tell you who's on the show anymore. Oh, don't say that. This is Jason Moore on Mandy Holloway. You're Mike Wright. That I am. The. Those are the three on the show. Three days until Super Bowl Sunday, the UDK pre-sale begins on Sunday. And you can get the UDK plus, the Dynasty Pass, all of the content available immediately because winning fantasy football championships, it doesn't stop. Never. Gotta put in the wo
rk. Can't stop, won't stop. And nobody wants to stop. We want to keep playing. In fact, when I was walking in here this morning, I was glancing as I'm off in doing towards Deuces Alley. And Papa Josh is over there. You've got Judge Yamati, the Rapscalli in this morning. But I heard Papa Josh. He was talking to Kyle. And he was talking all about his picks in the upcoming draft and how great a situation he's in. Oh, rookie picks? No. Was it rookie picks? Yeah. I got the 102 and the 103, man. Oh, y
eah. And and Qt. You got Quentin Johnston. So you're set up. You could you could turn it. Look, right now, I promise you could you could get a third for Qt. Third rounder for Qt. I will offer my third straight up for Quentin Johnston. Do you accept? I'm not sure I would offer mine, but well, right. That's really tempting. You gotta get out. So yeah, yeah, everybody's still ready to rumble. I mean, we we've got the Super Bowl. We'll have free agency, the combine, all of the draft buzz. It's going
to be a good time. Today we have more truth. Is this the final show? Oh, yeah. He doesn't even say other things anymore. Yeah. That was just a button, right? This is you don't have an incentive incentive laden contract Brooks where you have to he only get paid on days you say it. He is building a brand. He really is. Oh, yeah.com. Yeah. Go over there. Ws. I think that's a four burger. Do you have to register all of them? Oh, yeah, you'd have to register all those domains. Jason's not wearing a
hat today. They're cut day. So you gotta pay respect to the barber. Make their job easier. I had to do that the other day. Yeah. Yeah. And it is funny though that after the haircut, I will just be putting a hat back on. Wait, so you will you're not going to get you're not going to show it off for a little bit. Maybe a day. We'll see. Isn't it then disrespectful to the barber? It depends on if they do good or not. There's not much you can do, Mike. I got a problem. Are you on a per hair basis pay
ing the highest rate possible for a haircut? Oh, absolutely. Right. That's how you still go into a nice, you know, a higher end barber. Why get it cut if you're only going to wear a hat? I'm telling you one of these days I'm just shaving my head. You should just shave. Do it, you coward. You don't need to shave the whole head. Just shave it like above the hat line. You wouldn't. You know what I mean? Oh, like the monk? Yeah, like, no, that's a, is that a fryer? The fryer cut because we wouldn't
know. We would never see how long you could go with us not knowing you shaved your head. No. Okay, this has been fun. Quick question of the day. Do you believe Drake London will be a value pick in the 2024 fantasy football draft season? He was a fifth round pick last year. The wide receiver 23 off the board. He finished as the wide receiver 39 a year after finishing at 35. 100. I mean, similar numbers. 6 69 reception 72 the year before. Same catch rate. Similar yardage around 900 touchdowns abys
mal at two. Targets were the same snap percentage the same. He's 22 years old. To say he's a value would be to say that he will be undervalued by the majority of people and looks like his early best ball ADP is wide receiver 27. So which that's the degenerates shout out to the DJs out there already doing best ball. I think my opinion is that Drake London will be a top 24 wide receiver next year. Okay. We like that. But like 23 24 so value off of that 27 draft spot barely. Well, that's fine. The
thing for Drake London is he still we're going into year three. I think we've I've seen enough to know this is a this is a player who in the right circumstance could be incredible. I think that he is an excellent wide receiver. He has dealt with a with with bad quarterback play for his two years. He's dealt with a coach who it was extremely frustrating and not using his best players as the focal point of the offense more often than not. But what I what I loved you know Raheem Morris the new coac
h of the Atlanta Falcons and you got to you always got to be careful with these types of things but still for that that press conference say what you know what excites you about the potential of the Falcons offense. He goes Drake London. Yeah. Like for a head coach to one more. Yeah. He'd be John as you. Yes. But for him to just just come out right and say it of like I've seen this player and it feels like in him just saying Drake London he said I've watched Drake London. He's been criminally un
derutilized and I'm going to figure out how to unleash him. Yeah I mean those weren't yeah those were the mansion. Those were the assumed words but you know the way that I view Drake London he's obviously flashed you watch the film and you go oh he's a good what you you haven't watched him and been like man he makes a lot of mistakes he should have got that ball he should have broke that tackle his opportunities weren't great and his quarterbacks aren't great right now under contract our Taylor
Taylor Heineke and Desmond Ritter. They're both under contract in 2024. I don't know that they're going to go out and find someone else and if the quarterback doesn't change I do not believe that Drake London is going to have a great year so will he be a value probably not. That being said when you're 22 years old and you're that talented. If you're talking about drafting him as the wide receiver 27 it's not a bad it's not a bad chance to just take a young explosive athlete that still has a path
towards breaking out. He is in the category of some of the few players that could have a breakout season like a big breakout season. You know the Heisman House commercials you see no huh you know because apparently all the Heisman winners they all live together in a big house. Yeah there is another house. I don't know if you knew this. Oh let me hear it's not as nice of a house. It's where Terry McClaren lives it's where DJ Moore used to live for many years like a two bedroom. It's yeah it's a
it's beat up as mold and I do worry that Drake London may move in because that this is we're talking the exact same way that we talked about Terry McClaren 100% which is I don't like his quarterback. We know the talent is there he always makes big plays and then you just you're just like playing. It's like the record is on repeat right yeah and so we're not close enough to where you would ever say Drake London can't break out. But I think Jason's right. I mean what are your odds. Your odds are r
ookie quarterback. Or existing quarterback. Which the GM has said essentially it's not Ritter. Okay so Taylor Heineke rookie or they go hard after you know some other option and yeah and you're going to say Russell Wilson and that's not great. That's not great. There's been rumors of Justin Fields who obviously did support DJ Moore enough this last year. I don't know that that's great. Obviously if they were to go get a Kirk Cousins I'd be all over Drake London. I'd be thrilled. He would not be
a value. No because he would just be a very good fantasy. It's not the House of Hope Brooks is the House of False Hope. That's the house. There it is. And DJ Moore I mean he packed his bags right. Is he out front the house now is waiting to be picked up. Yeah he's waiting on the move out. He's no he's waiting on the Uber but he is no longer inside that little apartment. That's what I think. So Terry McClaren gets the master suite of that home. Come on. Yeah but Drake London is a legit he all he
needs is targets like you've got Drake London 150 targets. I still think they need to be good targets. Well but but just a shitter target just extrapolating what he did this year. At least you'd be sitting there at 85 90 receptions 1200 yards. Yeah the touchdowns are not coming without a better quarterback and a better system. Yeah last year we had a game of nine for 125 against Washington and 10 for 172 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We thought not not every wide receiver in the NFL can do t
hat. That means he had like 600 or 500 yards in the other 16 games. Yes. Painful. But that's that's you know hard to find a quarterback. It is. That's what I'm learning. All right let's talk some news. News and notes from around the league. Andy's covering his face and chuckling. I don't know what you know Kyle has a way to disrupt the show sometimes. Is this the photographs of Greg Roman. Can't be the same person. There's no way this is the same person. Kyle. Wow. How dare you. This man has liv
ed four lives. I'm sorry. This is terrible for the podcast but our show doc has so the charge. I admire this. The Chargers officially hired Greg Roman as their offensive coordinator. We just talked on the last show about the fact that you know we liked the idea of maybe say one landing in Los Angeles and we knew Greg Roman was probably coming on board. We didn't know at the time that it was going to be officially the offensive coordinator position. But Kyle has pasted pictures of his time in San
Francisco Buffalo Baltimore and then you know we spent a year off. This man has gone through. That third picture cannot be real. He has reinvented his look many times and he got there like he's progressed through some bad times to get to a final visual that's like OK. All right this is fine for you. Have a wheel. I can't help but notice that the very first picture his hairline is somewhat similar to Jason's today and the next three hats in all three pictures. Yeah. Is this Jason's future. Oh ye
ah. Well I'm not looking forward to picture three. We got to tweet this out. I guess I hope I'm past picture three. I hope picture three was like two years. You already had a picture three is over. Yeah good. But you got to get the great. We got to tweet this lineage out. I'm shocked. The third one is a different person. That's that's an actor. That's somebody else. The Chargers hired Greg Roman. The Chargers are going to run the crap out of the football. Greg Roman has been an offensive coordin
ator for. The better part of a decade. I mean this is this is not someone we are unfamiliar with and it's not just well this team and this personnel. You know he was the Niners the Bills and the Ravens all three doing the exact same thing which is being basically top three in rushing attempts usually and bottom three in passing attempts usually that's literally how extreme it is almost every single year of his career for all those different teams. They want to run the ball. Now my biggest concer
n with hardball Greg Roman is obviously hardball is coming off a tremendous run national title. What if it doesn't work because I think it is going to be the philosophy. I think it's going to be what he wants to do at the NFL level. I do have a bit of a concern that it just doesn't work the way he wants it to work. I think it will work. Well he's going to need a running back and the updated news that we got is the Giants are not expected to use the franchise tag for a second straight season on S
aquon seems like Barclay is heading for free agency. I personally also would not be shocked if they signed him to a deal the Giants but they have to do something if you're trying to be if your goal that you have set on day one is we will be dead last in passing attempts. You better go out and get yourself a running back. Yeah Josh Kelly not going to do no not going to do the trick there and Austin Ecklers probably not coming back so. They have a salary cap issue. That's the biggest thing is that
you know we can hypothesize about a big signing of Saquon but there's no money so they have to do something. Yeah I mean it they're gonna fell always blow they've blown my mind enough to where it's like oh this team doesn't have money. You can figure it out. You sign things cut things move things around. It shows up. Four million over the cap. It shows up eventually though like look at the the Saints like right it it does get the creditors do show up eventually but like five years ago I remembe
r the Saints being like we're here and then it's like they keep going so I don't know the salary cap keeps increasing. I will say this and this is important for all dynasty players like we had a dynasty show yesterday come out talking about this upcoming rookie draft class. There's a couple guys that I think are pretty talented overall it's a very weak draft class this is not. I don't think NFL teams are looking to this year's draft class and saying you're saying my in totality in totality in to
tality this is I believe to be not just the running back position. No no no no just the running back. Sorry didn't specify that. Sorry yeah yeah yeah so just well I was talking about the running back episode we did on the dynasty show that came out yesterday make sure you're listening to the dynasty pot but the running backs are a weak draft class and there's a lot of free action. My point is for Saquon his market is better because there isn't like a couple of real blue chip prospects you've got
Derek Henry Josh Jacobs Saquon Barkley Tony Pollard Austin Echler Devin Singletary DeAndre Swift there are those are the free agent running backs available in contrast there aren't really running backs rejected to go in the top two rounds exactly so yeah it's a good point it'll be very interesting to see what they end up with. To see if Justin Herbert runs more. I think you will if he doesn't. I mean it's a leap to say that he's going to that's going to become a huge part of his game in my opin
ion. Well I don't especially with the injuries he's dealt with so I could it happen yes do we have he is not Josh Allen I know his physical stature is Josh Allen but his his instincts to run the football are not the same as Josh Allen and the his quality the yeah the history right dog does he have the dog in him is he willing to risk his physical well being on a regular base right I don't think he's ever going to be someone running for 600 yards by any means but I do think every game will have o
ne or two designed runs to utilize his athleticism because of the scheme and that that'll that'll up him to maybe a three hundred and fifty four hundred yard rushing player I mean he's had three hundred rushing yards before Mike Williams is a thirty two million dollar cap hit which is the number two in all the NFL wide receive. But hold on. Who's number one Keenan Allen yeah it is. So Keenan Allen a thirty four million dollar cap hit which is I don't seeing it now is like that could be actually
I mean that's some leverage for Keenan Allen to come into this team and say hey we've got to we have a salary cap problem. Why don't you why don't you give me a little extension here why don't we spread this money out give me some more gear. Yeah they may get some some up front there. All right. Brooks you threw in Super Bowl score prediction since this is our last show before the Super Bowl. Right now San Francisco minus two has been the line. I think it's kind of stayed there. Am I wrong. I'm
pretty sure the case between but plus two has been but it has been the forty nineers favored yes I. I can't I'm going to go contrarian for everybody I know on the planet is picking Kansas City. I do not think they win the football game. Not the betters. No I know. But yes yes the better. I mean no the betters are picking same way. Did you say everyone's picking San Francisco. I understand what the line is but I'm saying everybody that I know is picking is taking Kansas City plus two. So you're g
oing contrarian. The money is on Kansas City. Kyle's confirming that KC money line is the most popular bet right now. I am taking San Francisco to win the ball game. OK. I can't escape it. I just think they get it done this time. OK. That's my pick. But you want to score. Yeah I want to score. Twenty seven twenty four. OK. Jay what do you got. I've got twenty four seventeen chiefs. OK. I'm going twenty seven thirteen Kansas City. Yeah. All right. There you go. See I told you. Everyone I told you
. I'm taking a big win. Yeah. All right. Quick break come back with the truth. All right Kyle we have you on the on the microphone today right. Correct. You and bats I haven't heard your predictions for the game. What are they. We'll be giving them on the DFS. Oh yeah. Yeah you'll be giving him for the second time. He's taking the nine years. You're taking the nine years. Yes. What's Betsy doing. I think Betsy's taking the nine years too. We got to fade the public. See see my people. My people a
re with me. OK. OK. There it is. All right. Into the truth we go. You want answers. I think I'm entitled. You want answers. I want the truth. You can't handle the truth. But more importantly heads or tails. I think heads this year. Man he is contrary. You've you've heard what never fails. Yeah I mean by the way that implies you're the public you two. I think you're two are the public. That's fine. Because Kyle's fading you. Yeah. Now Kyle always fades the public. Yes. And all things. Yes. Right.
He is a contrarian. Yes. He likes to zag. I guess Jason is the voice of public opinion so that makes perfect sense. Yeah. Go Chiefs. That's how your voice used to be back in about six years ago. All right. The truth of the tight end position in twenty twenty three. I think this is one of the more fascinating episodes for the truth. We had the most tight end receptions in NFL history this past year. Almost twenty seven hundred. And we kind of felt it. We did. In fact I I don't know if it got put
into our show doc but I saw the top ten performances at the tight end position this year in fantasy points so you know big time fantasy production on a week to week basis eight different tight ends comprised the top ten performances which was Kelsey Ingram Kittle La Porta Hawkinson Komet the Joku and Andrews. So the most receptions ever. Twenty three percent of all completions went to the tight end position. You had a rookie emerge who is now going as the number one best ball tied in next year
in Sam La Porta. Not a lot of people picked that some people would have said you know they had their excitement about Dalton Kincaid before the season not La Porta. And you had you know kind of a late career breakouts of the Joku and Ingrams continued. But you did not have touchdowns and it was the fewest receiving touchdowns to the tight end position since twenty eleven. So and it was by a lot so Sam La Porta had ten of them no one else had more than six. Crazy. And so we had tons of receptions
PBR value players you could count on like any Ingram is kind of the best example of the season of the whole season at tight end position. We're like he was targeted like crazy especially in the second half. But the touchdowns you know there weren't there weren't a lot of. Yeah so I mean it's funny because if you just look at stat accumulation over the like the first three quarters of the season Evan Ingram had so many targets so many receptions and hadn't really been that good for fantasy. Like
you know it's like it's almost like how can you do that touchdowns have always been the way that tight the tight end position becomes relevant on a week to week basis. You're always looking for who's going to get the touchdown and they just didn't come this year. I think that's an outlier especially with the targets being up that you know if targets are more consistent than touchdowns year to year. So I like the fact that there's some new blood in the NFL at the tight end position to say OK may
be for fantasy purposes next year we have more than just like a one A and one B and then garbage. Overall the targets for the tight end position were up but in the red zone where the action is at for scoring they were actually down where 2020 2021 about 30% of red zone targets went to the tight end position and that went down all the way to under 25% this year. Yeah it's wild and to Jason's point like I want to take a late tight end. That's what I want to do. I don't want to be in the position w
here we finally have been in the past couple years where we're like well if you don't get A or B you don't have one. So I'd rather have a handful. I mean I think it's interesting. There are names next year like King Cade like in Joku that are going to be you know I don't think the joke is going to get moved way up draft boards because of the finish. Not way up. So that'll be a player people can take a flyer on if it continues. It's great. Ingram was a late pick this year still provided value wee
k to week. You've got Tremac Bride. Yeah Tremac Bride is number three in best ball ADP right now. Which is. That's wild. It's like let's calm that down. That's fun. We love it. I believe Mike when he revealed this to us because yesterday he had his guess. He said who's number one. We go La Porta and he's like yep. Who's number two. Kelsey. Yep. And then we went through like 10 names. It was like yeah three you know Andrews and King Cade and kiddle. Yeah. No it was and then the Joku and nope nope
it was Tremac Bride and then Mike said quote that's a problem. But I mean there are other tight ends too that we were not going to discuss because they had injuries and stuff like Darren Waller. Like he's still going to be playing football next year. Sure. There's going to be some names. We're looking at the truth. The metrics we're using for consistency include great games. That is 15 or more points at the position. Good games eight or more. Bus games fewer than five and a half. We don't count
Miss games towards consistency. But Sam La Porta finished the year as the number one tied in with a consistency rank of three. First half consistency of three second half four. 59% good games including starting his career at 12 eight and one for the first three weeks at which I think blew everybody away. I believe I traded Sam La Porta in week four before week four in our League of Record in a deal to acquire Travis Kelsey. And it was under the premise of hey let's cash in on what I viewed was
unsustainable production from a rookie side end. And did you regret it. You know yeah yeah I mean I think production between Kelsey and La Porta it was you know it was similar for quite a while. La Porta finished the season so strong. I won the championship anyway so I didn't care things like that. Yeah. But I think my regret would have been much stronger had I had I not won. But 35% great games only 18% bust great against good and bad defenses really good at home. 14.89 fantasy points at home e
ight on the road. Makes sense to correlate to you know we talked about Jared Goff how good he was at home how good he was against the bottom half defenses so it makes sense that he threw more touchdowns in those games and that is you know you brought it up earlier La Porta had so many more touchdowns than anyone else at the position that's why he finished number one. So the question in everybody's mind is going to be I mean I just revealed the truth of his consistency as a rookie which he set to
ns of records most receptions most tied ground for the rookie tight end record. But should he be drafted as the tight end one next season I think that's going to be our debate all off see. Yeah it will be. Probably will be out on that I this is not me saying I don't think La Porta is good I think La Porta showed everyone he's he's got a. I mean first of all he's from tight end university he's physically everything you want in a tight end but then you've got the natural instincts of finding the o
pen spot leaking out at the right time faking defenders like he put it all together and he's worthy of being like I assume next year he's going to have a good pick. But considering we only have one year and that he went to double digit touchdowns which is not necessarily we don't know if that's sticky for him. It'll be hard to invest how high he's going to be going and take him as the first tight end off the board because you just assume well he was a rookie so he's going to be better. That's no
t always what happens in the second year of players especially after a huge rookie sensation. Yeah I mean I think it I my personal opinion is stuff like this is probably more sticky at tight end. My guess my question would be one is what is that equate to is the tight end one going off the board at the end of the second this year. Is it the top of the third. Yeah it certainly won't be a first people aren't going to spend a first on the Porta the way that Kelsey was the fourth or fifth pick this
past season. So. It'll be interesting. I'm probably with you in that in that regard but. Of all the places where it can get sticky. I mean tight end is one of them. Yeah I mean that sounds a weird sentence. That's just a weird sentence. I wish I said it differently. Yeah. But you didn't have all the places. Yeah. Of all the places you had James and Williams missed the training camp be hide the first part of the season movie theater floors and he's looked better as of late. So with an offseason e
xtra I think he'll be more involved not be like that 40% snap player. I don't know that that makes a huge effects on the Porta but that's at least a path for targets to go elsewhere. Believe it or not the number two tight end and this is this is done by total fantasy points produced this year. Not fantasy points per game. So that's an important thing to know because this player finished it to but in fantasy points per game he would have been six. Evan Ingram Evan Ingram drafted as the tight end
eight ends up at two and overall scoring. 53% good 18% great 24% bust. And you know the number was the 143 targets for 114 receptions. He was what two away from breaking the record or breaking or tying. So when you talk about values of the tight end position Ingram was extremely valuable for your team. This is I want to do this next year. I want to take the eight tight end off the board. It is better for my team if you can identify the guy that's going to finish in the top three or four and draf
t them at eight or nine off the board. That's a great pathway to success. And a lot of people one late in the season with like David Najoku and things like that. So it lets me draft more of my two Z positions. That's my ideal situation. I want to find next year's Evan Ingram. That's going to be the goal. Super consistent. And necessarily your week winner the way that La Porta would do it because he only scored four times. But at the very end of the year it's been back to back seasons now where E
van Ingram from week 13 on has been pretty incredible for your team. Yeah, it's wild. Like they all their players get injured through the year. Well, it's like they forgot. Oh, hey, we can go to this guy over and over and over and I don't think they forgot. No, no, because the targets were I mean like 88887777. They did it a little bit more at the end, but you had. That's what I mean. I just like at the beginning of the season. He scored all four of his touchdowns from week 13 on. He never score
d a touchdown before week 13. Give Ingram the ball. Good things happen. But they did. They did give him the ball. They gave him the ball a hundred reception pace and he had no touchdown. And we need more. Yeah, I mean if all you care about is Evan Ingram, yes, you're right. He needs more. That's all I care about. But he correlated with Travis Etienne's touchdowns. Right. Like Etienne was touched on heavy in the top half of the year. Yeah, I mean, obviously you can't have two players scoring the
touchdown in the same play. You know, my only issue with Evan Ingram, 26% of his total season's fantasy points came in two weeks. Came in that big monstrous explosion week against the Browns where he scored 27 points. And then the last week you could tell, at least you know, watching, they're just trying to get him the record as they force feed him the ball. He was close. That's exactly, you guys have recorded that show where Jason, you were debating whether they would go for it. I was listening
because I wasn't on that show. But when the record was that close, I 100% was on Mike's side because I was like, they're going to try to get him the record, which they really tried to. They really tried to give him 13 targets. You know, the game became like a problem for them playoff wise, but that was week 18. Nobody played like that didn't matter for your fantasy teams. They gave up on Calvin Ridley's target per outrun situation in the first half of the year too. So that went up for Ingram wh
en they said, okay, this guy's not consistent. And that was a big difference. So right now, I mean, here's my belief about Evan Ingram. I believe that the Jacksonville Jaguars are going to invest a very, very important pick or free agent signing on a wide receiver that they want to be a big body help for Trevor Lawrence. And I think that that will mean that this is the best year you've seen from Evan Ingram. Yeah. Evan Ingram is very mid to me. And that is how that you just, you just threw a spi
ke through Mike's heart. I mean, we're talking about the truth, right? The truth is he didn't bust a lot because he had so many targets. He didn't help you win a lot either. He was just okay. That's what he was all season. Didn't miss a game. He was okay for the majority of the season. And I think that that is excruciatingly fair because he did not have a top six finish in the first 12 weeks of the season at tight end. So if you're not in the upper half of your entire league scoring for 12 conse
cutive weeks, you did not help. Yeah. I would disagree of like if you go look through weekly rankings of who's actually in the top 10 and on a weekly base, I don't know. I don't have an actual number for anybody, but it's going to be littered with guys who were, you didn't even think about starting because they had two catches for five yards in a touchdown where over the first like Evan Ingram, this is half point scoring, 7.487, 10.2, 9.4, that's the whole first month. Those are numbers that I w
ould take at the tight end position, especially where you got it. Oh, you said that perfectly. What? They're ones I would take. Yeah. We'd all take them. I mean, that's what I said. He didn't bust, but he didn't really help you like win either. So if that's what you're looking for, he wasn't bad. I'm not saying bad tight end. He was the number two tight end on the season. Your opponent wasn't DMing you or texting you at the end of the week for the first 13 weeks and going, stupid Evan Ingram. Ye
ah. He got me. Yeah. That's fine. He is an important part of this offense. I think even if they invest another great pick in a wide receiver, obviously they're probably losing Calvin Ridley. So I don't see that as a big change. I think Evan Ingram next year is a lot of what he was this year, which is an important part of their offense. PPR dependent. PPR dependent. I mean, touchdowns aren't sticky. You only had four this year. If he ends up with eight next year, it's going to end up as a good ti
ght end. It's going to be his eighth year. Is that right? Let me look here. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. First year was 2017. It will be his eighth year. Yeah. I mean, credit where credit is due. Finished at two in overall accumulation of stats. His career high in touchdowns is six in his rookie year. Three, three, one, three, four, four. Yeah. He's not a touch. The odds are not high there because that's not his. His, his makeup is too, you know, he's a really agile. He's a short, se
rious guy. He's a short tight end. He's not La Porta, but got to give him credit. But we're just talking our opinion on, on the future. Travis Kelsey finished at three. This is the, this is interesting. Drafted as a tight end one. His consistency rank was number one. I don't like it. His first half, number one. Second half six. He still had, you know, I just talked about in the first 12 weeks, Evan Ingram had zero top six finishes. Kelsey had one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So I got tex
ts for seven different weeks where my opponent was like, screw you and Travis Kelsey. Yes. And that's what is very powerful in the position. Now the very end of the year was tough, 13, 14, 15, 16 and championship league, like the playoffs. This is the first time you like, you were actively hurt by having Kelsey. Yeah. I mean the actual three playoff weeks, he was the tight end 24, 21 and 37. Now the rest of the season was so good that he ends up as, you know, the truth metric is, is number one.
There's also number one in fantasy points per game. Yeah. I mean, he, he tight. It really sucks because he was so much worse than you hoped. He was still Travis Kelsey and over the course of the season, the number one point per game tight end had so much greatness in the first half of the season. Early on, it just seemed like, man, I was so right to get that number five pick, you know, spin that first round around Kelsey, but no one won a championship with them because of the, just the happensta
nce that the last three weeks of the fantasy playoffs were basically his three worst games of the season. Now we have a Super Bowl to be played on Sunday, but he has been dominant in the playoffs. Yes. If you look at the numbers and I think it's very interesting to look at the consistency numbers from, from Kelsey over the last three years, he's had basically the exact same percentage of good games, which is what, what is that number? Not 15 or more. It's eight or more, eight or more. So 75% in
2021, 76% last year, 73% this year. So those numbers stayed the same. His bus percentage last year was zero. This year is back up to 20 in 2021. It was 25. So last year was really wild and his great game percentage last year was 53%. That was insane. Yes. This year, 27%. That's the, that's where it is. 2021 was 38%. So you kind of got a reversion to 2021 in some ways. Yeah. I mean, we, we, you know, we said this, it's hard to, you know, know it, but like there's no way he was going to completely
repeat the, the Otter Sheer domination of. Otter? Yep. Otter. Like the animal. Oh, he just hates Otters. He dominates Otters. What's wrong with Otters? I, I love Otters. This isn't a meat thing. This is a Travis Kelsey hates Otters. I mean, everybody knows that. What do Otters do? They swim. And they park. But they're not the, see I get, I get Otters, I get them mixed into the beaver category. Yeah, they're, they're not making dams. They're building things and the Otters are what, just swimming
up to them and turning around. They're like, yeah, like buddies. But they're hanging out, right? Yeah. Do they have big tails? I get them confused with seals. Otters? Yeah. Otters I think of as fresh water. And Otter is small. Like a fresh water Otter. They're smaller than. I'm looking at them. They're far smaller and cuter than I am. Are they in the ocean? No. So they're, so seals, Jason, seals are in the ocean. That's, that's the line you need to figure out. I gotta remember that. Thank you.
The singer. Um, all right. Travis Kelsey, next year. I think you're on the, uh, the one year rental plan. You're on the waiting for the expiration. You're on the Derek Henry plan. Where's he going to go? I think he'll still, still go pretty high in the draft, but the port will be the Titan one consensus. And then Kelsey will be there probably what third round? I'm guessing third round. Kelsey is going, no one will have the fortitude to pass on that. That's, I don't think anybody. I don't think a
nybody. I don't even think so. Late second then. Late second. I wouldn't do it, but I think that's where he'll go. Okay. It's too tantalizing. The, the end of the season was just so destructive of your, of all of our view on Travis Kelsey of like people, people were like legitimately mad in fantasy football at Travis Kelsey who two week 14 was still having a fantastic year. It was three games for a player who has the most consistent record you could ever look to. And so if he was, I'll put it th
is way. If he was 30 years old, you would not even, none of us would be talking about it. No. Three games you would not even mention it. You'd be like, take them in the first round. Yeah. You go, that sucked. So, so it's three games combined with being 34 years old. It makes you think, oh, we're all sitting here with baited breath saying, oh, when's he going to fall apart? That's why the playoffs matter to me. The fact he's dominated in the playoffs, he's probably going to be fine. He says he's
not done playing. Yeah. He, he emphatically said that he said he's loving this. Why would he ever walk away? So I'll take him in the third. Okay. If he's there. All right. Let's take a break. Let's come back with a, a player that was dynamic, incredible. And now we're stuck wondering what's going to be. Number four, TJ Hawkinson drafted as the tight end for fourth round pick. First half of the year, number four inconsistency started the year at number six, number one and number eight. Great star
t. 60% good. 20% great. And then he got hurt, which, but that's, that's not too far off of where Kelsey was, but he didn't bust 7% bust games. And then he got hurt and then he tore his ACL and then he didn't get surgery for a while because it, it just happened. So what are we, what are we hearing first on the injury front from Betsy? The injury front is basically the, the timeline is such that you would expect him to start on the pup if he somehow, and he will be ahead of schedule because that's
right now. Yeah. The, the, there is no player not ahead of schedule. If, but if somehow he makes it to week one, you would expect that he would not be at 100% strength. I think it'll be really, really surprising if he doesn't start the season on the pup and you're dealing with an injured player who's just normal timeline after this surgery says he's not back until later in the season. Like I could see it being, you know, I think when we did the math on what is normal expected, that would have b
een about Halloween from his surgery date. Let me ask you this because Hawkinson through the first 12 weeks would have also pushed the all time reception record. He was on pace for 113. So he would have been in the same boat as Ingram. He also had five touchdowns in that span. You give him another couple. That would have been the only other player above that six mark. We know if Kirk Cousins is back, this is a go to receiver. And yet you have the injury. So will he be a player that somebody is g
oing to be willing to put on their bench for a while so that you have somebody potentially elite when they return? Or do you not expect him to return to form immediately? And I would also bring up like over the first six weeks, you know, it started out, you know, it started out okay, the tight end six and week one with sorry, trying to pull up those points, it was seven and a half. So as Jason would say, that's not good enough. Yeah, it didn't win you the week. Right. Didn't bust. Had a huge wee
k two, but then like weeks three through six, you know, you had a four game span where he's just, he's kind of okay. His real dominant stretch there, which was weeks seven through 12. Let's put it there. Those are no Justin Jefferson weeks. Like he clearly benefited with the target shared going up. You had eight games where he played with Jefferson seven without and 5.6 receptions with Jefferson that jumps up to over seven. His touchdowns jump from like 0.25 up to almost a half a touchdown a gam
e. I mean, so it's like there was a really big difference for Hawkinson and that was healthy Hawkinson when Justin Jefferson was out. So I think hamhawk. Yeah. That is a, and that's kind of a, like a sneaky, if you're not paying attention to everything, you just look and go, oh man, it took a little bit for Hawkinson to get going, but then he was great. When did they lose cousins? They lost cousins a week eight. So really what you want to look at is those first five weeks. That's crazy combo too
. So the first five weeks, let's take a look at the first five weeks. And if you extrapolate that over the course of the season, what would he have done? He would have finished with 102 receptions, which is great. 863 yards, which is awful on 100 plus receptions and 6.8 touchdowns, basically averaging 10 fantasy points per game. That's above average for sure. That's Evan Ingram. Yeah, exactly. I was literally, Evan Ingram only had 963 yards on 114 catches. But I think Ingram, let me just double
check it, but Ingram averaged 10.2 fantasy points. Yeah, so that's Evan Ingram. It's not as good as what you hoped for. He's coming off of a very late injury. So you would expect when he's back. Is there a chance he's not drafting? I don't think so. If he starts the year on pop. Yeah. I mean, obviously in IR leagues, if you've got an IR spot, it's going to be one of your favorite like, oh, round eight, round nine, take them and stash them. Might be later than that. Yeah, it may be. But I will sa
y that if peak health, he's averaging 10.1 fantasy points per game, you would imagine right when he's back, I don't know, he takes a little hit. And if you're stashing a guy for eight fantasy points a game when he comes back, might not be worth it. George Kittle comes in at five, 30 years old, drafted as the tight end three, consistency rank of four, first half was fifth, inconsistency second half was second. The second most consistent tight end over the second half of the year, 38% great games.
That's a huge number is higher than Kelsey. I believe, let me take a quick look. Is that higher than La Porta? La Porta was 35. Yes. So you talk about like hot, cold, red, green. It's what he's always been. It's always been maddening of knowing what George Kittle could do if he were unleashed, but he is only, that only happens some of the time. It's not every single week that you even have the chance. That's going to be a George Kittle game. Three number one overall weeks to tight end, a number
two, a number three, 38% boss, 38% great. Yeah, exactly. He's a roster construction question of like, do you want to have a weak winning capability at tight end, knowing that you will also get bust weeks that actively hurt you? Is that worth it at the tight end position? And to me, that's a matter of what am I giving up where he's drafted? You know, when he's being, you were out on him this year, 100%. I was out on him. He was in the fourth round. He was a fourth round pick. And I felt like the
players that you're selecting in the fourth are still really, really good. Now, I mean, he helped people win a lot of weeks. I don't think it was necessarily a win or a loss to be out on Kittle this year because he was so boom bust. Well let's go live to the field here. Okay. Bruxy. Yes, sir. George Kittle is your tight end in dynasty. Yeah. Is this correct? Yep. What was your vibe? How did it feel? What was the ride like? Are you buying tickets again? It was pretty good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's
just nice to know that he is a guy you can put in your lineup every time and he has that potential and just kind of deal with the rest. It's him versus Evan Ingram is like the philosophical. That is the what kind of fantasy player are you? Do you want to just like Evan Ingram will be a safer on a weekly basis, but his ceiling will never hit. So let me ask you, what kind of player are you? I think I'm in the Kittle versus Ingram side. I would prefer Kittle to Ingram. Yeah, ADP still matters. Exa
ctly. You have to factor in what you're giving up, which is the whole reason I was out on George Kittle is not because I think he's bad. I would love to have a George Kittle. It's just, would you rather have a George Kittle on the fourth or an Evan Ingram in the eighth? The splits are wild, guys. I don't know if you saw the home road splits. Oh my goodness. At home, he averaged over 15 points per game and on the road under seven. Wow. So he's a hype man. He likes the crowd. You get two tight end
s is what you do. And you just play George Kittle when he's at home. David Najoku came in at six, guys. He was sixth in consistency, but over the second half of the year, he was number one. Oh man, that finished so good. He was so good. I did two, two, three, three. Yeah, the last four weeks was an unbelievable finish, but really from week seven on, which is crazy, right? Seven on, he was just unbelievable. Yeah. Um, 9.2 targets per game in that stretch, six plus receptions and six of the final
seven games had to deal with four quarterbacks over the course of the entire year and yet delivered really an impressive meaningful fantasy finish. Um, first in yards after catch. I mean, he caught every crossing route he caught. He would just run wild. He was really hard to tackle for these guys. And the neat thing about him, he's a big strong guy that can break tackles. But oftentimes when he caught the ball, it wasn't him breaking tackles. It's him just running away from guys. He's a supreme
athlete. He's still very young. Even though he's been in the league, this will, this upcoming season will be his eighth like Evan Ingram. They came in together, but he was drafted as like a 12 year old man child, uh, back eight years ago. So it's neat to see him break out. I think his breakout was so dominant that as an organization, as a coaching staff, you say, how can we get him part of this game? And every say a focal point in the office, I will be much more in on him than, um, than I though
t I would be based on how he played with the Sean Watson because he wasn't as good with Watson. You know, he dealt with four theoretically inferior quarterbacks than, than Voldemort later in the season, but he was better with them. You're talking seven better with flakko, right? Yes. Uh, yeah. But I mean, he was good even in a non flakko games, uh, 10.6 fantasy points per game without to Sean Watson, 7.1 fantasy points with the Sean Watson. Yeah. I'd be curious what those numbers were. The month
, the month run where he gave you, uh, what is like the Kyle's showing the, the best, the fifth best four games, final four game span for a tight end over the last decade where he was two, two, three, three. Those were all Joe flakko games. So that's the, the, the, the real question, Jason, you think you laid it out. Did he force the organization to figure something out? Because it will take, it will still take a bit of a leap of faith because we, you hit the dominance. None of the dominance was
with Watson. He had 123 targets this year, which was more than 30 above his career high. Oh, and the dude burnt his face off. He had 23. That's right. We forgot about that. He had 23 receptions. That's a man. More than his, his career high. He had his career high in receiving yards. He had his career high in receiving touchdowns. I, I do think he, and he burnt his face off. I do think he created himself as a focal point of this office. I can't imagine you do what he did down the stretch and you
come into the next season where you, you really do need weapons. So you've got Cooper, but you know, Elijah Moore showed, he's just not, oh my gosh. They don't have another guy. It's, it's, it's, it's those two annoying players in the NFL. Elijah Moore is on the upper. Let me ask you this. No draft consideration. You just have to put one of them on your team next year and lock them in your tight end spot. George Kittle, David Nijoka. No draft costs. I'll take, I'll take Kittle. I'll still go Ki
ttle. Okay. Just wanted to see where that buzz was. Cole Komet finished at seven. Look at that. Consistency rank of 11, first half of the year. He was seventh in consistency, second half, 18 against all odds, busted 29% of the time. Good 41%. Great 12%. Honestly, I feel like Cole Komet was one of the least talked about players in fantasy this past year. Um, because the lows at times were very low. Delt with some injury. So people didn't play him even on weeks when he did perform like the Arizona
game, you know, he was banged up going into it, ends up at number five on the week. I don't know how many people had him in the lineup. Justin Fields missed time, saw a ton of red zone targets. And honestly, the Cole Komet discussion, like, I feel like we have to just tell you what happened and then wait to have the discussion. We don't know who the quarterback's going to be. We don't know if they're going to invest. They have two high picks. So if you tell me next year you're going in with, yo
u know, Caleb Williams and Roma Dunze. Right, right. Cole Komet is, we're probably going to be out. I believe the important takeaway from Cole Komet, um, even though he, he wasn't a great fantasy asset this year from how things played out, he still actually impressed me on the field film wise. He had some big boy man style catches, especially around the end zone. And so yeah, we don't know what, what the entire organization looks like going next year. What his target competition is. But I rose o
n Cole Komet. Like I, I rose a little bit in just how I think of him as a player, as a talent. And so that, I mean, that's really the only thing you can do right now is judge, do you think he's good? Do you think he's talented? Do you think he's capable of giving the opportunity? Or is he just a guy? And I, and I went more from just a guy to, I think he's pretty talented. Jake Ferguson at eight, 25 years old, was not drafted. So he was great value. He's a guy I'm going to be drafting next year e
verywhere. Interesting. I just, I think he'll be left for that, or at least be like the, the tight in 10. He'll be in the late rounds. I don't even know how I, it's good to hear that cause I don't know how to think about him. I really don't. Like Jake Ferguson, is he like focal point is not the word I'm ever going to relate to Jake Ferguson. Well, not when you got CD lamb. Well, yeah. And I, I just feel like, um, he was actually, just feels like the guy you end up, you know, eventually throwing
the ball to is how it felt. Yeah. I mean, he had 102 targets and I can say that, you know, I, I, I had this experience. It wasn't always great, but I had Ferguson for a lot of the season in our primary league and I'd pay attention and be watching those games and high value targets were there. 25 red zone targets that led to tight end position. Yeah. I mean, I, he was looked to and it didn't always connect. It didn't always work. And maybe that's just how it will forever be. But when I watched, I
was like, I am happy to have this role in DAX team. That's basically how I view it. Cheap Ingram. Yeah. Cheap Ingram. Exactly. And in terms of just somebody you lock in every week and you like, I've got my tight end position figured out. It might not win me the week, but I can go find my upside elsewhere. Exactly right. And it costs you nothing. And I think there's higher touchdown upside with Ferguson who got red zone targets and versus Ingram who's never scored touchdowns and I would give me
DAC over, give me expensive Trevor Lawrence this year. It was. Very nice. It was essentially, like it was his, it was Ferguson's first year as a starter. His rookie season, he played 37% of the snaps. He had 22 targets. So he was put into a role as a second year player that he can still get better as an actual part. Now he, the, the Cowboys did take Luke, Schoonmaker, AKA the schoon man in, in the second round of this past year. Eight receptions as a rookie. Yeah. I'm just, it's, I'm not saying
that the schoon man is definitely coming for Ferguson's job, but it's a, at least there is a high draft capital pick who could be in competition. I think Ferguson, it's his job. So I'm, I'm more on Jason's side of the, like right now, tight end 10 and basketball touchdown upside every single week. He's an interesting player. It seems like this role in Dallas's offense is to be the tight end eight to 10. Dalton Schultz the year before was the tight end 10. Ferguson ends up a tight end eight. Old
man Whitton was always still there. Yeah. It's not, it's not going to be prolific, but it's not going to let you down. At number nine, we have much more excitement. It's Trey McBride. Trey McBride finished at nine, consistency of 10, but in the second half was a consistency of three. He took over. Zacharze was waved his pace from week, uh, week six on was 103 receptions, over a thousand yards and four touchdowns on the first five weeks. He wasn't even, he was barely a part of this, barely a part
of this offense when, when Zacharze was there, he played 39% of the snaps in the first five weeks. And basically was, I mean, he had a grand total. Let me count them here through those weeks. Eight receptions through five weeks. And then he was like, Hey, let's get that guy on the field. The worry I have with Trey McBride is the, um, the draft price. I agree. Like, like it was a prolific week six on, but you know, a hundred receptions, a thousand yards, four touchdowns. Well, Arizona score a lo
t next year. What is the potential touchdown totals for Trey McBride? You know, um, Trey McBride next year or David Njoku, no draft consideration. Really Trey McBride. Um, so there you go. Just because the PPR value, you think he's going to catch more passes? It's in the quarterback. Yeah. So once Kyler returned, he was on pace for, uh, 112, 1143 yards, still only four touchdowns, but the touchdowns can go up. It, it's just the fact that Trey McBride can take over games where he, it, we'll see i
f the, how the NFL draft goes. The, the chalk of the draft right now is Marvin Harrison, Jr. ends up as an Arizona cardinal. And by all the, the chatter out there, he is a bit essentially a day one alpha. You just put him out there and that's, you know, what the draft people are saying about Marvin Harrison, but you have, even if that happens, if Trey McBride is clearly the number two target, um, in for the Arizona Cardinals and a player who can actually take over where most tight ends can't tak
e over a game. So that's what the interesting thing is. That's why people are drafting him as we said, as the tight end three right now in best ball, because the upside is massive, but he is going to, he's one of my favorite players right now, but that is a, that's a rich ADP. Are you making a really, really big bet? Yeah. And this isn't a player that came out of nowhere. Last year he was a rookie tight end. He did nothing, um, but he was the first drafted NFL tight end, uh, around two pick arou
nd not just around two. He was pick number. Oh, he's destined for great. He's destined for this show. T McBee. So I, yeah, uh, I like his talent, his opportunity and his breakout. Kittle or McBride McBride. Dalton Schultz finishes at 10 for the second consecutive year. He was last year's tight end 10. He's this year's tight end 10. You know, pretty good season, pretty good run, had some injuries, but if you look at, you know, if you isolated a bit to weeks four through 12, it was a really good r
un. He was a consistency rank of eight. He got it done. I don't know how involved he was on a lot of fantasy squads, but from weeks four through 11, he was the tight end three and fancy points per game. And CJ Stroud obviously elevated everybody in Houston, 47% good, 13% grade, 40% bust. What's the, well, and it's TBD of, cause Dalton Schultz was on a one year deal. So we'll see where he actually ends up. I believe, right? Kyle. Yes. He has a free time. So it seems like Dallas is what I'm hearin
g. No, I'm just, I'm just kidding. It seems like this is a situation where the team and the player can work it out. I mean, if he comes back, I'm very interested. If he goes somewhere else and doesn't have CJ Stroud, no, thank you. It's so funny because you just said what you said last year. You were like, if it comes back to Dallas, I'm very interested. If he goes to Houston with a rookie quarterback, not interested in Dalton Schultz. The truth is he's, he's the, he's, I don't blame the process
. He's a quarterback's best friend. I remember being the one fighting you guys a little bit about Dalton Schultz this past off season. Yeah. And by week, the end of week three, me and Jay were just, yeah, you were singing songs. We were bearing him into the ground. 12 was Mark Andrews, just some other names to throw out there. Mark Andrews was number two in consistency. Mark Andrews is still great. Mark Andrews, very good. I will mention, I believe Isaiah Likely is very good. So that was part of
the discussion before the season. Isaiah Likely is a, like, Isaiah Likely was alone in Baltimore. Oh yeah. He finished the year at 4-4, 2-8. That was fantasy finishes. Like we would be, he'd be inside the top six. Yes. So when you have a player that is 23 years old emerging and then you have a player that has not been necessarily able to always stay on the field, even though he is very, very good, I just want that conversation to be in the back of your head. Mark Andrews finished at 4-5, 1-4 be
fore this year with the injuries. Points per game wise, he was right there again. Yeah. He was 11.3. Travis Kelsey was 11.5. So you know, I don't know if you're going to factor Isaiah Likely into anything next year or not. I don't know if that'll be us, like a difference maker if you're like right on the edge with two players. Yeah. Like if you're sitting Trey McBride and Mark Andrews is likely going to factor into you. I don't think so. I still go into it. I think likely will be involved, but I
don't think it necessarily siphons away from Andrews. I think it's just a newer weapon in the offense. They have a real wide receiver problem with Bateman and Oda Becum. Goddard came in at 14, consistency of 15, really a lost year for Goddard and maybe we retire him. Yeah. I think he, you know, it's not always, you know, there's hot and cold and then there's Goddard, which is like, it's not red light, green light. It's like red light, red light, red light, green light, red light, red light, yel
low light, red light, green light. Yeah. There's a lot of yellow, a lot of yellow lights there, which is just enough to get through. He's following in the footsteps of Zacharitz for the Eagles, which is become a guy who can catch the ball and fall down. You mean old Zacharitz? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Young Zacharitz for the Eagles was a better footsteps to step in. Absolutely. He's following the footsteps because younger Goddard was really good for a while. And then it's like, yeah, I'm just goi
ng to catch the ball three yards from here and then get five yards on the play. Yeah, I mean, honestly, this is year, this will be year seven for Dallas Goddard. He's never finished above 10 at the tight end position. And he's never, this was his, would you believe it's his career high in receptions? Because it was. That's insane. Yeah. So I mean, he never, he never broke out. Right. Goddard just, we waited for it. He was an anticipatory draft pick. He did not break out and his draft capital, yo
u spent, he was the tight end seven off the board. He was the tight end six round pick to get him, which is high enough to where you probably put him in your lineup and waited and low enough to where, you know, I don't know. Massive, massive. He's bust this. Huge break. He's the third receiving option for a team that doesn't have a ton of passing volume. And the first and second option are their elite. So much better. It's not just good wide receivers on the Eagles. It's top tier elite players.
So it makes sense that he would never really get the break out. This season did not make sense to me of how they were utilizing him. So we'll see if after they're shifting some things up with the offense, maybe we get some hope. But in draft season, I can't imagine I will be calling for it. You know, if he follows the Angromne and Joku year seven plan. Yeah. This is the year. All right. So a couple of mentions here at the end. We'll have a Tuesday show with our Super Bowl reaction. Some mailbag
to talk through. Any news? Maybe we'll reflect on Kelsey's performance in the Super Bowl and what we think then. The UDK presale starts on Sunday. That's ultimatedraftkit.com. You'll want to head over there on Sunday. It is the lowest possible price for the ultimate draft kit. And the UDK Plus comes with the Dynasty Pass with a ton of tools and resources. Did you guys want to talk about that? Yeah, I did. We have been really scouring through our Dynasty rankings, setting those up. All of our sta
rtup rankings, our rookie rankings, getting everything ready for Super Bowl Sunday. And it's just on my mind so much because we're living in this. Even going through these tight ends, I'm thinking about how they rank in Dynasty. And all that information will be available on Super Bowl Sunday. So you can take a look at all the values, the trade targets, the rankings so that you can go make your early Dynasty trades and take advantage of those who don't have that resource. There are three updates
to the Dynasty Pass every year, which is the pre-combine release on Sunday, the post-combine and the post-NFL draft. All of our rookie rankings, Dynasty rankings, college production profiles, rookie mock drafts, and a whole lot else. Team opportunity pages are awesome. Yeah, team opportunity pages showing what every team is going to need this offseason as you prepare. It's a great resource to know what Dynasty assets to potentially trade away before teams fix problems and make you, you know, sud
denly you're like, well, okay, didn't expect that, but now, you know, Kenan Walker is not as valuable or whatever the case may be. So you can watch the show over on YouTube. A reminder, subscribe over on YouTube.com slash D Fantasy footballers. Click the bell. It's a nice little wave by Jason. Yeah. Oh, it was a wave to YouTube. It was very coy. So yeah, Fantasy Hitman's trade target's a part of the Dynasty Pass as well. Yes, sir. Sunday, we'll send out some emails. We'll let you know on social
media. Follow us over there at the FF ballers. That'll do it for today's episode of the show. Thank you for joining us. Enjoy the big game. I hope it is a good time. Enjoy your food, everyone. Bye bye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the fantasy footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join the foot.com and follow us on Twitter at the FF ballers.

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@TheFantasyFootballers

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@mikeg51three

Won championships in both my leagues this year. Drafted LaPorta as my starter in one league, and Kelce in my other league. Opposite ends of the spectrum but it worked out both ways for me this year!

@ImCaptainClutch

Just bought a Trey Mcbride 1/1 NFL shield, and im hoping he has a great career

@therancidpizzabox2977

“Otters are freshwater” Sea otters have entered the chat

@lehorse1

Love the haircut hat thing had the exact thing this morning, had a haircut booked in and the first thing I thought was did you boys decide it was good or bad to wear a hat to the hairdressers 😂😂

@alexthain6247

Haha. Need some otter facts. There are both salt water otters (sea otters) and fresh water otters (river otters). However river otter often live close to the coast can be found in salt water.

@user-ux9mj8lt6y

Everyone conforming to the "don't wear a hat before seeing your barber" status quo is hilarious

@TheUndefeatedOfTheEast

I find it odd they mentioned hockenson getting an uptick when jeffereson was out but not the same for evans when kirk was out, unless i missed it.

@shakyabodhi

there are saltwater otters!

@jaygee941

It’s like you’re reading my ……football thoughts. And future…..e….e…. Bravo!

@AndyT7321

Jason's confusing Otters and Manatees...😂

@tslaces

I’m not usually drafting a TE as my week winner. If he does that sometimes, that is a bonus.

@bluestarlockc4853

I won my dynasty league with Kelce at TE

@brandonballard3243

I saw Andy looking at lamps on amazon 25:51

@shawnfitzpatrick4085

Personally, I would like to hear a top 10 Superbowl foods. Sounds like it would have been a good draft topic for the last video before "the big game".

@mikewallerus3524

You all need more otter knowledge. Lol

@keeperleague96

Love the content... Miss the dailys.... Here's our league kelce situation.. Guy with maholmes and kelce won the league... At this yrs draft He Kept maholmes and drafted 12th. And then he stunk. he was the worst team and picks first this sept He's keeping maholmes and taking Kelce first pick. Lol. I'd say something to him... But all I can say is good combo... As I'm sitting with 4th pick with CMC as my keeper.

@Xarama

I had LaPorta and Kelce but I traded away LaPorta. I would have lost with either in the semis so I guess there is that, but it stings since it’s a keeper.

@connerloes7224

No it's super bowl time from mike hurt my heart

@zacharycarvalho1383

I don't own QJ, but I would take a 3rd for him if I did