2773993, RE: TE isn’t a position that is going to make or break a fantasy season.
Posted by jimaveli, Sat Oct-15-22 08:40 AM
Bigger rosters. The tight ends you mention are rostered. Or they only get dropped going into a bye or if someone is in a pinch trying to chase a newly valuable free agent. When I wrote ‘there’s no reasonable tight ends available’, that’s what I meant. Aka he was getting zeroes at tight end. AND he was the type who wants to set it and forget it, get whatever points he’s going to get and keep it moving.
Also, 1/2 ppr.
>So the focal point is to get a TE that is serviceable, where
>you’re getting 7-10 points
>per matchup. In my league, there are several serviceable TEs
>who are still available to
>claim.
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>Hurst for the past two weeks have been avg double digit
>fantasy points, and prior to that
>he had a week where he generated 7 points and a week where he
>generated 9 points. He is
>still available in my league.
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>Smith Jr, Tonyan, and Conklin are also serviceable and are
>still available in my league,
>so I’m sure one - if not all - of those TEs are still
>available in your league as well.
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>Justin Jefferson is arguably the best WR in fantasy. He scored
>39 points in the first week,
>and has averaged 30 points per matchup in the past two weeks.
>AJ Brown did score 25 points in the first week of fantasy, but
>since then his numbers have gone south, and he has
>nowhere near the same scoring potential as Jefferson because
>he has to share targets
>with Smith and Goedart. Plus Hurts himself is the number 1
>scoring option in red zone
>situations, where he will just run it in for the TD himself.
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>Now let’s look at the ceiling of the players who were
>involved in the trade. Jefferson’s ceiling
>Is 39-40 points. brown’s ceiling is 20-25 points.
>Everett’s ceiling is 17 points. A serviceable
>TE’s ceiling is 10 points.
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>Jefferson and and a serviceable TE could get you 50 points per
>week, where as Brown
>and Everett could get you 42 points per week….Thats a
>difference of 8 potential fantasy
>points, which is a huge difference in fantasy.
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>He weakened his WR lineup to improve his TE lineup. That’s a
>terrible fantasy move.
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