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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

149: Tight End Strategy

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

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Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0

This is the Lay-Round Podcast with your host, Jay-Jay Zacharyson.

0:12.0

What's up everyone, it's Jay-Jay Zacharyson, the editor-in-chief over at numberfire.com,

0:16.7

and this is episode 149 of the Lay-Round Podcast, one of the many shows that are part of

0:21.3

the numberfire podcast network.

0:23.3

Thanks for tuning in.

0:24.7

If you were to completely simplify the argument for drafting a quarterback late in Fantasy

0:29.0

Football, it would be that each team in your league only needs to start one when they

0:33.2

need to start two or three running backs and wider sievers.

0:36.0

As a result, unlike real football, quarterback just aren't needed all that much in fake

0:40.0

football.

0:41.0

So if that's the quick argument against early round quarterback drafting, what about

0:44.7

tight ends?

0:46.1

Because as we know, most league formats start just one tight end, so wouldn't the strategy

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look identical?

0:51.9

Sort of, but not exactly.

0:53.6

I often get a lot of similar questions from readers and listeners, and one of those

0:57.0

frequent questions is about my tight end strategy.

1:00.2

By now, most of you know my stance on quarterbacks in both single quarterback and superflex

1:04.3

leagues.

1:05.3

If you don't, feel free to hit pause and go back and listen to episode 139.

1:10.6

That'll provide some detail.

1:12.2

But given the question surrounding my tight end strategy, I figured that I'd give the

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