If you play in a fantasy football league, this might be the most important video you watch all year.

Because today we were breaking down the seven players that I would bet my house on this season.

If you're not familiar, I'm Sal Venture. I've helped over 10,000 people win their fantasy leagues the last few years alone.

And I plan to do the same for you with this video.

And we're starting with a tight end position, a position that doesn't really get all the love in fantasy football compared to running back wide receiver and even quarterback, right? But tight end, Tyler Warren this year is somebody that I would be betting my house on as it currently stands. Let's talk about what he did in year one, because he was absolutely eating in his rookie season, especially when Daniel Jones, his quarterback was healthy. Overall, Warren finished that season with the third most targets at the tight end position, despite not playing the final five games or so of the year with his quarterback Daniel Jones. That was third in the NFL

amongst tight ends, 112, over a 20% target share, very strong, especially when you consider

he was battling last year. Michael Pittman, who earned 111 targets, breakout year for Alec Pierce,

who just got paid this offseason. Josh Downs was still there. Jonathan Taylor's role as a pass catcher increased, and still, Tyler Warren, a rookie tight end, was getting a 21.2% target share. But as I mentioned, when Daniel Jones was healthy is when he really shined. In those 12 games with a healthy Daniel Jones, 13 fantasy points per game, six and a half targets per game, 57 receiving yards per game, compared to the final five games of the year without Daniel Jones, when the Colts fell apart, didn't make the playoffs after a strong start and trading for Sauce Gardner at the trade deadline.

What happens those final five games? Just six fantasy points per game. Just 26.6 receiving yards per game. Everything started to fall apart because of that.

But those first dozen or so games of the year with a healthy Daniel Jones is when you saw that tight end one potential overall tight end one upside from Tyler Warren, exactly why I was taken in the first round of the previous year's NFL draft. And the guy who manufactured that breakout for Warren to start the season, Daniel Jones, was now locked up on a two-year deal worth up to $100 million, according to multiple sources this offseason. Not only that, but Michael Pittman is also gone. He was traded to the Colts shortly after, I'm talking about basically minutes after they re-signed Alec Pierce this offseason. They traded Michael Pittman to the Colts. And Michael Pittman, he's walking out after posting 80 catches last year, 111 targets, the two previous seasons, right? This is a guy who is going to leave a lot behind. Josh Downs, the wide receiver should be taking on potentially a larger role in two wide receiver sets, but the guy who was going to take on probably even more of a target chair of where he was already getting targeted last year is Tyler Warren. Another thing that's important about Michael Pittman, if we pull up his stats on player profiler, last year he ran 283 slot snaps.

All right, so that was 19th most in the NFL.

Those are now all up for grab.

So a lot more middle of the field production is going to be there, since the Colts

really didn't replace Michael Pittman with anybody all that desirable, in my opinion.

If you look at this, if we pull up the Indianapolis Colts here, on the team changes tracker, which is a part of the fantasy blueprint, actually released today. You can check it out at join the blueprint.com for 2026 while there's still spots available at the lowest price of the year. You can see right here, the only guy they added was Nick Westbrook. That is a massive downgrained for Michael Pittman. That is not a guy who has proven in his career that he could successfully play at a high

level or as high as Michael Pittman, especially out of the slot. And in the NFL draft, Dionne Berks was one of the last picks in the draft in round seven was added. So really, for the most part, nobody was replaced here. A lot of that middle of the field production is going to go to Josh Downs, but also, most importantly, Tyler Warren. The competition is currently going to be these two guys, Josh Downs and Alif Pearson.

That's basically it.

You'll still have Jonathan Taylor out of the backfield.

You have Alapal. Josh Downs, but also, most importantly, Tyler Warren. The competition is currently going to be these two guys, Josh Downs and Al-Pears, and that's basically it.

You'll still have Jonathan Taylor out of the backfield.

You have Al-Ale-Piers, who is actually coming off of an injury that's going to take about three months to recover from this offseason. And Josh Downs, who would already look like Tyler Warren was beating out last year in the middle of the field. If we're talking about like the downsides to a profiler for Tyler Warren,

for me, the biggest thing would just be Daniel Jones himself.

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