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What's up everyone? It's J.J. Zachary. And in this episode, 829 of the Late Round Fantasy

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The first question this week is from Twitter, it's from at fantasy F. Bell.

It says, it feels like tight end is deeper than ever this year with Hawkinson, LaPorta,

etc.

Does the data support this? So there are a lot of ways to answer a question like this,

because the definition of deep is subjective. But I'll look at a couple of angles here.

I'll start by just comparing the Titan 18 or a mid-range Titan 2, the Titan 12, and

the Titan 6, to how those players performed historically. Right now, the Titan 18 and points

per game is Hunter Henry, who's at 7.4

Last season among tight ends with eight or more games played the tighten 18 was at 8.4

PPR points per game, but during the four years prior to that, the Titan 18 averages 6.3

points per game. So we're looking better this year than the previous five-year average,

except in 2022 when the number five-year average, except in 2022,

when the number was actually higher.

That's for tighten 18, for a mid-range tight end two.

Let's look at the tight end 12.

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