Are we seeing a tight end revolution in the NFL?
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
Jacob and Dan are joined by Max Toscano to talk all things tight ends and what that means for YOUR Fantasy Football team.
(0:00) Intro & Welcome Max Toscano
(8:31) Rams with 3 TE on the field in 2025
(14:57) More TE on the field: Are more teams going to copy the Rams in 2026?
(21:46) Bears used 3 TE 125 times
(23:26) Does the D.J. Moore trade signal an offensive shift for Ben Johnson and the Chicago Bears?
(29:01) Max’s virtual white board
(24:44) Can these TE block well enough to stay on the field all the time?
(43:59) How close is Tucker Kraft to George Kittle?
(48:56) Who else might “copy” the Sean McVay TE usage?
(1:00:05) Will Harold Fannin Jr. live long and prosper as a full-time NFL TE?
(1:05:33) Setting reasonable Oronde Gadsden II expectations
(1:11:43) Setting unreasonable Terrence Ferguson expectations
(1:14:26) Is Jacob crazy, or are Gunnar Helm and Mitchell Evans going to save the sickos?
(1:18:09) Any hope for Elijah Arroyo?
(1:19:40) Thoughts about Mason Taylor?
(1:22:17) Will Jackson Hawes ever be a full-time starting TE? Any career comparisons?
(1:23:45) It’s time for Jacob to let go of Erick All
(1:25:38) Why Kenyon Sadiq is not a TE1 (and Eli Raridon is)
(1:30:33) Rookie TE Class Overview: Eli Stowers, Eli Raridon and more
(1:39:53) Rating Jacob’s crazy TE takes
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:13.0 | It's Beyond the Box Corps. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Dan Schneier. |
| 0:16.0 | That's Jacob Gibbs. |
| 0:17.0 | And today we are joined by a special guest. |
| 0:19.0 | I am very excited about today's show. These are like my favorite shows to do and we explore them to some extent on Beyond the Vox or we get to do it more in the off season. So like some of the most valuable times come from this off season roar. And today we have a special guest on Max Tiscano. I hope that I pronounce that right. I'm known for mispronouncing names left and right. |
| 0:38.8 | But he is a Paizan, so I feel like I can get that right as being a fellow Northern New Jersey person. I just assume that. By the way, I don't know if that's true for sure. I mean, you see the O at the end of the name and you would guess things. But Max is probably the premier, at least in my mind, tight end evaluator in the fantasy football game, in the NFL game at this point as far as what I have covered and what I've seen. I'm really excited about today's show. We're going to talk a lot about his thoughts on tape of the tight ends, where the tight end position is headed, we'll do 30,000 foot few stuff and individual player stuff. He will, he will make me feel terrible about the giant signing isaiah |
| 1:12.5 | likely and i'm going to have to deal with that and accept it but how is everybody doing today jacob |
| 1:17.1 | how are you doing my friend i'm good yeah we got a real life uh football fan here not just the dynasty |
| 1:23.0 | deep dive sick oh here uh this show has been bringing a lot of advanced stats and stuff. So I'm |
| 1:27.9 | excited to actually get in and talk some real football, kind of delineate between, you know, |
| 1:32.5 | some of these guys who run a lot of routes and get yards and stuff. But like, can we expect |
| 1:37.3 | them to stay around as long-term pros for a long time or a coach is going to get sick of them, |
| 1:41.2 | not being able to help their run game and stuff? So yeah, Max is a friend of the program here. He came on last year, brought his whiteboard. We talked through all the X's and O's of the Seattle offense, what was happening with Jackson Smith and J-Bah and everything. That was really fun to obviously see them go on and have the Super Bowl run. So I think we've got another really good show for you all here. |
| 2:02.6 | We're going to talk about what's been changing around the league. |
| 2:06.6 | So specifically, I'm focused on Sean McVeigh and what he showed us last year. |
| 2:11.6 | I thought was really, really interesting. |
| 2:13.6 | McVeigh continues to find ways to reinvent this Rams offense, right? |
| 2:16.6 | Like we keep seeing it, whether it's the run game, the past game. |
| 2:20.2 | He's kind of always ahead of the curve a little bit. |
| 2:23.6 | And last year, what we saw was that he used three tight ends on the field 388 times, 388 |
| 2:29.5 | office of plays. |
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