Episode 229: TE Strategy, Sleepers & Busts
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🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This is the fourth and final part of our positional breakdown series. Adam Levitan, Evan Silva, and Mike Leone discuss how to attack the tight end position in fantasy football drafts this season.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
- Macro TE themes
- Is the cost worth it on Kelce, Waller, Kittle?
- Can anyone in the middle threaten the top?
- Sleepers, busts
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Timestamps:
The 2021 approach to Tight Ends (1:55) | Waller vs. Kittle (5:50) | Evaluating Kyle Pitts and the Tier 2 Tight Ends (7:06) | Mid-round Tight end targets (9:27) | What to do if you miss the top 4 TEs (12:57) | Late round targets (15:32) | 2021 Tight End Busts (17:24) | Deep League fliers (19:07)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 229 of the official established run.com podcast. |
| 0:22.4 | My name is Adam Levitan as always joined by Evan Silva and it is time to wrap up this |
| 0:28.3 | inspirational epic generational four part series with tight ends. Leonie, how you doing? |
| 0:36.6 | Good. I just very subtly managed to plug my headphones in before the battery died. So |
| 0:42.2 | I was pretty proud myself for that. Okay. Big day in the Leonie household fixing electronics. |
| 0:47.6 | Evan, how's it going? Good. We just recorded the wide receiver show. It's going to it's a lot more |
| 0:52.3 | extensive than this one is going to be. We're trying to bang this out so Adam can do his radio show |
| 0:56.3 | here in 35 minutes. It's no rush. Okay. Today we are going to break down all things tight end |
| 1:04.3 | for this season. Tears, optimal strategy. Guys, we like guys, we don't before we get into that. |
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| 1:52.2 | ball on, not even a question. All right, let's get into it at tight end here, boys. And you can |
| 1:57.9 | really separate tight ends into tears at the top. I mean, Kelsey very clearly in a tier by himself |
| 2:03.6 | despite the age model. And then Waller and Kelsey, I think you can make arguments for either one. |
| 2:09.0 | But after those two, I'm sorry, Waller and Kittle. Then I think after those three guys, |
| 2:15.0 | there is a pretty big drop from there. We're going to talk about those guys in the middle and |
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