Levitan's Solo Pod: Brock Bowers Reignites Elite TE Debate + Your Listener Questions (Episode 930)
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan breaks down Week 9 in NFL DFS which saw Brock Bowers destroy the main slate, before finally tackling a new batch of hard-hitting listener questions.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:26 - Brock Bowers Restarts Elite TE Debate
6:37 - Adam’s Cash Game Review
8:27 - Adam’s GPP Review
12:31 - Listener Questions
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 930 of the official. |
| 0:20.8 | Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:22.8 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:23.8 | I am one of the co-founders here at ETR. |
| 0:25.9 | And we are coming off of a Brock Bowers plays the tight end position kind of week. |
| 0:32.8 | Yes, that's right. |
| 0:33.8 | Brock Bowers went off for 46.3 Draft King's points on Sunday, |
| 0:39.2 | reigniting the debate over elite tight end in all formats. |
| 0:44.4 | As with most debates, I think there's a lot of nuance here. |
| 0:48.7 | If you think about fantasy football strictly through the lens of value over replacement, then yes, elite tight end will be |
| 0:57.8 | your strategy. There is absolutely zero doubt that if you have a tight end that actually |
| 1:01.9 | hits in a massive way, you separate from your competition further than you do at other positions. |
| 1:07.6 | In other words, the running backs and the wide receivers and the quarterbacks are |
| 1:11.5 | typically clustered in scoring more literally in fantasy scoring. Like, whereas a tight end, |
| 1:19.1 | when Kelsey was going for 100 catches and 1,400 yards and 12 touchdowns, you just can't |
| 1:25.5 | compete with that with a 75th percentile or a 50th percentile tight end option. |
| 1:30.2 | It's incredibly valuable. |
| 1:31.3 | I mean, I remember one season. |
| 1:33.3 | I forget which one. |
| 1:34.4 | I think I tweeted something like Kelsey was having the most valuable fantasy season ever, |
| 1:38.8 | not because of his raw stats, but because all the other tight ends were so bad, |
| 1:43.5 | he was beating the rest of them by something |
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