Mark Andrews Profile: Bigger Role Coming? (08/22 Fantasy Football Podcast)
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🗓️ 22 August 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Mark Andrews is incredibly efficient, but will he run more routes and reach his true potential? We'll talk about that on today's show!
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| 0:00.0 | Beware the mid-round tight end, except we're really excited about them this year in 2021. |
| 0:08.7 | Let's talk about Mark Andrews on FFT and 5. |
| 0:11.4 | Adam Azer with Jacob Gibbs here. |
| 0:13.6 | Follow him at J.A. Gibbs underscore 23 at J.A. Gibbs underscore 23 on Twitter. |
| 0:20.5 | And check out his stuff on sportsline. He's got incredible football research for you.A. Gives underscore 23 on Twitter. And check out his stuff on sports line. |
| 0:22.4 | He's got incredible football research for you. |
| 0:24.6 | Okay. |
| 0:25.3 | So Mark Andrews, first of all, this guy is really good. |
| 0:28.7 | Tell us what stats suggest how good Mark Andrews is. |
| 0:33.6 | Well, you know, I love the per route stats, and they all point towards Andrew as being really one of the best tight-ins we've seen in quite a while. |
| 0:40.9 | In 2019, he averaged more yards per route run than any tight-in other than George Kittle in the eight years that I have that data available. |
| 0:48.5 | And that rate fell a little bit last year. |
| 0:50.3 | We kind of followed Lamar Jackson's passing efficiency on the way down. |
| 0:53.6 | But still, over the past three seasons, his yards per route run. year. We kind of followed Lamar Jackson's passing efficiency all the way down, but still over |
| 0:55.2 | the past three seasons, his yards per route run is right up there with, you know, any tight in the |
| 1:00.4 | NFL. You got George Killet at 2.9, just absolutely insane. And then Darren Waller, Travis Kelsey, |
| 1:06.0 | Mark Andrews, all right around 2.3 yards per route run. And then there's a huge drop all the way to 1.8 where |
| 1:12.5 | you see the next tight end. So he definitely belongs among the absolute best tied ends in terms |
| 1:18.9 | of efficiency. We just haven't seen him run the same type of routes that those guys run. And so |
| 1:25.0 | he hasn't, you know, quite vaulted himself into that tier for fantasy yet. But I think with more routes, we might see that happen in 2021. I'm pretty excited about it. So we're going to, you think we'll see more routes from him? I think so. Yeah, I think it's definitely possible. It's super speculative. But we saw Nick Boyle when he went down last year with an injury. |
| 1:46.9 | He really opened up a lot more playing time for Andrews. |
| 1:50.5 | And people might hear Nick Boyle and think, what are we talking about here? |
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