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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

Sophomore Tight Ends Outlook (03/01 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

CBS Sports

Sports, Football

4.9721 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Pat Freiermuth will get some buzz, but this is all about Kyle Pitts. We talk extensively about Pitts and give a few more names that could matter in 2022.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Kyle Pitts will be one of the most fun players to draft in 2022.

0:07.8

Are there any other 2021 rookie tight ends that will make maybe the first 10 rounds?

0:12.7

We'll talk about it right now on fantasy football today in five.

0:16.5

Hello, everybody.

0:17.4

It's Adam Azor and Dave Richard here rocking out on FFT in five. And, well, you can answer that question. Other than Kyle Pitts, anybody looking as a top 120 pick?

0:27.4

I don't know if Pat Fryer Mew is going to make the cut in a top 10 round pick. Maybe, maybe. Certainly more so in non and half PPR than full PPR. I think people will see that

0:39.2

he just won't catch the ball enough and questions about how that offensive will look in Pittsburgh.

0:44.0

All right. So let's talk about Kyle Pitts. Where do you have him ranked at tight end overall?

0:48.0

Three. I think that there's room for significant upside because he's not just your typical tight end. He plays more like a wide receiver.

0:56.6

He had a 19.9% target share that was third most among tight ends last year. It's the type of

1:02.2

number that you would see from a pretty good wide receiver. You're looking for 20% of a target

1:07.0

share from a good wide receiver. He's doing that at tight end. I think he can continue on that path. And really the only thing that was missing last year were touchdowns. He only scored one in the regular season. And I think that the Falcons can do a lot more to get him involved. It'll be, I don't know if it'll necessarily be easier to make him a priority in the red zone if Calvin Ridley isn't there, but by force, what else

1:29.1

are they going to do? He's going to be their top target down there. And I think Matt Ryan will

1:33.2

start making him the first read when they're inside the 10, inside the five. And the play calls will be

1:38.1

for Pitts, whereas his past year, it wasn't always that way. There were a number of plays where

1:42.7

pits was wide open. He just wasn't the first or second read were a number of plays where Pitts was wide open.

1:47.5

He just wasn't the first or second read in the red zone.

1:50.3

That was frustrating for people that had Kyle Pitts in fantasy.

1:52.3

I think that gets rectified this year.

1:54.3

I think he's an uptick in targets overall.

1:57.3

He had seven targets inside the 10 last year.

1:58.5

That was low.

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