Welcome to the Riga Fantasy Football Show.

My name is Danny Huyves, and I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Worldbeck.

And today we are going over our tight-end tears, our tight-end fears, our tight- end sleepers, everything, previewing the tight end position for 2025. Usually we hit a little news at the top. Full disclosure, it's Wednesday, July 30th, that we are recording this episode. So the news is kind of old now. So we're going to hit anything big that has happened, and I'm sure something has happened between where we're recording this and when you're listening to it, we will hit that in the middle of this week. We'll have another episode coming to you on Wednesday and more after that. So we'll hit the news then. So we're going to get into tight ends. And I want to start with this, Danny Kelly, because I feel like for the most part, honestly, most of the time I've ever been playing fantasy football, it's just tight end is just the worst position.

It's so annoying.

You either have Travis Kelsey or George Kittle here or there, and you either have those guys or you're unhappy.

And so we always talk about how just streaming tight ends and adding a guy off waivers in week eight because the buy week's the most annoying part of the whole freaking hobby we do.

So looking at tight end for 2025, do you basically feel the same way that this position's really annoying?

Or is any part of you excited about it?

No, not really.

I'm not excited about it, in other words.

It still sucks.

It's kind of one of those positions where it's just so rare to see a tight end be either the number one or number two option in the passing game.

And that's kind of like what you need to have a real true fantasy difference maker.

Every once in a while, guys like, you know, KDOT or whatever, like because of injury will become the number two.

But for the most part, receiver so deep, NFL teams are running so many sets with wide receivers is going forward. And I don't know, it's just one of those positions that doesn't get a ton of targets. And I think it makes a lot of sense wise. Like they're bigger and slower lumbering oafs usually. And receivers are very fast. I thought they were all really athletic, D.K. The really good ones are really athletic. But what about the bad ones? The bad ones are not as athletic, Craig. Yeah, they're lumbering oafs, if you will. So, I don't know. It makes sense why. Lumbering oaps is about NFL tight end. I know. They're probably like, if you played basketball against them, they would be just absolutely like dunking on you probably.

Every NFL tight end probably could have been played basketball if they were 6 8 instead of 6.4.

But I mean, you're comparing them to a 5 foot 11, 195 pound guy who can run a 4-3.

So those guys are a little faster and quicker, generally speaking, and can get open quicker. And so I think that's kind of why passing games, generally speaking, go through the receivers. But there are a handful of guys, Brock Bowers, Tray McBride, Superstar-type players. So that's exciting. But overall, I feel like the position's just as big of a pain in the ass as always. Craig, do you agree with D.K. The tight end still sucks,

or is he just old and jaded?

It mostly sucks.

It is kind of fun that for the first time in a long time,

like the two best tight ends are not Travis Kelsey and Mark Andrews.

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