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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

TE Tiers & Draft Strategy

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Ratcliffe kicks off today's show with his initial reaction to the news that Aaron Rodgers is in Green Bay and plans to report to Packers camp. He then dives into his fantasy football strategy at tight end and tells you why he doesn't plan to draft one of the top 3 options at the position. Jeff then gives you the 8 tight ends he's targeting along with some high ceiling options to consider in the late rounds.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up it's the red my name is Jeff Rackliffe and it is Tuesday July 27th

0:22.8

wrapping up tears today with tight ends. It's not a large group not a lot of tears but we definitely

0:31.3

need to you know figure out how we're going to attack the position in fantasy football drafts to

0:36.6

draft the elite option or not that is the question for us this year before I get into that though

0:43.7

I didn't want to talk a little bit about Aaron Rogers because the news breaking this morning he's

0:48.4

officially in green bay you may have seen this yesterday in rap report kind of kick things off

0:55.7

after the pack or shareholders meeting where they you know the CEO mark Murphy said I have no

1:03.2

idea if he's going to be here or not but Ian Rampport said essentially people close to the

1:08.5

situation said that he was going to report Adam Schaefter then adding to the mix saying that

1:15.8

there's a restructure that is anticipated here in terms of Rogers contract essentially

1:23.6

the details being that it would wipe out the 2023 season of the current deal there would be

1:30.6

no franchise or transition tags permissible after the deal expires which would be after the 2022

1:37.0

season and the Packers would also agree to review the situation at the end of this season

1:43.4

there's some conversion of some of his salary to a bonus so that they can actually have more

1:49.6

cap room in 2021 a whole bunch of different things here and it sounds like some of the issues that

1:55.7

he had with the team will be addressed via mechanisms I don't know what that means it's just

2:01.2

what the report says the key takeaway here though is he's going to play for the Packers

2:08.5

so if you were drafting Rogers as like a like 9th or 10th round guy in best balls congratulations

2:16.4

you did a really good job because he's going to play for the Packers this definitely relieves

2:23.0

all of that pressure it it puts Devonte Adams back to the number one spot among wide receivers

2:31.2

for Rogers I would put him in the number one potential tier which is where I basically had him

2:36.3

all along I now have him at number six so it's my homes Alan Murray DAC Lamar Roger so Roger

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