Tight Ends Preview! How Important is Having a Top 8 TE? (08/01 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
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🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Sam LaPorta has emerged as hopefully an elite option, but does Travis Kelce have another great season in him? Will the mid-round picks at tight end pay off? That could mean big seasons for Trey McBride, Kyle Pitts or Evan Engram. We'll give you our thoughts and our strategies (11:30) for TE in 2024 ... Which TE do we draft the most (20:30)? How early should LaPorta or Kelce be drafted? How important is it to have a Top 8 TE (23:30)? We discuss if the position is actually deep this year or you should try to get an established guy. We also talk about how our strategies change in different formats (26:55) ... Sleepers (28:05), breakouts (30:30) and busts (42:00)! We like Pat Freiermuth as a sleeper. Is Kincaid a breakout or a bust? Is Kelce a bust!? We also do a complete ADP review (44:15) and talk about backups that could be interesting ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is fantasy football today from CBS Sports. |
| 0:03.6 | What a play! |
| 0:04.8 | Can you believe this? |
| 0:06.6 | No, I can. |
| 0:08.0 | It's time to dominate your fantasy league. |
| 0:10.6 | Off to the races and he stays on his feet. |
| 0:13.0 | This is going to go the distance. |
| 0:15.0 | Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome everybody to Fantasy Football today presented by Bet MGM. |
| 0:25.0 | Adam Aiser here with Heath Cummings and Jamie Eiserberg. |
| 0:28.0 | We are talking about tight ends today. |
| 0:30.0 | It is our tight end position preview and this is a position that, you know, off, I don't know about often, but not infrequently gives us a top five finisher that was drafted in round 10 or later, including the number one tight end last year, |
| 0:43.5 | number three per game, Sam La Porta. |
| 0:45.6 | So who's that gonna be? |
| 0:46.5 | Is it gonna be somebody this season? |
| 0:47.6 | Is that gonna happen? |
| 0:48.4 | Heath Cummings, take a guess. |
| 0:50.1 | Round 10 or later, who's gonna to be a top 5 tight end? |
| 0:53.0 | It's the name that Jamie and I are hoping we get to go first on |
| 0:57.6 | sleepers because we both like the same guy. |
| 1:00.0 | It's Pat Friarmouth. |
| 1:01.0 | It's, you know, you just want to target a guy and an Arthur Smith offense we've said that for many |
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