Updated Tight End Rankings (05/05 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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4.9 • 721 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
What has changed since the NFL Draft? Did Dallas Goedert or Kyle Pitts move down in the rankings as their teams drafted or traded for wide receivers? What about Zach Ertz without DeAndre Hopkins for six games?
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| 0:33.7 | Getting updated, tight-end rankings from Heath Cummings right now on Fantasy Football today in five. |
| 0:39.3 | All right, we saw Kyle Pitts, this team added a wide receiver, Dallas Doddard, his team added a wide receiver, not in the NFL draft, but they traded for A.J. Brown, obviously, T.J. Hawkinson, his team added a wide receiver. Mark Andrews, his team lost a wide receiver. |
| 0:55.0 | So what were some of the big changes? |
| 0:57.2 | I don't know if they involve any of those players for you and your tight-end rankings, |
| 0:59.9 | Heath. |
| 1:00.7 | Yeah, I don't. |
| 1:02.4 | I don't generally adjust tight-end rankings and redraft too much based on a rookie wide receiver |
| 1:08.8 | that's been added to the team. |
| 1:10.3 | So those guys didn't have big moves. I was a little bit concerned about Zach Ertz with the addition of Marquise Brown, just because of that connection that Kyler and Marquise Brown have and the fact they already had DeAndre Hopkins and they'd really only had a high percentage of their targets that went to tight-ins when they were short on wide receivers. But then we find out DeAndre Hopkins is not going to play the first six games in the season. So Zach Ertz's target share is probably fine for the first month and a half. And he's a fine low-in number one tight-in. The guys who really moved the most were lower-in, guys outside of the top 12 for me. Albert O fell, not because his team added a wide receiver, but because his team added a tight-in. And really the main appeal to him was that Noah Fant was gone and he was going to be the clear number one tied-in. I think he probably still will be, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was more of a split. And then Cole Commett moved up just because the bears don't look to be doing anything outside of Darnell Mooney to provide weapons for Justin Fields. |
| 2:05.2 | And you're still the high guy on Irv Smith. So I guess the draft didn't really change that. I guess it was a good draft for Irv Smith in that regard. |
| 2:12.6 | Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it looks like it's, I would anticipate it's going to be Justin Jefferson, that I'm feeling, then Irv Smith, and then KJ Osborne. I think Smith, listen, a year ago in a very similar situation, we were expecting Irv Smith to be a breakout tied in, maybe even a top 10 guy. All that happened was he missed a year. I think he can absolutely be a top 12 guy this year. I think the one that really concerns me is Dallas Goddard. |
| 2:36.1 | You know, you're not going to have a ton of passing touchdowns for Jalen Hertz to begin with, |
| 2:41.9 | I would think anyway. |
| 2:43.6 | And now you've got A.J. Brown who could certainly be a red zone target and just kind of |
| 2:48.0 | dominated that offense. And you've got hopefully an emerging |
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