Ilov80s
Footballguy
Seriously, I have all my 0s and 1s timetables memorized. Go ahead and test me. You will regret it.
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Jordan Reed - TE - SF (4 Viewers)
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SameSongNDance
Footballguy
Are you guys ready for a guy with 8 toes to be a top 3 TE week in and week out?
Truebluey
Footballguy
SameSongNDance
Footballguy
At his price 2018 price I'm 100% in. I'm not being facetious when I say you just need to hope that the injury occurs in practice or in game after he's already put up a decent line. I'd be more than happy if he gave me 10-12 games.
TartanLion
Footballguy
In this year. Couldn't say no at the price, look forward to sweating it every single week
Twenty-Four Eighty-Four
Footballguy
Pair him with another guy like Njoku. If Reed drops a tad I may grab him and do this.TartanLion said:
Bigboy10182000
Footballguy
Ended up getting him late with Kittle as my back up. Already starting to sweat.TartanLion said:
Elevencents
Footballguy
Had him initially in the FBG contest with Gronk but ultimately switched him for Rudolph at the thought of losing both my TE’s to injury.
dcgangstas
Footballguy
Without a doubt. Such an extremely talented player. Welcome to the world of anxiety that comes with being a Jordan Reed owner. You watch after every tackle to see if he gets up and heads to the dressing room.TartanLion said:
Reminds me of back in the day of being a Fred Taylor owner.
kutta
Footballguy
I did this same thing in one league. I even grabbed Vernon Davis as insurance. It’s a lot to spend on the TE position but they were all late round picks so I didn’t really care.
kutta
Footballguy
Twenty-Four Eighty-Four
Footballguy
TheWinz
Footballguy
Does anyone doubt that he will produce great stats for as long as he is on the field? I am guessing not. Now that I've said that, let me pose another scenario - if you could get an injury-prone RB in the 9th round who is all but assured to produce like a RB1 for as long as he was on the field, would you take him? I know I would. The question then becomes, do you draft Reed as your first TE, or your second? For me, I plan on drafting him as my first, and only. I play in a 10-team league with only 15 roster spots, so I assume many teams will only draft 1 TE. I will gladly take the reward along with the risk.
TartanLion
Footballguy
Was going to say, surely Davis is the nice cheap backup for Reed with the previous relationship with Smith to add into the mix
Chaka
Footballguy
Just looked at Yahoo (which both of my leagues use). Reed's ADP is 102, and he's listed as the TE11. In that case I would take him all day ahead of guys like Njoku, Rudolph and Olsen (Burton is a close call). Unfortunately, both of my leagues have some Washington homers, so I doubt he slips that far.
SameSongNDance
Footballguy
I don't think I like the idea of pairing him with another TE and I especially don't like the idea of spending starters capital on another TE to pair with Reed. But I guess I'm also not a fan of holding more than one player at a onsie positions. I don't like the opportunity cost of holding a second QB, TE or god forbid DST over a lottery ticket RB. The beauty of Reed is that he allows you to build a solid core in the first 6-7 rounds while getting your hands on an elite TE. If/when he gets injured then you just go dumpster diving on the waiver wire, maybe you just pick up Vernon Davis.
Agree on preferring not to back up my TE (although I'm somewhat more willing to do it in my league where we start a WR/TE flex).
Honestly, my biggest worry with Reed is not that he tears his ACL in Week 3, or even that he suffers a concussion that keeps him out for a month.* At least with that you're dealing with some degree of certainty. My worry is that he gets one of those nagging injuries where, every week, you're not sure if he's going to play, and if he does, how healthy he'll be.
* Speaking strictly as a fantasy owner. As a Washington fan and as a human being, I'm very worried about his concussions
DallasDMac
Footballguy
Is it safe to assume the word you were looking for was "boon," or are you actually expecting one of them to spontaneously explode?
Survivor7700
Footballguy
Reed definitely has amazing talent if he can showcase it on the field. That has been a huge if.
I did similar in my 12 team auction. I had ertz, but reed was so cheap(4$) he was a better option than other rb/wr for a potential flex
boilerdave
Footballguy
Or like many of the previous posts stated you take Reed late as a TE2.
I got Graham in Round 5 and Reed in 12.
SeniorVBDStudent
Footballguy
SameSongNDance
Footballguy
..a healthy Jordan Reed. You never want to play against a healthy Jordan Reed.
SameSongNDance
Footballguy
It was so nice to finally get Reed at value this year.
Rhythmdoctor
Footballguy
Yep. Just a matter of health. I probably ended up with Reed in 9/12 redrafts. He was hard to pass up at his value.
lardonastick
Footballguy
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He's been out there running routes... not playing every snap, but I've seen him out there. Smith just not throwing to him tonight for some reason.
Rhythmdoctor
Footballguy
He was barely in there in the 1st half. Made a great finger tip catch on the sideline. Alex Smith sucks? Not sure how WAS didn't get Reed going early since they were down a few TDs early. Puzzling player utilization.
Probably the most talented player on the offense, and he's an afterthought. He should have seen at least 8-10 targets in this game, he saw 2.
Max Power
Footballguy
I was telling people that he Amari'ed me last night but I failed to connect the Gruden dots.
matttyl
Footballguy
He just simply wasn't on the field much, which was infuriating. I'd look down at the listed players that ESPN puts up (which I have to say, I really like) and I'd see Vernon Davis and some dude named Sprinkle (and I'm a Redskins fan) both in as TEs, but no Reed. WTH? At least have him in there as a decoy.
63% snap count last night. I'd have thought it was lower and this is actually higher then his season average. He was around 50% weeks 1-2 and 65% in week 3.
My guess is that he is on a specific pitch count. 41, 40, 40 and 39 is his amount of snaps each week.
That being said not sure how early in game Redskins know what they might need from him later and what is really puzzling to me is that he's not on the field in some obvious passing situations.
Had the same thought on that play. I scanned some Redskins beat writer Reed related tweets after the game and they were all as mystified as we are about his lack of use. One of them indicated he'd been having some issues with his toes but figured the bye week would help. As I indicated above it would appear he's on a pitch count. Still can't excuse the lack of use.
I also wondered early in the game if they wanted Vernon and Sprinkle on the field more for blocking but I saw several obvious passing downs he was not in the game and typically Vernon was running routes so not being asked to pass block. So again I go back to pitch count.
