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He seems to be making a cpl of catches per game as a starter right now.What do we have as his projects for catches and yards? Is it possible he could have a 40/600/4 type of season?
Because the NE defence was able to hold Buffalo and NYJ off the board?
The talent is definitely there. Some people considered Tate a superior WR prospect to Hakeem Nicks when they were at UNC together, until Tate tore his ACL and MCL. Plus if Randy Moss is to be believed that this is his last year as a Patriot, well, let's just say Tate is a dynasty buy for me.
And yet he's had less than 7 points each of the last two weeks. Is he worth keeping an eye on and/or rostering? Sure. Starting with any regularity? Eh...not unless your league is VERY generous with the return yardage scoring.
Right now he is the #17 WR in my leauge.Where does he rank in your league?
Can and will.
24. Though his week 1 outburst has greatly skewed the stats imo. I don't count on my return men getting a touchdown. He's a good bye week filler but until he starts getting more than 1-2 catches per game he's not a guy you should rely on for more than 6ish points per week.There's value in that floor, but I'm not eager to roll him out with any regularity. Big fan of his in dynasty leagues.
Solid flex play at this point?
Seems to me like he's not a guy you want to start if you can help it. Touchdowns are hard to predict on offense, but special teams touchdowns aren't all that common. It of course depends how many wr's you play and what your scoring setup is, but those who look at his season totals and simply divide it be three are going to be disappointed. I think most weeks will be like weeks 2 and 3.
In those weeks I did not look at how many players were actually rostered. There were probably a good handful that weren't - I took a quick look and in week3 13 players who were not rostered finished ahead of him.So out of the players that were starting he was WR19.Notable players that finished lower than WR19 that week include Andre Johnson, Fitz, Donald Driver, Hines Ward.
It looks like he is splitting return duties and this far Tate has touched the ball at least 1-2 times per game. McCluster looks like he is not getting as many opps as Tate.
We must be looking at different scoring setups. Fitz and Driver both outscored Tate last week in my league. Not sure about the other two. It doesn't mean you should start benching Fitzgerald for Tate each week.All wr's are streaky and will have bad games. The nice thing about guys who do returns is their floor isn't as low. As I already mentioned, Tate's a guarantee for about 6 points a game. While that's nice, the only way he's going to start having a reasonable expectation of a higher ceiling is if he starts getting more work with Brady (similar to how Harvin does returns and gets quite a bit of work with Favre).
In such a scoring setting, virtually any player getting return duties is a must start. Guys like Austin, White, Moss, and AJ become comparable to guys like Cribbs.
I don't want to start naming every player that I think will be better or worse. Tate is not a guy who will finish as a top 30 wr on most weeks. Steve Smith has not been good this year (rather, his qb/HC has not been good). I would play Steve Smith this week as they're going against the Saints. Fox abandoned the run in the second half last week after they fell behind. I imagine they'll fall behind even sooner this week. Steve Smith has a higher probability to finish with lower points, but his ceiling is imo much higher as well. Yes, I know the two of them are quite comparable thus far points wise. There's nothing wrong with either strategy.
He's now the #2 WR, behind Collie, in total points scored in my league that includes the return yards.bump for another KR TD. Plus 4 catches in the 1st half. He's trending upward!
Pretty good production from a waiver pickup after week 1.I think 2000 is about 800 more than he will get.
With the NE DEF playing as bad is they are I believe Tate is already at around 600 KR yards now - I see no problem with him averaging at least 80 a game from here on outThat would be a total for around 1500 return yards.shortbow said:
If you don't get KR yards than I wouldn't bother unless its like a 16 team league and you start 3WR and a flex.
He is already a starting WR - he starts opposite Moss every game.
It can't "only go up". He's averaging a kickoff return TD every other game. He's not going to finish this season with 8 kickoff return TDs, so his return scoring is going to decline in coming weeks.With that said, the bigger role in the offense certainly does bode well for his prospects of finishing this season as a high-quality starting WR.
I think you know what I meant. If he starts getting some notable piece of Moss' leftovers.
What I meant was TD's are scored as TD's regardless in my league but return yards are worth half what receiving yards are. So more chance at receiving yards while keeping the return gig should only improve his situation.
This almost always seems to end up being the tradeoff.
He's been electric thus far - I don't see them pulling him in favor of playing 100% of the snaps - currently I believe he plays 50% - he could be asked to increase his workload to 65% of the snaps and keep the KR duties.
