Is it the year of the tight end again? (1 Viewer)

[Ghost Rider]

Based on Week 1, it could be the year of the TE again.

-Five tight ends scored twice.

-Two tight ends had 100+ yards and two scores; that happened only five times all of last year.

Will it be the year of the tight end again, or was Week 1 an anomaly?

 

[hagmania]

I think TE scoring is here to stay. As the last bastions of power running games die out across the League, you'll need more receivers. And big, athletic dudes are really easy to throw to when you need them.

 

[Shawn]

Look at how successful it was for New England... Teams will want to try to emulate that just like they are trying to run the read right now.

 

[Buffaloes]

Random thread bump to talk strategy.

In a standard PPR 1QB/2RB/3WR/1TE/1Flex league, what do folks think of taking an top RB or WR in round 1 and then doubling down on Gronkowski and Julius Thomas. Probably would look something like this:

1.1 RB of your choice

Gronk and JT at the turn

I've tried a few mocks with this and it seems there is an obvious shortcoming at WR1, but the depth at WR is such that you may be more than making up for it with an elite TE as well as a top flex. thoughts?

 

[Landro21]

I did something similar to this in a non ppr 10 team league. I had Dez and Peyton as my keepers and then doubled up on Julius and Gronk at 3.10 and 4.01.

I ended up with a rag tag group at RB... B. Tate, Sjax, Rice, J. Hill and Khiry Robinson. That being said I really liked the way it turned out for me. And assuming Gronk can stay healthy it's a huge advantage at the TE and flex spots.

 

[kutta]

I did something similar to this in a non ppr 10 team league. I had Dez and Peyton as my keepers and then doubled up on Julius and Gronk at 3.10 and 4.01.

I ended up with a rag tag group at RB... B. Tate, Sjax, Rice, J. Hill and Khiry Robinson. That being said I really liked the way it turned out for me. And assuming Gronk can stay healthy it's a huge advantage at the TE and flex spots.

2 keepers and these guys still went there? That's like end of the 5th and early 6th in a non-keeper league. That's nuts.

 

[Landro21]

I did something similar to this in a non ppr 10 team league. I had Dez and Peyton as my keepers and then doubled up on Julius and Gronk at 3.10 and 4.01.

I ended up with a rag tag group at RB... B. Tate, Sjax, Rice, J. Hill and Khiry Robinson. That being said I really liked the way it turned out for me. And assuming Gronk can stay healthy it's a huge advantage at the TE and flex spots.

2 keepers and these guys still went there? That's like end of the 5th and early 6th in a non-keeper league. That's nuts.

Oops I meant 1.10 and 2.01. I was counting the keeper rounds for some reason

 

[Kool-Aid Larry]

Random thread bump to talk strategy.

love it

I'm not as convinced on depth at wr, but all the good ones are gone by then, anyway.

using ffcalc as a prop, there isn't really all that much I like in the 3rd and 4th, tbh.

maybe arian foster, if he even drops that low, or a patterson or cruz, but not much else.

I got my stud rb with the first pick, and I like rb depth this year, so I don't mind foster.

I guess it comes down to whether I'd want a couple of white, patterson, cruz, allen and backfilled te with maybe a pitta or rudolph, or the gronk/julius hammer coupled up with maybe a hilton or torrey.

maybe if I simplified it further by keeping gronk a constant -- would you rather julius thomas as a flex or one of that first bunch of wr I mentioned?

in my league jt is slightly ahead of those guys in ppg, so you might be able to talk me into this.

 

[Buffaloes]

maybe if I simplified it further by keeping gronk a constant -- would you rather julius thomas as a flex or one of that first bunch of wr I mentioned?

in my league jt is slightly ahead of those guys in ppg, so you might be able to talk me into this.

yeah, this is what I was thinking of. And fwiw, I think the WR corps I was looking at when doing this was something like:

White/Hilton/E Sanders if White isn't there (given his ADP I doubt he will be there every time) then you are looking at someone else from that giant Fitz/Patterson/Cruz/A Johnson/etal. tier.

So WR isn't as palatable without an Antonio Brown, Jeffery type player but taking the team as a whole you may be making those points up at TE and flex. not sure I would actually do this, but it's an intriguing idea.

 

[Kool-Aid Larry]

I just use ffcalc out of habit and it's colorful, so if anybody has a better adp source I'd love to see it, but I doubt you even get a chance at antonio brown from 1.1 (unless you take him with the first pick, ofc...), and in your scenario I think you'd have to choose between patterson and jt -- hype probably puts patterson in the 4th, and ffcalc has cruz at top of the 4th.

 

[Freelove]

Might be worth considering that putting Patterson or whatever WR in your flex means that somebody else in your league just had their WR potential dip by a couple points. Putting JT in there means somebody's TE potential just took a huge hit. Sticking a stud TE in that flex slot cuts two ways, as long as you're pretty confident in his production.

 

[Kool-Aid Larry]

oh, absolutely -- there's the chance to possibly starve out opponents.

I just don't usually put as much into that side of it.