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No, but if I am going to look back I'm going to put the most stock in the most recent history. Don't get me wrong. I think he is in store for a really good year, but I'm just more confident in getting a 6 for 60 day out of Thomas than Finley right now.
Deep leagues + injuries.shadyridr said:
What? When did you have your draft? Unless someone drafted Pitta or Keller as their starter I dont see how this has any effect
Not sure why folks are so constipated over starting Thomas this week. With the injuries at the TE position, this week may be the best week to start Thomas. He could easily be a top-5 TE this week, and a TE18 for the season as Dressen and Tamme get more play. I think he'll outperform his draft position, but even if he doesn't, I think he is a fine play this week if you have Gronk, or any number of mediocre TEs. I don't think anyone is talking about sitting Graham for him.
That's a tiny bit of my reasoning for starting him over Finley, too. I have to admit that.
Gutsy, especially against a Lion's team that hasn't a good secondary since the 50's
Different Lion's team, the Lion's pass rush looks legit this year and I could see a lot of dump offs.
Well you just shifted the "secondary" talking point to the "pass rush" talking point. Odd.
Yet weirdly gave up a disproportionately high number of big plays to TE's. Might not be all that bad a match if STL intends to play Cook down the seam as much as the experts seem to think.
lol this. i mean its just so overwhelmingly likely that JT either has no fantasy impact at all this season or just becomes another guy in the TE10ish range. like somebody else said hes pretty much just a late round flyer at this point.
By my math that means JT will have 143 targets this year, thus becoming the top targeted TE in the league.
For someone who according to MFL was taken as the 27th TE off the board, I would think outperforming your ADP by about 17 would be noteworthy. I personally don't think he has TE1-5 potential, but I'm still wondering why he was being so under-drafted all preseason.
You can either wait for mainstream to catch up or not
4th most targeted WR or TE on those teams:
This is like saying Finley won't be fantasy relevant because Rodgers throws to everyone on his team approximately the same amount. People are taking Kyle Rudolph in the first 6 rounds because he caught 9 TD passes... I took JT in the 16th round because I think he can catch 70+ balls and will be on the field in the redzone. At this point I think the discussion of whether or not you think JT will do anything should go to the Julius Thomas thread, as this clearly isn't the place for it.
Certainly every year the regular season plays out exactly like the preseason does. And defenses play the same players and schemes in the preseason as they do in the regular season.
People can draft whomever they want and have whatever expectations they want from the players they draft. As for your example, care to guess who was the most targeted player on the Vikings last year? Yep, Kyle Rudolph.
For where I drafted him I'd take half of that
At some point we are going to be dancing in circles, but Stokley had 58 targets last year. People forget that Manning had statistically his second best season of his career last year, and by that I mean his ceiling is limited. There's only one football and there is only so much more production he can get.
90% of the production? :11:Come on you cant be serious. And FYI those guys are still on the roster
I was obviously joking about that.Anarchy99 said:
