2023 TE data - Targets, Snaps, Routes, Blocking %, Alignment (2 Viewers)

[flapgreen]

Love this thread

 

[OU#1]

The 5-82 line tonight by Goedert is a gold mine compared to most of the numbers we’re seeing so far.

5-82 on 6 targets

Irv Smith also had 5-38-1 on 8 targets

 

[BobbyLayne]

Tight End Snap Counts Week 2

 

[BobbyLayne]

Top Ten Route Data

Full Table tomorrow

	Route Data
Team	Team	Route %	Blocking %	Routes	Plays	Snaps	Targets
Travis Kelce	KC	70.00%	8.90%	63	90	90	16
Gerald Everett	LAC	60.90%	9.80%	56	92	92	14
Hayden Hurst	CIN	72.50%	2.90%	50	69	69	8
Darren Waller	LV	73.50%	2.90%	50	68	81	14
Tyler Conklin	NYJ	63.90%	13.90%	46	72	72	7
Dalton Schultz	DAL	68.80%	6.30%	44	64	64	9
Tyler Higbee	LAR	69.40%	4.80%	43	62	62	11
Evan Engram	JAX	81.81%	2.30%	36	44	44	4
Dallas Goedert	PHI	48.50%	15.20%	32	66	66	4
Tre' McKitty	LAC	39.00%	15.60%	30	77	77	4

 

[zamboni]

Top Ten Route Data

Full Table tomorrow

	Route Data
Team	Team	Route %	Blocking %	Routes	Plays	Snaps	Targets
Travis Kelce	KC	70.00%	8.90%	63	90	90	16
Gerald Everett	LAC	60.90%	9.80%	56	92	92	14
Hayden Hurst	CIN	72.50%	2.90%	50	69	69	8
Darren Waller	LV	73.50%	2.90%	50	68	81	14
Tyler Conklin	NYJ	63.90%	13.90%	46	72	72	7
Dalton Schultz	DAL	68.80%	6.30%	44	64	64	9
Tyler Higbee	LAR	69.40%	4.80%	43	62	62	11
Evan Engram	JAX	81.81%	2.30%	36	44	44	4
Dallas Goedert	PHI	48.50%	15.20%	32	66	66	4
Tre' McKitty	LAC	39.00%	15.60%	30	77	77	4

That Engram route % really stands out IMO. From what I've gathered from a lot of analysts that really track this stuff, an 80% route rate or higher is pretty elite in terms of TE usage.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Standard redraft, which one of the 2 LA teams TE's?

 

[zamboni]

Standard redraft, which one of the 2 LA teams TE's?

That's a close one. I might go with Higbee because Everett's looks probably take a bit of a hit once Keenan returns.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Standard redraft, which one of the 2 LA teams TE's?

Yes

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Standard redraft, which one of the 2 LA teams TE's?

Yes

Always gotta be a funny guy in the crowd.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Standard redraft, which one of the 2 LA teams TE's?

Yes

Always gotta be a funny guy in the crowd.

Like em’ both

 

[packer_junkie]

Everett > Higbee

As good as Allen and Williams are-- Kupp is another animal.
Herbert > stafford too

 

[Boone22]

Everett > Higbee

As good as Allen and Williams are-- Kupp is another animal.
Herbert > stafford too

Agree with your comments but we also need to consider a healthy Parham. I expect him to steal goal line looks (at a minimum).

 

[zamboni]

Everett > Higbee

As good as Allen and Williams are-- Kupp is another animal.
Herbert > stafford too

Agree with your comments but we also need to consider a healthy Parham. I expect him to steal goal line looks (at a minimum).

McKitty is also involved as shown upthread. When Parnham is healthy, they may not dress all three of them, but it does seem that Everett has to contend with other TEs. Higbee seems to have the job mainly to himself.

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

Top Ten Route Data

Full Table tomorrow

	Route Data
Team	Team	Route %	Blocking %	Routes	Plays	Snaps	Targets
Travis Kelce	KC	70.00%	8.90%	63	90	90	16
Gerald Everett	LAC	60.90%	9.80%	56	92	92	14
Hayden Hurst	CIN	72.50%	2.90%	50	69	69	8
Darren Waller	LV	73.50%	2.90%	50	68	81	14
Tyler Conklin	NYJ	63.90%	13.90%	46	72	72	7
Dalton Schultz	DAL	68.80%	6.30%	44	64	64	9
Tyler Higbee	LAR	69.40%	4.80%	43	62	62	11
Evan Engram	JAX	81.81%	2.30%	36	44	44	4
Dallas Goedert	PHI	48.50%	15.20%	32	66	66	4
Tre' McKitty	LAC	39.00%	15.60%	30	77	77	4

That Engram route % really stands out IMO. From what I've gathered from a lot of analysts that really track this stuff, an 80% route rate or higher is pretty elite in terms of TE usage.

Ever since he's been in the league, Engram has basically been incapable of blocking. I think you have no worries on that front.

He also has a good shot at being one of his team's top two targets. Only threats are MJones and Etienne.

Throw in a seemingly functional offense and I think he has the best chance to be this year's late-round breakout. Which of course doesn't mean it will happen

 

[greyhorse]

Love this thread.
Thoughts on Irv Smith? If he hadn't let that 60 yarder go right through his hands, he would be a hot waiver pickup, especially since he was likely dropped after week 1.

Engram has route %, but I'm going to guess his aDOT is pretty low. Doesn't look like very high upside, but I guess you could do worse than 7 catches for 46 yards.

Can Isaiah Likely become the third option in Baltimore?

For those of us stuck in tight end wasteland in deep leagues (I'm assuming Higbee, Everett, and Logan Thomas already owned), I think we're likely looking at Conklin, Engram, Likely, or Juwan Johnson.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Everett > Higbee

As good as Allen and Williams are-- Kupp is another animal.
Herbert > stafford too

Agree with your comments but we also need to consider a healthy Parham. I expect him to steal goal line looks (at a minimum).

McKitty is also involved as shown upthread. When Parnham is healthy, they may not dress all three of them, but it does seem that Everett has to contend with other TEs. Higbee seems to have the job mainly to himself.

Parnham has been an in-line blocking TE who rarely lines up in the slot or wide. Occasionally stays in to block. All of which points to lower route participation.

He will see RZ looks - 3 TDs each of his first two seasons, Herbert trusts him - but I don’t think he will significantly impact the Everett.

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

Can Isaiah Likely become the third option in Baltimore?

I don't see it. Outside of the brief window when Gronk and the Murderer were both Top 5 options, have there been any other situations where a team had two startable TEs?

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

For those of us stuck in tight end wasteland in deep leagues (I'm assuming Higbee, Everett, and Logan Thomas already owned), I think we're likely looking at Conklin, Engram, Likely, or Juwan Johnson.

Leaving aside Likely for a moment (see previous post), I would rank the others Engram >>>>>>>>>>>> Johnson>Conklin. Engram has been an elite TE before and has the highest upside. With JJ and Conklin, the best you can really hope for is that they become usable starters (I suppose it's always possible they could go Full Barnidge, but I wouldn't bet on it)

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Can Isaiah Likely become the third option in Baltimore?

I don't see it. Outside of the brief window when Gronk and the Murderer were both Top 5 options, have there been any other situations where a team had two startable TEs?

So you're saying it's not likely.

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

Can Isaiah Likely become the third option in Baltimore?

I don't see it. Outside of the brief window when Gronk and the Murderer were both Top 5 options, have there been any other situations where a team had two startable TEs?

So you're saying it's not likely.

Not only is it not likely, it's not Likely

 

[flapgreen]

Going after Johnson in bidding tonight. Can't imagine he'll cost much.

 

[Lansdowne]

Can Isaiah Likely become the third option in Baltimore?

I don't see it. Outside of the brief window when Gronk and the Murderer were both Top 5 options, have there been any other situations where a team had two startable TEs?

The 2019 Eagles had two startable TEs in Ertz (finished 5th in fantasy among TEs) and Goedert (finished 10th). Apart from them the Gronk/Hernandez pairing was the only other one I could find that fit the criteria.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Can Isaiah Likely become the third option in Baltimore?

I don't see it. Outside of the brief window when Gronk and the Murderer were both Top 5 options, have there been any other situations where a team had two startable TEs?

The 2019 Eagles had two startable TEs in Ertz (finished 5th in fantasy among TEs) and Goedert (finished 10th). Apart from them the Gronk/Hernandez pairing was the only other one I could find that fit the criteria.

2018 BAL was throwing to four different TEs, rookie Andrews was the only streamer at TE17. But it was a fascinating TE room: Nick Boyle, Maxx Williams, and Hayden Hurst finished TE48, TE57, and TE60.

2019: TE5, TE35, TE37 (sans Maxx who went to the desert.) The bottom two soaked up 80 targets and 61-670-4.

Then Hurst escaped to ATL and Boyle became injury prone. It was a run.

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

Glad Kittle is trending toward playing this week, but I kind of feel like given his fragile health, I have to hold on to Engram for now. 12-team league and I'm pretty confident he would get scooped up if I let him go

 

[Rockchild]

Can Isaiah Likely become the third option in Baltimore?

I don't see it. Outside of the brief window when Gronk and the Murderer were both Top 5 options, have there been any other situations where a team had two startable TEs?

So you're saying it's not likely.

Not only is it not likely, it's not Likely

But it would be like Likely to be likely.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Schultz not a practicing again, seems unlikely he’ll be playing Monday night

 

[Ministry of Pain]

Gerald Everett is like 3-3 on good games vs duds or limited production but I want to say that he seems to be involved on a lot of snaps. The Chargers have no problem deploying Everett and Parham on several TE sets. I think Everett is a sneaky play this week at Tight End, even in the flex for leagues that allow it and I am looking at him closely this week.

Zach Ertz continues to pay dividends.
Dawson Knox continues to float on the waiver wires in a lot of my redrafts, think he's well worth the pick up, 35/TD last week, he'll be up and down but he's just coming off injuries going back to vicious take down in Week 1, I was surprised he didn't break something on that play. He's just getting healthy and they have issues at WR all the time, injuries is what I mean vs skill set, they got plenty of talent but Knox can get 30-40 and a TD just eating the bread crumbs in this offense.
587/9TDs a year ago, he's TD dependent but he's likely to hit a TD 2-3x in the next 4 weeks with Jets Vikes and Browns as some of the better match ups for him. On a bye week this week so nobody will grab him, makes an excellent TE2 if you have that kind of roster and flexibility. Some leagues you see teams only carry 1 TE like they do at QB.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Last 4 Weeks:

		Route Data
Name	Team	Route %	Blocking %	Routes	Snaps	Targets

Greg Dulcich	DEN	60.2	8.4	100	166	12
Dawson Knox	BUF	59.4	6.7	98	165	15
T.J. Hockenson	MIN	57.8	13.9	96	166	25
Travis Kelce	KC	61.4	16.3	94	153	25
Foster Moreau	LV	46.5	11.0	93	200	14
Evan Engram	JAX	66.7	8.6	70	105	5
Dalton Schultz	DAL	42.3	13.5	69	163	17
Pat Freiermuth	PIT	68.3	4.0	69	101	19
Mark Andrews	BAL	57.6	4.2	68	118	15
Jordan Akins	HOU	77.0	9.2	67	87	11

 

[jobarules]

Two guys I likes as possible streamers this week both play in the same game. Logan Thomas vs a NYG team who is bad vs TE and Daniel Bellinger for a NYG team desperate for receiving options.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Two guys I likes as possible streamers this week both play in the same game. Logan Thomas vs a NYG team who is bad vs TE and Daniel Bellinger for a NYG team desperate for receiving options.

Logan was losing targets to John Bates last week. He ran 119 routes the first 4 games (29.8 /g.) Since returning from injury, he's run 94 in 5 g, average of 18.8.

Like the Bellinger call, he seems to have good chemistry with Jones. But the BAL game was the only time this season he's run more than 17 routes but some of the peripherals are good. Low ADOT but he does have decent YAC numbers (6.5) and he was targeted on 24.2% of his routes run Weeks 3-6. If his snap count resembles how they used him versus the Ravens he might have a good stretch run.

 

[Bri]

Doing this again?
Great work

 

[joey]

So I don’t need to read this entire thread, is there a TLDR version of what we’re looking for here? I assume highest % of route running is the first/min indicator of fantasy success, and then # of snaps?

ETA : duh. Down to targets I guess at the end of the day. But there must be more?

 

[BobbyLayne]

Doing this again?
Great work

Probably not.

It was somewhat interesting but the overall ROI wasn't worth amount of work It took to pull data from several sites each week. Route participation (Route Run/snaps) and blocking percentage (pass protection snaps/passing down snaps) are important things to a consider for TEs, but the predictive value is lacking. It was frustrating to come to the realization the effort I put into it didn't help myself or anyone relying upon it.

I have a premium sub at PFF this year and might choose to pull something together - the data I need will be marginally easier to pull - but it's not a priority. At the moment I'm doing deep dives into all 32 teams and building season long projections. If I do revisit this uncover a more robust TE methodology that appears to be more predictive I will happily publish it.

 

[BobbyLayne]

I said I wasn't gonna do it this year, yet here we are. Finally found a resource that would give me the data I wanted in a flat file.

I still don't have any strong evidence this data is predictive. It's interesting to nerd out on, but does it help us win championships? IDK. Then again, lots of nerdy people in TSP so I think it will be well received.

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Having a Top TE is an awesome advantage. The annual problem is not screwing up your foundational roster build by taking a TE too early. I got lucky this year, my backup was Sam LaPorta. Value play of the year. Even I, biggest Lions fanatic here, had no idea he'd be this good.

However, I do strongly believe the same basic tenets for what makes an elite TE in FF still hold true.

• TWO paths to finishing as a TE1 through TE5:
  • 90 or more targets
  • 10 or more touchdowns
  • That’s it. You either get 90+ targets. Or you get 10+ touchdowns. How do e know that? Well, every top five PPR tight end going back to Randy McMichael in 2003 has had either 90+ targets, 10+ touchdowns, or both. ONE exception: 2020 Mark Andrews who finished as TE5 with 88 targets and seven touchdowns. While missing two games with COVID. Andrews would have gotten those two targets had he not gotten sick. From our sample size of 100 tight ends that finished top five, here is the distribution of how they got there.
    
    

    	Under 10 TDs	Over 10 TDs
    Under 90 Targets	0	7
    Over 90 Targets	73	20

    
    Of those 100 tight ends, over the last 20 years, only sevenof them got there by having double-digit touchdowns with less than 90 targets. Last year the banged up George Kittle pulled it off.
    
• MUST be a Top 2 target on his own team- there are exceptions once or twice a decade
• RUN at least 25 routes per game (technically it's more like 22-23 but rounding up for margin of error.)
• ALIGNMENT - line up the majority of snaps in the Slot or Wide; TEs who spend the majority of their snaps iNLINE are there bc they block well and will be more likely to chip or pass block instead of running routes.
• PASS BLOCKING - stay in to block less than 7.5% of the time (there are exceptions, this one is the least sticky)
• MAN COVERAGE - all NFL tight ends can (presumably) catch the ball when they are schemed open and no one is covering them, Most NFL tight ends can find the soft spot in a zone, sit down, turn, catch, fall down. Elite TEs can win in man to man. It’s a crucial skill and they need it to even get the opportunity to line up in the slot or at wide receiver.

Tight ends sorted by targets; Top 30 with 19 or more through Week 10.

PLAYER	TEAM	G	T	REC	COMP %	YARDS	YPR	Lg	TD	ADoT	YAC	YAC /REC	CCT	CC	CC %	DR	DR %	FD	FUM	MTF	PASS SNAPS	RR	ROUTE %	YPRR	PASS BLK	PBLK %	SLOT	SLOT %	WIDE	WIDE %	INLINE	INLINE %	NFL PRtng
T.J. Hockenson	MIN	9	78	60	76.9%	548	9.1	29	3	6.6	229	3.8	16	5	31.3%	5	7.7	31	1	6	356	318	89.3%	1.72	20	5.6%	129	36.2%	42	11.8%	185	52.0%	102.9
Travis Kelce	KC	8	70	57	81.4%	597	10.5	53	4	7.0	274	4.8	12	4	33.3%	2	3.4	30	0	6	271	246	90.8%	2.43	9	3.3%	140	51.7%	56	20.7%	70	25.8%	109.3
Evan Engram	JAX	8	59	51	86.4%	442	8.7	34	0	4.0	296	5.8	4	3	75.0%	1	1.9	19	2	8	171	139	81.3%	3.18	19	11.1%	53	31.0%	24	14.0%	89	52.0%	121.2
Sam LaPorta	DET	8	59	43	72.9%	434	10.1	45	4	6.9	182	4.2	10	7	70.0%	4	8.5	22	0	5	279	246	88.2%	1.76	25	9.0%	76	70.0%	70	25.1%	132	47.3%	116.1
Mark Andrews	BLT	8	55	41	74.5%	477	11.6	38	6	7.9	187	4.6	7	3	42.9%	4	8.9	25	0	6	272	251	92.3%	1.90	7	2.6%	220	80.9%	24	8.8%	26	9.6%	136.7
Dallas Goedert	PHI	9	52	38	73.1%	410	10.8	49	2	5.3	223	5.9	8	4	50.0%	2	5.0	23	0	7	335	306	91.3%	1.34	13	3.9%	172	51.3%	36	10.7%	126	37.6%	92.6
Kyle Pitts	ATL	9	50	32	64.0%	389	12.2	39	1	11.7	88	2.8	13	5	38.5%	1	3.0	20	0	2	275	260	94.5%	1.50	3	1.1%	171	62.2%	72	26.2%	32	11.6%	86.2
Darren Waller	NYG	8	50	36	72.0%	383	10.6	27	0	8.1	148	4.1	13	4	30.8%	0	0.0	18	0	1	284	250	88.0%	1.53	19	6.7%	145	51.1%	58	20.4%	79	27.8%	84.0
Cole Kmet	CHI	9	49	41	83.7%	374	9.1	23	5	6.2	161	3.9	4	1	25.0%	3	0.0	22	1	3	289	246	85.1%	1.52	34	11.8%	145	50.2%	23	8.0%	117	40.5%	115.5
Dalton Schultz	HST	8	47	33	70.2%	450	13.6	31	4	7.6	154	4.7	4	1	25.0%	4	10.8	19	1	4	259	227	87.6%	1.98	17	6.6%	103	39.8%	29	11.2%	121	46.7%	111.1

 

[BobbyLayne]

PLAYER

TEAM

G

T

REC

COMP %

YARDS

YPR

Lg

TD

ADoT

YAC

YAC /REC

CCT

CC

CC %

DR

DR %

FD

FUM

MTF

PASS SNAPS

RR

ROUTE %

YPRR

PASS BLK

PBLK %

SLOT

SLOT %

WIDE

WIDE %

INLINE

INLINE %

NFL PRtng

Logan Thomas	WAS	8	45	33	73.3%	311	9.4	27	3	6.9	154	4.7	12	4	33.3%	2	5.7	15	1	2	312	277	88.8%	1.12	22	7.1%	157	50.3%	87	27.9%	68	21.8%	114.2
Dalton Kincaid	BUF	8	44	40	90.9%	339	8.5	22	1	4.4	173	4.3	4	2	50.0%	0	0.0	16	1	7	261	244	93.5%	1.39	1	0.4%	143	54.8%	52	19.9%	61	23.4%	96.9
David Njoku	CLV	8	43	32	74.4%	319	10.0	41	2	3.3	267	8.3	6	4	66.7%	0	0.0	13	1	9	289	240	83.0%	1.33	29	10.0%	109	37.7%	26	9.0%	151	52.2%	100.8
Zach Ertz	ARZ	7	42	27	64.3%	187	6.9	17	1	7.0	51	1.9	7	3	42.9%	4	12.9	8	0	0	203	186	91.6%	1.01	3	1.5%	111	54.7%	25	12.3%	67	33.0%	62.3
Jonnu Smith	ATL	9	42	34	81.0%	422	12.4	60	2	6.4	265	7.8	5	4	80.0%	2	5.6	19	1	9	257	217	84.4%	1.94	28	10.9%	141	54.9%	33	12.8%	72	28.0%	114.5
Jake Ferguson	DAL	8	42	32	76.2%	328	10.3	40	3	6.0	174	5.4	9	3	33.3%	3	8.6	17	0	8	252	224	88.9%	1.46	15	6.0%	100	39.7%	23	9.1%	127	50.4%	121.9
George Kittle	SF	8	42	32	76.2%	443	13.8	38	3	9.6	178	5.6	6	3	50.0%	4	11.1	20	0	6	261	221	84.7%	2.00	22	8.4%	79	30.3%	16	6.1%	162	62.1%	133,3
Hunter Henry	NE	9	41	27	65.9%	277	10.3	21	3	9.5	59	2.2	11	6	54.5%	2	6.9	18	0	0	274	247	90.1%	1.12	13	4.7%	141	51.5%	21	7.7%	111	40.5%	99.3
Tyler Higbee	LA	9	40	26	65.0%	286	11.0	33	9	7.6	110	4.2	8	4	50.0%	3	10.3	14	0	0	343	298	86.9%	0.96	27	7.9%	98	28.6%	57	16.6%	188	54.8%	86.0
Trey McBride	ARZ	9	39	28	71.8%	287	10.3	27	1	6.9	126	4.5	6	4	66.7%	2	6.7	14	0	3	168	147	87.5%	1.95	9	5.4%	70	41.7%	12	7.1%	78	46.4%	79.8

 

[BobbyLayne]

PLAYER

TEAM

G

T

REC

COMP %

YARDS

YPR

Lg

TD

ADoT

YAC

YAC /REC

CCT

CC

CC %

DR

DR %

FD

FUM

MTF

PASS SNAPS

RR

ROUTE %

YPRR

PASS BLK

PBLK %

SLOT

SLOT %

WIDE

WIDE %

INLINE

INLINE %

NFL PRtng

Cade Otton	TB	8	38	28	73.7%	245	8.8	24	3	6.3	114	4.1	6	2	33.3%	1	3.4	12	1	2	321	267	83.2%	0.92	31	9.7%	128	39.9%	54	16.8%	131	40.8%	105.7
Chigoziem Okonkwo	TEN	8	35	24	68.6%	173	7.2	20	0	7.2	79	3.3	7	3	42.9%	3	11.1	8	0	4	242	199	82.2%	0.87	25	10.3%	126	52.1%	27	11.2%	71	29.3%	67.9
Luke Musgrave	GB	8	20	27	135.0%	249	9.2	37	1	6.5	141	5.2	3	1	33.3%	1	3.6	10	0	2	238	206	86.6%	1.21	23	9.7%	98	41.2%	18	7.6%	121	50.8%	105.5
Tyler Conklin	NYJ	8	20	26	130.0%	293	11.3	37	0	7.5	120	4.6	7	5	71.4%	0	0.0	10	0	1	242	217	89.7%	1.35	14	5.8%	137	56.6%	23	9.5%	82	33.9%	103.7
Dawson Knox	BUF	7	19	15	78.9%	102	6.8	15	1	7.2	62	4.1	5	0	0.0%	3	16.7	7	0	1	205	174	84.9%	0.59	18	8.8%	88	42.9%	33	16.1%	76	37.1%	45.6
Kylen Granson	IND	7	19	16	84.2%	170	10.6	45	1	7.5	73	4.6	2	1	50.0%	2	11.1	11	0	0	182	169	92.9%	1.01	3	1.6%	92	50.5%	20	11.0%	66	36.3%	90.0
Hayden Hurst	CAR	8	19	16	84.2%	170	10.6	48	1	8.5	64	4.0	4	2	50.0%	1	5.9	7	0	2	221	199	90.0%	0.85	5	2.3%	98	44.3%	40	18.1%	82	37.1%	61.4
Mike Gesicki	NE	9	19	19	100.0%	159	8.4	18	1	9.7	61	3.2	5	3	60.0%	0	0.0	8	0	0	206	196	95.1%	0.81	2	1.0%	152	73.8%	36	17.5%	18	8.7%	101.3
Gerald Everett	LAC	7	19	21	110.5%	167	8.0	29	2	3.5	114	5.4	1	0	0.0%	1	4.5	13	2	12	171	139	81.3%	1.20	19	11.1%	53	31.0%	24	14.0%	89	52.0%	121.2
Taysom Hill	NO	9	19	20	105.3%	142	7.1	19	1	5.8	62	3.1	3	1	33.3%	0	0.0	4	0	2	175	153	87.4%	0.93	3	1.7%	86	49.1%	41	23.4%	31	17.7%	105.2

 

[BobbyLayne]

KEY	G	games played	Lg	longest reception	DR	on target drops	RR	routes run on passing snaps	SLOT	snaps line up as slot WR
	T	targets	ADoT	average depth of target	DR %	on target passes dropped	Route %	route participation of all passing snaps	SLOT %	percentage of snaps in slot
	REC	receptions	YAC	yards after catch	FD	first downs	YPRR	yards per route run	WIDE	snaps lined up as wide receiver
	COMP %	completion percentage	CC	contested catches	FUM	fumbles	PASS BLK	pass block snaps	WIDE %	percentage of snaps on boundary
	YPR	yards per reception	CCT	contested targets	MTF	missed tackles forced	PBLK %	% of pass block snaps	INLINE	snaps lined up as inline TE
			CC %	contested throws completed				per passing snap played	INLINE %	percentage of snaps lined up next to OT
									NFL PRtng	passer rating when targeted

 

[BobbyLayne]

Posts I'll try to get to later this week:

• TE Receiving vs Scheme (stats v man + stats v zone)
• TE data from Slot WR alignment
• TE data from Receiving Depth (Deep 20+, Intermediate 10-19, Short 0-9, Behind LOS)
• NOT going to bother pulling RZ stats as that is widely available, and it's not in the flat files I have. Would have to manually input data from other resources - too much of a time suck.

LMK if Top 30 covers all the fantasy relevant TEs (I think it does but LMK if you view it differently.) Irv Smith, Juwan Johnson, Michael Mayer didn't make the cut. Nor did handcuff TEs who are sure to be productive if the stud has an injury (Noah Gray, Isaiah Likely.)

 

[zamboni]

Great stuff again, Bobby This is how you find gems at a very tough position to navigate.

As a Kincaid owner, I didn't realize how much he was pass blocking - that's gotta stop for us FF owners.

And love the Randy McMichael call out - haven't heard that guy's name in probably 15 years.

 

[Boone22]

Thanks Bobby.. great info. I think your Musgrave and Conklin targets and receptions are swapped in the first table. You got them catching more balls then they had targets… just noticed. Same for Everett and Taysom Hill.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Thanks Bobby.. great info. I think your Musgrave and Conklin targets and receptions are swapped in the first table. You got them catching more balls then they had targets… just noticed. Same for Everett and Taysom Hill.

Thanks

I’ll see about correcting it when I get home. I was sent a flat file that I realized - after I imported & stated stripping out the TE days - was partially updated. I had to go through & manually input a couple columns, not surprised to hear there are errors; was dog tired last night. Got a corrected file today so I’ll check the data against that when I get home.

I have target & alignment data for all positions. Might do a WR thread and RB thread. Or I could make this one thread a repository for all, but that seems unwieldy.

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NARRATOR He did not make the corrections he promised; in fact, he was never seen again.

Maybe Friday guys busy af week