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TE Kyle Pitts, ATL (1 Viewer)

Would not be surprised if this is Pitts’ best game all season. Last time he had 88 yards in a game was in Week 16 2021 when he had 102 yards. Need to see him do this in consecutive weeks but there’s finally a pulse. This is the closest to his 2021 form that I’ve seen.
 
This is the 4th game of Pitts’ career with 7+ catches.

The Falcons are 4-0 when Pitts has 7+ catches in a game.

I’m just saying…
 
Nice game indeed, but can't expect Cousins to throw the ball 58 times every game, and the emergence of Mooney alongside London is probably going to cap Pitts' ceiling as the third target option (maybe fourth after Ray-Ray).
 
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Kept Pitts and extended him in one dynasty league this year. He has not lived up to expectations, but he has done much better than my other option who I recently released. Michael Mayer.
 
Just dropped Pitts for Kmet and my opponent this week immediately picked Pitts up and is starting him tonight to cover LaPorta's bye week. This should be fun.
You already know Pitts will have an elite game tonight then. That's just how the fantasy world works baby.
It's a perfect storm.
Yes, yes it is.

Remember me trading you ETN for CEH a couple years ago?
Yes I do, it's like some kind of fantasy/fake change of scenery to get the player going syndrome.
 
He did what I pretty much expected. The moment owners were doubting him and not trusting him—he goes out and has a nice game while on the benches of many of his owners. I know that some people started him out of necessity or for the fact that they didn’t have any better options—but nobody was feeling great about it before the game. He looked good yesterday—but let’s put some stuff in perspective. He’s playing with the best qb that he’s ever played with. That QB threw the ball 58 times, had 509 yards, and 4 touchdowns—-against a team that gave up 26 points to the Broncos. They were on a short week. The Falcons had four offensive touchdowns and the game went into overtime—giving them an extra drive to accumulate more yards. In a game where the Falcons have four offensive touchdowns—and London, Bijan, and Allgier combine for just one of them—-Pitts doesn’t score. In a full PPR league—he did well—but even with this offensive explosion from the Falcons—he mustered up something like 13 points in a 0.5ppr format. With that said—I’m not hating. This could very well be the start of a nice run for him. However, recently in this thread I said that people should look to trade Pitts before they considered outright dropping him. If you were going to drop him before yesterday and you are still not “sold” on him—this would be a good time to see what kind of returns you can get imo. Congrats to anybody that started him—but prepare yourself for 500+ yards, 4 passing tds, 58 passing attempts to not be the norm.
 
Just dropped Pitts for Kmet and my opponent this week immediately picked Pitts up and is starting him tonight to cover LaPorta's bye week. This should be fun.
You already know Pitts will have an elite game tonight then. That's just how the fantasy world works baby.
It's a perfect storm.
Yes, yes it is.

Remember me trading you ETN for CEH a couple years ago?
Yes I do, it's like some kind of fantasy/fake change of scenery to get the player going syndrome.
I think I've rostered CEH and dropped him twice since then and now picked him up a 3rd time.

My first trade of this season was the day before kickoff week 1 and I sent Puka straight up for Derrick Henry (home league redraft). Puka got hurt almost immediately thereafter and Henry is working out alright. I mean I did immediately name my team after him. I don't know if you saw it or would agree, but the other day I was allowed to rob someone when they sent me AR and J Cook for my J Love.

Trading has been good for me so far lol. I don't even make many trades inseason but this year maybe different IDK.
 
He did what I pretty much expected. The moment owners were doubting him and not trusting him—he goes out and has a nice game while on the benches of many of his owners. I know that some people started him out of necessity or for the fact that they didn’t have any better options—but nobody was feeling great about it before the game. He looked good yesterday—but let’s put some stuff in perspective. He’s playing with the best qb that he’s ever played with. That QB threw the ball 58 times, had 509 yards, and 4 touchdowns—-against a team that gave up 26 points to the Broncos. They were on a short week. The Falcons had four offensive touchdowns and the game went into overtime—giving them an extra drive to accumulate more yards. In a game where the Falcons have four offensive touchdowns—and London, Bijan, and Allgier combine for just one of them—-Pitts doesn’t score. In a full PPR league—he did well—but even with this offensive explosion from the Falcons—he mustered up something like 13 points in a 0.5ppr format. With that said—I’m not hating. This could very well be the start of a nice run for him. However, recently in this thread I said that people should look to trade Pitts before they considered outright dropping him. If you were going to drop him before yesterday and you are still not “sold” on him—this would be a good time to see what kind of returns you can get imo. Congrats to anybody that started him—but prepare yourself for 500+ yards, 4 passing tds, 58 passing attempts to not be the norm.
For sure. Cousins is good for him but he isn't throwing 58 times again. I'd put the over/under at 3.5 games for rest of season hitting 50 attempts. But Pitts did look more explosive and engaged last night.
 
I think I've rostered CEH and dropped him twice since then and now picked him up a 3rd time.
I was the runnerup bid fwiw. Would have won by a few bucks but lowered my bid when I realized I'd need to create a roster spot next week if I wanted a K and did not want to cut Butker.

Then later I realized I had made a doofus decisions because I could have moved him to IR and freed up the roster spot.
 
I think I've rostered CEH and dropped him twice since then and now picked him up a 3rd time.
I was the runnerup bid fwiw. Would have won by a few bucks but lowered my bid when I realized I'd need to create a roster spot next week if I wanted a K and did not want to cut Butker.

Then later I realized I had made a doofus decisions because I could have moved him to IR and freed up the roster spot.
love to hear it hehe
 
He did what I pretty much expected. The moment owners were doubting him and not trusting him—he goes out and has a nice game while on the benches of many of his owners. I know that some people started him out of necessity or for the fact that they didn’t have any better options—but nobody was feeling great about it before the game. He looked good yesterday—but let’s put some stuff in perspective. He’s playing with the best qb that he’s ever played with. That QB threw the ball 58 times, had 509 yards, and 4 touchdowns—-against a team that gave up 26 points to the Broncos. They were on a short week. The Falcons had four offensive touchdowns and the game went into overtime—giving them an extra drive to accumulate more yards. In a game where the Falcons have four offensive touchdowns—and London, Bijan, and Allgier combine for just one of them—-Pitts doesn’t score. In a full PPR league—he did well—but even with this offensive explosion from the Falcons—he mustered up something like 13 points in a 0.5ppr format. With that said—I’m not hating. This could very well be the start of a nice run for him. However, recently in this thread I said that people should look to trade Pitts before they considered outright dropping him. If you were going to drop him before yesterday and you are still not “sold” on him—this would be a good time to see what kind of returns you can get imo. Congrats to anybody that started him—but prepare yourself for 500+ yards, 4 passing tds, 58 passing attempts to not be the norm.
For sure. Cousins is good for him but he isn't throwing 58 times again. I'd put the over/under at 3.5 games for rest of season hitting 50 attempts. But Pitts did look more explosive and engaged last night.
No argument there. I went out of my way to mention that he looked good last night and that I wasn’t hating. With that said—the Falcons had a perfect game script game for him to go nuts (very passing heavy, extra drive in overtime, against a team that isn’t good against the pass) and he had a solid fantasy game—but I certainly wouldn’t call it bonkers. He would have had a similar amount of fantasy points going 5 for 48 with a touchdown. If there was a game where he arguably should have went bonkers—there is a very strong argument that last night would have been the perfect recipe for it. I think that he’s a very good player that will inevitably have great flashes—but I also think that one could argue that he underperformed fantasy-wise last night based on how that game went. My point is—after last night—I could totally see why some would trust him moving forward—and I can totally see how some are still skeptical. That’s why he’s such a giant cluster eff to own.
 
I think I've rostered CEH and dropped him twice since then and now picked him up a 3rd time.
but lowered my bid when I realized I'd need to create a roster spot next week
how would a lower bid help you if that was true? so if you win the bid you save a little from what you would have spent but are still screwed.

I feel like that is a **** or get off the pot decision. I don't get the logic of lowering/raising a bid based on that. Like, either bid what you think you can win with (and afford etc) or don't bid at all. Just curious on that thought process. Like if you hadn't lowered your bid, you would have got CEH and for argument let's say you didn't have that IR spot capability. You might go ahead and cut Butker at that point or you might backtrack and cut CEH but either way lowering your bid because of that fear... what is the idea there?
 
He did what I pretty much expected. The moment owners were doubting him and not trusting him—he goes out and has a nice game while on the benches of many of his owners. I know that some people started him out of necessity or for the fact that they didn’t have any better options—but nobody was feeling great about it before the game. He looked good yesterday—but let’s put some stuff in perspective. He’s playing with the best qb that he’s ever played with. That QB threw the ball 58 times, had 509 yards, and 4 touchdowns—-against a team that gave up 26 points to the Broncos. They were on a short week. The Falcons had four offensive touchdowns and the game went into overtime—giving them an extra drive to accumulate more yards. In a game where the Falcons have four offensive touchdowns—and London, Bijan, and Allgier combine for just one of them—-Pitts doesn’t score. In a full PPR league—he did well—but even with this offensive explosion from the Falcons—he mustered up something like 13 points in a 0.5ppr format. With that said—I’m not hating. This could very well be the start of a nice run for him. However, recently in this thread I said that people should look to trade Pitts before they considered outright dropping him. If you were going to drop him before yesterday and you are still not “sold” on him—this would be a good time to see what kind of returns you can get imo. Congrats to anybody that started him—but prepare yourself for 500+ yards, 4 passing tds, 58 passing attempts to not be the norm.
For sure. Cousins is good for him but he isn't throwing 58 times again. I'd put the over/under at 3.5 games for rest of season hitting 50 attempts. But Pitts did look more explosive and engaged last night.
I went out of my way to mention that he looked good last night and that I wasn’t hating.
understood, I don't think anyone here was questioning that.

I think the flukiness of TDs is something where last night could have gone different for him in terms of grabbing a TD or two but I totally agree that last night could be his opportunity ceiling and that isn't a great thing. But any decent game script could end up swinging more his way and less Mooney or London. I typically have super tempered expectations out of the TE position anyway.
 
He did what I pretty much expected. The moment owners were doubting him and not trusting him—he goes out and has a nice game while on the benches of many of his owners. I know that some people started him out of necessity or for the fact that they didn’t have any better options—but nobody was feeling great about it before the game. He looked good yesterday—but let’s put some stuff in perspective. He’s playing with the best qb that he’s ever played with. That QB threw the ball 58 times, had 509 yards, and 4 touchdowns—-against a team that gave up 26 points to the Broncos. They were on a short week. The Falcons had four offensive touchdowns and the game went into overtime—giving them an extra drive to accumulate more yards. In a game where the Falcons have four offensive touchdowns—and London, Bijan, and Allgier combine for just one of them—-Pitts doesn’t score. In a full PPR league—he did well—but even with this offensive explosion from the Falcons—he mustered up something like 13 points in a 0.5ppr format. With that said—I’m not hating. This could very well be the start of a nice run for him. However, recently in this thread I said that people should look to trade Pitts before they considered outright dropping him. If you were going to drop him before yesterday and you are still not “sold” on him—this would be a good time to see what kind of returns you can get imo. Congrats to anybody that started him—but prepare yourself for 500+ yards, 4 passing tds, 58 passing attempts to not be the norm.
For sure. Cousins is good for him but he isn't throwing 58 times again. I'd put the over/under at 3.5 games for rest of season hitting 50 attempts. But Pitts did look more explosive and engaged last night.
My point is—after last night—I could totally see why some would trust him moving forward—and I can totally see how some are still skeptical. That’s why he’s such a giant cluster eff to own.
TEs are just like that though.
 
I think I've rostered CEH and dropped him twice since then and now picked him up a 3rd time.
but lowered my bid when I realized I'd need to create a roster spot next week
how would a lower bid help you if that was true? so if you win the bid you save a little from what you would have spent but are still screwed.

I feel like that is a **** or get off the pot decision. I don't get the logic of lowering/raising a bid based on that. Like, either bid what you think you can win with (and afford etc) or don't bid at all. Just curious on that thought process. Like if you hadn't lowered your bid, you would have got CEH and for argument let's say you didn't have that IR spot capability. You might go ahead and cut Butker at that point or you might backtrack and cut CEH but either way lowering your bid because of that fear... what is the idea there?


I had a $36 bid and lowered it to $18 because I knew odds are I had to clear a roster spot the next week and it would most likely be CEH who I did not see playing this week and would offer me no chance to improve his stock.

Things change every week and next week I might get a trade offer worth taking or a player on my roster get hurt and open up a roster spot being moved to IR. That risk was worth it to me for $18 to put him on my team for a week and see what shakes out. All FAAB is a price point, that was my price point but would have been higher I felt I could had a better show of keeping him past next week.

Really seems pretty basic thought process stuff to me.
 
I think I've rostered CEH and dropped him twice since then and now picked him up a 3rd time.
but lowered my bid when I realized I'd need to create a roster spot next week
how would a lower bid help you if that was true? so if you win the bid you save a little from what you would have spent but are still screwed.

I feel like that is a **** or get off the pot decision. I don't get the logic of lowering/raising a bid based on that. Like, either bid what you think you can win with (and afford etc) or don't bid at all. Just curious on that thought process. Like if you hadn't lowered your bid, you would have got CEH and for argument let's say you didn't have that IR spot capability. You might go ahead and cut Butker at that point or you might backtrack and cut CEH but either way lowering your bid because of that fear... what is the idea there?


I had a $36 bid and lowered it to $18 because I knew odds are I had to clear a roster spot the next week and it would most likely be CEH who I did not see playing this week and would offer me no chance to improve his stock.

Things change every week and next week I might get a trade offer worth taking or a player on my roster get hurt and open up a roster spot being moved to IR. That risk was worth it to me for $18 to put him on my team for a week and see what shakes out. All FAAB is a price point, that was my price point but would have been higher I felt I could had a better show of keeping him past next week.

Really seems pretty basic thought process stuff to me.
Hey I appreciate it, that does answer my question. I don't consider it all that basic. I consider it incredibly advanced and I wasn't saying so much that I disagreed as much I just wasn't seeing the argument. I do now, and it is a different argument than what I was presuming. Which was that the idea of lowering the bid might have been solely out of fear of winning the bid.

And in fact the more I think about it, I too will use the same logic as you to lower bids and/or bid less than I will in other leagues (on the same run on the same night) based on whether I think I can continue to roster them. Or how desperate I might be etc. I guess I just don't tend to do much lowering of bids unless I think I don't need as much to win. But I get what you're saying, particularly if it was after having what you thought was an aha moment about your IR.

Sorry if I'm being pedantic, but like I said I think there is more advanced nuance to this than meets the eye (sometimes). I'm sure you'll get a chance to bid on CEH again soon!
 
I am trying to trade him so far little luck. I don't see Cousins threw 60 times and only targeted to Pitts 8. He was 4th ranked in targets and I don't expect Cousins to throw 60 times a game.
 
I am trying to trade him so far little luck. I don't see Cousins threw 60 times and only targeted to Pitts 8. He was 4th ranked in targets and I don't expect Cousins to throw 60 times a game.
Yeah I have a feeling the market is going to be cool at best for Pitts, but will give it a college try.
 
Crazy thing is he's one of only 3 TEs this year that have put up double digital points at least 4 times. Bowers and Kittle are the other two.
Pitts is quietly a top 7 fantasy TE this season. If he were a 4th rounder out of college, people would be thrilled with his production. Putting only modest numbers up as the highest drafted TE in NFL history is where the disappointment lies. He’s certainly not the TE cheat code I was hoping for when I took him in dynasty. But for redraft, he was TE7 in terms of ADP this year so he’s actually living up to that part.
 
Crazy thing is he's one of only 3 TEs this year that have put up double digital points at least 4 times. Bowers and Kittle are the other two.
Pitts is quietly a top 7 fantasy TE this season. If he were a 4th rounder out of college, people would be thrilled with his production. Putting only modest numbers up as the highest drafted TE in NFL history is where the disappointment lies. He’s certainly not the TE cheat code I was hoping for when I took him in dynasty. But for redraft, he was TE7 in terms of ADP this year so he’s actually living up to that part.
I think the positive takeaway is that he seems to be improving each week after a very slow start.
 
Crazy thing is he's one of only 3 TEs this year that have put up double digital points at least 4 times. Bowers and Kittle are the other two.
Pitts is quietly a top 7 fantasy TE this season. If he were a 4th rounder out of college, people would be thrilled with his production. Putting only modest numbers up as the highest drafted TE in NFL history is where the disappointment lies. He’s certainly not the TE cheat code I was hoping for when I took him in dynasty. But for redraft, he was TE7 in terms of ADP this year so he’s actually living up to that part.

The problem with drafting him wouldn't necessarily be drafting him at TE7 (although I still had him ranked below that), but his overall ADP and who else you could get around there.
 
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Lmao. Patience (Or maybe just stupid stubbornness) sure paid off this week!

I'll have some tough decisions when Hockenson is back next week.
 

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