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//THREAD\\\\ TEs are a different beast than WR to project.
Travis Kelce and George Kittle are skewing what a TE1 looks like in a PPR, 12-team league. Travis Kelce is the Michael Thomas of Tight Ends, and George Kittle is Davante Adams.
Travis Kelce and George Kittle are skewing what a TE1 looks like in a PPR, 12-team league. Travis Kelce is the Michael Thomas of Tight Ends, and George Kittle is Davante Adams.
In 2019, the #1 TE Travis Kelce would have scored as the WR9, just 0.6 points behind Allen Robinson.
George Kittle and Darren Waller were 1.5 points apart at 2 and 3 and they would have been WR19 and WR21 respectively, flanking Courtland Sutton as mid-range WR2 scorers.
George Kittle and Darren Waller were 1.5 points apart at 2 and 3 and they would have been WR19 and WR21 respectively, flanking Courtland Sutton as mid-range WR2 scorers.
Zach Ertz is the only other TE who would have ranked as a top-24 WR in 2019, and he would have been WR22, right between AJ Brown and Michael Gallup.
Mark Andrews would have been WR25.
Mark Andrews would have been WR25.
Austin Hooper, the TE6 in 2019, would have been WR30 just ahead of Emmanuel Sanders, and Jared Cook, 2019’s TE7 scores just 167.5 points and would have been WR39 between Diontae Johnson and Christian Kirk.
Tight ends are different.
Tight ends are different.
The top-tier Tight Ends, yes. They are contributors alongside WR1 and WR2s, but a low-end TE1 wouldn’t be owned as a WR.
2019 Mike Gesicki scores 136 points, good enough for TE12, but WR52, ahead of Zach Pascal.
40 spots lower.
2019 Mike Gesicki scores 136 points, good enough for TE12, but WR52, ahead of Zach Pascal.
40 spots lower.
The difference in TEs and WRs is huge, and that’s why I’m starting to target guys like Kelce and Kittle for 2020.
Granted, 2020 has a lot of TEs I like, from Hurst to Jonnu to Irv Smith.
But you have to go back to 2013 to have 6+ TEs score 200+ points.
Granted, 2020 has a lot of TEs I like, from Hurst to Jonnu to Irv Smith.
But you have to go back to 2013 to have 6+ TEs score 200+ points.
The difference between Travis Kelce and the TE12 was 118.3 points. That’s the difference between 2019 Chris Godwin and Dede Westbrook. WR2 and WR42.
The top tier of TEs is simply on a different level of low end TE1s.
The top tier of TEs is simply on a different level of low end TE1s.
That’s why I’m comfortable saying 20+ TEs have a shot at being a TE1 in 2020, because the bar is not that high. Gesicki, 2019’s TE12 had 570 yards and 5TDs on 51 catches.
That’s simply not that much production, and a lot of guys could touch it.
That’s simply not that much production, and a lot of guys could touch it.
That’s why I’m targeting a high end TE for 2020. The discount from a TE1 to a different TE1 can be the shift from a WR2 to WR42.
That’s not something I want to miss out on.
That’s not something I want to miss out on.
