 Hey everybody, what's going on? I am Greg Sussman, alongside Davis Matic, once again from DailyRooter.com, as he's here to help me break down the tight ends to Target and the tight ends to avoid in season long fantasy leagues. Davis, what's happening, man? You know, not much, very excited. I actually love this topic. Tight ends are one of my favorite positions to talk about for fantasy, because they can go so many different ways. Absolutely, you go to the high end of things, with a star-studded tight ends like Travis Kelsey or George Kittle, where you take a shot and you go a little bit lower we're going to be all across the map on today's hurry up. So let's start, Davis, at the very top, where you're targeting the best. And that is Travis Kelsey. Yep, Travis Kelsey, first round draft pick, pretty much no matter the format. In tight end premium leagues, I actually would take him over any wide receiver. So, you know, after those first five running backs, I would take him at the sixth pick overall. In a tight end premium league, we have been projected on Roto experts for 50 more fantasy points than either Zach Erz or George Kittle, basically have him in his own tier of fantasy football tight end. He would be a top 10 wide receiver if he was at the wide receiver position. You know, we sort of expect Kansas City's offense to regress a little bit, but we don't expect Travis Kelsey's role to regress. So, you know, he is really about as safe as it gets in the first round this year in fantasy football. What do you say then, Davis, to the people that are of the notion, you don't draft the tight end in the first round. Certainly, not at number five or six. Well, I would say to those people, you know, you probably missed out on some of those amazing Rob Gronkowski seasons, some of those amazing Jimmy Graham seasons. And, you know, you enjoy picking up Ian Thomas or Chris Mannhurts or Jake Butt off of the waiver wire. Well, Travis Kelsey is scoring 18 fantasy points a game. Well, I may be going with Devante. Adams or De'Andre Hopkins in the first round, you certainly could make the case to go with Travis Kelsey as he may be the best receiver, no matter the position here in 2019. Sticking with some of the high end tight ends, that brings us to the box, O.J. Howard. And that comes despite Bruce Aaron's history of never really utilizing the tight end. But you can also make the case that he's never had a tight end with the amount of skill and talent of O.J. Howard. And that is basically the case that I believe in. You know, he never really has had anyone like O.J. Howard. Probably the closest thing he's had has been someone like Heath Miller, like literally 15 years ago. But you look at the tape of a offense and you see no Deshaun Jackson, no Adam Humphries. The backfield is going to be different with Peyton Barber and Ronald Jones being the primary running backs and Noja Quiz Rogers being there. So there's just a ton of vacated targets for that offense and you look at all the ways that they could fill them, you'd say, okay, well, Ronald Jones probably not gonna get 90 targets. You look at Justin Watson and Brashad Parryman. Those guys probably aren't gonna get more than like 45 or 50 targets. So when you just do the numbers game, you see there's gotta be at least 100 targets here for O.J. Howard if he stays healthy for 16 games, which, you know, we pretty much are projecting most players for 16 games. And, you know, with this really vertical, heavy passing offense, there's an absolutely monster season out there for O.J. Howard. It's possible O.J. Howard goes berserk this year. The targets are potentially going to be there with the loss of Adam Humphries with the loss of Deshaun Jackson. You're gonna make it up somewhere. Will it be with Deshaun, will it be with O.J. Howard? That's a question fantasy owners are gonna have to ask themselves on draft day whether when they are ready to pull the trigger. Now those are the two top end guys that you really like to target. One lower end guy that you're targeting is also in that NFC South and it's old reliable Greg Olson. You said a moment ago with O.J. Howard, you're projecting most players for 16 games. Are you rejecting 16 games from Olson as well? Well, we can project Olson for 16 games, but with our rosters, we probably do not expect 16 games from him. So Olson is a guy I've invested a ton in in the draft best ball championship because I love to stack Cam Newton. I think Cam Newton obviously as we talked about in the hurry up earlier in this week, a great quarterback to target and fantasy this year. But I think Olson is a great stack with him and he comes at such a cheap cost. But for weekly management leagues, I probably like Olson even more than in a best ball format because you know he's gonna have a weekly role and then when and if he does get hurt, you just let him go back to the waiver wire from whence he came. Greg Olson has the talent to be a top tight end. Doesn't cost you anything on draft day. So pairing him up with another inconsistent tight end probably will work as long as you choose right on a week to week basis. Now let's get to some of the tight ends that you're avoiding this year, Davis. And that has us beginning in Philadelphia where Zach Erich is either the second or third tight end off the board this season. And yet he's someone you're actively avoiding. How come? So I mean, sort of similar to the OJ Howard situation, you just gotta do the math. You see that the team added JJ Arcega-Whiteside. You see that the team added DeSean Jackson. The team added Miles Sanders. The team re-signed Darren Sprouls. Alshon Jeffery is going to be fully healthy this year. He missed time last year. Zach Erich had like no competition for targets last year. They were rotating guys like Jordan Matthews. Nelson Aguilore was their primary wide receiver for a while. So things were super thin in the past catching group for the Eagles last year. The exact opposite is true this year. They have a bunch of different guys that they are going to be giving targets to, including Dallas Goddard who is another tight end playing behind Zach Erich that the team really likes. Basically, we have seen the best that Zach Erich has to offer. He's now sort of on the downslope of his career. And that's not to say he's not a good player. That's not to say he isn't going to have great weeks for us on FanDuel. But just as from a seasonal perspective, you can do better at the tight end position. A lot of question marks surrounding Zach Erich's season and it really doesn't have anything to do with him. It just has to do with the weapons. I mentioned DeSean Jackson while he's now in Philly. Dallas Goddard another year in a reliable target for Carson Wentz. Will the amount of targets that we are used to seeing from two Zach Erichs be there? That is what fantasy owners will have to ask themselves on draft day. Continuing speaking about the tight ends that we are actively avoiding, that brings us to the Colts Erich Ebron. How much of this is related to Andrew Luck's uncertainty and the return of Jack Doyle? Well, definitely part of it is to do with Andrew Luck. But Andrew Luck is going to be the ship that weighs everyone else either up or down in that Indianapolis Colts offense. Seems like he might not even be ready for week one at this point. So that's obviously not great for Ebron. But even to begin with, I actually am not convinced that Ebron is even the best tight end on the Indianapolis Colts roster for fantasy because so much of his value is tied to touchdowns. He had 66 targets, but 14 touchdowns last year. Jack Doyle had half as many targets as him, but it played in only six games. I'm pretty certain that Doyle is actually going to be the more targeted tight end on that roster over 16 games. So just not super interested in what Ebron brings to the table. Ebron was a touchdown machine last year for the Colts all season long, whether it was throwing the ball, receiving the ball, or even rushing the ball. Eric Ebron did it all. Is that repeatable here in 2019? Well, we're going to find out. Eric Ebron, someone that Davis suggests avoiding this season. One last target to talk about and he were avoiding him. And that's Trey Burton. So Burton was a tight end of target last season. That's why I got my words mixed up. This season he's someone you're avoiding with Chicago. Why is that? Yeah, Burton was actually someone that I liked last year, but this year I think it's pretty easy to see his targets dwindling. And they weren't even all that high to begin with last year. He just was, he ran pretty hot on the touchdowns. But you have to assume Anthony Miller probably will take another step forward. Alan Robinson seems to be fully healthy going to play 16 games for them this year. They added David Montgomery into a backfield that they already distribute targets towards probably Mike Davis as well. Another addition, Antara Cohen. So I think it's pretty possible that Burton falls down to something like fifth or sixth in the pecking order in terms of targets. And Adam Shaheen, a player that they really like who started out last year on the designated for return, injured reserve, has been fully healthy and is going to be rotating in the starting offense as well. So I think it's pretty possible that Burton ends up something like 40 or 50 targets for the course of the whole year. That's kind of his downside. And I also don't really see a great upside for him either. So he's just someone that's pretty easy for me to pass on in fantasy drafts. Trey Burton let fantasy owners down last year with even more weapons with Chicago this year. Well, it could be another let down season for Trey Burton. But he'll always have the Philly special to his name. That's going to do it for us here on the Fandal Hurry of three tight ends of target, three to avoid. Make sure you check out all of our other videos where we go through every position and let you know everything that we need to know for draft day. He's Davis Maddock. I'm Greg Salshman. Thanks so much for watching tomorrow on the program. Tom Becchio joins me as we give you your MLB, DFS, please, of the day. Have a great night. We'll see you tomorrow.