Top 10 TE Rankings + Preseason Reaction - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/14

in the third almost always, and oftentimes in the middle. I see what you're saying, Mike, in the sense that if you just happen to be at the part of the draft where you're at the very back of the third, you're going to have to reach way too early to take him. And I personally would rather have the other positional players there than him. But where he's going in the third, when you can start with a stud running back, a stud wide receiver, or, you know... however you want to build your roster, but your third player can be someone that I think at the end of this season, Kelsey and Andrews play 17 games. They're all healthy, their quarterbacks are healthy. There's a legitimate chance that Mark Andrews has more fantasy points than Travis Kelsey. I don't project it that way because of the current wide receiver depth chart in Kansas City being, you know, it's so clearly Kelsey.

But with the age of these players, I think that Mark, I mean, Mark Andrews has already beaten Kelsey when they've both been healthy with Mahomes and with Lamar Jackson. The new offensive system in Baltimore throwing the ball so much. So to me, it's like there's having Travis Kelsey, oh, it's so nice. It's so nice when you have them. It's locked in. You've got a positional advantage. There's only one other player in the entire NFL that you can have that feeling with. And it's Mark Andrews. And you can. not sacrifice Austin Echler, you know, to draft them. So that's why I love Andrews right now so much. Yeah, it's a compelling argument. I mean, I'm in a situation where I have Kelsey as my tight end in our two main leagues. But I didn't have to go and make that decision in the first run of the draft like some people have to make. Kelsey had zero bus games last year, 53% great. I just looked at the box score. He only had four games during the year, which he had.

fewer than five receptions in those four games. He finishes the tight-in three on the week, the tight-in five on the week, tight-in eight and tight-in 14. So his worst games of the year were the best games for most tight-ins. It just comes down to like, is the shoe ever going to drop on Travis Kelsey? This was the most points he's ever had. It's just hard because what he does functionally, it's not, you know, Old school Jimmy Graham way down the field on a speed seam route. It's just like somehow he turns his body in the way that the other guy thinks he's going to turn it another way. Like he just tricks people. It makes no sense. And he's always open. He's always open. And you know where they're going with the ball. Guard him. And they're so creative. Like if you ever wanted a situation that you know that no matter what the physical skills slowing down could still be fine, it's when.

It's misdirection. And like Andy Reid is a misdirection master. It's all about putting people in tricky situations. And then all of a sudden, you know, Kelsey's your guy. You know, Skymore's not a big dude. Cadarious Tony's not a big dude. Like Red Zone, they lost juju. Right. He's not a part of that equation. Like what's the red zone going to be for these guys? Kelsey. Yeah. I mean, Kelsey and Clyde. Yeah, we're back, baby. Kelsey is obviously great. It's very difficult for me. Yeah, I mean, when you're going in the right now on average, he's the sixth pick in the draft. And you're giving up extreme talented running backs and wide receivers in order to grab a 34 year old. 33.8. He'll be playing at 34. It's.

So tough to do that. He's a great God, Jason. Here's the one thing, and you're right, 100% right. The thing about Kelsey is that you didn't mess up your first round pick. Half the first round picks every year are mess ups. That's the truth. That's fair. That's fair. And you don't mess up fantasy finishes since 2016 of one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, two one. Two, what a loser. So that's what you get with Kelsey. Maybe you cap your ceiling a little bit, but you don't screw it up. And if you're the guy that's like, man, I just don't want to look dumb. Take Travis Kelsey and just like figure the rest out. That is a possibility. But that is our top 10 tight ends. We've got a show tomorrow where we will be talking about our changing opinions on certain players. We have a year-round podcast. We've been talking about players for a long time. We form opinions in February.

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