Which tight ends can fantasy managers trust in the playoffs?
Yahoo Fantasy's Matt Harmon and Ray Garvin discuss which tight ends fantasy managers should target during the fantasy playoffs. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify or wherever you listen.
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I think Parkinson, Harold Fanning, and Dalton Schultz, Matt.
I'm looking at what those three Titans in particular have done.
And I don't know why I picked week 10.
I just, I wondered a little longer than a month, like what's happened, kind of like in the second half The season.
So, in the six-game sample size, Colby Parkinson, Tight End 4, Half PPR 11.6 Harold Fanning, 9.3, tight end 8, Dalton Schultz, tight end 99 points per game.
When you look at targets per route run for tight ends across the board throughout this Time period: Kobe Parkinsons 27.5% target route run, second among tight ends.
Dalton Schultz eighth, and Harold Fan, oh, excuse me.
Parkinson is first, Fannon is second, Dalton Schultz ranks eighth in targets per route run That time period.
Receptions: Fannon is top 5.
Parkinson is 10th.
Like, this is real with Colby Parkinson In LA, at least this season.
Season.
I'm not talking about what it's gonna be.
A year or two from now.
And then they compound that with the fact Adams will probably miss this game.
He's out.
They've already said it doesn't look good.
They're already heavy users of deploying 3 tight ends on the field.
It's a tough matchup versus Seattle, but this is, if I were to expect anybody, the Rams Team to get an uptick in usage would be the tight end spots.
Harold Fannon, I know that the Cleveland Browns are not very good.
Very good, but they've only got a guy they trust to throw the ball to, And he can scheme, scam, and garbage-time his way to a bunch of receptions and opportunities.
He had fourteen targets.
Harold Fannon had 14 damn targets last week, 14 of them against the Bears on the road.
And then Dalton Schultz, Im just gonna say it quietly, quietly.
I know we want it to be Higgins right away.
We want it to be Noel.
It's Nico Collins and Dalton Schultz.
It's Nico, and it's Dalton.
It's not Christian Kirk.
It's not Jaden Higgins.
It's not Jalen Noel.
It's Nico Collins, Dalton Schultz, and CJ Stroud quietly making an impact since coming back, Quietly just stacking weeks, Matt, stacking weeks, and you know who they get.
This week, then Houston, Texas, they get the Raiders this week.
Las Vegas, they get it.
Nico Schultz should all be in play.
Parkinson needs to be in your lineup, and Harold Fanning Jr.
Needs to stay there.
Trust them: 3 tight ends down the stretch.
Kyle Pitts as well.
Yeah, we're gonna put a pin in that, uh, CJ Stroud thing because I want to bring it back The very end of the show, and kind of talk about him.
You know, potentially versus a quarterback that I think a lot of people, A lot of people are going higher in fantasy.
But again, we'll come back to that.
I love all three of these names.
I have them ranked as top-10 tight ends.
Week.
Uh, Harold Fannon, I have ranked the highest.
These guys, uh, besides Kyle Pitts, 'cause I, I do kind of agree that he is, If we're tiering tight end rankings, it's the top three guys.
You know who they are.
It's McBride, it's Kittle.
It's Bowers.
Then it's kind of pits in No Man's Land.
Depending on whether it's going to be London or not.
And then it starts the next group of guys, which, to me, Harold Fannon leads because Harold Fannon, Number One, He is a stud.
Like, he's awesome.
He's so good.
He's been, he's on pace to have one of The best rookie tight end seasons ever.
And a lot of that is because hes great, and the wide receiver room in Cleveland just stinks.
