Week 11 Waiver Wire Adds: Top TEs to consider
Yahoo Fantasy's Matt Harmon and Justin Boone look at recent trends and top pickups among some emerging tight ends. Check out the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify or wherever you listen.
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Juan Johnson, he is on by, but man, has he been producing.
And we saw early in the season for him, he had some great stats in the opening month.
Then he dealt with an injury, had a few down games.
He is right back there producing again, right?
At least 50 yards or a touchdown in 4 straight games, coming off 92 yards and a touchdown against the Panthers.
He gets to play the Panthers again in the first week of the fantasy playoffs too.
So this is somebody I think you can go out and with confidence, play as a low-end tight end one.
The rest of the way with Shaheed gone, you know, the targets are going elsewhere.
He is getting a lot of work in that offense, really like him.
Colson Loveland at the Vikings, Kate Otton at the Bills, maybe even Dawson Knox versus the Bucks.
Although there's a lot of guys I could have put in that last spot.
But Loveland and Otton right now, we're seeing decent performances from them.
I was very happy to see Colson Loveland come out.
And though the snaps went back down, they did Harmon, he was.
Over 80% the prior two games, went down to 61 this week with Cole Kame back with the burden out there.
There were a lot of other options in the offense, but he follows up that huge 118-yard game with a touchdown, follows it up with 55 yards, which is not bad for a tight end.
That is pretty good.
And especially when it's a guy who we know is a first-round talent who I continue to think the best is yet to come for him this year.
He's only going to get more involved in this offense as we go.
So he's another guy that's in that low-end tight end 1, high-end, tight end 2 mix.
Cade Oughton, kind of like the Ted Tess Johnson thing, right?
It's a similar situation where you can play him when all these other guys are injured at receiver.
And when those guys come back, don't even think about it.
Kate Oughton is going to become a background player in that offense.
He's not going to get the targets anymore.
He'll be the starter, but he won't get the targets anymore.
That's just the way it's always gone for him.
So right now in his last few games, 81 yards, 51 yards, 65, 40, 82 this week on 9 catches.
He's putting up nice numbers.
Certainly can consider him.
And then Dawson Knox, it'll just come down to how long Kincaid's out for, and you could consider him as a streamer, but really nothing more than that.
And there's a few guys, like I said, I could have put Luke Musgrave in there, although Luke Musgrave, I gotta do it, Herman.
He's playing.
Am I doing it?
Is it?
No, I'm starting him in two places.
Don't do it.
Is he a guy, is he, hopefully, no injuries.
He has a good game.
He's a guy you could consider in better matchups as we go, but yeah, I feel bad.
