How efficient will Kittle be post-Achilles injury?
Patrick Daugherty and Kyle Dvorchak weigh the likelihood of San Francisco 49ers star George Kittle coming back to full form after rehabbing an Achilles injury that could limit his physical style of play.
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George Kittle is a longtime fantasy football superstar, Kyle Dvorak, but he's going on 32 years old.
He's coming off a torn Achilles tendon.
He swears, he's rehabbing faster than expected.
He's eyeing up week one, claiming he's gonna be out there for the opener.
Another report from The Athletic that he is, quote, "ahead of schedule in his rehab."
better than the alternative that he's behind schedule.
We won't really know for sure until they put on the pads at training camp where George Kittle is, but the early reports are good.
How are you approaching him in fantasy?
Currently going in the, like, tight end eight to 10 range, Kyle.
Yeah, right now I do buy the reports that week one, week one they have a weird schedule where they actually play in a game in Australia, so maybe for practical pur- practical purposes it's week two, but very early in the year he is playing football.
To me, the bigger concern is that among all the tight ends, like maybe of my lifetime, Kittle relies on his explosive athletic ability to win, 'cause he's not gonna see the most targets of any tight end.
Even at the late stage in Travis Kelce's career, he's probably gonna see straight up more targets than a player like George Kittle.
Kittle just does more on a per route and a per target player, per target basis than any other player in the NFL.
At nearly 33 years old with a late season torn Achilles, can he still replicate that?
I just don't know.
And to be made to pay a tight end one price, I'm not buying there.
At the tight end one-two turn, I'd be interested.
I don't know if he ever gets there.
Yeah, he turns 33 in the first half of the season.
Really, I think the first third of the season, Kyle Dvorak.
The upside has always been self-evident with George Kittle.
Now the same is unfortunately true of the downside.
We'll let you know how we're approaching it this summer at rotoworld.com.
