There can be a “miss the forest for the trees” element to fantasy football analysis. We can spend our time poring over stats and data for the tiniest little nugget of significance, and sometimes that leads to us overlooking the most obvious things available to us. Basically, some surprisingly basic stats can tell us a lot more about production than we sometimes admit.
It’s different for each position. At tight ends, though, the thing to look for, as you’ll see below, is targets. Everyone knows that targets are important across the board, but at tight end, targets will tell you more about production than most other numbers you’ll find.
The importance of targets
Talent and skill are important, of course, but often, targets and target share come down to opportunity. A tight end in a strong four-WR offense might have more ability than a guy who only has one decent receiver teammate, but the second guy has a better shot at targets, just from a “mouths to feed’ perspective.
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