Evan Engram's Potential as a Top Tight End in Fantasy

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00:00Now, Joe, we often talk about recency bias, how many managers are going to try to chase

00:07what Evan Ingram gave them the season before last and what can they expect for this coming

00:11season?

00:12Yeah, I think with Evan Ingram, again, it comes down to a great value play and a guy

00:17that got paid.

00:18So a lot of people were unsure what was going to happen with Evan Ingram or they just get

00:23a tender and they actually ended up extending him and giving him a contract.

00:26And I think that says a lot.

00:27Christian Kirk is kind of the alpha wide receiver in this offense, but he's not really

00:32alpha wide receiver guy.

00:33He's more of a 1A.

00:34Cameron Ridley was supposed to be that guy and he really wasn't.

00:37But if you look at last year, he had 143 targets, Evan Ingram, that's an enormous amount of

00:40volume.

00:41He only had four touchdowns with all those targets.

00:43So you got to figure, even if the targets regress and he doesn't have 114 catches in

00:48a PPR league.

00:49Look, man, this guy was tight end two last year, two, because he had 114 catches.

00:55So he's going to get that volume, even if it scales back to 95 catches, but he gets

01:00somewhere around, you know, six or maybe even dare I say seven touchdowns this year.

01:04All of a sudden, Evan Ingram is probably going to be a top five tight end again.

01:07So that's something to consider when you're looking at, you know, maybe I didn't get those

01:11top guys at tight end and I don't want to wait to the Brock Bowers group because I really

01:14feel unsure about that.

01:16Evan Ingram is floating around there currently that to me, it's tight end eight.

01:21He does have the opportunity to finish as a top three guy just based on his role in

01:26the offense.

01:27And just for a moment, if I can, Matt, to recap the who's who of who Tara McLaurin played

01:30quarterback play wide receiver with, let me recap these names for you.

01:352019 case Keenum, Dwayne Haskins, Colt McCoy, Alex Smith, Kyle Allen, Taylor Heineke, Ryan

01:42Fitzpatrick, Garrett Gilbert, that you didn't have that one on your binger card this morning,

01:46buddy.

01:47Then a Carson Wentz and Sam Howell.

01:49So yeah, Terry McLaurin has got an opportunity to have a breakout season here, even though

01:54his floor is already great.