A Look Back: Tight End Targets

To continue my “A Look Back” series, I want to go back even further than the 2019 regular season and go to some of my pre-2019 Draft content. If you’re interested in my previous work in that series, the links are at the bottom of the article. In the summer of 2019, I did a two-part article, looking at tight end targets and avoids for 2019. Let’s start with how I did with the three players I picked as targets for the 2019 redraft season. The original article used a half-PPR format, so I’ll use half-PPR results for 2019 to evaluate myself. Evan Engram ADP: 61 overall, TE5 Result: TE18, TE7 in fantasy PPG in eight games played I already broke down Engram’s 2019 season in decent depth in my Dead to Me article about him. While I won’t rehash all of that, Engram had an interesting 2019 season. Through five weeks, he was the TE2, just behind Austin Hooper, and looked like a smashing value at his TE5 ADP. In those five weeks, he had 33 receptions on 48 targets for 373 yards and two touchdowns. Unfortunately for Engram, he missed Week 6 with an MCL injury. He did return for Weeks 7-9, but he wasn’t the same player. He totaled just 11 receptions for 94 yards and a touchdown in those three games. After Week 9, Engram missed the rest of the season with a foot injury, killing his fantasy owners. So, how did I do with Engram? In my original article, I stated that Engram would benefit […]