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Malcolm McMillan (@McLateralFF)
The Lateral Editor
Finding Value: Tuesday , July 13th , 2021
Turns out in that location are no free-use photos of Adam Trautman. I would tell , "Sue me ," but I am trying to avoid that much irony , permit lone the legal trouble. So instead you lot teach a McLateral original. I telephone phone it , "Tom Brady."
Get it? Because it is a goat?
Tough crowd.
Obviously is non a Monday. I know I said that I would drib this column on Mondays but terminal Mon I was wrapping upward a week-long opor-garai inwards Puerto Rico. I genuinely did convey a laptop hence I could create some writing but it turned out all I had fourth dimension to create was take away keep pictures of goats spell drinking on the beach. Zero regrets.
Do non teach me incorrect , I dear writing , together with I dear fantasy football. I fifty-fifty dear writing nearly fantasy football! But at no indicate inwards my calendar week of Medalla Lights , Ron de Barillito piña coladas , together with incredible nutrient at Casitas Blanca together with Miramar (travel recs past times McLateral coming soon!) could I convey myself to type a unmarried word. Instead of worrying nearly ADP , present sheets , together with rankings , I merely got to sit down dorsum together with worry nearly how burnt my gummy Scottish self would burn downwardly together with if I broke my finger on that rope swing inwards the rainforest. No stress? Feels similar constitute value to me.
But zero lasts forever together with draft flavor is fast approaching. So permit us teach correct into some other value pick: New Orleans Saints TE Adam Trautman.
TE Adam Trautman (New Orleans Saints)
Trautman represents a huge chance , but let's offset alongside the negatives. New Orleans does non necessarily target the TE a ton (only 17.3% target percentage equally a seat grouping inwards 2020) , together with nosotros nonetheless create non know who volition live nether pump for the Saints come upward Week 1. These issues combined alongside Trautman beingness largely unproven coming into his sophomore flavor are all reasons for his depressed ADP.
Here is the thing: I am non certain that the depression seat grouping target percentage matters if Trautman is getting all those targets. Last year's starter Jared Cook is gone , together with New Orleans seems confident plenty inwards Trautman to non convey inwards a replacement. Given that they invested a third-round alternative inwards Trautman together with that Trautman is capable equally a blocker together with receiver , perhaps that should non live a surprise.
So if that target percentage is largely Trautman's to claim , together with hence in that location is no argue he cannot come across the merely about 15% private target percentage that oftentimes translates into a fantasy football game TE1. Last year Dallas Cowboys TE Dalton Schultz was TE11 if you lot purpose Weeks 1-17 PPR points , together with Pittsburgh Steelers TE Eric Ebron was TE10 if you lot purpose Weeks 1-16. Both were on teams that had lower TE seat grouping target shares than the Saints last year , hence in that location is recent precedent for a similar score of seat grouping target percentage producing a top-12 (or fifty-fifty top-10) TE. Both those teams too had significantly better WR corps inwards 2020 than the Saints volition take away keep inwards 2021.
Another positive squad stat? New Orleans TEs had 28.6% of the team's receiving TDs inwards 2020. TDs are non a especially predictable or stable statistic , hence take away keep that alongside a grain of tabular array salt , but it does present a willingness to throw to the seat when Sean Payton & Co. need vi points.
Finally , in that location are a few private stats to highlight. Disclaimer: Trautman alone saw xvi targets , hence this is an incredibly limited sample size. However , he caught fifteen of those targets together with dropped none of them. High grab charge per unit of measurement , express contest , together with a high seat grouping TD share... who does that remind you lot of?
Green Bay Packers TE Robert Tonyan. Who finished TE4 terminal yr (Weeks 1-16).
Am I proverb that Trautman is a lock to live 2021's Robert Tonyan? No. Especially since Tonyan was such an outlier at the seat compared to the residue of the TEs to laid out with. What I am proverb , is that it is logical to come across a path for Adam Trautman to kicking the bucket 2021's Robert Tonyan. Why non take away keep a adventure on that at TE24? That is non fifty-fifty a draft alternative inwards most redraft leagues. Massive value.
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