Streaming Tight Ends: Week 9 Targets

Nov 03, 2020

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Four teams get a planned rest in Week 9, so we’ll be without the services of Drew Sample and Dallas Goedert, along with both the Rams and Browns tight end committees. This looks to be another rough week on the stream at tight end, but below are some plug-in playable options for Week 9.

As a strategy, streaming aims to find players with above-average matchups, which can hopefully translate to fantasy TE1 production for your fantasy squad. For streaming purposes, 4for4’s Schedule-Adjusted Fantasy Points Allowed (aFPA) is a metric we rely heavily on to determine weekly matchup strength. As the season continues to progress and more data is available, aFPA becomes more and more reliable, using rolling 10-week data. Targets and efficiency metrics are also considered when choosing weekly streamers.

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Week 8’s best performer for me was Trey Burton, who ended as the fantasy TE9 with 8.6 half-PPR points, followed by Albert Okwuegbunam’s 7.4 fantasy points (TE13). So far, 4for4’s optimal streamer boasts 127 total points—good enough for the overall fantasy TE1 on the season.

In order to provide advice you can actually implement, candidates for streaming must be rostered in no more than 40% of Yahoo! fantasy leagues.

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Jordan Akins (Or Darren Fells) @ Jaguars

Akins has been nursing both a concussion and an ankle injury but also had last week off for even more recovery time. The Texans face a Jaguars defensive unit ranked 26th in TE aFPA in 2020, and who have surrendered big games to opposing players at the position this season like 14.0 half-PPR points to Travis Kelce, 13.7 to Eric Ebron and 21.3 to Anthony Firkser.

If Jordan Akins is cleared to play this week (which looks pretty solid), he’s a decent add at 98% Yahoo! availability, but Darren Fells is also viable if Akins doesn’t suit up, and he’s free on 93% of Yahoo! waiver wires.