3 Veterans to Exploit Soft Tight End Matchups at the Start of the Season: Week 1 Tight End Report

Neil Dutton
September 9, 2021

Week 1 is here, folks. Training camp reports are a thing of the past. Preseason games have been banished to the back of our collective minds. Hard Knocks is done and dusted for another year, with the highlight of the season being a three-minute drone shot flying through a building. All of this is over, with real games mere hours away as you read this.

Once again, I will be with you every week of the year. I’ll provide you with all the stats you’ll need about the tight end spot from the week before, along with three picks for lesser rostered players that you may like to consider for the week ahead. This could be vital if you failed to land a Travis Kelce or Darren Waller in your drafts. It’s going to be a great year for streaming, I can feel it in my bones … but that might just be arthritis. I did turn 40 recently.

Without further ado, let’s see who our first three plug-in players are for the 2021 season.

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Neil Dutton

Lead Writer, soft spot for the tight end position. Will never stop loving Duke Johnson.

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