Tucker Kraft Just Put Up the Best Evasion Season by a TE in the Advanced Stats Era: TE Advanced Stats Deep Dive, Part 4
Image Credit: Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire. Pictured: Tucker Kraft.

When it comes to fantasy football, receiving production at running back, wide receiver, and tight end is the backbone of strong roster construction. While counting stats such as yards, receptions, and touchdowns helps to tell the story, delving deeper can help fantasy managers identify breakouts before they occur, rather than react to last year’s trends.

That is where RotoViz’s Advanced Stats Explorer comes in. With six years of advanced passing, rushing, and receiving data, the Advanced Stats Explorer gives us an opportunity to get ahead of the competition by digging deeper into the data. This can help to both find potential stars and identify players who could be headed for a decline before other fantasy managers see it coming.

After being drafted as the TE2 for the Packers in 2024, Tucker Kraft capitalized on Luke Musgrave’s early-season injury to claim the top spot on Green Bay’s depth chart and finish as the PPR TE10 last season. Despite only receiving the 17th most expected points at the position, Kraft proved to be efficient with his opportunities, finishing third among TEs in FPOE.

Much of that efficiency was due to defenders not being able to get Kraft on the ground, as he proved to be shifty enough to make people miss and strong enough to shrug would-be tacklers off of him. While Kraft’s high evasion rates could have been predicted after seeing how well he performed in yards after the catch (YAC) in Part 3 of the series, the two stats are not always positively correlated to one another. With Kraft’s evasion fueling his rise into fantasy TE1 territory, which other young TEs could be on the verge of seeing their stocks rise?

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