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ravidubey said:
Same, I mean Cousins HAS to be better than Ritter, right?
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I would assume he will be better with a better QB but he still seems to have a lot of hype for a guy who has done nothing since his rookie year. Just haven't seen the freaky athletic ability he was supposed to have. But this seems to happen a lot with highly drafted TEs.
 
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Cowboysrock55 said:
I would assume he will be better with a better QB but he still seems to have a lot of hype for a guy who has done nothing since his rookie year. Just haven't seen the freaky athletic ability he was supposed to have. But this seems to happen a lot with highly drafted TEs.
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Gotta have a QB willing to target him. Pitts’ targets dropped by almost 50% from 2021 to 2022
 
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ravidubey said:
Gotta have a QB willing to target him. Pitts’ targets dropped by almost 50% from 2021 to 2022
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His catch rate dropped too. He went from catching almost 62% of the balls thrown at him down to 47%. That's a massive drop. He rebounded some in 2023 to catch 59%.

Ferguson by comparison caught almost 70% of the throws at him last season. To me the prime importance of a TE is to help move the chains. If you're catching 50% of the balls thrown at you, that's really bad for a TE.

Anyway, 2021 was great. 2022 was pathetic. 2023 was ok.
 
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He's been a barely above average TE so far in his career. Remember when he was a must have in the draft for some? Heh. Good times.
 
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You are all in the presence of a man that didn't start Xavier Worthy last night. This is the beginning of a beautiful trend in fantasy football I like to refer to as "the fuckering." Now I will begin to force Worthy in to my starting line up and he will repay me with 2 catches for 6 yards, when I move him back to the bench he will promptly score two touchdowns and have 80+ yards. We will do this dance for the next 14 to 16 weeks.
 
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Newt said:
You are all in the presence of a man that didn't start Xavier Worthy last night. This is the beginning of a beautiful trend in fantasy football I like to refer to as "the fuckering." Now I will begin to force Worthy in to my starting line up and he will repay me with 2 catches for 6 yards, when I move him back to the bench he will promptly score two touchdowns and have 80+ yards. We will do this dance for the next 14 to 16 weeks.
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That's all of us, man. It's the Iron Law of Fantasy Football.
 
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That's all of us, man. It's the Iron Law of Fantasy Football.
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Yeah there are always players like these that drive a person mad. Hell you know every league someone is going to pick Isaiah Likely thinking he is the next big thing at TE. Only to find out week one was a blip on the radar and he goes back to being a minimal piece of the offense.
 
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NoDak said:
He's been a barely above average TE so far in his career. Remember when he was a must have in the draft for some? Heh. Good times.
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I remember top of my list was Sewell, Parsons, and Pitts and I was pissed because the Cowboys seemed fixated on a CB.
 
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NoDak said:
He's been a barely above average TE so far in his career. Remember when he was a must have in the draft for some? Heh. Good times.
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Yep, I remember being very much against it. But everyone was convinced that this one was different. He is special. And it's not to say he sucks. But I'd be very unhappy if he was what I got with the 4th pick in the draft.
 
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Cowboysrock55 said:
His catch rate dropped too. He went from catching almost 62% of the balls thrown at him down to 47%. That's a massive drop. He rebounded some in 2023 to catch 59%.

Ferguson by comparison caught almost 70% of the throws at him last season. To me the prime importance of a TE is to help move the chains. If you're catching 50% of the balls thrown at you, that's really bad for a TE.

Anyway, 2021 was great. 2022 was pathetic. 2023 was ok.
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Those statistics can not isolate the accuracy of the thrower, the depth of routes run, or quality of coverage. From what I can tell, Pitts is being treated by his coaching staff more like a big WR including running big WR routes.

2023: 53 of 57 catchable off 90 targets (63% catchable vs 83.5% Kelce) dropped 4, 10.1 yards before catch per reception (#2 TE overall, Kelce #39 at 5.5, Mike Evans 11.8)
2022: 28 of 33 catchable off 59 targets (56% catchable vs 78% Kelce) dropped 3, 8.2 yards before catch per reception (#13 TE overall, Kelce #36 at 6.3, Mike Evans 11.8)
2021: 68 of 77 catchable off 110 targets (70% catchable vs 76% Kelce) dropped 6, 10.5 yards before catch per reception (#2 TE overall, Kelce #26 at 6.1, Mike Evans 10.5)
 
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