Tag: Kellen Winslow

Target Watch- Tight Ends

It was a solid week one for fantasy tight ends and here we will take a look at a few of the lesser owned ones.

Analysis: Jordan Cameron caught 9 balls for 108 yards and a score Sunday. He was targeted a team high 13 times, that’s more targets than Jimmy Graham, Vernon Davis and Jason Witten. Teams will make the Browns pass the ball this year and it appears that Jordan Cameron will be Brandon Weeden’s go to check down option. Josh Gordon will be back from suspension in week three and that will hinder Cameron’s production a bit, but the twenty-five year old will remain fantasy relevant. Cameron is available in 8-60% of fantasy leagues.

Moving on from one awful team with quarterback issues to another- the Jets. It appears that Geno Smith is relying on his tight end early this year as well. Smith targeted Kellen Winslow 8 times on Sunday afternoon, catching 7 balls for 79 yards and a score. Expect a solid amount of targets(especially in the second half) from a healthy Kellen Winsow in week two as the Jets take on the Pats on Thursday night. Winslow is available in 97-99% of fantasy leagues.

Buying Low- Kellen Winslow

Kellen Winslow continues to be dropped from many fantasy squads around the country but you may want to take a deeper look.

Analysis: Kellen Winslow only has one touchdown and does not have a seventy yard ball game for the year. His 282 receiving yards rank sixteenth among NFL tight ends and as of now he is not considered a TE1. However, if you take a deeper look you may like what you see.

Winslow is fourth among NFL tight ends in targets for the year with fifty-eight. That’s more targets than Tony Gonzalez, Dallas Clark, Greg Olsen, Owen Daniels and Jermichael Finley. There has to be a rule somewhere in fantasy football where you absolutely cannot drop the fourth most targeted tight end in the NFL from your squad. But Winslow is being dropped and you have to buy low on him right now. He has stayed healthy his two and one half years in Tampa and he’s averaged about 800 yards with five scores per season with the Bucs. He may not be putting up numbers yet but he will explode sooner or later and that is when you’ll at least have an option to keep or sell high.