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8 Tight Ends With Good Early-Season Fantasy Football Matchups
If you decide to wait on your tight ends this year, check out this buffet of attractive options with good matchups to start the season.

Imagine you've taken a trip to your favorite local pizza buffet with a friend or loved one, and you're sitting down with your first plate of pizza. You look around, and realize that there are only a few other folks in the restaurant, and notice that someone a table over has a piece of deep dish pepperoni that you missed during your trip through the line.

But you don't need to worry. You look over to the buffet line and see the pizza is still more than half-intact, and can wait for you to snag later.

You enjoy your trip to the buffet, and come back on a Friday night when the place is packed. The staff is cranking out pizzas as fast as they can, but as soon as you step through the door, you see that your prized deep dish is on the line and at risk of being taken from you. Assessing the situation quickly, you dash for a plate and the pie as quickly as you can, and snag the last piece.

Yes, there's a fantasy football lesson to be learned here. Before you enter a draft, you need to scope out the supply and demand of every position, and adjust your draft strategy to match. If your league calls for two running back starters and two flex spots, that means that particular position is like a house favorite pizza on a buffet on Friday night. It's scarce, and it will be gone quickly.

Tight ends, on the other hand, drew the praise of his offensive coordinator recently for his improvements as a blocker, and as a player who could breakout this season.

You may want to wait until we have more clarity on this battle, but whoever emerges as the top option will be a very streamable tight end to start the season.

Dwayne Allen and Coby Fleener | Indianapolis Colts

The Colts start the season with matchups against the same Broncos (Week 1) mentioned above, along with games against the Eagles (ninth worst passing defense last season), Jaguars (third-worst passing defense, second-worst overall defense in our team rankings for 2014) and Titans (12th worst pass defense). A game against the bottom-five Houston defense in Week 6 rounds out a solid first few weeks for Fantasy Football Calculator and is going undrafted in standard mocks, so that means you can pick him up late and drop him quickly if he doesn't meet your expectations. But he does have season-long upside, too.

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