Should I Draft Travis Kelce? Chiefs TE’s Fantasy Outlook in 2023

Kansas Metropolis Chiefs TE Travis Kelce is inevitable … for fantasy soccer managers, for opposing defenses, and for seemingly anything the all-world TE units his thoughts to that isn’t Taylor Swift-related. The dialogue level getting into drafts this season is the chance price and if he can tempo the place by 100 PPR factors as he did in 2022.

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Travis Kelce’s Fantasy Outlook

The Chiefs led the league in passing yards a season in the past and have been void of an alpha receiver. This yr? They let JuJu Smith-Schuster, their de facto WR1 in 2022, go to New England and changed him with a rookie in Rashee Rice.

Travis Kelce by Yr
2016: TE1
2017: TE1
2018: TE1
2019: TE1
2020: TE1
2021: TE2
2022: TE1

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Do I just like the potential of a few of the receivers in this offense? I do. Marquez Valdes-Scantling will nearly actually have a number of large video games that win somebody a bunch of DFS cash, whereas Skyy Moore may take in the void left by Smith-Schuster and flirt with 85-95 catches.

These issues may occur. Kelce will occur. Till we see any indicators of bodily decline and so long as No. 15 is beneath heart in Kansas Metropolis, Kelce is as dependable an possibility as you’ll discover in this sport of ours.

Is Kelce a Good Fantasy Choose?

The case for Kelce, very similar to that for the elite quarterbacks, is much less in regards to the participant and extra about the way you’re snug setting up a roster.

Drafting Kelce offers you an edge on the TE place, however you might simply lose that edge in the event you’re not snug with what the center rounds supply on the RB/WR positions.

If you’re snug with what the Flex board seems to be like in Rounds 5-8, you must really feel snug going with Kelce and piecing issues collectively round him. In case you aren’t, move on Kelce and construct a base earlier than addressing the TE place.

Whereas he’s in a category of his personal, T.J. Hockenson presents good worth a number of rounds later, and Darren Waller a number of rounds after that. There are alternatives; they simply don’t carry the run-away-and-hide-from-the-field potential that Kelce has proven in current years.

• PFN Consensus Rank: twelfth total
• Present ADP: seventh total