1 fantasy football footnote for every NFC West team

It’s officially NFL training camp season, folks. Get ready for a deluge of news, speculation, and publicity releases. However, managers of fantasy football shouldn’t be alarmed by the deluge of information

because Scott Pianowski has you covered with one important piece of information about each club. The NFC West is up next.Nobody at the position makes more spectacular plays than George Kittle, who may be the most exciting tight end in the NFL. In the past

three seasons, he has scored an incredible 11 touchdowns outside of the red zone, which is six more than any other tight end. However, Kittle has to generate his fantasy juice with really few opportunities because those kinds of plays aren’t

typically repeatable year after year. In fact, he hasn’t seen 94 targets or fewer in four consecutive seasons.This is also one of those situations when you have to distinguish between the worth of the imagination and the real world. Although Kittle is

likely developing a Hall of Fame career and has an infectious joy of life, going into his age-31 season, I doubt I’ll select Kittle in the first round. Although Geno Smith of the Seattle Seahawks lost a lot of supporters in the 2023 campaign, I’m not ready to write him out. The season start saw the Seattle

offensive line break apart, which prevented the offense from scoring for weeks. Smith performed better in the second half of the game and finished the season above average in the majority of efficiency categories, including QB rating, sack and interception avoidance, completion %, and YPA. His touchdown percentage was much below the league average, although that’s most likely