Dynasty Blueprint: 5 Takeaways From Week Three

Editor's Note: Ryan debuted the Dynasty Blueprint term all the way back in 2014, focusing on his personal dynasty strategy and philosophy. He introduced ideas like punting running backs and the now-common productive struggle. This series expands on the original, providing an in-depth look inside his dynasty mind. 

This is my personal weekly Dynasty Blueprint. This article and all of the content on DLF is for you, the reader. The goal is to make you a better dynasty player and bring home some titles. Hopefully, this will help you reach that goal.

DYNASTY FIVE

Here are the five dynasty related stories that have my attention coming off another week of NFL action.

TErrible

By now, you’ve seen all of the stats. You know, the ones that remind you just how poorly your starting tight end has played through three weeks this year? For me, the most frustrating part of what we’ve seen so far this season from the tight end position is that I actually thought this year was the beginning of a new era at the position. The top-12 dynasty tight ends is filled with young who appeared to be sure things to break out this season. They still could, I suppose, but these three weeks have been a massive disappointment.

In a normal year, that old-school type dynasty player would be laughing at me and others who always have big expectations for rookies and other young players. “Ha! That’s what you get! He’s never even taken a snap in the NFL!” Yeah, that doesn’t work this year because even more disappointing than Dalton Kincaid, Kyle Pitts, and Sam LaPorta has been the play of Travis Kelce and Mark Andrews.

Through three games, Kelce has finished as the TE15, TE45 and TE14. He has yet to score more than ten fantasy points in a game this season, giving him a six-game streak of single-digit fantasy points dating back to Week 14 of last season. For about a year now, we’ve all endured the Taylor Swift jokes and how that relationship might impact his career, but dynasty managers aren’t laughing now. The reality is that Kelce is 34 years old and simply looks slow. He is still technically the second option in the Chiefs passing game, but only has one more catch than running back Isiah Pacheco, who missed this week’s game and he has just one-third of the catches of Rashee Rice (more on him later.)