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Dynasty Film Review: Tyrone Tracy Jr, Kyle Pitts and Blake Corum

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Kyle Pitts | © Dale Zanine-Imagn Images
Bruce Matson Posted On October 12, 2024
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We are rolling into week six and a lot is happening in the fantasy football world. Nico Collins is going to injured reserve. Spencer Rattler is making his first NFL start. We are watching the news on Nick Chubb every day to see when he will make his return. James Cook was on the injury report on Wednesday, and everyone has been watching his status all week.

By looking at some of the trending players on the football field, we can get a good idea of how they are adapting to the NFL game. Some of these players are rookies getting their first taste of what it’s like to lead their backfield in carries.  Other are veterans who are starting to show some signs that they could turn things around this season.

Tyrone Tracy Jr, NYG

Devin Singletary was out of the lineup for the Giants’ week five matchup against the Seattle Seahawks. We got to see our first glimpse of Tyrone Tracy with a full workload, and he did not disappoint.

Tracy had a scare in training camp when he was carted off the field with an injury. Many thought his season was over. He was back on the field a few days later. It’s stunning to think we came from a potentially devastating leg injury to the late-round rookie blowing up in week five.

 

I remember watching this game and seeing Eric Gray and Tracy getting used intermittingly in the offense. Tracy’s workload started slow until he took a carry for 27 yards in the second quarter. We would then see 14 more carries throughout the rest of the game.

Tracy ran 17 routes, equating to a 42.5 percent route participation rate. He only received two targets in this game. When combined with his 18 carries, his 69 percent opportunity share ranked eighth among running backs in week five.

The main thing that pops out when you go over his film is the burst he has in the second level. Once he scoots past the trash around the line of scrimmage, he’s a threat for a long gain. He has more speed and burst than Devin Singletary and that adds a different dynamic to the offense.

He approaches the line of scrimmage like a veteran. He’s patient, allowing the lanes to open, but yet assertive once he sees the crease. His decisiveness allows him to rapidly make his move into the second level of the defense.

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The play sequence above is a testament to Tracy’s approach to the line of scrimmage and his ability to manipulate the opposing defense’s leverage to create space. As he approaches the running line up the middle, he catches #17 Jerome Baker sliding over to plug the hole. Instead of making a move to the outside, Tracy plays cat and mouse with him by approaching more towards the line of scrimmage baiting Baker to come up to make the play before cutting to the hole to the outside.

Watch Tracy during the pre-snap on some of his plays and you will actively see him counting defenders and reading the alignment. This allows him to get a feel of the linebackers’ leverage before he gets the ball, and he plays the odds of how the play can be manipulated once the ball is snapped.

We are watching Tracy’s workload going forward. He is a candidate to finish the year strong if he continues to be involved.

Kyle Pitts, ATL

There have been many ups and downs with Kyle Pitts throughout the years and the 2024 NFL season hasn’t been any different. In week five we saw Pitts reel in seven of his eight targets for 88 yards. His 15.8 PPR fantasy points were enough to make him the TE6 for week five.

 

The Falcons play the short game with Pitts. A lot of his targets are over the middle with him finding a hole in the zone. There are some out-breaking routes. His first big catch down the seam is what we want to see out of Pitts. Those are the money targets that will provide fantasy production. word image 1500650 2

We did not see Pitts get very technical in the route-running department in this matchup because he didn’t need to. However, on the out route above we see him manipulate the linebacker’s leverage by closing into the defender’s space before cutting off the route. He does a good job of breaking off the route with limited drift. This allows him to create maximum separation from the defender.

Pitts just turned 24 years old a few days ago. He’s younger than some of the rookies from the 2024 class. Everyone was hoping for the old-school Jimmy Graham Rob Gronkowski production when he came out for the draft. It’s important to note that Ray-Ray McCloud is seeing a 19 percent target share and is getting targeted on the short to intermediate portions of the field.

The added completion for targets besides Drake London and Darnell Mooney was not on a lot of people’s bingo cards. This situation could make Pitts a volatile option for fantasy football for the foreseeable future. Anybody who has Pitts in fantasy is going to start him most weeks, but he has the most potential in game scripts that are projected to have a lot of scoring.

Blake Corum, LAR

Dynasty gamers have been waiting for Corum to get more run in the Rams’ offense all season long. In week five we saw him handle five carries for 25 yards. It was good to see him on the field. He looked explosive and compact while running the ball. He’s a player we are going to heavily monitor going forward.

 

Kyren Williams is the man in this offense. He leads all running backs with a 97.3 percent opportunity share, 129 routes ran, and 47 pass-blocking snaps. He’s getting a lot of work, more than any other running back in the NFL. There’s a reason why running backs split carries and the odds of injury could increase due to the large volume of workload. Another thing to think about is that a good portion of this workload could transfer to Corum if something were to happen to Williams.

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Corum has a natural feel of reading the leverages of the defenders around him. On the play above we see him following his blocks and preparing to make his move up the crease by reading the leverage of those blocks. Alaric Jackson (#77) can’t get to his block and the defender plugs the hole. Corum notices this in his approach and realizes the defender’s leverage is toward the outside of the play. Seeing this, Corum cuts his run inside and avoids the defender. TJ Slayton (#93) does a good job at peeling from his block and working his way down the line to tackle Corum.

This sample is important because it lets us know that Corum can process the movement patterns of the players around him and make the necessary moves to gain yards.

Corum looks explosive on the field. He’s a play away from breaking off a long gain. We all know he’s an injury away from seeing a massive increase in fantasy football value. Considering he hasn’t been productive during the last five weeks of the season, there might be a buying opportunity on the dynasty trade market. Realistically, he is more than likely not a liquid asset in your league because why trade him away this early in the season when we knew his current production was a likely outcome to start the season? Dynasty gamers will need to be creative if they want to “buy low” on Corum’s stock.

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