• Kyle Pitts starts 2024 strong: Pitts was on pace for his best fantasy season since his rookie year, including a projected top-10 fantasy finish, and the most playing time of his career.
  
• The Atlanta Falcons shifted their strategy: The Falcons chose to focus on Bijan Robinson, leading the team to use run-blocking tight end Charlie Woerner more frequently, which destroyed Pitts’ fantasy value.
  
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Player performance

Kyle Pitts was the fourth overall pick of the 2021 NFL Draft, which is the earliest a tight end has been selected in any season in NFL history. Pitts immediately started living up to the hype, accruing the second-ever 1,000-yard season by a rookie tight end, Mike Ditka in 1961 was the first. Brock Bowers has since beaten both of them with his 1,194 yards in 2024. While he had the third-most yards for a tight end that season, he only scored one touchdown, leaving him 12th in fantasy points per game. He played 73.6% of the Atlanta Falcons‘ offensive snaps as a rookie, displaying a general tendency to play more in losses than in wins.

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