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Is there a more frustrating position in fantasy football than Tight End right now? It’s a position that usually attracts injuries but at least there are usually red zone targets. Evan Engram is your top scoring TE through five weeks Walter Payton Color Rush Jersey , but he missed Thursday’s game with an injury. Travis Kelce, the consensus #1 is right behind him despite a lot of drops and only one score. George Kittle still deserves to be in that top tier, his numbers look a little low because the 49ers enjoyed an early bye week. But what of the rest of the crowd? It looks like Austin Hooper has indeed arrived as a legitimate Tight End, well after I gave up on him after years of hoping. Mark Andrews posted two huge weeks to start the year but has come back down to earth. I think he’s fine going forward but he’s not a threat to enter the elite tier rest of season. Will Dissly and Darren Waller are the other two guys that have a chance to stick in that second tier. Waller is getting a ton of targets and looks good out in routes. He hasn’t scored yet but you have to believe that’s not far away. I’d hold onto Waller. Dissly... where’d this guy come from? He looks like he’s carved out a legitimate role in this offense and Russell Wilson clearly trusts him. He’s scored in four games and I while I’m not sure he can keep up that pace, he’ll likely finish as a TE1. Zach Ertz hasn’t lit it up yet but he’s fine. The targets are there, he just hasn’t done much with him. I wouldn’t panic as this offense has the chance to put up big numbers and he’s a big component of that. That’s eight players. There’s a chance you’re in a league without one of those players. Greg Olsen, Gerald Everett, Delanie Walker, Jason Witten (!), TJ Hockenson Gale Sayers Jersey , and maybe Jared Cook make up the next tier. Everett is trying to establish himself as a true option in that offense and is probably the guy I’d prefer in that group. Hockenson certainly has potential but outside of his first game against the dreadful Cardinals, he hasn’t shown much. The rest are aging players with reduced roles. The targets have dried up on Olsen with Cam Newton out and you simply can’t feel great about Walker or Witten. My advice would be to try and trade for one of those first eight players and hold on to dear life if you have one of them. It’s tough out there. Stay strong.WCG Daily FantasyWill Fuller’s big day helped my daily fantasy squad immensely and I moved back into 4th place. I believe Sam was able to change his name because the new leader is named BoomShakUrlacher, a comfortable 86 points ahead of me. Long ways to go but he has clearly established himself as the team to beat. My colleague WhiskeyRanger has fallen back to 8th place but don’t feel bad for him as he took me out in the Champions League last week. As for this week, I’m firing up Scary Terry McLaurin who gets back Case Keenum under center and gets to face off against the Dolphins. I think both of those teams are terrible but at least Washington can move the ball with McLaurin. Here’s hoping to a big day from him.Have a start/sit question? Want to discuss trade details? What about a bad beat story like, you know, OBJ fumbling a punt return and causing you to lose a matchup against Whiskey Ranger, hypothetically... Hit up the comments below or find us on Twitter @gridironborn and @whiskeyranger29. SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The schedule makers dealt Mike McGlinchey a rude welcome to the NFL.The rookie right tackle for the San Francisco 49ers had three of his first four games on the road, including matchups against elite pass rushers like Minnesota’s Danielle Hunter, Kansas City’s Justin Houston and Melvin Ingram of the Chargers.Looking back at that experience now https://www.thebearsfanshop.com/Mike-Singletary-Jersey , McGlinchey acknowledges it was almost crippling.“You could almost feel as soon as a pass play was called, ‘Now I have to worry about getting off the snap on time. I have to worry about what he’s going to do,'” McGlinchey recalled this week. “You could feel the stuff behind your eyes putting pressure on your face and you’re just like all right. It’s just one of those things you feel overwhelmed and growing inside you. You have to control it. I had solid games but nowhere near what it is now. I just wish I didn’t have to worry about what I did being a rookie trying to impress everybody early on and just play football.”After that somewhat spotty start to his career, McGlinchey has found his groove and has justified the decision the Niners (4-10) made when they drafted him ninth overall to be a foundation piece of the offense.San Francisco immediately traded incumbent tackle Trent Brown, one of the better pass blockers at the position, to New England and gave the starting job to McGlinchey.Coach Kyle Shanahan said some rookies can’t recover after being exposed early by top-level NFL players but that wasn’t a problem for McGlinchey when he struggled at times against Ingram in Week 4.“That never enters McGlinchey’s mind,” Shanahan said. “He thinks about what just happened, tries to get through it and I think him getting through that game and being able to make it through an injury and playing against a good player, that always gives guys confidence.”That confidence has built as the season has gone along and McGlinchey has been one of the better rookies in the league. His strong play has helped third-string quarterback Nick Mullens flourish in recent weeks and he has been a major part of a running game that was ranked in the top 10 in production for most of the season.But he’s still not satisfied.“I’m not where I want to be and I’m not sure you ever are as a football player,” he said. “But what I’m proud of this season is I’ve been stacking games together. Since a certain point of midway through the season I can feel myself getting better each and every week and taking things that I saw on tape last week or in practice and improving.”That’s been particularly crucial during a recent stretch where McGlinchey and the 49ers have once again been matched up against a string of elite pass rushers.San Francisco has matched up against Seattle’s Frank Clark in two of the past three weeks Dick Butkus Color Rush Jersey , with a date against Denver’s dynamic duo of Von Miller and Bradley Chubb in between. In all, the 49ers will have faced 10 of the top 13 leading sackers in the NFL this season after Sunday’s matchup against Khalil Mack and the Chicago Bears.As challenging as it was two weeks ago dealing with Miller’s speed rush off the edge, McGlinchey will have even more to deal with against Mack, a player he called the best pass rusher in the NFL.“It’s completely different,” he said. “(Mack’s) bigger, he’s stronger, he uses more power. With Von the challenge is staying in front of him. With Khalil it’s just about everything. Von is in a class of his own in terms of get off. Khalil is so multiple with how he can rush. That’s what his biggest strength is.”NOTES: S Jaquiski Tartt (stinger) will be placed on IR on Saturday and miss the rest of the season. … Marcell Harris will once again start in his place.