Crockett Gilmore (TE, BAL) - Waiver Wire Analysis

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ANALYSIS: After the drafting of Maxx Williams, it seemed like the TE spot was settled in to a "no value" zone - there hasn't been a rookie TE with fantasy value for a long, long time. Suddenly, here comes Crockett Gilmore stealing the starting spotlight from Williams. He's getting a lot of attention from Joe Flacco, who used to be known for targeting TE's like Dennis Pitta fairly often. Pitta's not there anymore, but Flacco still enjoys targeting his big receiving/blocking hybrids.

In the last two weeks, Gilmore has seen four and six targets. Those aren't particularly high numbers, but it shouldn't be expected that a player will just come out of the gate in his first starting experience and gather all the attention of his quarterback. In fact, in Week 1 the entire offense failed to gather much of anything - so it shouldn't really be held against Gilmore that he only saw four targets that week. But with six targets this week, he pulled in a five catch, 88 yard, two touchdown game. That's huge.

This is an offense dying for more receivers outside of Steve Smith. If Crockett can be that second option, it won't take much to get him to the point of relevance at a position where a TE1 only requires about 700 yards and six touchdowns in order to be a potential every week starter.