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ANALYSIS: Short week for the 49ers this one--they play Green Bay on TNF--and short list of available skill-position players for San Fran, too. Problems keep piling for the gold-diggers, as they have now added QB Jimmy Garoppolo and TE George Kittle to their list of injured bodies. Garoppolo should be back by season's end (expected six weeks out), but Kittle might very well have waved goodbye to the year (eight weeks).
The tight end position will most probably hold weekly fights for the TE1 role, with Jordan Reed and Ross Dwelley as the contestants. While Reed has shown the higher ceiling (24 PPR points in Week 2), it's been Dwelley who has been steadier at least in playing time and health matters. Reed has been out since Week 4 (included) and has yet to return (not clear if he will in time for this Thursday's game). Dwelley, while putting up five goose eggs in his eight games, has played at least 29% of the team's snaps in six of them. With Kittle out, it's more than probable that he stops blocking and starts getting targeted.
In the games Dwelley has been targeted 4 times (two of them) he's caught all and one of those passes respectively, for 49 and 16 yards. He paired that last pass-catching performance with a TD this past weekend, his first of the year. In those two games, he scored 8.9 and 8.6 PPR points.
Dwelley is nothing even remotely close to a weekly start at the TE spot, don't get it wrong. If used properly he might get to his 10 points here and there, but that depends on Reed's status and also on what QB Nick Mullens is able to do as the starter. Waiver target for super-needy fantasy GMs in the deepest of leagues, but with Kittle out, he should at least get a steady stream of targets.
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