The tight end game in fantasy is tough to project, seeing wild variance from year to year. A top 3 security blanket last year could be your 13th best tight end this year. It's why spending a high draft pick on anyone not named generally is not advisable. You want some semblance of safety and/or upside with one of your first five picks.But at the same, if your at the end of your standard snake draft, how comfortable are you taking Graham and bypa sing a bunch of running backs and wide receivers that could explode this season? If you look at , taking Graham means you have to leave behind someone along the lines of , , or . Tough to do, especially if you have a couple tight ends you're targeting slightly later or dramatically later in your draft. Insert appropriate smiley face emoji. So who to target? If you want a comparable stud at tight end, you're either in the Gronk camp or the Orange Julius camp. I'll gladly pa s Armani Watts Jersey on the guy who has had 72 surgeries in the past two years (slight exaggeration). Give me all day. is on average going a full round before Thomas which is to me just plain silly.We know has the power to turn average pa s catchers into All-Pros and All-Pros into hall of famers. I'm not sure where falls on that scale but I do know Thomas is going to see more targets. In 2009, the first season after Marvin Harrison retired, Dallas Clark went crazy, putting in one of the all-time great fantasy tight end seasons by compiling 100 receptions, more than 1,100 yards and catching 10 Quenton Nelson Jersey touchdowns. Manning collected his fourth most valuable player award that year, but if you were in a PPR league that season, in the words of Kevin Durant: Dallas Clark, you the real MVP. You look at that and can't help but make the parallels to 's departure in Denver and think to yourself that Julius will explode and improve on his numbers from last year, numbers that were stellar. I think a 70-catch, 900-yard and eight touchdown season is pretty much a given should Thomas stay healthy. That's his floor. His ceiling might be Jimmy-Graham-esque with 90 catches, 1,200 yards and 15 touchdowns. You might argue such a season is unrealistic considering other than Dallas Clark for a single season, no tight end has ever racked up 1,000-plus yards with Manning. But I think it's fair to say is easily the most athletic tight end Peyton has ever played with. Snapping up Thomas with your third round pick is the smart play. Such a strategy could yield you a top flight running back, a stellar wide receiver, Thomas and T.Y. Hilton Jersey a super solid RB2 along the lines of or . But let's say you want to wait on tight end or mi s out on Thomas and want to play the tight-end sleeper game. Kind of like Adam Rank in Vegas, I got a guy. To help with the aforementioned tight end sleeper game, let's play the "Player X versus Player Y" game.Player X: 65 receptions, 788 yards, 12 touchdowns Player Y: 65 receptions, 759 yards, 5 touchdowns Player X as you might have gue sed is . Player Y is, believe it or not, . Somehow, some way, Bennett caught the exact same number of balls as T.J. Carrie Jersey Thomas and trailed by a mere 29 yards. The touchdowns were the difference, in a game where touchdown totals from year to year are anything but stable. Here's what we know. . If his practices are , he could potentially have a career in MMA. What we don't know of the 27-year-old is if he can improve on his top-10 positional campaign from last year. Wait. Was really a top-10 fantasy tight end last season? Fact check that bad boy friends. He was. The perception that Bennett is not a top-10 guy most likely stems from the fact that for the first four years of his career he was completely irrelevant for fantasy purposes. Bennett and his scraggly beard never eclipsed 300 yards during that time and while he snatched four touchdowns his rookie year, his last three years in Dallas saw ZERO scores. There were glimpses of potential when he played in New York. In his lone season with the , Bennett caught 55 balls for 626 yards and five scores. Respectable numbers. Then in his first year with Chicago, Bennett saw solid improvement under with career highs in receptions, yards and touchdowns (tied). It's entirely reasonable to expect Bennett to improve Jack Doyle Jersey in Year 2 under Trestman, and company. A 70-catch, 800-yard, eight touchdown season is totally feasible as defenses look to limit the damage of and . Such a season has generally been good enough to crack the top five in terms of tight end play in our beloved fake game. And even if Bennett were to fall completely flat, you've risked nothing given his current ADP has him at the 115th overall selection and the 11th tight end off the board. But , Bennett has the look of a player that could pay serious profits. James Koh is an anchor/reporter for NFL Network and a proud Cal alum. Follow him on Twitter