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Mike Gesicki is a player who's stayed in the good graces of fantasy managers for far too long. Following back-to-back 700-yard seasons with the Dolphins in 2020 and 2021, Gesicki slid back to fantasy irrelevancy this past season when he was a complete afterthought in the much-improved Mike McDaniel-coached Miami offense. McDaniel recognized that Gesicki is little more than a glorified big slot receiver who offers practically nothing as a blocker and that meant that he didn't even finish the season as the team's snap leader at tight end despite playing in every game.
He now has a new opportunity for life in New England on a team that is historically effective at getting production out of their tight ends. However, he's also in a situation where the team has a more established traditional tight end in Hunter Henry, along with a more productive slot receiver in JuJu Smith-Schuster. Unless the Patriots completely stray away from their historical offenses and start going toward a much more spread-style offense, it's just tough to imagine a world where Gesicki gets enough opportunities to be fantasy-relevant unless there's an injury to Henry and/or Smith-Schuster.
Even if he does end up playing way more snaps than can reasonably be projected, Gesicki has never truly been a difference-making fantasy tight end anyway. His best single season came back in 2020 when he caught 53 passes for 703 yards and six touchdowns. That's probably the absolute best-case scenario that can be hoped for out of a player like him and his floor is close to what he did with the Dolphins this past season where he was completely worthless other than the one game where he caught two touchdowns.
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Hunter Henry downgraded to Out Patriots down starting tight end By: Mike Krueger | Sat Dec 23, 1:23 pm
| | TE Hunter Henry (knee) has been downgraded to out for Sunday night’s game in Denver. It will be his first game missed as a Patriot. With Hunter Henry (knee) out, it thrusts Pharaoh Brown up the TE depth chart, with Mike Gesicki - whom Bill Belichick refers to as more of a receiver - also in that mix.
Could lead to Matt Sokol being elevated from practice squad.
Also, OT Conor McDermott (concussion) is out. (Mike Reiss on X)
FFToday's Take: The Patriots lose one of their key weapons on offense. Henry has scored 6 TDs this season which leads all receivers on the team. In his place, expect Mike Gesicki to fill the pass receiving void but won't be anything more than a TE2 given poor offensive environment.
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