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Tight ends: No longer just Gates and then everyone else

By Christopher Harris
ESPN.com

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Paradoxically, in a season in which Antonio Gates wasn't Antonio Gates, owning one of the league's better tight ends became a big leg up on fantasy glory. Gates was still good in '07. He caught nine touchdowns, the fourth straight year he has caught that many, and grabbed 984 receiving yards. But he was limited by a bad toe, and placed only a distant fourth in targets among tight ends. So it wasn't so much a matter of Gates coming back to the pack as it was several members of the pack deciding ...

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