Pat Fantasy Dog Pound grabbed rookie tight end Mason Taylor at pick 181 and said the click was a no-brainer. Taylor sits 62 spots below Pat’s in-house rank (119 overall) after a quiet draft week in the ADP streets. Pat cited Taylor’s 25% dominator rating at LSU and NFL-bloodline athletic profile (Jason Taylor’s son) as signs he could be this year’s Sam LaPorta—an instant starter whose cost skyrockets once camp clips hit Twitter. Because tight ends dry up fast after Round 15, Pat likes locking in Taylor as a third option with legitimate top-12 seasonal upside while the field chases replacement-level wide receivers in the 17th and 18th rounds.

Andy Holloway said Mason Taylor is the late-round rookie nobody is discussing but probably should be. Holloway noted that Tyler Conklin’s 72 vacated targets plus the departure of veteran wideouts leave a massive opportunity tree behind Garrett Wilson. All three Footballers independently projected Taylor for 70-plus targets, a rookie threshold hit by only Evan Engram, Kyle Pitts, Pat Freiermuth, Sam LaPorta, Dalton Kincaid and Brock Bowers in the past decade. That historical cohort shows immediate fantasy relevance is possible. Taylor was drafted early by the Jets, checks the ‘pro-ready’ box on film, and has Hall-of-Fame bloodlines, even if he profiles as a catch-and-fall-down mover rather than a tackle breaker. Holloway framed him as a third-round, even UDFA, dynasty pick with TE2 upside right away.