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Delanie Walker

Lions have a blind spot for tight ends

We'd flagged Dwayne Allen as a potential scorer last week, and the same will be true of Delanie Walker this week. The Titans are in Detroit facing a Lions team that doesn't seem to be aware that tight ends will occasionally be targeted in the red zone.

Detroit has allowed 15 TDs to tight ends in its last 17 games - a league-worst 12 last year, and 3 in Week 1 to Indianapolis. It's like they're facing Rob Gronkowski every week.

Tight ends scoring against Detroit since the start of the 2015 season are shown below. Not a lot of big names in that group -- nary a Gronk, Olsen, Reed or Gates in the bunch.

TIGHT ENDS SCORING ON DETROIT, 2015-PRESENT
PlayerNoYdsTDs
Ladarius Green 5741
Kyle Rudolph5301
Owen Daniels5281
Darren Fells2251
Kyle Rudolph2101
Travis Kelce6491
Rodgers/Perillo10902
Brent Celek2101
Richard Rodgers81461
Benjamin Watson6491
Vance McDonald5611
Allen/Doyle7883

--Andy Richardson

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