Like most pretend football impresarios, The Loop rarely spends much time scouting kickers who, for the most part, have relatively little effect in deciding fantasy contests. Until this year.

Sam LaPorta hopes to shake his slow start, Dalton Kincaid fights for looks in the Bills’ remade skill corps, and Hunter Henry reminds fantasy managers he exists.

Bowers sits at No. 3 in my Top 20 rankings. The Las Vegas Raiders rookie leads all tight ends with 17 targets through two weeks. He also is tied with Kittle for averaging the second-most fantasy points per game among tight ends.