I picked him up in an FFPC dynasty league and actually went super aggressive and dropped over $250 on him BEFORE Ertz got hurt because I had noticed the previous two games what looked like a changing of the guard and I felt they wanted to move on from Ertz. The other reason I went so aggressive is the league is filled with TE horders, they go earlier in the drafts in this league then most leauges and in fact McBride went 1.11 the year he came out.
I'm not going to tell you I had any idea he was this good when I went all aggressive on him. That would be some after the fact revisionist stuff. A lie.
But after he started breaking out I was slammed with offers for him, can't recall a player that I got more trade offers to get. No one offered a one or value on par with a one and what I was telling people who made those offers is someone in this league took him at 1.11 when they had Ertz and knowing the TE learning curve. Now that Ertz has gone, he's full on broke out, you now want me to trade him to you for less? That did not compute to me but truth is a random one would not have been enough for me. I am for sure in the camp which think he's in the conversation for top TE in dynasty. I probaby would put him under 2 or 3, but he's in the convo. I'm not seeing anything about that looks like a fluke. He's not out pulling a Witten, racking up 5 yard curls short of the sticks which gets you 2 points in FFPC but is fairly worthless for his real team.