Davis Mattek on Kyle Pitts

Salary relief tool for tournament plays; chalk risk in cash.

Kyle Pitts (referred to as Auten in the transcript) was used as a salary relief tight end play in a 350K tournament lineup. Mattek viewed Pitts and David Njoku (Hurst) as tools to enable fancy plays by freeing up salary, allowing access to other desired plays while maintaining tournament upside. However, Pitts was part of the chalk tight end group (alongside Hurst and Auten) that faced heavy ownership in cash games, creating risk of a zero at 80% ownership.

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