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The Late Thirds Player File
Riley
Nowakowski
Nowakowski
Pittsburgh Steelers • FB / TE / H-back • Jersey TBD • 6’2″, 250 lbs • Indiana / Wisconsin • 2026 Round 5, Pick 169
Rookie Utility TE/FB
Round 5 • Pick 169
FB / TE / H-back
Jersey TBD
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Sicko TE-Premium Watch
The Read: Nowakowski is a real-football utility piece more than a clean fantasy asset. The appeal is motion, blocking, insert work, special teams, leak routes, emergency formation flexibility, and the kind of dirty-job reliability Pittsburgh tends to value. Fantasy managers should treat him as a deepest-format TE-premium curiosity, not a normal rookie target.
Dynasty UseSicko TE-premium watchlistBest for the deepest formats where FB/TE eligibility, snap utility, and weird role growth can matter.
Risk ShapeUseful NFL player, low fantasy pulseHe may make coaches happy without ever making fantasy box scores useful.
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