If you diet all year so that you can overindulge on holidays, maybe you understand better than most what happened last week in the NFL.

More pie on Thanksgiving, more cake on your birthday, more receptions on National Tight Ends Day.

Until this past Sunday, tight end production had fallen off of a cliff this season. Then — on a “holiday” jokingly created by then-49ers teammates George Kittle, Brent Celek and Jimmy Garoppolo in 2018 and later adopted by the NFL to be celebrated on the fourth Sunday of October every year — all the tight ends simultaneously went off.

Tight ends caught 177 passes — a single-day record for the position in NFL history — for 16 touchdowns during 14 games last Sunday.