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You can find Week 13 standard league tight end rankings here, but they were written prior to Gronkowski’s back surgery information and prior to Jordan Reed missing a second day of practice. I’ll be updating those on Saturday.
This week I am filling in with TE PPR rankings, so I’m sorry to say that these rankings are presented without much ado. Feel free to haggle with me in the comments form. Good luck this week, folks.
1 Travis Kelce
2 Jimmy Graham
3 Tyler Eifert
4 Kyle Rudolph
All of a sudden the tight end position this week looks like a barren wasteland without the services of Gronk and Jordan Reed (most likely not playing). And Eifert has a tough matchup but gets the nod into the elite tier due to the large amount of volume he should continue to command without A.J. Green around in Cincinnati.
5 Greg Olsen
6 Cameron Brate
7 Zach Ertz
8 C.J. Fiedorowicz
9 Eric Ebron
10 Antonio Gates
I am banking on Ebron and Gates having a return to normalcy this week. That zero target garbage last week was for the birds, man.
11 Ladarius Green
12 Martellus Bennett
13 Vance McDonald
I feel pretty good about this group this week. There is solid streaming potential to be had here, maybe even TE1 or top 5 potential. Ladarius is getting healthier each week and Vernon should see plenty of snaps regardless of whether or not Reed plays. Vance is still Kaepernick’s most consistent option, despite failing to reel in a touchdown last week.
14 Vernon Davis
15 Coby Fleener
16 Jason Witten
17 Lance Kendricks
18 Dennis Pitta
I don’t love any of these guys, but they’ll likely snag a few catches. Fleener probably has the most upside in this group, but it’s rolling the dice to go with him as he sees so few targets each week.
19 Hunter Henry
20 Jermaine Gresham
21 Will Tye
22 Jack Doyle
23 Clive Walford
24 Dwayne Allen
Here ends my version of the TE2 options, at least for this week. I can’t go much higher on Gresham despite the breakout game last week. It’s possible he shines again in a favorable matchup against Washington, but I am not going to count on that production.
25 Jared Cook
26 Garrett Celek
27 Julius Thomas
28 Charles Clay
29 Josh Hill
30 Austin Hooper
And that’s all ‘he’ wrote!