Fantasy Football Rankings: Tight Ends

For the past two years yours truly has contributed fantasy football rankings at FantasyPros with a host of the industry’s top experts. It an accomplished group, one that I am surprised they allowed me to join. Anyway, my first year’s overall accuracy ranking was about what you would expect (#101 of 122). Last season I improved to 42nd out of 125 experts, though. Actual growth or variance? Only time will tell.

Here at Fake Teams we offer in-season rankings for every fantasy football position during the season. Over the last two years my part in that has been tight end rankings. My first year with tight end accuracy was rough (last or close to it) but in 2016 I finished 10th of 125. What helped the most was identifying streaming candidates in quality matchups—especially those tied to elite or nearly elite quarterbacks. The key was being willing to rank those guys among the position’s elite during a given week, and fading some of the guys with high draft capital in tough matchups.

This year I aim to do it better, so make sure to follow along leading up to the season. Look for each week’s tight end rankings to come out prior to the Thursday Night Football game (Thursday afternoons, usually). Now without further ado, let’s check out my first pass at tight end rankings for the 2017 season.

Hit me up in the comments or on Twitter and let’s have a dialogue about where you agree or disagree. It’s almost time for football, ladies and gents!