Completely satisfied summer season, readers! The beginning of summer season means a whole lot of issues, together with that the opening kickoff of the NFL season is just about 11 weeks away. That appears like a very long time, however you’ll be screaming on the TV on Sundays earlier than you recognize it.
I just lately posted three columns with details and stats it’s essential know on the quarterback, operating again, and huge receiver positions. I’m ending this sequence at the moment with what may be fantasy’s trickiest place: Tight finish.
Yow will discover all my offseason and preseason fantasy content material, together with the articles famous above and the largest burning fantasy questions for every staff, right here.
Tight finish is perplexing as a result of in most seasons, there’s a really small variety of elite choices, a handful of considerably dependable gamers, and after that you simply’re normally simply seeking to get fortunate with an unlikely breakout, an occasional huge recreation, or a landing right here and there. Most leagues require you to start out a decent finish each week, so the place issues. However demand (for high quality fantasy factors) exceeds provide. The standard drafting technique is both to take among the best ones early or wait and roll the cube.
As extra leagues institute tight finish premium (TEP) scoring, the place tight ends get extra bonus factors than backs and receivers for catches and maybe different stats, the large fellas on the tip of the road tackle better prominence. TEP can push one of the best tight ends into the primary spherical, if the bonuses are sufficiently big. However as you’ll see under, tight ends don’t spin the scoreboard like different positions.
Listed below are 26 extra details it’s essential learn about tight ends for fantasy soccer. All fantasy scoring stats are Half-point PPR, with Week 18 excluded for season totals and ranks.
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Listed below are the variety of gamers who averaged at the least 13 fantasy factors per recreation (FPPG) final season, at operating again, huge receiver, and tight finish. RB – 17; WR – 9; TE – 1.
2. Trey McBride averaged 15.1 FPPG in 2025. He’s the primary tight finish to common greater than 15 FPPG since Travis Kelce averaged 15.5 FPPG in 2022.
3. After scoring six TDs throughout his first three seasons, McBride erupted for 11 final season.
4. Within the first 5 video games of the 2025 season, with Kyler Murray at quarterback, McBride averaged 5.8 catches for 55 yards per recreation, and scored one landing. In 12 video games with Jacoby Brissett underneath heart for the remainder of the season, McBride averaged roughly 8 catches and 80 yards per recreation, with 10 touchdowns.
5. McBride set an NFL document for tight ends with 126 catches final season, a yr after catching 111 balls. He noticed 316 targets throughout the previous two seasons, by far essentially the most on the place.
6. After catching 24 TD passes throughout the primary seven seasons of his profession, Dallas Goedert caught 11 TD passes in 2025, tied with McBride for many on the place.
7. Goedert set a profession excessive with 60 catches in 2025, at a profession low of 9.9 yards per catch.
8. By his first two seasons, Brock Bowers is averaging 8.24 targets per recreation. For his profession, Kelce, who’s third all-time amongst tight ends with 1,080 receptions, is averaging 7.85 targets per recreation.
9. 4 NFL groups had tight ends focused on greater than 30% of their go makes an attempt in 2025: Arizona (35.3%), Cleveland, Las Vegas, and Baltimore.
10. Three NFL groups had tight ends focused on fewer than 19% of their go makes an attempt in 2025: Tampa (16%), Detroit, and the L.A. Chargers.
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11. The High-5 tight ends in staff goal share for 2025 (for video games they performed): McBride (27.4%), Bowers (23.4%), Kyle Pitts (22.7%), Harold Fannin, Jr. (21.4%), and George Kittle (21.4%).
12. Solely 12 tight ends in NFL historical past have surpassed 700 receiving yards as rookies. Three did it final season (Tyler Warren, Fannin, and Colston Loveland).
13. Mark Andrews has scored at the least 5 TDs in seven straight seasons.
14. Throughout the final two seasons, Tucker Kraft scored 13 TDs on 82 catches. That’s a 16% TD catch charge. He was the TE1 in FPPG heading into Week 9 final season (he then suffered a season-ending knee harm).
15. Jake Ferguson’s TD catch totals the final three seasons: 5, 0, 8. A wholesome Dak Prescott issues…
16. In his wonderful rookie season, Sam LaPorta totaled 120 targets, 86 receptions, and 10 TDs. Within the two seasons since, LaPorta has a mixed 132 targets, 100 catches, and 10 TDs (he solely performed 9 video games final season).
17. From Weeks 12-17 final season, the highest three scorers on the tight finish place have been McBride, Pitts, and Fannin.
18. Colts’ rookie Tyler Warren averaged 12.1 FPPG for the primary seven weeks of the 2025 season (TE3 for that stretch), and 6.7 FPPG from weeks 8-17 (TE16 for that stretch).
19. One other scorching rookie (for a stretch) was Oronde Gadsden II. From Weeks 6-9, he had 4 straight video games with at the least 5 catches and 65 receiving yards. Nevertheless, he didn’t hit both of these totals in some other video games all season.
20. And maybe the most well liked rookie, for a stretch: Colston Loveland did this throughout the Bears’ remaining 4 video games of the 2025-2026 season (Weeks 17 and 18 plus two playoff video games): 28 catches for 378 yards. That tempo interprets to 115 catches for 1,550 yards over 17 video games. Loveland received’t be low-cost in 2026 drafts.
21. In his third season (2025), Dalton Kincaid had his lowest variety of video games performed, targets, and receptions, however set new profession highs (by a large margin) in yards per reception (14.6) and TDs (5).
22. T.J. Hockenson averaged simply 29 receiving yards per recreation in 2025, the bottom of his seven-year profession. His 3.4 receptions per recreation was the bottom since his rookie season.
23. A.J. Barner has 82 receptions in his first two NFL seasons, with 10 of them going for TDs (12% TD catch charge). He additionally scored within the Tremendous Bowl.
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24. Throughout the final 5 seasons, the leaders in TD catches amongst tight ends: (1) Kittle – 38, (2) Andrews – 36, (3) Kelce – 34.
25. After seven straight seasons with at the least 90 catches and 120 targets, Kelce fell to 76 catches and 108 targets final season, good for 851 yards.
26. Despite the fact that his general output in 2025 was his lowest in virtually a decade, Kelce nonetheless managed these rankings amongst tight ends: Routes run – second, receptions – tied for sixth, receiving yards – fourth.
That’s it for at the moment. Hold it right here for extra fantasy content material because the summer season rolls alongside.
