2022 Fantasy Football - 2nd Ranks - Tight Ends

 Tight end is really simple to me this year, take an elite one early or see which ones you like falls to you. It’s not really an interesting take and probably fits 80% of analysis on the position but sometimes, like at QB, we all kind of have a position pegged.

 

The Elite Tier (1-2)
Rank	Player	Tm	Tar	Rec Yds	Rec TDs	FP	Pos ADP	Diff	Ranks Diff
TE1	Travis Kelce	KC	152	1306	9	291	1	0	0
TE2	Mark Andrews	BAL	145	1188	10	277	2	0	0

Duh.

 

The Ever-So-Slightly Less Elite Tier (3-4)
Rank	Player	Tm	Tar	Rec Yds	Rec TDs	FP	Pos ADP	Diff	Ranks Diff
TE3	Kyle Pitts	ATL	110	927	5	191	3	0	0
TE4	George Kittle	SF	110	1004	5	209	4	0	-1

Duh.

 

The Very Good, If Slightly Boring Tier (5-9)
Rank	Player	Tm	Tar	Rec Yds	Rec TDs	FP	Pos ADP	Diff	Ranks Diff
TE5	Dallas Goedert	PHI	101	793	8	199	8	-3	-1
TE6	Darren Waller	LVR	112	863	5	193	5	1	2
TE7	Dalton Schultz	DAL	107	800	6	194	6	1	-1
TE8	TJ Hockenson	DET	107	784	6	184	7	1	1
TE9	Pat Freiermuth	PIT	84	545	7	163	11	-2	0

Duh. Yes, Freiermuth deserves to be here, he was impressive as a rookie, that’s hard to do.

 

The “Take the Last one Available” Tier (10-17)
Rank	Player	Tm	Tar	Rec Yds	Rec TDs	FP	Pos ADP	Diff	Ranks Diff
TE10	Zach Ertz	ARI	80	581	4	136	9	1	-7
TE11	Cole Kmet	CHI	99	650	4	152	12	-1	-1
TE12	Cameron Brate	TB	70	507	6	133	25	-13	-3
TE13	Dawson Knox	BUF	75	550	5	131	10	3	0
TE14	Irv Smith Jr	MIN	86	653	7	168	15	-1	-10
TE15	Tyler Higbee	LAR	85	620	4	145	19	-4	5
TE16	Noah Fant	SEA	86	668	5	156	17	-1	-4
TE17	Gerald Everett	LAC	80	576	5	140	21	-4	-10

The top half of this tier is guys I’m relative certain about, the bottom half are guys I project well but have been burned by/haven’t quite put it together. I’m gonna have so much Brate this year if I wait on TE. Let these guys fall to you and take consistent production at TE if you wait, be sexy or be boring.

 

The Upside, Projections, and Major Questions Tier (18-26)
Rank	Player	Tm	Tar	Rec Yds	Rec TDs	FP	Pos ADP	Diff	Ranks Diff
TE18	Hunter Henry	NE	74	569	6	144	14	4	4
TE19	Albert Okwuegbunam	DEN	69	551	4	133	16	3	1
TE20	Adam Trautman	NO	62	616	4	129	37	-17	-3
TE21	Evan Engram	JAX	79	498	4	122	22	-1	-1
TE22	Robert Tonyan	GB	59	490	4	118	20	2	11
TE23	David Njoku	CLE	58	457	5	112	18	5	-6
TE24	Logan Thomas	WAS	58	401	3	99	26	-2	3
TE25	Hayden Hurst	CIN	69	520	3	117	23	2	-1
TE26	Mo Alie-Cox	IND	57	458	3	101	7	19	7

Herny probably deserves to be up a tier, we know what he is, we know what he does, and although Jonnu is coming back, we know what he did with Jones last year. Tonyan and Thomas are the guys I’m watching here, both have gone off in the past, Thomas is a bit consistent week-to-week and Tonyan was a TD machine but both are useful TE2s with TE1 upside.

 

The Lottery Tickets Tier (27-39)
Rank	Player	Tm	Tar	Rec Yds	Rec TDs	FP	Pos ADP	Diff	Ranks Diff
TE27	Brevin Jordan	HOU	56	364	5	106	28	-1	-7
TE28	Austin Hooper	TEN	54	399	3	98	24	4	0
TE29	CJ Uzomah	NYJ	61	394	3	103	38	-9	4
TE30	Harrison Bryant	CLE	51	393	5	104	41	-11	-5
TE31	Daniel Bellinger	NYG	62	437	3	105	35	-4	-7
TE32	Mike Gesicki	MIA	54	373	2	85	13	19	16
TE33	Jonnu Smith	NE	59	435	5	111	31	2	2
TE34	Foster Moreau	LVR	32	258	3	68	40	-6	-3
TE35	Trey McBride	ARI	46	361	2	80	34	1	5
TE36	Taysom Hill	NO	37	386	4	89	30	6	4
TE37	Cade Otton	TB	42	311	3	77	46	-9	4
TE38	Kylen Granson	IND	43	310	2	74	52	-14	-1
TE39	Will Dissly	SEA	34	280	2	67	49	-10	-2

Let’s just talk about Gesicki. They’re using him as an in-line tight end, he’s not a blocker, wasn’t at Penn State, if he’s in-line he’s going to struggle. He dropped majorly for me with all the noise about this and he won’t be on any of my teams this year.