2017 Rankings Analysis - Tight Ends in Standard Leagues

Stop me if you've heard this before: 2016 was not a great year for tight ends. Nobody at the position scored double-digit touchdowns and only two had 1,000 receiving yards. Thanks to serious injuries to major players at the position, fantasy owners were scrambling like Tyrod Taylor to find tight end help throughout the season. But […]

Early Sleepers for 2017 - Tight End

Is there are any tight end waiting in the wings ready to become the next Rob Gronkowski?  Probably not. There are some young tight ends with terrific talent and breakout potential, however. It is never too early to write some names down on your fantasy football draft chart or cheat sheet and track these players’ […]

Early Sleepers for 2017 - Wide Receiver

There is now no doubt that the NFL is a pass-first league. Need proof? How many fantasy owners predicted Pierre Garcon, Tyrell Williams, Mike Wallace and Kenny Britt would all break the 1,000-yard barrier this past year?  It is possible that none of the foursome were drafted in many, if not most fantasy leagues in […]

Early Sleepers for 2017 - Tight Ends

2016 was not a banner year for tight ends, it was a bummer year. Only two (Travis Kelce, Greg Olsen) cracked the 1,000-yard plateau after four had done so the previous year. The top dog at the position, New England’s Rob Gronkowski, had his season ruined by another injury. Other top-10 tight ends like Jordan […]

Biggest Busts and Disappointments of 2016 - Tight Ends

Not every tight end had the season Kansas City’s Travis Kelce had in 2016. While Kelce caught every Alex Smith dump-off in sight on his way to a career-high 1,125 yards that topped all tight ends, many others gave their fantasy football owners a tremendous pile of garbage games, DNPs and head-scratching weeks. 2016 might go […]

Biggest Surprises of 2016 - Tight End

2016 was a season full of surprises at the tight end position. With top fantasy tight end Rob Gronkowski limited to only eight games due to injury and No. 2 tight end Jordan Reed battling his own myriad of injuries throughout the season, fantasy owners who burned early picks at the position were constantly scrambling to find […]

The 2016 Fantasy Football All-Bust Team

2016 was the best year of my life, as I got married to the girl of my dreams. 2016 was not as good to many others, however, especially in the NFL and in the fantasy football world. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, fantasy football owners and marijuana stoners! Please allow me to introduce the […]

Week 17 Tight End Waiver Wire Pickups and Adds

The fantasy football season may be over for many of you, as most fantasy football leagues do not hold their Super Bowl during Week 17. It is a week where superstars are rested either because their teams have qualified for the playoffs and are locked into their seeds, or because their teams have no chance […]

Charles Clay (TE, BUF) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12- and 14-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 18% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Charles Clay was a non-factor during the first 70 percent of the season. After 11 games, he had not scored a touchdown or sniffed an 80-yard performance. In fact, he had more games with fewer than 10 receiving yards than games with […]

Playoff Push: The Four Determining Factors For Picking the Perfect Lineup

This is not the time to pull a Leon Lett and have a brain cramp when making out your starting fantasy lineups for the rest of the football season. Fantasy owners cannot afford to make any mistakes from here on out. If you insert an injured player into your lineup and he does not dress […]

Jermaine Gresham (TE, ARI) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Stream in 10-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 7% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: I never would have guessed that Gresham would have a fantasy impact again after spending 2015 in fantasy Alaska. His 18 receptions for 223 yards and one touchdown were all career-lows and he looked like a shell of his former self. There is no way he was […]

Daniel Brown (TE, CHI) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Stream in 12-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 1% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Chicago’s new starting tight end is starting to have an effect on the fantasy football world. There were not many fantasy experts who thought Chicago’s former backup tight end would do much after Zach Miller and Jay Cutler suffered season-ending injuries. Brown was an undrafted second-year player […]

Charles Clay (TE, BUF) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Stream in 10-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 38% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Every week I say Clay is a waiver wire nominee to consider, and every time I do that he makes me look dumber than the Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne. But this time I am gambling and going all-in on Clay, because I believe this could be […]

Week 15 Tight End Waiver Wire Pickups and Adds

Many if not most fantasy football leagues are starting their playoffs this week. If you did not qualify for the playoffs in your league, you might as well stop reading. A tight end’s touchdown or zero-point outing could decide millions of fantasy playoff games across the globe. So if you need a tight end because […]

Tight Ends Waiver Wire: Week 14 Pickups & Adds

There are millions of fantasy football owners dealing with a colossal void at their tight end position. Rob Gronkowski is not coming back this season, fantasy folks. I know those of who you own him have been soaking plenty of handkerchiefs, tissue paper and your spouses’ shoulders with your tears. But while there is no […]

Jermaine Gresham (TE, ARI) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Stream in 12-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 6% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Don’t look now, but Jermaine Gresham has been finding the end zone as often as the top tight ends in the NFL lately. After going scoreless in his first nine games of the season (and not even recording a catch in three of them), the wily veteran […]

Ladarius Green (TE, PIT) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 36% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Ladarius Green has now proven that the injured ankle that forced him to miss the first half of the season is no longer injured. With several 30-yard receptions over the past two weeks, he is easily the most explosive tight end available on most fantasy league waiver […]

Dennis Pitta (TE, BAL) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Stream in 12-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 42% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Dennis Pitta had not scored a touchdown since 2013 and had only one multi-touchdown game to his credit during his entering the NFL in 2010, so it made perfect sense for him to catch two touchdown tosses from Joe Flacco against Miami’s ninth-ranked pass defense this past […]

Jared Cook (TE, GB) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10- and 12-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 39% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Jared Cook’s fantasy value is bipolar. One game he torches a defense for 100 yards and makes you think he is Green Bay’s best tight end since Jermichael Finley. Then the next game he catches one lone pass and is back to being someone who should […]

Daniel Brown (TE, CHI) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues OWNED IN: 1% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Does the Matt Barkley-to-Daniel Brown connection bring back memories of Joe Montana-to-Jerry Rice?  Nope. But Brown has been seeing some targets in Zach Miller’s absence and has five receptions and one touchdown in his first two contests since Miller suffered his season-ending injury. Check out RotoBaller's famous fantasy […]

Jack Doyle (TE, IND) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12- and 14-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 42% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: The return of Dwayne Allen and the injuries of Andrew Luck have sapped the fantasy value out of Doyle over the last month, but now that Luck is back on the field, Doyle could score a sneaky touchdown here and there from here on out. […]

Lance Kendricks (TE, LA) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Stream in 12- and 14-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 15% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: I keep banging the drum for Kendricks every week, but maybe people would listen more if Neil Peart was the one banging it. I noted that Kendricks’ fantasy worth could see an uptick because of rookie Jared Goff taking over at quarterback for the Rams, […]

Ladarius Green (TE, PIT) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14- and 16-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 35% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Green has been far from a focal point of Pittsburgh’s passing attack as he has only been targeted nine times in his first three games since returning from his ankle injury. But while fantasy wunderkind Antonio Brown monopolizes the targets, Green is still someone for […]

Hunter Henry (TE, SD) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10- and 12-Team Leagues as a playoff streamer candidate OWNED IN: 38% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: San Diego’s tight end tandem is harder to put a finger on than Odell Beckham is when he is running free in the open field. One week Henry is the one catching the passes and scoring the touchdowns. The next […]

Vernon Davis (TE, WAS) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12- and 14-Team Leagues as a Jordan Reed handcuff OWNED IN: 22% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: The NFL’s best No. 2 tight end on a team has had 50-plus yards in five of his last six outings and could be in line for even more work and yardage this week if Jordan Reed’s bum shoulder keeps him […]

Charles Clay (TE, BUF) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Stream in 12- and 14-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 38% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Buffalo is running out of receivers the same way I run out of potato chips at 4:00 on a football Sunday. And while the Oakland Raiders are having a superb season, their pass defense in among the league’s worst. Charles Clay could catch four passes […]

Dion Sims (TE, MIA) - NFL Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14- and 16-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 1% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Miami’s offense now revolves around terrific tailback Jay Ajayi and rightly so, but now the Dolphins are getting Dion Sims more involved the scheme as well. Sims had four receptions for 53 yards and a touchdown this past weekend. Check out RotoBaller's famous fantasy football […]

Tight Ends Waiver Wire: Week 13 Pickups & Adds

There is a reason most hotel elevators do not have a 13th floor. Sometimes fantasy football owners end up wishing there was not a 13th week of the NFL season, too. With Tennessee’s Delanie Walker and Cleveland’s Gary Barnidge on bye this upcoming week, and with arguably the two top tight ends in football (New […]

The Untrustables: Four Players You Cannot Trust Down the Stretch

This is not the time for fantasy football owners to put their faith --- and their playoff hopes --- into players they cannot trust. Fantasy leagues are entering the final quarter of their regular seasons. Every lineup and waiver pick decision is crucial. Every mistake can cost a fantasy owner a playoff spot and/or money, […]

Week 12 Tight End Waiver Wire Pickups and Adds

There are no teams on bye this week, so fantasy football owners really have a reason to give thanks during the holiday! Other than injured tight ends that may not suit up like New England’s Rob Gronkowski, the majority of the tight end lot should be able to go for fantasy owners this week. But […]