2025 Fantasy Football TE Premium Rankings: Brock Bowers, Travis Kelce, Jonnu Smith, Tyler Warren, Tyreek Hill, Stefon Diggs, Travis Etienne Jr.

RotoBaller's 2025 fantasy football TE premium rankings for redraft leagues. Our top 300 fantasy football tight end premium rankings include QB, RB, WR, TE, DST, K, rookies.

Due to the volatility of the tight end position over the years, TE premium scoring has become the standard on high-stakes sites such as the FFPC (Fantasy Football Players Championship). In this format, tight ends are awarded 1.5 points per reception. With the unique scoring format, tight ends get pushed up the draft board, making the position hard to punt in this format. If playing in the FFPC or any TE premium league, use our early 2025 fantasy football TE premium rankings for redraft leagues to crush your upcoming drafts. In the rankings below, you can find out where key players such as Brock Bowers, Travis Kelce, Jonnu Smith, Tyler Warren,  Tyreek Hill, Stefon Diggs, Travis Etienne Jr., Nick Chubb, T.J. Hockenson, D'Andre Swift, and Evan Engram. 

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RotoBaller's NFL analyst Dave Ventresca has put together these initial 2025 TE premium rankings, which will, of course, be updated regularly throughout the NFL off-season. As injuries happen and depth charts shake up, be sure to check back in.

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2025 Fantasy Football TE Premium Rankings

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Brock Bowers, Las Vegas Raiders

Las Vegas Raiders tight end Brock Bowers crushed NFL rookie records thanks to 112 receptions, 1,194 yards, and five touchdowns. The catches were the most by any rookie ever, regardless of position, which speaks to how well the Raiders were able to scheme him right out of the gate. And now the offense will have a stable quarterback situation under Geno Smith after hoping that Gardner Minshew II, Aidan O'Connell, or Desmond Ridder could excel.

The team drafted three receivers in the hopes that someone could break out alongside Jakobi Meyers. And top 2025 pick Ashton Jeanty is a massive threat out of the backfield, so we shouldn't rely on record-breaking target attention moving forward. However, the overall potency of the offense should easily exceed that of last year and give the 6-foot-3 TE a good chance at topping five TDs. The excitement of a sophomore surge makes Bowers the first TE off the board, usually within the first 20 picks, which aligns with our RotoBaller rank.

- Nick Mariano

Travis Kelce, Kansas City Chiefs

The days of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce being a safe, first or second-round selection in fantasy football drafts are over. The 35-year-old is still churning out 90-reception seasons, but the yardage and touchdown totals have plummeted. Kelce's 823 yards last season were the lowest since his rookie season (when he played one game). It was the same story for his three touchdowns. His yards per target dropped by nearly two yards.

While age may be partially to blame, Patrick Mahomes has spread the football to a crowded roster of pass catchers. In the three games Rashee Rice and Xavier Worthy shared the field, Kelce saw four, three, and five targets; three of his five lowest marks for the season. He and Rice operate best in the middle of the field on short-area throws. Marquise Brown wasn't active in that timeframe either. The muddied pecking order has dropped Kelce into the middle of the TE1 rankings, a far fall from a fantasy superstar of past seasons.

- Andrew Ball

Tyler Warren, Indianpolis Colts

Indianapolis Colts rookie tight end Tyler Warren was selected with the team's 14th overall pick in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft. The first thing that will frustrate fantasy managers about him won't be his talent but the play of the team's current starting quarterback, Anthony Richardson. Richardson is unique in that he's actually pretty accurate on deep throws, but struggles at times in the short-passing game. The Colts also have a crowded WR room, and distributed targets frustratingly thin for fantasy managers last season. Warren had elite rushing upside in college for a tight end, though. There's been speculation that he could be good for six or more rushing touchdowns in his first season. He's a bulldozer with the ball in his hands, and that's good for something. Warren might be a sneaky stud in standard (non-PPR) leagues, where his rushing value is more even with his receiving value, considering that zero points are awarded for receptions. It's hard to have much faith in Richardson or his backup, Daniel Jones, though the latter would probably be better for Warren's value, unironically.

--John Johnson

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