Updated Fantasy Football Half-PPR Tight End Rankings: (2025) - Trey McBride, Sam LaPorta, Travis Kelce, Evan Engram, Dalton Kincaid, Jonnu Smith

July 25, 2025

Updated 2025 fantasy football half-PPR tight end rankings for redraft leagues. These are updated half-PPR TE rankings for fantasy football drafts.

Who is ready for some fantasy football? Everyone! But navigating the tight end position remains one of the trickiest aspects of drafting a fantasy team. If you don't land one of the few elite studs in the early rounds, you'll need to dig deeper to find values and sleepers later on. You have come to the right place, so out our updated 2025 fantasy football half-PPR tight end rankings to see where key TEs like Trey McBride, Sam LaPorta, Travis Kelce, Evan Engram, Dalton Kincaid, and Jonnu Smith stand.

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RotoBaller's lead NFL analyst Nick Mariano has put together these updated 2025 half-PPR rankings, which will be constantly updated throughout the offseason and all the way up until Week 1.

2025 Fantasy Football Half-PPR Tight End Rankings

Fantasy Football Tight End Player Outlooks

Sam LaPorta, Detroit Lions

Detroit Lions tight end Sam LaPorta had an explosive inaugural year, catching 86 of his 120 targets for 889 yards. He also had 10 touchdowns, the most in the National Football League at the position. As a result, LaPorta was one of the first tight ends selected in most fantasy leagues entering the 2024-25 season. Unfortunately, the 2023 No. 34 overall pick wasn't as potent in his sophomore campaign. LaPorta amassed 60 receptions (83 targets) for 726 yards while finding the end zone seven times. Granted, things could have been much worse.

Still, LaPorta wasn't nearly as consistent from a production standpoint. He had at least five catches in 10 games in his first season. Yet, LaPorta had five grabs or more in only five contests last season. With that in mind, fantasy managers wonder if the 24-year-old can turn things around. There's certainly reason to believe he can. However, the Lions' offense is loaded, with Amon-Ra St. Brown and Jahmyr Gibbs always in the Pro Bowl conversation, meaning they will continue to command attention.

In addition, Jameson Williams is coming off his first 1,000-yard receiving season, and David Montgomery should also get his touches, especially inside the 20-yard line. With all things considered, including Detroit having one of the toughest schedules this season, LaPorta may have a tough time getting back to where he was as a rookie.

However, the former Iowa Hawkeye remains one of the best options at the tight end spot, regardless of format, and he has the potential to be more productive than Brock Bowers, Trey McBride, and George Kittle, to name a few. LaPorta comes in as RotoBaller's TE4 heading into the upcoming fantasy football drafts.

- Dennis Clausen

Evan Engram, Denver Broncos

Tight end Evan Engram, who was the 23rd overall pick in the 2017 NFL draft by the New York Giants out of Mississippi, had pretty much always teased high-end fantasy potential in his five years in the Big Apple. He had 722 receiving yards and a career-high six touchdowns in his rookie year, but never again came close to matching or exceeding those marks with the G-Men. Engram put it all together in 2023 in his second year with the Jacksonville Jaguars, setting career-highs in receptions (114), targets (143), and receiving yards (963).

It came crashing down in 2024, though, as he played in only nine games due to hamstring and shoulder injuries and had a career-low 7.8 yards per catch before being shut down for the year. Although he's at the dreaded age of 30 in the NFL, Engram is healthy now, and with a Denver Broncos team desperately searching for more production from the tight end position. While nobody should be expecting Engram to see the kind of volume he had in 2023, he should be a reliable target for second-year QB Bo Nix in the intermediate area of the field and in the red zone.

He could be Nix's No. 2 target behind Courtland Sutton, although he's probably going to need to find paydirt more often to be a legitimate TE1 in fantasy in 2025. RotoBaller has him ranked 10th at the position in his new digs.

- Keith Hernandez

Tucker Kraft, Green Bay Packers

Green Bay Packers tight end Tucker Kraft enjoyed a nice sophomore season. He posted a 50-707-7 line and set new career highs across the board. Kraft would finish 2024 as the PPR TE10. In the immediate aftermath of Green Bay's season, head coach Matt LaFleur lamented the fact that the team did not further utilize Kraft and expressed his desire to further incorporate him into Green Bay's offense moving forward. LaFleur has echoed those sentiments several times throughout the offseason as well.

However, the team used a first-round pick to select wide receiver Matthew Golden in the 2025 NFL Draft. The addition of Golden further complicates an already crowded receiving core and marks a potential roadblock toward Kraft earning a larger role. Be that as it may, we should not entirely dismiss LaFleur's comments on Kraft.

He runs an offensive system very similar to the one run by Kyle Shanahan and the San Francisco 49ers. Perhaps the team sees Kraft as their version of George Kittle and plans to utilize him as such. With Kraft's average NFFC ADP of 122.86 overall, it won't cost gamers much to find out. If you plan to wait on tight end in your draft, Kraft's name should be at the top of your list.

- Dave Ventresca

Cade Otton, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Late October and early November belonged to Cade Otton. In the three-game stretch from Weeks 7 through 9, Tampa Bay's starting tight end averaged 22.9 PPR fantasy points per game (TE1). But that was all circumstantial. Mike Evans was injured early in Week 7. Chris Godwin's season also ended that week. Jalen McMillan missed Week 9. Baker Mayfield leaned on Otton while his best receivers were in street clothes. Otton only scored one touchdown outside of that window.

His PPR points per game dropped to 6.5 in the 11 other games. The Buccaneers added even more offensive firepower through the NFL Draft when they selected Ohio State's Emeka Egbuka in the first round. Plus, with the emergence of Bucky Irving, Tampa Bay's coaches won't be developing a game plan around Otton. It was a fun offensive explosion while it lasted, but fantasy managers should forget about that and view Otton as a low-ceiling TE2.

- Andrew Ball

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