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Week 10 fantasy football waiver wire pickups for Harold Fannin Jr., Colston Loveland, Luke Musgrave in 2025. Read their waiver wire outlooks for fantasy football.
Week 9 of the 2025 NFL season was an exciting one for the tight ends. The week after National Tight End Day produced the highest per-game scoring output of the season for tight ends, pending Monday Night Football, with the current TE2 and TE3 in PPR points per game in Trey McBride and Jake Ferguson still to play.
Unfortunately, as one superstar returns in Brock Bowers, another one goes down, with Tucker Kraft suffering a torn ACL. That leaves some fantasy managers scrambling to the waiver wire for a replacement. In this article, we'll look at three young tight ends that may be worth adding: Harold Fannin Jr., Colston Loveland, and Luke Musgrave.
So, should you pick up Fannin, Loveland, or Musgrave in your fantasy football leagues for Week 10 of 2025? Let's dive in.
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Harold Fannin Jr. Week 10 Waiver Wire Pickups
Rostered: 50.5% of ESPN Leagues
Baller Move: Add in all leagues
Fannin has had a strong rookie season through eight games and should already be rostered in most, if not all of 12-team leagues. Out of 40 tight ends with at least 100 routes run this season, the 21-year-old ranks seventh at the position in receptions (38), fifth in targets per route run (25%), and is tied with Kraft for most missed tackles forced on receptions (9).
A lot of Fannin's targets come in the short area of the field, with just a 5.8 aDOT, but he's already emerged as a top target earner in Cleveland's offense. The poor offensive environment and quarterback will likely hold him back from a monstrous ceiling, but he's already shown single-game upside that is hard to find at tight end. The third-round rookie has two games with seven receptions.
Across the league, tight ends have reached that mark in a game only 30 times total this season, and just five others have multiple such games. Fannin and Chargers rookie phenom Oronde Gadsden II are the only rookie tight ends to do it.
Harold Fannin Jr. breaking 4 tackles to get the 1st down pic.twitter.com/VethmLqIl6
— Nate Tice (@Nate_Tice) September 21, 2025
There's the possibility that Fannin gets a bigger bump with a David Njoku trade, although that seems unlikely at this point. But Fannin has the second-highest route share on the team in each of the past three weeks and should continue to see plenty of underneath targets. Fannin should be thought of as a borderline top 10 tight end in PPR formats for the rest of this season and would be a priority add for managers who lost Kraft.
Colston Loveland Week 10 Waiver Wire Pickups
Rostered: 23.6% of ESPN Leagues
Baller Move: Add in all Leagues
The Loveland breakout game finally came in Week 9 against the Cincinnati Bengals. The rookie tight end caught six of his seven targets for 118 yards and two touchdowns, including a wild 58-yard score to give Chicago the lead with seconds remaining.
COLSTON LOVELAND ARE YOU KIDDING?
📺: CBS pic.twitter.com/OMOzjsl6vC
— Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) November 2, 2025
Loveland stepped into a full-time role and looked fantastic after Cole Kmet left early with a concussion. The 21-year-old's first touchdown had a lot of exciting pieces as well, with him isolated on the right side and winning easily on a slant for his first career score. Loveland showed off everything in his prospect profile that made him the 10th overall pick in this past year's draft.
The changing of the guard at tight end for the Bears had already begun over the last few weeks, and now, with Kmet banged up and Loveland's emergence, the rookie could be set for a big second half of the season.
Loveland posted a season high 79.5% route share in Week 9, only behind wideout Rome Odunze for the highest on the team. Loveland was relatively quiet in Week 8, where Kmet didn't play, catching three of five targets for 38 yards. But he was an emphasis of the pass game against Cincinnati's abysmal defense, tying for the team lead in first-read target share.
Loveland's ability to separate as a receiver, paired with the strong ball-in-hand skills and the schemed looks he'll get from head coach Ben Johnson, paints a favorable outlook for him. It's still a relatively crowded offense, but a breakout game like this carries real significance. Loveland is another priority add for fantasy managers in need of a tight end in Week 10.
Luke Musgrave Week 10 Waiver Wire Pickups
Rostered: 0.2% of ESPN Leagues
Baller Move: Add In 12+ Team Leagues
Kraft's season-ending injury opens the door for Musgrave to step into a full-time role. Both were part of the Packers' 2023 draft class, with Musgrave selected 42nd overall and Kraft taken 78th. Musgrave's higher draft capital gave him the first crack as the starting tight end in his rookie season, where he had some positive moments, catching 34 of 46 targets for 352 yards and a touchdown in 11 games (nine starts) before missing time with injury.
Musgrave's inability to stay healthy allowed Kraft more playing time, where he proved to be the better player. Kraft started all 17 games in a breakout sophomore season where he established himself as one of the most dominant after-the-catch threats in the league. That left Musgrave in a depth role, and he caught only seven total balls in 2024.
The former second-round pick out of Oregon State does not come close to resembling Kraft's YAC ability, but he provides a vertical and speed element to the tight end position. In his 11 games as a rookie with Jordan Love as quarterback, Musgrave was third on the team in targets (45) behind Romeo Doubs and Jayden Reed. It didn't translate to much fantasy production, with just 6.8 PPR points per game, but he showed chemistry with Love and caught three balls on just 16 routes after Kraft left in Week 9.
Jordan Love finds a wide open Luke Musgrave! Packers lead 41-16.
📺: #GBvsDAL on FOX
📱: Stream on #NFLPlus https://t.co/Ut3BRhC2CE pic.twitter.com/zCy7tcWxQ6— NFL (@NFL) January 14, 2024
It's still a crowded offense in Green Bay with multiple pass catchers vying for targets. Head coach Matt LaFleur has expressed his desire to keep things spread out, which isn't ideal for fantasy purposes. However, Musgrave has a unique skillset that makes him an interesting addition off the waiver wire for Week 10. He is worth an add in 12-team leagues and deeper, with a clear runway for lots of routes.
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