FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Draft Rankings & Tiers | Tight End Must-Have Targets, Busts to Avoid & Sleepers (Ep. 2038)
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What are the top tight end targets for fantasy football in 2026?
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Which players are considered must-have tight ends this season?
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What's up, friends, and welcome into Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Football Podcast. I'm Chris Welsh, and we are back talking about some tight end ranks. But we're going to go further. We did ranks last time. We're now going to be talking about tight end tiers. Plus, who are the must drafts, the busts, the sleepers, and in-depth conversation at Fantasy Pros tiers on the tight end ranks. And to do it with me, we've got Pat Fitzmaurice and Scott Bogman both here. To shed a little bit of light on what they agree with on their own tiers, who they completely disagree with.
Who are the busts to avoid among tight ends?
And they're going to be doing the ones. The must targets, the steals, the da-da-da.
What makes a tight end a sleeper pick for 2026?
And Pat, I know it's going to be kind of intertwined into this conversation, but you have been very... Pro early tight end. We talked about it when we did the kind of very first version 1.0 of the rankings episodes we did. You're very pro early tight end. So these first three tiers are going to be very important kind of to your drafting strategy this year.
Yeah, I do kind of want to get a top tier tight end this year, Welsh.
How do the tight end tiers impact draft strategy?
And part of it is like I never want to get a top tier Gucci level quarterback and tight end. And I don't think this is the year to shop high end quarterback. So I think tight end is the way to go if you're going to spend up at one of the onesie positions.
Box, do you feel the same way? Do you think you're going to be like high end, tight end investment? You've been a little bit of a tight end whisperer in years past, but I do know you're very comfortable having, you know, just like a locked stock tight end and not trying to play, you know, streaming or really hopefulness. So what range do you think you're going to be as far as the tiers as we're going to be talking about these? What tier do you think you're going to live in?
I prefer early, so I want a high-end, tight end for sure this season. The top three guys in the tier I think is a strong one. That's where I want to buy from most of the time. If I don't get that, I'm going to do what I do in the normal years where I wait and I piecemeal it together because I do think there's a lot of depth, but I prefer to buy out of that top bin.
Well, you guys can play along with us. If you go to fantasypros.com slash rankings, you can see the ranking, and then you can see the tiers that we're actually talking about here. You can reference the tiers. Things will change, so I'll just point out to you.
What are the differences between Tier 1 and Tier 2 tight ends?
I mean, even between us recording this and this posting, there could be a slight difference. Off-season, it's probably not necessarily going to have anything dramatic like it is in-season when we do our weekly ranks episodes. But just know one guy or two could float around. But this is what our early onset looks like. So let's jump into this fantasypros.com slash rankings. Follow along. We are going to do this in tiers. And then on the back half of the episode, we are going to get some of the actual targets or maybe even guys we want to avoid, at least from these two fine gentlemen. So let's jump in. Our first graphic here is our tier one. And there's a new name to it comparative to last year. You've got Trey McBride.
You've got Brock Bowers. But joining this tier this year is Colston Loveland. So McBride, Bowers, Loveland, that is tier one, your top three ranked tight ends.
Which tight ends are the best options for deeper leagues?
And then the tier break in when we get into tier two is like five. So the question is, Pat, do you agree?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the top tight end targets for fantasy football in 2026?
0:00–0:22
2
Which players are considered must-have tight ends this season?
0:22–1:06
3
Who are the busts to avoid among tight ends?
1:06–1:09
4
What makes a tight end a sleeper pick for 2026?
1:09–1:34
5
How do the tight end tiers impact draft strategy?
1:34–2:44
6
What are the differences between Tier 1 and Tier 2 tight ends?
2:44–3:33
7
Which tight ends are the best options for deeper leagues?
3:33–4:49
8
What final advice do experts have for fantasy tight end drafting?
4:49–36:36
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