0:00Good morning, friends and enemies.
0:02Welcome back into rankings week where we will wrap up after we've done running backs, we've done wide receivers. This video will actually be a combination of
0:09quarterbacks and tight ends cuz nobody got time for two of those videos. So, we'll be running through my top 20 quarterback rankings for the 2026
0:16fantasy season. As always, we will be tiering them. We will be talking about them in the tight end position. I will
0:21be doing my top 15 rankings and tiers.
0:24So, if you have not yet watched the running back and or wide receiver version of these videos, they will be linked in the show notes below, as will
0:30timestamps for every single player. We always do that for y'all because we love you. We don't hate you, even though some
0:37of you are our enemies. We'll jump into the quarterbacks first. Elite QB1 tier, we have Joshua Allen out in Buffalo. We
0:43have Lamar Jackson in Baltimore. I don't I just don't think there's a lot of explanation needed here with Josh Allen.
0:50has been a top two fantasy quarterback for about six straight years. So, we're good there. Lamar Jackson also finds himself in this tier. Okay. Uh I'm I'm
0:57very much in on a Lamar Jack Jackson bounceback. I will be drafting him as if this was 2022, 23, 24 all over again. He
1:03dealt with the hamstring last year and to me that was almost the entirety of what happened with Lamar Jackson. When you look at his rush attempts last year,
1:09something that I brought up a few times throughout the summer, like the rush attempt numbers every single year are insanely high. And then last year, look
1:15at the outlier. Yes, he played a few less games, 67. like you tell me where the outlier is here and you tell me
1:22where he normally is as a player. So the hamstring I think just dunked his season and um fully in on a bounceback for
1:28Lamar Jackson. Don't think he's at the end of his career despite being in the prime of his career. So draft Lamar
1:32Jackson as an elite quarterback this year once again in fantasy. The only downside I can see is a little bit of
1:37risk switching to a new offensive coordinator. Tom Monin now in Cleveland.
1:41But like it's Lamar Jackson man. What are we doing? We'll move on to tier number two and this is a very big tier.
1:47This is the strong quarterback one tier where listen, if you're in a one quarterback league and any of these guys are your starters, I think you're going
1:55to be fine. If they're your quarterback one in a superflex league, I think you're going to be fine. My general strategy when it comes down to superflex
2:02leagues is that, you know, decide on the 14, 17, 19 quarterbacks that you would be comfortable starting in a one QB
2:09league and then make sure you get two of the quarterbacks within that range. I don't think you need to have a first
2:15round pick. I don't think you need a Josh Allen, a Lamar. I don't think you need to spend up for a borrow or Jane
2:20Daniels. I think you could be fine with a combination of Trevor Lawrence and Jackson Dart or Drake May and Jordan Love, someone we'll talk about a little
2:28bit later in this video. But we have the strong quarterback one tier and for the most part it is the best pocket passers
2:34in the NFL and then young athletic upside quarterbacks who add a nice rushing floor here. So Burrow, you know, he's probably got the most live arm in
2:44the NFL, if not, you know, one of them.
2:46Got Jamar Chase, T. Higgins, a bad defense. Still going to throw the ball 600 times and probably put up 4,800 yards. So not overthinking Burrow there.
2:53Jaden Daniels, another one that I'm super in on just betting on a bounceback after the explosive rookie season. And it's just like it's one of those guys
3:00where you don't have to worry about like his passing touchdown rate falling off or him even being an incredible quarterback and him needing to get to
3:07the level of QB play accuracy-wise that he was as a rookie because the rushing floor is so high. I think people kind of
3:13forget that he's a dude that can pop off for 35 fantasy points on a given week because he can rip off a 60-yard
3:18touchdown run. So Jaden, another dude I'm very much buying back in on uh for 2026.
3:24Getting rid of Cliff Kingsbury I think is going to be huge for this offense and just being more progressive and and
3:28allowing Jaden Daniels I think to do what he does best there is probably the thing I'm most excited for in this
3:33offense. Justin Herbert I very high much higher than consensus in quarterback rankings. I've talked about him a lot this offseason. I thought the health of
3:41the offensive line getting Slater and Joe Altback is huge. Obviously they drafted Jake Slaughter in the second round this year to shore up the interior
3:48as well as signing Tyler Biottish to further secure that interior the offensive line. So, I think their offensive line now becomes an asset for
3:55the team. They bring in Mike McDaniel.
3:57Justin Herbert also showed an awesome rushing ability similar to like Trevor Lawrence last year where now that becomes an asset. So, I think all these
4:04things for fantasy are kind of aligning to see a pop pop pop pop year from Herbert. Even though we saw that like he
4:09he threw for 5,000 yards, his second year in the NFL, one of nine quarterbacks all time to do it. And now
4:13you sprinkle in McDaniel, very creative offensive mind. Now you sprinkle in that rushing ability that he showed last year. Second in the NFL in rushing yards
4:21last year among quarterbacks. So Herbert I think kind of is the total package that people are not really looking at it
4:25from a fantasy perspective that way.
4:27Drake May, another guy with just a lot of rushing upside. Little bit weary just because like I I know he's a pretty
4:33popular pick at quarterback three, four, five in that range. I have him at quarterback six only because I still do worry a little bit about like the
4:40schedule being a bit tough this year as compared to last year where you know when we got into the playoffs and he was
4:45playing harder teams and the defenses got tougher he struggled a little bit there. So I will say you know there I
4:50think there's a world where like he finishes as the quarterback 8 n or 10 this year. So I think I'd rather just
4:55not pay that like premium like we saw with Jaden Daniels last year and and kind of just throw him into the mix and
5:00it's like if he falls to me cool you know they did add AJ Brown obviously a huge boost to him. grabbed Romeo DOB.
5:05So, I think the the weaponry there is definitely better, but I worry a little bit about the struggles he had against
5:10really really good defenses last year, but also provides great rushing upside.
5:13Same thing with Trevor Lawrence. I think we saw that side of his game really like flourish last year. Quarterback seven, love the receiver groups between Parker
5:20Washington, Jacobe Meyers, Brian Thomas Jr., Brentton Strange, Bashaw Toning out of the back field. Liam Cohen just being the designer of that offense. Travis
5:27Hunter is like your fifth weapon in the offense. And I think what Trevor Lawrence did on the ground last year to
5:31me is really sticky and I think they're going to continue to use him inside the 10 and five yard line because that's a
5:35great weapon for them. So is he going to get nine rushing touchdowns? No. But I think he's probably a dude who will
5:40annually rip off somewhere between like four, five, six. And yeah, maybe the touchdown rate does duplicate again and he goes for six or seven and at that
5:48point you are looking at again a top five fantasy quarterback. So I think things are starting to click because they got weapons that Trevor Lawrence
5:54can trust. They got an offensive scheme that's really really good. Like Tilawa to me feels like what he did in fantasy
5:59last year, whether or not you believe in his arm, like his accuracy on a downto- basis, not of a concern to us this year
6:04in fantasy. I just think the the the overall situation for Trevor Lawrence and what we saw last year should be really exciting going into this year.
6:10And if he was my quarterback one, I I'd be fine with it. And again, all these guys are kind of in the same tier where
6:15feel good about all of them being my starter. Same thing with Jaylen Herz. I think the biggest situation change here, loses AJ Brown, but to be honest with
6:23you, getting rid of Kevin Patulo and that terrible offensive scheme and play calling there to me is the world of difference cuz again, you're not
6:30drafting Jaylen Herz to be a dude who throws for 4500 yards and 35 passing touchdowns. What you need from Jayen Herz is him to get back to scoring 10,
6:3812, 14 rushing touchdowns. And when he does that, he's a dude who annually averages over 20 points per game. So, I
6:44think Dvonte Smith is going to be able to step up. Dallas Carter was really good for them last year. They also
6:48drafted Mai Lemon in the first round.
6:49Eli Sters, we'll see how involved he gets this year, but I think we'll have a healthier offensive line. We'll have a
6:54better play call and a better offensive scheme. So, I'm also very very optimistic about a a nice bounceback for Jaylen Herz getting back to that 8 to2
7:02rushing touchdown mark and and therefore cementing himself as you know a really nice mid quarterback one. Stafford comes in at quarterback 9 off of his MVP
7:10season. Obviously, just an unbelievable talent throwing the football. Puka, Devonte Adams, the scheme with Shawn McVey, the offensive line, he's got it
7:18all. I will say I think like the touchdown rate is naturally going to regress a little bit. And one of my
7:24other concerns is that the defense now with Miles Garrett and and adding all these cornerbacks to the room, like they're going to be so good on the
7:30defensive side of the ball that there will be so few games in which they're going to need to throw the ball, you
7:35know, 35 to 40 times, which, you know, wasn't always the case last year either.
7:38And Stafford was just so efficient inside the red zone and so efficient inside the 10 yard line. It was like a
7:42passing touchdown every time they got in there. But I could see the volume just taking a little bit of a step back given
7:48the fact that their defense is so good.
7:51They also have a pretty tough schedule this year. Right after Stafford, we have kind of a similar player in Dak Prescott
7:55where I think they're going to throw the ball a ton. I really like the scheme from Shotti out there. George Pickins,
8:00CD Lamb, Jake Ferguson. Good offensive line. Like everything I think is working in Dak Prescott's favor. He just doesn't really add the rushing upside that he
8:06did early on in his career where it's like Dak Prescott, I think, this is just off the top of my head. I believe he had
8:11six rushing touchdowns in each of the first three seasons he was in the NFL.
8:15And he was kind of like that underrated, you know, the Trevor Lawrence of right now, the Justin Herbert of right now
8:19where you're like, "All right, he's got a live arm." But he also adds this like floor of rushing ability to it where he
8:24doesn't really have that anymore. And that can be supplemented obviously by these massive passing games. And I think we'll see that a lot with Dak. But you
8:30know, he's he's in here again fine with him as my QB1. They run a lot of play action. They run a lot of plays. They
8:34run a lot of passing plays especially.
8:36So love the offensive environment. Same thing with Brock Pury. Another dude who's just like underrated in fantasy and has been for the last couple years
8:42was like the quarterback I think three or four in overall points per game last year. So he missed a lot of time and M.
8:48Jones played a lot. But when Pertie was on the field, his touchdown rate is always so high because Kyle Shanahan is
8:53such a good play caller. They lose a lot of pieces in the, you know, in the receiver game, but they do bring in Mike
8:58Evans obviously. They bring in Christian Kirk. They draft dribbling very early in the second round. KD, we'll see. You know, I I kind of think KD, we'll talk
9:05about him a little bit later in the video, but he'll probably be more of a red zone target than the explosive
9:10playmaker, but you still have Christian McCaffrey. Hopefully, we can get a full 17 out of Ricky Pieraw. But overall, I'm not concerned about the weapons group
9:16despite it being such a high turnover rate and churn rate over the last few years. It's just like Kyle Shanahan, Brock Pury, love the combination. As you
9:23can see, his Vegas line here 27 and a half, which rivals Dak Prescott. It's below guys like Joe Burrow and Matt
9:29Stafford, but it's still above almost all the rushing quarterbacks. It's above Drake May. above Trevor Lawrence, obviously above Jaylen Herz, but above
9:36all these other guys, too. So, I think Brock Pury will get it done through the air. And he's another dude who is liable
9:40to go off for four, five, six rushing touchdowns any given year, which he did last year. So, that's another little added floor. I think they they like to
9:48let him use his legs and he's got a sneaky floor because of it. I've got Caleb Williams at quarterback 12, which
9:54is significantly lower than ADP. He's up at quarterback 7 in ADP. So, I'm five spots lower. Fine to have him as my
10:00quarterback one. not gonna be someone I saw or I heard recently that his ADP in like super flex leagues on underdog
10:07right now is at the one-two turn. He's like the 11th or 12th pick which is crazy to me. Like I wouldn't be taking
10:12him over guys like CMAC or Aman Ross St.
10:14Brown. The offense I think needs to have a little bit more consistency on a downto- basis. I think they want to move
10:20the ball through their run game. Caleb's awesome on the ground. He's so [ __ ] fast. We'll have to see the the
10:26completion rate from Caleb Williams again. that that's my biggest concern is like can we see more consistency out of his arm being accurate and making
10:34smarter plays and I think the explosiveness and the high upside plays on a downto- basis is kind of skewed the way that we're projecting Caleb Williams
10:42but again I'm I'm making the case for why I have him at quarterback 12 still a guy that I would be fine with at
10:47quarterback one Ben Johnson year two the weapons are you know entering their prime right now Coulson Lovelin Luther Burden Roma Dunay a good offensive line
10:55a great scheme a mobile quarterback So fine to have him, but won't be taking him above guys that I think are almost
11:01elite. And you have Jackson Dar, who's kind of like the most mystery box in here. He's the end of the strong
11:06quarterback tier for me. He's quarterback 13. The rushing ability is crazy. As you can see, his rushing yard line is at 450 and a half with five and
11:13a half touchdowns. That yardage line is higher than Jaylen Herz. It's higher than Drake May. His touchdown line is higher than Jaden Daniels. So they use
11:21him a ton inside, you know, inside the 10 yard line. He scramles obviously a ton. I don't know how much we can expect
11:27out of his arm. One, we don't really know how good of a quarterback he is throwing the ball. So, I think that's a
11:31little bit of a question mark. And then obviously the weapons are a huge question mark in New York where Malik Neighbors the news has been really bad.
11:38He might start the year on the pup if not like almost more likely to happen than not happen. Wel Robinson is no
11:44longer there. So, the weapons in the passing game are questionable at best. I don't know how many games we're going to
11:48get out of Jackson Dart where he throws for more than like 220 yards this year.
11:52So you're you're drafting Jackson Dart as a guy who can like add a ton of explosive plays with his legs. He's got
11:58the concussion concerns as well. So like if you want to throw that in there or factor that in there, but I'm fine with
12:02him down at quarterback 13. I think this is probably about the right ranking when you factor in upside floor, all that
12:07kind of stuff together. And the final tier we will be talking about in this video is the strong streamers tier.
12:14We've got Patrick Mahomes, Bo Nicks, Jordan Love, Kyler Murray, Tyler Chuck, and Jared Goff. Mahomes down here at quarterback 14. That's right in line
12:22with ADP. I don't think the fantasy community is dumb to like the name Patrick Mahomes being a really, really flashy guy. I think he's been subpar for
12:29the last, you know, three, four years in terms of fantasy. Last year, it really turned it up because he uses legs a lot,
12:34but he's obviously coming off that torn ACL. The weapons group is fine. They bring in Kenneth Walker to be probably more of a presence in the ground game
12:41and like make the ground game much more of a presence in their offense while Mahomes kind of returns from that ACL
12:46tear. So you have an agent Kelsey, you have a Rashi Rice who's great when he's on the field. A lot of off the- field
12:51questions, also not like a true alpha that you can kind of like bank on to separate on any given down. I'm not a
12:56huge Xavier worthy guy. So like, you know, I think they have a decent amount of like gimmicky guys in their offense
13:02and like gone are the days where teams weren't playing cover two and we had Tyreek Hill and stuff like that. So with
13:08Mahomes, yeah, if if if he ends up being my, you know, quarterback too in Superflex, going to feel great about that. Obviously, if I have to stream
13:15him, going to feel fine about that.
13:16Overall, not, you know, super excited about Mahomes at fantasy this year. Bo Nicks right behind him. He's been a guy who's, you know, thrown the ball a ton
13:23the last couple years and they have a great offensive line. You got a great scheme with Shawn Payeyton. You add Jaylen Wadd to the group and now that
13:29I'm kind of like talking about it out loud, Bon Knicks is also a runner. He's coming off the fractured ankle, but I
13:33think he should be fully cleared to go by training camp. So, I'm not overly concerned about his short-term view with his ankle. So, I actually, now that I'm
13:40thinking about it, might throw Bon Knicks over Patrick Mahomes here. But I think they're in the same kind of tier.
13:45Right after him, we've got Jordan Love at quarterback 16. I love the spot for Jordan Love. And to be honest with you,
13:51like I I had trouble leaving him off the strong quarterback one tier. Like we saw him have such a big fantasy year in
13:582023. Haven't really had that come to fruition. We need a year where they lean a little bit more into the passing game.
14:03And I think Jordan Love can easily find himself as like a top eight fantasy quarterback again. We haven't really seen that since Josh Jacobs has come
14:09over. But Josh Jacobs is, you know, dealing with some off the- field stuff where there's a world he gets suspended and they will have to lean a little bit
14:14more on Jordan Love. The offensive line's a little bit of a concern, but we love the scheme. I've got him four spots
14:19above ADP. He's at quarterback 20, which I'd be super happy to get Jordan Love as my quarterback, too, in uh Superflex
14:25Leagues. Yeah, overall I I like the situation for Love. I I like Love as a player. We just need to see a little bit
14:31of an uptick in uh in pass attempts there in Green Bay. Next up, I've got Kyler Murray, who was a full fade for me
14:37last year. He moves over to Minnesota now. Obviously, I think he's almost definitely going to win the starting job over JJ McCarthy there. Got a phenomenal
14:44weapons group. Got a phenomenal offensive scheme with KC. Obviously, really good offensive line. So, all the weapons are there. Uh Kyler Murray feels
14:51like a no-brainer quarterback, too, in Superflex. He he will be a dude where if like if that opportunity presents itself, I'd be happy to grab him there
14:58where it's like, okay, we're all off him because I think we've realized he's not a great NFL quarterback at this point,
15:02but that doesn't matter in fantasy. He's going to run the ball. He's got a great scheme. He's got a great system. He's
15:07got a great weapons group here. His touchdown rate is really never going to be high. Like I'm really not expecting him to throw from any touchdowns. As you
15:13can see, Vegas's line for him is at 17 a half. But on a game-by-ame basis, I think you're going to see some some
15:18really strong games for Kyler Murray.
15:20You're going to be glad more often than not that you have him then you don't have him, especially at this price of
15:25quarterback 17. Last year, he was going as like the quarterback 10 or 11, and I hated that price for him. But now, you
15:30start to drop to the point where it's like, ah, people don't really want him anymore. And I think he's kind of like
15:34the perfect play at this price. got a great playoff schedule. Detroit, Washington, the New York Jets, like just doesn't get much better than that. I
15:42will say the only caveat that I kind of want to just put on record here. I don't feel strongly about it, but I haven't
15:47really heard it talked about. I do think there's a world where Kyler Murray could get benched for for some some time this
15:53year for JJ McCarthy. Not for like a talent perspective, but I think when you're a franchise that invests as much as you did into JJ McCarthy, you still
16:01want to keep him on a leash and like allow the opportunity to present itself to like see if there's something here.
16:08Like clearly last year he wasn't ready.
16:09But you could see a world where they're like, you know, eight weeks in, 10 weeks into the season and maybe they hit a
16:14stretch where Kyler Murray's like really struggling and the team goes 0 and4 at one point and like JJ's obviously just sitting back there learning, feeling
16:21more comfortable in the system and they're like 10 weeks in and they're like, "Okay, JJ's been playing well at practice. Like Kyler's really
16:27struggling. Like JJ, you're going to start this upcoming week." And maybe it doesn't last long and JJ's just the same JJ he was last year. But I could see a
16:34world where like and I think that's probably why Kyler's season long numbers are so so low because they're kind of baking in the risk of JJ getting a
16:40handful of stars whether it's one or whether it's like two, three, four in that range could see that being an outcome. Again, not most likely outcome
16:47but like obviously a franchise that invests that much like you want to see that player do well and if they think
16:52he's playing well throughout the year and Kyler struggling at some point throwing the ball like you could see a quarterback switch up I think. Does it
16:58last a full year? Like probably not cuz I think we probably know what JJ is but you never know. Right after Kyler,
17:03quarterback 18, we have Tyler Shuck. As you can see, just an unbelievably good schedule for the Saints coming into the year. Tyler Shuck was great over the
17:10second half of the year. They add Jordan Tyson to that weapons group to put him alongside Chris Alave. So now they're a
17:16strong weapons group. You add Travis Etienne into the backfield. The offensive line is really good. They signed David Edwards over from Buffalo
17:22who's going to, you know, shore up that offensive line. The pace in a Kell Moore offense is blistering. They are running
17:28so many plays per game. They are inside the dome. They got that turf. They've got almost all of their games in this
17:34great environment where you really won't have to worry about whether they're going to throw the ball a billion times.
17:40Like this is just on paper when you do the math. People who do projections are going to love Tyler Shuck. So I don't
17:45have him super high cuz I'm like a little bit questionable on what his actual ceiling is over the course of a a
17:50full season. But again, if he's my quarterback too in Superflex, I feel pretty good about that. Lastly, the last quarterback we'll talk about quickly is
17:58Jared Goff, quarterback 19. I think we know what Jared Goff is. His his Vegas numbers are really strong. 4,000 passing yards, 29 passing touchdowns. That's
18:06like right around where Dak Prescott is.
18:09My concerns with Jared Goff would be twofold. We have the offensive line who have lost a lot of pieces over the last
18:16two offseasons. Taylor Decker is gone.
18:18Graham Glasgow is gone. They lost um I don't know why it's not coming to my right now. uh the guy who retired last
18:24year, but you know, three of their five starting linemen from like the last half to to full decade that people have
18:29gotten accustomed to knowing of the offensive line are not there anymore.
18:32And secondly, we've got Drew Psoning coming in, the former Arizona offensive coordinator who was a mess there in terms of the passing game. So those are
18:39the two downside cases, but even last year in the first year without Ben Johnson, Jared Gra still threw for like 4,500 yards, 30 plus touchdowns. So, and
18:46he's probably a bit underrated. He's just, you know, he's just a little bit boring. So, there you have it. The top
18:5119 quarterbacks, we got Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow, Jaden Daniels, Justin Herbert, Drake May, Trevor Lawrence, Jaylen Herz, Matthew Stafford, Dak Prescott, Brock Py, Caleb
19:00Williams, Jackson Dart, Patrick Mahomes, Bo Nick Knicks, Jordan Love, Kyler Murray, Tyler Shuck, and Jared Goff.
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20:02everything we have to offer. Fantasy tools, trivia tools, trivia games, all that kind of stuff. All right, elite tight end one tier. Not too different
20:10than the quarterback tier here. We've got Brock Bowers as my tight end one.
20:13We've got Trey McBride as my tight end two, which is actually how ADP sees it as well. They like Bowowers over
20:18McBride. They're both great players, both going very early. Brock Bowers. I think the bull case here is now we have real quarterbacks. We have either Kirk
20:25Cousins who loves targeting tight ends and or Fernando Mendoza, the number one overall pick. But more more importantly, you have a real offensive line there in
20:32Las Vegas with Colton Miller coming back and them signing Tyler Linderbound. But Clint Kubak comes in as the coach and that scheme is going to open things up
20:40for Brock Bowers. There is no target competition in Las Vegas right now. So Bowowers could end up seeing 8, 10, 12
20:45targets per game and just being a monster this year. McBride coming off of one of the best fantasy seasons of all time. You just kind of
20:52question, do they pass the ball as much as they did last year. Michael Wilson, Marvin Harrison, quarterback situation, Jacobe Brassette versus Carson Beck kind
20:59of thing. So, both studs though. Moving on to tier number two. This is the strong tight end one tier where I think
21:07all these guys outside of probably the last guy here will treat you very well in your lineups. That is Coulson Lovelin
21:14at tight end three, Tyler Warren, Harold Fannon, Sam Laapora, Tucker Craft, Dallas Goddard, and Kyle Pittz senior.
21:21So Coulson Lovelin is is the is the the the apple of everyone's eye this off season and he was just so good over the
21:28second half of last year. Just dominating in targets per outr run, yards per outr run, became the centerpiece of the Bears passing offense
21:34and I think we're just going to see that show itself more and more in year two and we could be in for an explosive
21:39year. You know, my biggest hesitation on his upside is literally just like, does the Chicago Bears passing offense top 4,000 yards? Like, and if they don't,
21:48can we have multiple weapons like really end up eating? I do think Lovelin ends up being probably the best player in
21:54this offense in uh 2026. And the fact that Ben Johnson went out, you know, obviously handpicked him, top 10 pick.
22:00We saw what he did with Sam Leaport in his rookie year. So, I think like, you know, the ceiling is incredibly high for
22:04a dude like Coulson Lovelin, and I've been completely talked into him this offseason as the clear tight end three.
22:09Next up, we got Tyler Warren. And honestly, I would probably like him as much as I liked Coulson Loveland this year had Daniel Jones not been coming
22:15off the injury. Though, I don't know how uh h how much that really affects him to be honest with you. You do have Michael
22:20Pitman out of the way, which is, you know, you can't really talk enough about how big of a target share impact that's
22:26going to be for a guy like Tyler Warren and Josh DS. And now you have Alec Pierce with kind of like weird reports
22:30about his ankle. We don't know if he's going to be ready for week one. He might start the year on the pup. And if that's
22:34the case, I mean, Tyler Warren could have a, you know, a 25 to 30% target share in this offense. He was phenomenal
22:40as a rookie. We need to see a little bit of a spike in in touchdowns. I think to really see him get to his ceiling, but
22:45Warren was as good as any rookie tight end we've seen in previous years. So, while I think Daniel Jones will be
22:50limited in terms of his mobility, I don't know how much that really impacts Tyler Warren, who is a guy who can play
22:56around the line of scrimmage, who he's not a guy like Alec Pierce who's running 50 yard fades down the field. So, I
23:01don't really think the Daniel Jones injury is like super impactful to a dude like Tyler Warren and now you're looking at the rest of the receiver room like
23:07injury, injury, injury. Warren can have a ridiculously high target share. Harold Fannon is my tight end five. I want to rank him higher. He's so fun. He's so
23:16explosive. He's just such a good pass catching tight end, but as anyone can point out that has eyeballs, he is attached to the Cleveland Browns passing
23:24game, which I don't know if I can really happily project them to to throw the ball for more than 3,000 yards this
23:31year. On top of that, they drafted a first round wide receiver in Casey Conpsion. They drafted a second round wide receiver in Denzel Boston. They
23:39have Jerry Judy still there. I'm sure they want to try to establish their own Quinch Judkins. So, while I do think
23:44Harold Fannon will probably be the most reliable week- toeek pass catcher, it's just scary, you know, attaching yourself to a Browns team. So, wish I could rank
23:52him higher, but just can't do it, you know? Then we've got Sam Laora, who I think he's just like a boring veteran to
23:57people, but I like Sam Laora, man. If my fantasy team just has Sam Laora as like the guy sitting in the way I like to
24:02approach tight end, it's like if I get an elite guy, cool. If not, I still want a guy that I can rely on. Like, I want
24:07someone in the strong tight end one tier. not one of those dudes who's like, "All right, I'll fade all these guys and
24:11I'll just stack like two or three guys from the next tier and just like stream them on a week- toeek basis." I like I
24:17like a dude who will go four for 50 every single week with a touchdown every other week. Like that to me is a great
24:23fantasy tight end. That's what Sam Laaporta is. When all is healthy, I think that Sam Laaporta is the clear number two in the passing game behind
24:31Aman Ross St. Brown. I think they do a lot of great things with Sam Laaporta.
24:34He had the back injury last year, but from everything I've heard and expect, he should be full go by training camp
24:38and there's no actual residue left over from the injury to his back. So, I'm I'm full ahead of steam on Sam Leaporta. And
24:45while I was talking about being pessimistic about Drew Petting, I will say the one thing if we look at the Arizona offense, who ate there? Who ate
24:52the the running game was pretty good, but who ate there? Trey McBride, tight end. So, Sam Laora, not concerned. I'm a
24:57fan of Sam Laora this I think he's like the boring guy who will drop to tight end, you know, 8 n 10 in a lot of your
25:02drafts and you could feel pretty good just putting him in your lineup and then not touching it again for the rest of
25:06the year. Tucker Craft much higher upside play here and I think I'll probably own a lot of Tucker Craft this year. He's my tight end seven. He's
25:14coming back from a pretty significant ACL tear, but being 25 years old, typically the data does favor guys that are that young. Green Bay, if you guys
25:22watched my interview with Dr. Morris last week, you know, sports physician.
25:26We went pretty in-depth on Tucker Craft and he was, you know, a big proponent of drafting Tucker Craft this year. Green
25:31Bay is a medical staff that is notoriously known for like taking their time on injuries and they won't give the green flag until they feel 100%
25:40confident on Tucker Craft. So, if Tucker Craft is good to go for the start of the season, that makes us feel really good
25:45about where he is medically. And I think Tucker Craft is probably the best playmaker or the most reliable piece for Jordan Love. like we saw him obviously
25:52he was in full breakout mode before he got hurt last year. I think we're probably just going to see that pick
25:56back up where it was. So Craft is a dude where I don't typically draft guys who are injured, but I'm I'm pretty in on
26:01Craft this year. And I would be ecstatic to have him as a guy that you can get as tight end six, seven or eight in in your
26:07drafts like in the middle later rounds of your draft because people are scared of the injury. I am not one of them.
26:12We've got Dallas Goddard. I mean to me obviously scoring 11 touchdowns last year definitely not going to happen. and he's not a huge touchdown guy, but they
26:18got him very involved in the red zone last year. And I mean, again, the splits when AJ Brown is not there. Dallas Gdder
26:24is another dude that benefits from that.
26:26So, I think him, Devonte Smith are going to see a huge target share in this offense because there's no more AJ
26:30Brown. So, I like Dallas GD. I think he'll be probably a little bit more volatile on a week- to-eek basis because
26:35his weekly floor seems to be a lot lower than some of these other guys. But, I think Dallas GDR is fine. And then
26:41lastly, we have Kyle Pittz, who's cone on the football field. But I think I do have to acknowledge that the Falcons have quite literally nothing
26:48behind Drake London running routes downfield. So, you know, people are like, "Oh, Tula loves tight." Like, that's like you're just saying things.
26:54Tu doesn't love when the [ __ ] did Tua ever throw to tight ends? What are you talking about? Regardless, whatever.
26:58Kyle Pittz will see six targets a game.
27:00And the final tier of this video will be the strong streamers in the tight end category. And we've got like eight dudes
27:06here. We got Travis Kelce who's my tight end 10. Concaid, Isaiah likely, George KD, Brentton Strange, Jake Ferguson, Joan John Stain, Jiggy, and Hunter
27:14Henry. Kelsey, I mean, he's [ __ ] old.
27:17They did extend him. He was like quietly kind of really good for fantasy last year. Didn't score a ton of touchdowns.
27:23He's not really a big touchdown scoreer at this point, but I also think he had a decent amount of things kind of like
27:27break in his favor where Rashi Rice missed a ton of games with the suspension. Obviously, Xavier Worthy missed a bunch of times. So, again, it
27:33was kind of like targets were getting funneled to Travis Kelce. Once again, they didn't have a run game to rely on
27:38last year. So, I don't think we're going to see a lot of that. But Kelsey tied to Mahomes is always a liability to go for
27:43like eight touchdowns in a given season, and that's going to end up being what the difference is here. So, he's getting
27:48to that like Mark Andrew stage where it's like I think at this point he's probably going to need touchdowns to sustain any sort of like fantasy
27:54reliability. Next up, we got Don Concincaid who was kind of on the verge of a breakout last year. Showed some really high ceiling games, but again,
28:01he's a dude that like really doesn't run a ton of routes. Unfortunately, he's still only on the field for like 60 55%
28:07of the snaps while Dawson Knox is still there. So, on a given week, like he I think he's a great tight end, too, in
28:12baseball. Kind of hard to trust him in reddraft, though. I will take some shots on him just cuz I think his upside. He's
28:17still young. He was still a first round pick for them. He's still tied to Josh Allen. So, I still like Concaid, but
28:22obviously a little bit riskier here.
28:23Then we've got Isaiah likely going into New York. Finally kind of gets out of the wings of Mark Andrews. Follows Harbaugh over there. So, you know that
28:30he's going to be used obviously gets the contract. And the fact that again we look at the receiving group in uh New
28:36York, Malik Neighbors, pup candidate, W Jell not there anymore. Like targets are very very up for grabs. So you can see
28:41Isaiah likely being a dude who's seeing a very high target floor off the rip here. So I like likely we've just never
28:47really seen him be the guy for, you know, a full season or even really for more than like a few weeks at a time. So
28:53I do think there's a little bit of risk involved just based on that. George Kill, my tight end 13, another dude who
28:59like the injury reports are relatively optimistic, but a torn Achilles at his age, like 32, 33, is much scarier than a
29:06torn ACL like Tucker Craft at age 25.
29:09So, people that have watched the videos of George KD are not overly optimistic about the way he looks in those videos.
29:15So, I'm kind of going to follow their lead there on on KD and him just being old. Again, scares me a little bit. I
29:21again I I think there's a world where like he does end up scoring eight touchdowns and looks fine, but I said
29:26with Kelsey, I think he's kind of in that Mark Andrews mold as well where I don't think we're going to get the same
29:30explosive player that we were used to with George KD and he's going to need to back into a pretty high touchdown rate
29:35in order to be the dude for you in fantasy. Brenton Strange at tight end 14. Um you know the next the next group
29:40of dudes I think are just like maybe outside of Chiggy are just like high floor players attached to offenses that I want to be in. So you have Brenton
29:47Strange, Jake Ferguson, Jawan Johnson, Hunter Henry. I think more often than not, those guys will go like four for 40 almost every single week. And then you
29:54attach yourself to Brentton Strange with, you know, Liam Cohen and Trevor Lawrence in that high upside offense.
29:59The biggest concern with him is that there's so many good weapons in that offense right now. Parker Washington, Jacobe, who are running routes over the
30:04middle of the field, Brian Thomas Jr., like tough to see him being a reliable player, high upside week to week. Same
30:10thing with Jake Ferguson. Obviously with CD and George Pickkins, they're going to throw the ball a ton, but as we saw last
30:15year, like Ferguson was eating when CD was gone. As soon as both of the receivers were on the field and healthy
30:20together, Ferguson kind of fell off the face of the earth. Jawan Johnson was actually quietly awesome awesome last year in PPR. But I do think that was
30:28probably more of a function of like we don't have any weapons besides Chris Ave right now. So we kind of have to force
30:33feed you the ball a ton because we're throwing the ball a ton. We don't have any other guys there. So Jordan Tyson I
30:38think is going to eat significantly into Jawan Johnson's target share there. But again, I think four for 40 is realistic.
30:43Hunter Henry, I think he's one of the more underrated tight ends in fantasy.
30:46Like him and Drake may have had a great chemistry. And if you look at his stats historically, like his career stats down
30:52here, the last two years have been some of the better years of his career. Like some of the highest target counts, some
30:56of the highest reception counts, some of the highest yardage counts overall. Two of his three best PPR fantasy seasons of his career. So I I think Hunter Henry's
31:05a better player and a better fantasy player than than giving credit for. Like I think you could genuinely put him into
31:09the tier of the Jake Ferguson's and the Brenton Stranges of the world. Does he have the upside of, you know, an Isaiah
31:15likely or Don Concinc Kade, the the athletic young explosive dudes? For sure not. But Hunter Henry attached to an up andcoming offense, attached to the
31:23third-year quarterback who was just a run up for MVP and is clearly one of his consistently favorite weapons, especially in the red zone, I like
31:29Henry. Obviously, you know, bringing AJ Brown might shift the uh equator a little bit there, but whatever. Then you got Chiggy. Jiggy's the last guy, and I
31:36kind of put him out of that tier because he's he's different. He he's another like Isaiah Likely type of dude who
31:41actually I remember when Chiki was coming out in college I comped him to Isaiah likely. So similar player good with the ball in his hands. Didn't
31:47really see much of that upside in Tennessee unfortunately. We would see it in spurts random plays here and there and you'd be like oh that's you know
31:53that's the Chiggy we know and love even though we don't know him at all but we'd love to love him right and now he goes
31:57over to Washington signs a nice contract and they are devoid of pass catchers in Washington. Terry McLaren's obviously the wide receiver won there. Antonio
32:04Williams could be cool, but behind Jiggy, I mean like he could be the dude who has the second most targets on this
32:09team. Zack Z is no longer there. So, I think you invest in this dude. I think he's athletic. I think this will be the
32:16first time he really gets a crack at playing on 70 plus% of the routes and you are not sharing like a crowded
32:22target room with anybody. So, we'll have to see if Washington adds a second pass catcher. Like, I definitely think they're in play for like a Diggs or a
32:28Keenan Allen or something like that and that would obviously affect the target share of everybody in that offense. But for right now, on paper, Jiggy does line
32:34up to be what it looks as, you know, probably the second leading target in this offense. I just moved up Mark
32:41Andrews, you know, just just make it a clean that's not even the 20. I was about to say, let's make it a clean
32:45tight 20 tight end. Let's make it a clean 19 tight ends here. I'll throw Andrews at the end. Like I I do think if
32:50Likely's now out of the way, Andrews probably sees just more targets at the tight end position overall. Charlie Kar over in New York as well. So, it opens
32:58it up. It opens it up a little bit. If we're buying a Lamar Jackson bounceback, I do think Mark Andrews again has that
33:03like eight touchdown. Uh I don't believe he's a strong streamer. I don't I think I'm just lying as we're talking, but
33:08whatever. He's my tight end 19, whatever tier you end up finding him in. As always, I will keep these tiers up to
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