Tight ends

Week 2 was a bounce-back week for many tight ends. Rob Gronkowski and Travis Kelce owners can breathe a sigh of relief after each player rebounded from Week 1 disappointments with over 100 yards and a touchdown each. Things were so status quo for the two studs that Gronkowski left early due to an injury and Kelce was flagged for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. Ah, normalcy. There were eight tight ends who had at least 79 receiving yards, as opposed to two in Week 1. There were also 10 tight ends who caught a touchdown…

Week 1 is officially in the books! Just as everyone predicted, Austin Hooper and Jesse James are the top two fantasy tight ends. Business as usual. Seriously, though - aside from Hooper and James trading places with Rob Gronkowski and Travis Kelce atop the tight end leaderboard, there wasn’t a lot that took place in Week 1 that changed the tight end landscape. Just 10 tight ends reached double-digit point totals in Week 1. Gronkowski and Kelce had difficult matchups and they will obviously recover quickly. As we approach…

Welcome to the first installment in our positional matchup series! Each week we here at Fantrax will highlight some favorable and unfavorable matchups at each position to help you with those tough lineup decisions. Today we will start with tight ends. You will most likely start Rob Gronkowski and Travis Kelce every week, even in poor matchups. However, if you waited on a tight end in your draft, you may have two similar options to choose from. Let’s dig into the matchups to see where the advantages lie.FAVORABLE…

Tight ends are sort of like quarterbacks for fantasy purposes. You need to start only one tight end each week, and you likely won’t need to draft more than that. The difference is that tight ends are inherently riskier than quarterbacks. The odds of Rob Gronkowski playing in all 16 games in a given season are far less than those of Aaron Rodgers doing so. So if you feel the need to draft a backup tight end, I suppose I won't kill you for it. I would suggest drafting a single tight end and just picking up the best one…

Last season, 26,593 yards and 181 touchdowns were recorded by tight ends. So trust someone who’s done the math: this position matters.Drafting a tight end in any league format can be tricky. Once the top five guys are wiped off the board, it’s like splitting hairs, and if you aren’t prepared to play the waiting game, you may find yourself reaching.As far as strategies go, I sometimes think reaching for a tight end isn’t altogether a bad move. The position itself has all of a sudden become invaluable and may hold more…