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For the first time in many years, tight end no longer feels like a one or two-man position, with a minefield of unreliable and/or uninteresting names beyond the top tier. Just take a quick look at our consensus position ranks; you can tell yourself a good-to-great story about any of those first dozen names.
If you only play in fantasy football leagues of typical size and shape, you may not find it necessary to draft any tight end who actually qualifies as a sleeper (however you choose to define that terrible and complicated term).
However, we recognize that plenty of you have fantasy needs that extend well beyond the top of the ranks at each roster position. For you, we are pleased to offer a group of four TE sleepers that have the talent necessary to deliver a top-10-ish season — if things break just right.
If not for the presence of Mark Andrews on Baltimore’s roster, Likely would be an easy top-10 fantasy tight end, possibly challenging for top-six status. He’s been outstanding whenever pressed into serious usage. Last year, when Andrews was sidelined over the final six games of the regular season, Likely delivered 21 receptions for 322 yards and five touchdowns. Extend that level of production over a full 17-game season ,and you have a contender for overall TE1 status.
Likely ranked fifth among all receivers and tight ends last year in yards-after-catch per reception (7.4) — a stat that syncs with his various highlights:
Baltimore’s receiving room isn’t so talent-rich that Likely and Andrews couldn’t possibly coexist as starting-quality fantasy options. Coach Harbaugh is at least making noises about getting Likely involved in a meaningful way. As an end-of-draft flier, Likely is as good as it gets at this spot.
Kraft actually finished just ahead of Likely on the YAC/REC leaderboard last season (7.5), because pretty much every time he was targeted, he did something like this:
As soon as he began to play meaningful snaps for the Packers, he was an impact…
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Publish date : 2024-08-02 13:49:09
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