Cameron Brate

Here’s all you need to know about the fantasy tight end landscape last week: Marcedes Lewis was fantasy’s leading scorer among tight ends with 24.2 fantasy points in Week 3. That might not sound so strange until you consider that Lewis had more fantasy points in Week 3 than he had in either of the past two seasons. Lewis was joined as a TE1 in Week 3 by such obvious names as Ryan Griffin, Vernon Davis, Luke Willson, and Lance Kendricks. Oh, and Jason Witten and Travis Kelce, top-3 tight ends through the first two weeks of…

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…