eric ebron

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…