Top 10 Tight Ends + Draft Strategy & TE Sleepers

We're just going to give you a sleeper tight end. By the way, you can see all of our rankings at the Fantasy Footballers.com. I'm going to throw Tyler Iford's name into the ring because he's mostly undrafted. Maybe you spend the last pick of your draft on him. And that's what I like with Tyler Eifford. I like being able to spend the last pick of my draft on Tyler Eifford, a tight end who in 2015 finished number six overall, a tight end that has absolute gronky in red zone numbers when he's healthy. And a tight end when you draft him there that you just, I'm just going to put him in my lineup. And as soon as he gets hurt.

I'm going to go sign somebody. Right. So if I want to punt the tight-in position completely, I think you can go a lot of, you can do worse than Tyler Eifford. Yeah, I'm going to go very...

deep. He's definitely not drafted in most normal leagues, but if you want to take a shot, I think Ricky Seals Jones tied in for the Arizona Cardinals, he was unsigned rookie last year who had a couple breakout games, looked great. What the GMs and the head coach and the offensive coordinator have said about Ricky Seals Jones in this offense this last year have been really telling that they believe they finally have a pass catching tight in. And there's all this debate, right? Like it's Larry and who?

It's Larry Anderson. Is it J.J. Nelson? Is it Christian Kirk? We don't have any idea who the second receiving option is to step up for this team. And it could be Ricky Seals Jones. Who is that again? Ricky Seals Jones. Why? Why? Because his name has a seal in it. Mike. It's not very hard. It's not very hard to figure out, Mike.

No, I'm saying why did you give him the platform to go back and correct it? And so, yeah, I think, look, Jimmy. Because the people demand it. You would remember that if you weren't verified. Germain Gresham, the supposed starter ahead of him, is injured. He had an Achilles injury in week 17. He is not going to be ready for the start of the year. He probably starts the season on the PUP. That's six games to get Ricky Seals Jones in. And six games where.

In theory, at least the first six are the best odds that you have Sam Bradford before he gets injured. Sam Bradford has, you know. Yes. He throws to the tight end position. The Kyle Rudolph number two tight end two years ago. That was Sammy Biscuits. Sure. Or Mike, your sleeper tight end pick. I'm going to throw out Luke Wilson for tight end acquisition for the Detroit Lions. He was brought in to be the move tight end, the past catching tight end. Eric Ebron, Darren Fells.

They were tight ends on the Detroit Lions. They are no longer there. Those two guys accounted for 20% of the Detroit Lions targets. Eric Evern had 86 targets himself. I don't think Luke Wilson's going to come in and be a superstar, but plenty of tight ends emerge from this later round and freak everyone out because they turn into weekly starters. They just get value out of what seemed like nowhere. This is not...

seeming like nowhere to me the amount of targets at the tight-end position that Detroit has to account for. So Luke Wilson, Luke Wilson, going either late or undrafted. If you aren't aware, we do projections for every single player and every single team. Those are available in the Ultimate Draft Kit at Ultimate DraftKit.com. So you can dig into all the numbers behind the picks and the projections and the rankings. Ultimate DraftKit.com. Let's talk some bestball. Bestball Bonanza. Brought to you by draft.

A couple weeks to get some best ball stuff in, and I've got a tip for our listeners today. Last year I had a very successful best ball season when I invested into a number of ambiguous running back situations, namely with rookie running backs. We talked a lot. These first four running backs right now injured. Now, guys, I wouldn't recommend him. He's out for the season. But Sonny Michelle Rashad Penny, players that are injured in the beginning of the season. And dropping an ADP. And dropping in ADP.

I want our listeners to look at running backs in ambiguous timeshare situations. If you had Alvin Camara last year, which you could draft very late in drafts, he won you a best ball league. If you had Chris Thompson in an ambiguous situation, he won you a best ball league. And the nice thing about this is we have an article on our website identifying late round flyers at the running back position. So I think, look, we debate a lot about...

Tampa Bay's backfield. We talk a lot about Green Bay's backfield. What's going to happen? Bilal Powell. Ambiguous running back situations are a great best ball target. You can look in the late rounds, round out that running back core. And here's some categories before we close this out. The committee member, right? The forgotten veteran. The annoying handcuff. There are players. Maybe you take a shot on a couple handcuffs, even. The two I'd look at, James Connor.

And then. Oh, he looked good. He looked real good. He looks felt. So if Lev Bell goes down, James Connor becomes that potential top 10 back. And I'm going to say John Kelly. Yes. Because what I saw on film was a very good looking player back behind Todd Gurley in Los Angeles. Look at what has happened today. I have come around on James Washington, a guy that you loved Andy, and I hated pre-draft. And you have come around on John Kelly, a guy that we love.

And you did not like. And I'll throw a couple other names out there. Stay water, my friends. Yeah, Nick Chubb. Nick Chub is a name, late round. Maybe he ends up with some value. We'll get some of them PPR guys. James White. We talked about him earlier today. Ronald Jones, Theo Riddick. Some other names that can round out your running back core. That is today's best ball tip. You can play bestball at draft.com slash ballers for the next couple weeks. You can enter bestball drafts.

And those are fun to monitor for the rest of the season. They're great because we talk about how many leagues are too many leagues. You can't have too many best ball leagues because you can have too few. You sure can. You draft and you forget it. Your best lineup starts every single week. There's no transactions, no trades, no waivers. It's the draft season we know and love. You play that. And then you monitor it and you see how you're doing all season long. You still have a ton of fun in the season.

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