Fantasy Football Trade Value Chart Week 2: Tight Ends

RSJ’s Jackson Barrett created a value-based drafting Excel tool to create the preseason values for this Fantasy Football Trade Value Chart. The tool uses the FantasyPros consensus projections to assign values based on a 12-team, full PPR league.

Each week throughout the season, these values will be altered to reflect the player’s value for the rest of the season. Changes made to player’s value will be based on FantasyPros Rest of Season ECR, results from the season thus far, and The Wolf’s Rest of Season Rankings. But for the most part, the below values should generally reflect consensus rankings. The values provided also allow for comparing player values across positions, not just within one positional group.

For more information on how to make successful deals, check out our strategies for negotiating trades.

Be sure to tune back each week throughout the season. We’ll be adjusting the chart, discussing risers & fallers, and pinpointing trade targets.

The trade value chart for each position is linked below.

Fantasy Football Week 2 Trade Value Chart: Tight Ends

Tight End Riser

There is one clear and obvious choice here: Isaiah Likely. The young tight end went out and earned 12 targets and was centimeters away from sending Thursday night’s game to overtime. Likely was phenomenal in relief of Mark Andrews last year and the Ravens have made it clear that he will be part of the game plan even with Andrews back on the field.

Likely’s usage from Thursday night was by far the best of his career in a game where Andrews also played. Likely was barely out-snapped by Andrews and even forced Andrews off the field in some 1 TE sets, something he never did in the past.

It’s very realistic that the Ravens have two top-12 TEs this year. Likely is a very exciting option and his usage moving forward should be monitored.

Tight End Faller

You’d be hard-pressed to find a league where Cole Kmet can be started. He is the most recent victim of Shane Waldron’s love of using Gerald Everett in a tight end rotation. To be honest, “rotation” is a nice way to put it.

Kmet ran a route on 27 percent of Caleb Williams’ dropbacks on Sunday. No, that is not a typo. And no, this is not a fluke. Kmet and Everett were in a brutal rotation throughout the preseason. No matter how much you believe in the talent of Kmet, this is not the role of a tight end who can even be considered as a fantasy starter.

Tight End Trade Target

Unless your name is Isaiah Likely or Foster Moreau, you likely disappointed in fantasy as a tight end. Trey McBride had a pedestrian day in terms of his fantasy production, but he still proved that he is an elite target earner.

McBride’s 29-percent target share was second to only Likely in Week 1. It was just one matchup, but McBride proved that he is capable of earning targets alongside Marvin Harrison Jr.

He will maintain a strong role in the offense and should still be viewed as an elite option at the position. Take advantage of managers who are concerned that their 4th-round pick only scored eight points.