Fantasy Football Trade Value Chart Week 8: 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 8 Trade Value Chart: Tight Ends

Tight End Riser

Brock Bowers was narrowly the TE2 last week, but there’s no reason he should be anything other than the TE1 moving forward. He is going to be a vacuum for targets and the offensive focal point in Las Vegas moving forward.

In four games without Davante Adams:

• 0.33 TPRR
• 39 total targets
• 29 percent air yards share
• 31 percent first read target share
• 16.1 fantasy points per game

Bowers is quickly solidifying himself as the future of the tight end position. He has the combination of volume and talent that so many other tight ends lack and he delivers high-end fantasy performances on a weekly basis.

Bowers has certainly lived up to the hype and is quite clearly fantasy’s TE1 for the rest of the season.

Tight End Faller

The breakout hopes for Dalton Kincaid are all but crushed at this point. We all knew that the arrival of Amari Cooper would be a negative for Kincaid; Cooper’s first game with the team marked Kincaid’s third game with a sub-20-percent target share on the season.

At this point, it’s hard to feel comfortable starting Kincaid in 12-team leagues. The Bills are a low-volume passing attack, ranking dead last in passing plays per game. Kincaid has not separated from the pack from a target earning perspective and it doesn’t appear he will anytime soon.

Perhaps there’s an outcome where Cooper “opens up the field” for Kincaid, but this seems like wishful thinking. Until there’s more clarity on the new-look Buffalo passing offense, Kincaid likely belongs on the bench.

Tier 1: Elite TEs

Tier 2: Elite TE on Their Best Day

Tier 3: Other Starting Options

Tier 4: The Rest