Fantasy Football Trade Value Chart Week 13: Tight Ends

Championships are won with trades.

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 13 Trade Value Chart: Tight End

Tight End Riser

Every year, we pretend that Taysom Hill won’t be a TE1 and every year he ends up in the top 12 finishers. He’s well on his way to a TE1 finish this season and could realistically finish in the top 10 despite missing four games.

Hill’s production is usually volatile due to his unpredictable usage. But given the injuries to the Saints’ receivers, Hill seems to be a consistent piece of the game plan. This was even confirmed by head coach Darren Rizzi.

#Saints interim HC Darren Rizzi on Taysom Hill’s workload:

“I think our usage with him these last couple weeks is really what we’re kind of trying to trend towards. A little bit of everything, not too much of anything. He’s obviously a huge part of what we do… The more he’s on… pic.twitter.com/KnDIDdWPGI
— The Coachspeak Index (@CoachspeakIndex) November 27, 2024

Hill will now see a workload to provide a steady floor and has the playmaking ability and red zone usage to reach high ceilings. He’s a weekly starter moving forward.

Tight End Faller

The return of Mike Evans was not kind to Cade Otton. He drew just three targets on 28 routes and was seemingly back to his old ways of just being out there to get some cardio in. Otton also posted 4.0 PPR points, his lowest mark since Week 2.

Otton hasn’t been banished into fantasy irrelevancy, but he is certainly not the shoo-in starter that many thought they had just a few weeks ago. Evans is back in the No. 1 role and Otton may be the No. 3 target earner behind the running back tandem of Bucky Irving and Rachaad White.

It seems that Otton will rely on high pass volume game scripts and shootouts for him to be a high-end fantasy option. That’s not an issue, but he is still worthy of slipping down the ranks.