A quarter of the way through the season, the tight end position is proving to be very deep. The usual suspects are ruling the top of the rankings, but there are plenty of options out there for streamers as well. Week 5 is pretty light in terms of byes and the rankings involve all of the major players, so let's get down to business.
Players On Bye: Charles Clay, Mychal Rivera
Injury Risks (Players Listed As Questionable): Vernon Davis , Delanie Walker, Austin Seferian-Jenkins, Niles Paul, Ladarius Green, Jordan Reed
A Look Back At Week 4: Week 4 Tight End Rankings
The Elite Tier (Play With Confidence):
1. Jimmy Graham NO vs. TB
2. Julius Thomas DEN vs. ARI
3. Martellus Bennett CHI @ CAR
Tampa Bay is not a good team and they are especially bad against the pass (see Roethlisberger's week 4 stats), Graham is going to get his for sure. Julius Thomas has a bad matchup but I think he scores at least once anyway. Bennett is becoming an every week starter and until he has a poor showing I roll him out there and enjoy the results.
Starter Worthy (Should Be Safe To Roll With These Guys):
Larry Donnell has come up huge for the G-Men recently and with a tasty matchup this week the trend should continue.
4. Larry Donnell NYG vs. ATL
5. Greg Olsen CAR vs. CHI
6. Rob Gronkowski NE vs. CIN
7. Heath Miller PIT @ JAX
8. Jordan Cameron CLE @ TEN
9. Delanie Walker TEN vs. CLE
10. Antonio Gates SD vs. NYJ
11. Zach Ertz PHI vs. STL
Larry Donnell is a fixture in an evolving offense and he has a CRAZY good matchup this week. It wouldn't surprise me to see multiple scores again. Olsen and Gronkowski are reliable if unspectacular options. Heath Miller is playing the Jags and that's always good news for fantasy owners. The rest of the group have high enough upside to warrant a start, one more bad performance from Gates and he falls out of this group however.
Dangerous With Potential (Mixed Results But It Could Pan Out:
12. Jason Witten DAL vs. HOU
13. Travis Kelce KC @ SF
14. Jared Cook STL @ PHI
15. Owen Daniels BAL @ IND
16. Dwayne Allen IND vs. BAL
17. Vernon Davis SF vs. KC
18. Coby Fleener IND vs. BAL
There are some big names in this group, but now is probably not the time to start them. Witten and Davis in particular stick out as guys who would normally be in the top-10. Witten's best days are behind him but Davis could still produce if he can get healthy.
Hit Or Miss, But Mostly Miss (Do You Feel Lucky?):
19. Austin Seferian Jenkins TB @ NO
20. Niles Paul WAS vs. SEA
21, Eric Ebron DET vs. BUF
22. Jace Amaro NYJ @ SD
23. Jordan Reed WAS vs. SEA
24. Clay Harbor JAX vs. PIT
25. Garrett Graham HOU @ DAL
26. Ladarius Green SD vs. NYJ
27. Luke Willson SEA @ WAS
28. Scott Chandler BUF @ DET
29. Richard Rogers GB @ MIN
30. Levine Toilolo ATL @ NYG
Keep an eye on Seferian-Jenkins, the Bucs are targeting him a lot but I don't think this will be the week that he breaks out. That does it for the week 5 rankings, good luck on Sunday.
