A lot of young tight ends are making their rise to the top 10 of the tight end rankings. Here are the top 10 dynasty tight end rankings entering the 2026 season.
Dynasty Tight End Rankings Top 10
10. Kenyon Sadiq
One of the first round rookie draft picks of the New York Jets, Kenyon Sadiq, comes in at number 10 in the dynasty tight end rankings. Sadiq’s best collegiate season was his final one, catching 51 passes for 560 yards and eight touchdowns. Sadiq is an athletic freak, running the 40-yard combine at 4.39 seconds. The next fastest tight end clocked in at 4.51 seconds.
Sadiq joins a Jets offense that is trying to reinvent itself by drafting Sadiq and wide receiver Omar Cooper Jr. within the top 20 picks. They join Garrett Wilson and Breece Hall among the Jets weapons. Geno Smith is the projected Week 1 starter for the New York team in green.
The tight end position is not that deep, and with a lot of the great ones close to the end of their careers, such as Travis Kelce and George Kittle, Sadiq cracks the top ten of the dynasty tight end rankings.
9. Isaiah Likely
After a TE16 finish in 2024 for the Ravens, there were high expectations for Isaiah Likely last season, but he disappointed, only scoring double-digit fantasy points three times. Now, he joins a Giants team that needed another weapon opposite of superstar wide receiver Malik Nabers. Expect Likely to play a lot out of the slot in 12 personnel and be used mostly as a wide receiver. Likely has a lot of talent, but he was stuck behind Mark Andrews in Baltimore. Now, on the Giants, he will finally get the chance to prove it.
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8. Sam LaPorta
Sam LaPorta missed the final eight games of the 2025 season, but he is expected to be ready for the start of the 2026 season. In his nine games, he had five top 10 finishes (including four top five), but four outside of the top 20, so it was a very inconsistent year. He finished as a top 10 fantasy tight end in each of his first two seasons.
The Lions have a lot of weapons, including Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jameson Williams, and Jahmyr Gibbs, leading to one of the best offenses in the league. LaPorta should have a bounce-back season returning from his injury and ranks eighth in the dynasty tight end rankings.
7. Kyle Pitts
The newly extended Kyle Pitts signed with Atlanta through the 2028 season. Pitts finished the 2025 season as the TE2 in PPR leagues. However, about a fifth of his points came in the Week 15 game, where he had 11 receptions for 166 yards and three touchdowns.
Of course, Pitts has one of the weirdest stats, where he had one touchdown in year one, two in year two, three in year three, four in year four, and five in year five. Surely, this means he will have six in year six in 2026. All jokes aside, there is a lot of room for more touchdowns for Pitts as he only caught a touchdown in three games last season.
Although the TE2 finish was a fluke in 2025, Pitts proved that he is one of the better tight ends in the league, and he should have a couple more great years in Atlanta.
6. Tucker Kraft
Tucker Kraft was on his way to a breakout season before suffering a torn ACL to end his 2025 campaign. Kraft averaged 14.7 fantasy points per game in his eight starts. Among tight ends last year, Kraft was third in red zone target share, second in yards per route run, and first in yards per reception. He was on pace to be a top-three fantasy football tight end last year before the injury.
Kraft might not be ready to start the season in 2026, but he will have a very bright future once he gets back to full strength.
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5. Harold Fannin
Harold Fannin is the first of three consecutive second-year players in the dynasty tight end rankings to start off the top five. Fannin finished as the TE6 last year despite missing the final game of the season. He had 72 receptions for 731 yards and six touchdowns.
The Browns have a lot of quarterback questions for both 2026 and the future, but Fannin is a trustworthy target for whoever wins the quarterback job.
4. Tyler Warren
Tyler Warren was the TE4 in PPR leagues last season, catching 76 receptions for 817 yards and four touchdowns. He was a big part of the Colts awesome start to the season. In the first ten weeks of the season, he had six top 10 finishes, but did not finish in the top 10 in any starts without Daniel Jones. Jones is expected to be ready for Week 1, which should give Warren and the entire Colts offense a boost.
3. Colston Loveland
The highest ranking of the second-year tight ends is actually the one who performed the worst last season, Colston Loveland. Loveland was just the TE12, having 58 receptions for 713 yards and six touchdowns.
He was the reverse of Warren, getting off to a slow start but finishing strong. His first top 20 finish was not until Week 9. He finished the year with two straight top-two finishes and was amazing in the playoffs. In the Wild Card victory, he had 15 targets, eight receptions, and 137 yards.
Loveland is ranked third in the dynasty tight end rankings, ahead of Warren and Fannin, because he is tied to a better quarterback and a better offense. This will give him more opportunities for fantasy production.
2. Trey McBride
The top two tight ends are in a tier of their own. Coming in second in the dynasty tight end rankings is Trey McBride, coming off an incredible year, finishing as the TE1 for his second straight top-two finish in PPR leagues. He had 126 receptions for 1239 receiving yards and 11 touchdowns on 169 targets. In the previous three seasons, he had six total receiving touchdowns.
The Cardinals offense was in a lot of pass-heavy game scripts, and McBride took advantage of that. Quarterback Jacoby Brissett could hold out, leading the Cardinals to start either Gardner Minshew or Carson Beck. There are long-term quarterback questions for Arizona, but McBride could be at the start of a Kittle or Kelce-type career.
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1. Brock Bowers
After being the overall TE1 in his rookie season, Brock Bowers dealt with injuries in 2025, limiting him to just 12 games. The 23-year-old tight end is looking for a bounce back in 2026, with rookie quarterback Fernando Mendoza expected to take over the starting job at some point during the season. Bowers, being three years younger than McBride, gives him the edge and puts him first in the dynasty tight end rankings.
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