{"id":219644,"date":"2025-02-27T12:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=219644"},"modified":"2025-02-26T18:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T23:17:11","slug":"2025-dynasty-tight-end-rankings-rookies-veterans-and-tiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/02\/27\/2025-dynasty-tight-end-rankings-rookies-veterans-and-tiers\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Dynasty Tight End Rankings &#8211; Rookies, Veterans, and Tiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/12\/19\/2024-dynasty-tight-end-rankings-fantasy-football\/\" target=\"_self\">2024, dynasty tight end rankings<\/a> had a blend of youth and win-now veterans filling out the top tiers. Now, there are two tight ends sitting alone at the top while everyone else either gets a veteran or some good old-fashioned hope. 2025 dynasty tight end rankings would be short without including some of the <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0H2uY-KPYPE\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best tight end prospects in this draft<\/a>, so they&#8217;re filled in using projected draft capital and role.<\/p>\n<h2>2025 Dynasty Tight End Rankings &#8211; Rookies, Veterans, and Tiers<\/h2>\n<h3>Cornerstone Tight Ends<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Brock Bowers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trey McBride<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If we could get some touchdowns for McBride, that would be great. Instead we&#8217;ll settle for 1,000 yards and a top role in his offense. Bowers just broke rookie records while catching passes from anyone the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/raiders\/\" target=\"_self\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> could find, so any concerns about a Sam LaPorta slide year two should be thrown out.<\/p>\n<h3>Young and Exciting<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sam LaPorta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>T.J. Hockenson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tyler Warren<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colston Loveland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Warren and Loveland are all but locks to go in the first round this year. In this <a  href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ut9DV0ps4ek?si=3wN2ewVhNW7SX5kG\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All-22 film study on Tyler Warren<\/a> he&#8217;s a bulldozer with a fantastic contested catch ability. LaPorta saw his role shrink with the Jameson Williams breakout, but even in a disappointing season he finished as a top ten tight end. Hockenson has two healthy legs now, and sneakily had five or more targets in the last seven games of the season.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2025 Dynasty Tight End Rankings \u2013 Rookies, Veterans &amp; Tier Breakdowns\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EOhDP-PgzvQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Win Now Buys and a Sneaky Young Tight End<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Mark Andrews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>George Kittle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>David Njoku<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tucker Kraft<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The demise of Andrews was overblown, and that was a wild month where Isaiah Likely was a top five dynasty tight end. Kittle and Njoku are both YAC freaks who have top-five tight ends in their range of outcomes, but Tucker Kraft could be next. He finished as the TE10 on only 50 receptions. He had more yards than a long list of tight ends with more targets than him (including Kyle Pitts).<\/p>\n<h3>Unreasonable Hope and Questionable Longevity or Role<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Dalton Kincaid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle Pitts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Travis Kelce<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonnu Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cade Otton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pat Freiermuth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jake Ferguson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Kincaid or Pitts finally have a top eight-ish season, the fantasy community will implode. Maybe it won&#8217;t happen until they&#8217;re pushing 30 like <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/01\/31\/jonnu-smith-dynasty-outlook-for-dolphins-tight-end\/\" target=\"_self\">Jonnu Smith<\/a> did. For teams wanting a steady, boring, low-end tight end one or high-end tight end two, Cade Otton and Pat Freiermuth had almost identical points per game last year and are young enough to be useful for a while. Ferguson is the current tight end tied to Dak Prescott, so he&#8217;ll be useful until he goes somewhere else and loses that role, or if they upgrade in the draft.<\/p>\n<h3>Bounce-backs or Frisky Youths<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Cole Kmet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elijah Arroyo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Evan Engram<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Isaiah Likely<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gunnar Helm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Isaiah Likely<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dallas Goedert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Harold Fannin Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kmet could absolutely rocket ship up these 2025 dynasty tight end rankings by the end of the season, and is a priority buy in most formats. Arroyo, Helm and Fannin are all landing spot dependent, but Arroyo and Fannin have that exciting upside folks love to chase.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Tight Ends to Watch for 2025 Dynasty Tight End Rankings<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Mason Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ja&#8217;Tavion Sanders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chig Okonkwo (Runescape Legend)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Sinnott<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hunter Henry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/11\/11\/week-11s-offensive-nfl-draft-risers-filled-with-athletic-performers\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Oronde Gadsden II<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Noah Gray<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zach Ertz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a  href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/59YoovhRZSQ?si=yxf8JOpZCT6YWFrk\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch &#8211; Related 2025 Dynasty Wide Receiver Rankings<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These 2025 dynasty tight end rankings provide insight to veterans who will help you win now, and where rookies should be valued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4345,"featured_media":197415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32631,59],"tags":[10068,9504,34307,3770,339],"class_list":["post-219644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dynasty","category-fantasy","tag-brock-bowers","tag-dynasty-fantasy-football","tag-dynasty-rankings","tag-mark-andrews","tag-travis-kelce"],"modified_by":"Mike Kashuba","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219665,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219644\/revisions\/219665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}