Week One: Top 25 Fantasy Football Tight Ends
SB Nation has partnered with numberFire.com this year to bring you a new set of fantasy football player projections. For more details on the algorithmic modeling and analysis that helps create these weekly projections, head over to numberFire.com. They’ve shown to be accurate in 2010, so we’ll take look at 2011.
2011 Fantasy Football Tight End Rankings: Antonio Gates No. 1, Jermichael Finley No. 2
Fantasy football is just about to start. This year, SB Nation has hooked up with numberFire.com to bring you player projections each week. Enjoy the Top 25 tight end rankings.
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If you got a fantasy football stud at tight end, then it’s a blessing. They can produce numbers equivalent to a wide receiver. The problem is that there’s so few of them in the league currently. It becomes a dicey proposition picking out tight ends in the middle tier who will produce each week. That’s why we’ve done the work for you. Which tight end is in line for a big weekend?
Once you get past the top tier, guys like Antonio Gates, Jason Witten, and Dallas Clark, there are some new guys knocking on the door, and some vets who have always teased with their potential. Jermichael Finely is back from injury and looks like a guy who could do consistent damage, he comes in second in this week’s projections. Vernon Davis has teased us for years, will he have a big year again like he did a few years ago? His projections for Sunday look good.
Some veterans who are usually near the top of the list are falling further down nowadays, guys like Tony Gonzalez and Kellen Winslow.
Projections based on a standard scoring league.
| Tight Ends | |
| Player | Fantasy Points |
| Antonio Gates (TE, SD) | 12.03 |
| Jermichael Finley (TE, GB) | 9.50 |
| Jason Witten (TE, DAL) | 9.34 |
| Vernon Davis (TE, SF) | 9.30 |
| Dallas Clark (TE, IND) | 8.78 |
| Chris Cooley (TE, WAS) | 7.64 |
| Dustin Keller (TE, NYJ) | 7.10 |
| Jimmy Graham (TE, NO) | 6.89 |
| Marcedes Lewis (TE, JAX) | 6.64 |
| Greg Olsen (TE, CAR) | 6.55 |
| Todd Heap (TE, ARI) | 6.22 |
| Benjamin Watson (TE, CLE) | 6.06 |
| Brent Celek (TE, PHI) | 5.74 |
| Visanthe Shiancoe (TE, MIN) | 5.64 |
| Brandon Pettigrew (TE, DET) | 5.59 |
| Heath Miller (TE, PIT) | 5.22 |
| Aaron Hernandez (TE, NE) | 5.20 |
| Tony Gonzalez (TE, ATL) | 5.12 |
| Kellen Winslow (TE, TB) | 5.02 |
| Zach Miller (TE, SEA) | 4.60 |
| Owen Daniels (TE, HOU) | 4.52 |
| Jared Cook (TE, TEN) | 4.49 |
| Kevin Boss (TE, OAK) | 4.44 |
| Jermaine Gresham (TE, CIN) | 4.33 |
| Anthony Fasano (TE, MIA) | 4.21 |
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