2025 Fantasy Football Startup Dynasty League Tight End Rankings

Michael Fabiano | May 19, 2025

Raiders TE Brock Bowers will be the consensus No. 1 tight end selected in fantasy dynasty startup drafts. / Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

With the month of May comes the start of dynasty league draft chatter. After all, the end of the NFL Draft means we now have a very clear idea of how rosters will look, who could end up where on team depth charts and what a player’s value projects to be in 2025.

For those who are unaware, dynasty leagues are the closest you'll get to running a real NFL team … you build a roster with a one-time “all-players” draft, followed by yearly “rookies-only” drafts for as long as the league exists. If this seems like something you’d like to do in addition to your seasonal leagues, well, these dynasty startup league rank lists are for you.  

The difference between these rankings and redraft rankings is primarily in examining the age of the players. For example, Travis Kelce, who’ll be 35 next season, will be ranked ahead of younger guys such as Tyler Warren, Colston Loveland and Dalton Kincaid in traditional leagues. However, that trio has more value than Kelce in dynasty leagues due in large part to the fact that each of them is in the early 20s and hasn’t yet hit their primes.

With that said, here’s a look at my 2025 dynasty start-up league tight end rankings.

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Dynasty Fantasy Football Startup Tight End Rankings

Note: Ages listed are how old the player will be by the end of September.

Rank	Player	Team	Bye
1	Brock Bowers	LV	8
2	Trey McBride	ARI	8
3	Sam LaPorta	DET	8
4	Tyler Warren	IND	11
5	Colston Loveland	CHI	5
6	T.J. Hockenson	MIN	6
7	George Kittle	SF	14
8	David Njoku	CLE	9
9	Tucker Kraft	GB	5
10	Dalton Kincaid	BUF	7
11	Mark Andrews	BAL	7
12	Jake Ferguson	DAL	10
13	Evan Engram	DEN	12
14	Kyle Pitts	ATL	5
15	Travis Kelce	KC	10
16	Mason Taylor	NYJ	9
17	Isaiah Likely	BAL	7
18	Jonnu Smith	MIA	12
19	Pat Freiermuth	PIT	5
20	Terrance Ferguson	LAR	8
21	Elijah Arroyo	SEA	8
22	Harold Fannin Jr.	CLE	9
23	Cade Otton	TB	9
24	Dallas Goedert	PHI	9
25	Ja'Tavion Sanders	CAR	14
26	Cole Kmet	CHI	5
27	Hunter Henry	NE	14
28	Mike Gesicki	CIN	10
29	Ben Sinnott	WAS	12
30	Brenton Strange	JAC	8
31	Chigoziem Okonkwo	TEN	10
32	Theo Johnson	NYG	14
33	Dalton Schultz	HOU	6
34	Noah Gray	KC	10
35	Luke Musgrave	GB	5
36	Michael Mayer	LV	8
37	Juwan Johnson	NO	11
38	Noah Fant	SEA	8
39	Oronde Gadsden II	LAC	12
40	Tyler Higbee	LAR	8