2025 Fantasy Football Startup Dynasty League Tight End Rankings: Colston Loveland In The Top 10

Michael Fabiano | Jun 5, 2025

Bears TE Colston Loveland was the 10th overall selection in the 2025 NFL Draft. / Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images

The end of the NFL Draft and the release of the league's schedule means we now have a very clear idea of how rosters will look, who could end up where on team depth charts, which players will face off against which teams and when, and ultimately,  what a player’s value projects to be in 2025.

That means will have all the information we need to determine potential values in fantasy football dynasty leagues.

For those 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 ... so there's a lengthy commitment. 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 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 due in large part to the fact that each of them is in the early 20s and hasn’t yet hit their primes.

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

2025 Fantasy Football Tight End Dynasty Startup Rankings

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

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