2026 Fantasy Football Tight End Rankings For Seasonal Leagues

A new wave of young tight ends make up the top 10 fantasy tight ends as the season nears.

2026 Fantasy Football Tight End Rankings | Sports Illustrated

Updated ranks: QB | RB | WR | TE | DEF | K | Top 200 | Rookies | Mock draft

The collapse of the tight end position in fantasy football leagues continued last season. Just one (Trey McBride) finished in the top 10 in PPR leagues, and the second-best player at tight end, Kyle Pitts Sr., finished 36th with around the same number of points as Stefon Diggs. The good news is that we are seeing an influx of youth, as players such as Colston Loveland, Tyler Warren and Harold Fannin Jr. emerged into startable fantasy assets a season ago.

The problem, however, is that the list of players you can depend on to be weekly starters at the position has shrunk like George Costanza after a swim in the pool. In fact, it can be argued that beyond McBride and Brock Bowers, everyone else comes with at least some uncertainty, even players we love like Loveland, Warren and Fannin Jr. Can they duplicate last year’s success?

With that said, here are my 2026 fantasy football tight end rankings … now with auction values! I’ll be updating these often throughout the summer, so keep checking back.

Note: Auction values are based on a $200 budget.

2026 Fantasy Football Tight End Rankings

Rk	Player	Team	Bye	Auction
1	Trey McBride	ARI	14	$48
2	Brock Bowers	LV	13	$42
3	Colston Loveland	CHI	10	$21
4	Tyler Warren	IND	13	$19
5	Tucker Kraft	GB	11	$16
6	Harold Fannin Jr.	CLE	11	$15
7	Kyle Pitts Sr.	ATL	11	$15
8	Sam LaPorta	DET	6	$14
9	Travis Kelce	KC	5	$14
10	George Kittle	SF	8	$13
11	Mark Andrews	BAL	13	$12
12	Jake Ferguson	DAL	14	$9
13	Isaiah Likely	NYG	8	$8
14	Dalton Kincaid	BUF	7	$5
15	Dallas Goedert	PHI	10	$5
16	Chig Okonkwo	WAS	7	$4
17	Hunter Henry	NE	11	$4
18	Brenton Strange	JAC	7	$3
19	Oronde Gadsden	LAC	7	$3
20	Juwan Johnson	NO	8	$3
21	Kenyon Sadiq	NYJ	13	$3
22	Dalton Schultz	HOU	8	$2
23	T.J. Hockenson	MIN	6	$2
24	AJ Barner	SEA	11	$2
25	Greg Dulcich	MIA	6	$2
26	Gunnar Helm	TEN	9	$1
27	Pat Freiermuth	PIT	9	$1
28	Terrance Ferguson	LAR	11	$1
29	Eli Stowers	PHI	10	$1
30	Cade Otton	TB	10	$1
31	Mike Gesicki	CIN	6	$1
32	Evan Engram	DEN	10	$1
33	Colby Parkinson	LAR	11	$1
34	Mason Taylor	NYJ	13	$1
35	Darnell Washington	PIT	9	$1
36	Michael Mayer	LV	13	$1
37	Ja'Tavion Sanders	CAR	5	$1
38	David Njoku	LAC	7	$1
39	Jake Tonges	SF	8	$1
40	Theo Johnson	NYG	8	$1

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