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Trey McBride caught 41 more passes than any other tight end in 2025, so why is fantasy’s TE1 debate still open? Is Brock Bowers, drafted more than 20 picks ahead of the No. 3 tight end on the board, the only name with a real path to overtaking him? Or was McBride’s season built on volume nobody else at the position can sustain?
We cover all this, plus Colston Loveland and the rest of the 2026 tight end board, in a rapid-fire ranked rundown hosted by PFN’s Jacob Infante. Every spot on this list is built off current ADP inside the PFN Fantasy Football Mock Draft Simulator, so the rankings reflect what these tight ends actually cost you on draft night — not where a preseason list wishes they went. That matters most in the middle of this tier, where the gap between the No. 2 and No. 3 tight end is more than 20 picks of draft capital and the difference between a locked-in weekly starter and an upside swing you have to stream around. All production numbers are PPR, because PPR is the default league setting now. Draft the wrong tight end in the next two weeks, and you spend October scanning the waiver wire for a bye-week fill-in.
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*Trey McBride finished 2025 with 126 catches, 1,239 yards, and 11 receiving touchdowns, averaging nearly four more PPR points per game than the second-place tight end.
*Brock Bowers still tied for second among tight ends at 14.7 PPR points per game, while his quarterback play got worse, with the PFN QB impact score falling from 71.9 in 2024 to 64.7 in 2025.
*Colston Loveland averaged 20.0 PPR points per game over his final four games and hit a 17-game pace of 1,014 receiving yards across his last 10, all after ranking 16th at the position overall.
*Tyler Warren’s scoring jumped from 11.1 points per game to 13.1 with Daniel Jones healthy, making him a target-share bet on Indianapolis keeping its quarterback upright.
*Harold Fannin Jr. drew 108 targets as a rookie, eighth-most ever at the position, and David Njoku’s departure leaves him the outright TE1 in Cleveland.
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