2026 TE Fantasy Draft Rankings — Tiers, VOR & ADP Values

Our Tight Ends (TE) draft board for 2026: top 20 by value over replacement (VOR), grouped into tiers. Tier breaks mark real drop-offs in projected value over replacement — players inside a tier are close in value; crossing into the next tier is a bigger gap.

Tier 1

• 1. Trey McBride (TE, ARI) — 266.6 proj. pts, VOR 116.1, ADP #32
• 2. Kyle Pitts (TE, ATL) — 222.4 proj. pts, VOR 71.9, ADP #90
• 3. Travis Kelce (TE, KC) — 210.3 proj. pts, VOR 59.8, ADP #98
• 4. Colston Loveland (TE, CHI) — 206.9 proj. pts, VOR 56.4, ADP #47

Tier 2

• 5. Harold Fannin Jr. (TE, CLE) — 203.5 proj. pts, VOR 53.1, ADP #69
• 6. Dallas Goedert (TE, PHI) — 192.5 proj. pts, VOR 42.0, ADP #123
• 7. Tyler Warren (TE, IND) — 176.8 proj. pts, VOR 26.4, ADP #54
• 8. Mark Andrews (TE, BAL) — 171.4 proj. pts, VOR 20.9, ADP #127

Tier 3

• 9. George Kittle (TE, SF) — 166.4 proj. pts, VOR 16.0, ADP #109
• 10. Brock Bowers (TE, LV) — 166.2 proj. pts, VOR 15.8, ADP #37
• 11. Juwan Johnson (TE, NO) — 162.7 proj. pts, VOR 12.2, ADP #148
• 12. Dalton Schultz (TE, HOU) — 161.2 proj. pts, VOR 10.7, ADP #173

Tier 4

• 13. Zach Ertz (TE, WAS) — 159.1 proj. pts, VOR 8.7
• 14. T.J. Hockenson (TE, MIN) — 150.4 proj. pts, VOR 0.0, ADP #145
• 15. Chig Okonkwo (TE, WAS) — 149.1 proj. pts, VOR -1.4, ADP #172
• 16. Hunter Henry (TE, NE) — 146.7 proj. pts, VOR -3.7, ADP #143

Tier 5

• 17. Theo Johnson (TE, NYG) — 142.3 proj. pts, VOR -8.1
• 18. Jake Ferguson (TE, DAL) — 136.5 proj. pts, VOR -13.9, ADP #114
• 19. Pat Freiermuth (TE, PIT) — 129.9 proj. pts, VOR -20.5
• 20. Oronde Gadsden II (TE, LAC) — 129.8 proj. pts, VOR -20.7, ADP #169

Draft values

Players the market (ADP) drafts significantly LATER than our board ranks them — that gap is where draft value lives.

• Dalton Schultz (TE, HOU) — our rank #82, market ADP #173 (+91 picks)
• Chig Okonkwo (TE, WAS) — our rank #96, market ADP #172 (+76 picks)
• Dallas Goedert (TE, PHI) — our rank #49, market ADP #123 (+74 picks)
• Juwan Johnson (TE, NO) — our rank #79, market ADP #148 (+69 picks)
• Kyle Pitts (TE, ATL) — our rank #25, market ADP #90 (+65 picks)

Reaches

Players the market drafts significantly EARLIER than our board ranks them.

• Tucker Kraft (TE, GB) — our rank #189, market ADP #74 (-115 picks)
• Sam LaPorta (TE, DET) — our rank #164, market ADP #72 (-92 picks)
• Isaiah Likely (TE, NYG) — our rank #179, market ADP #135 (-44 picks)
• Brock Bowers (TE, LV) — our rank #75, market ADP #37 (-38 picks)
• Dalton Kincaid (TE, BUF) — our rank #146, market ADP #134 (-12 picks)

The full Tight Ends (TE) board with every tier.

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