ClutchPoints
It is finally time to be building out your fantasy football draft strategies for the 2025 NFL season. With the start of the campaign just weeks away, starting to determine your draft plans now will help set you apart from your leaguemates.
For the final installment in ClutchPoints’ positional rankings, let’s take a deep dive into the tight end position. After Brock Bowers took home top honors as TE1 last year, the Las Vegas offense is hoping that Geno Smith is their long-term solution at QB. So is Bowers in a position to lead all TEs again, or will someone else take the crown?
Any data regarding player stats from the 2024 fantasy season were pulled from Sleeper and all rankings factor in a point-per-reception (PPR), single-QB league format. As always, utilize our rankings but make sure to build out your pre-draft rankings to match the specific format of your fantasy football league.
2024 Finish: TE1
The tight end position has once again become a hot-button topic in fantasy football, after the rookie year breakout from Bowers in 2024. All Bowers did was lead all TEs in receiving yards, receptions, and targets last year, while averaging over 70 receiving yards per game and outpacing some elite wide receivers.
Bowers enters his second season as the top-rated TE in ClutchPoints’ tight end rankings, and he will be catching passes from Geno Smith, a massive upgrade from last season. Expecting the Raiders to need to throw the ball a lot once again this year, another big campaign is in store for Bowers.
2024 Finish: TE2
Touchdowns were hard to come by for the Arizona Cardinals’ offense as a whole, something that hindered Trey McBride last year. Even with only finding the end zone twice in 2024, with his first score not coming until Week 17, McBride still managed to finish as the overall TE2.
On the heels on his best professional season to date, McBride is in line to once again play a huge role in Arizona’s passing attack. Even with Marvin Harrison Jr. ready to take a step forward, look for McBride to cross the 1,000-yard mark while scoring at least 5 TDs in 2025.
2024 Finish: TE3
While rare, the first three tight ends in these rankings are listed in the same order that they finished last season in, and that includes George Kittle coming in as TE3 for 2025. With the skill player group either injured or suspended, the San Francisco 49ers look like they will need to lean heavily on their veteran tight end as he enters his ninth season in the NFL.
Kittle has a solid rapport developed with Brock Purdy, as his 1,106 yards in 2024 marks the second-highest yardage total of his career. Combine that with an unknown timeline for Brandon Aiyuk, Demarcus Robinson being handed a three-game suspension by the NFL, and Ricky Pearsall acclimating to a bigger role, and you have...
