Week 7 Fantasy Football Tight End Rankings: Happy Tucker Kraft boom week?

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TE rankings and TE tiers: Ian Hartitz ranks his top 24 tight ends for Week 7 of fantasy football, just in time for National Tight Ends Day, and sorts them into four tiers. Brock Bowers is the TE1, George Kittle is the TE3 with Mike Evans (Achilles) not expected to suit up, and Tucker Kraft is the TE6: the Lions are allowing 11 more PPR points per game to tight ends than any other defense. Tyler Higbee climbs to TE7 with Davante Adams sidelined, Colston Loveland is back in TE1 territory, and Colby Parkinson is a touchdown option at TE14. After tiers 1 to 3 Ian stops for a bigger question about the position.

TIER 1: THE BIG SIX
Brock Bowers, Trey McBride, George Kittle, Isaiah Likely, Sam LaPorta, Tucker Kraft.
Key question: who has the best on-paper matchups this week? Vegas implied team totals against opponent PPR points allowed to tight ends: it's Tucker Kraft and it's everyone else, with the Rams tight ends also set up well. Isaiah Likely and Tyler Warren (groin) face a tough mix of matchup and offense.

TIER 2: TE1s WITH A QUESTION MARK
Tyler Higbee, Dallas Goedert, Travis Kelce, Colston Loveland, T.J. Hockenson, Kyle Pitts.
Key question: who has the best and worst schedules moving forward? By average opponent rank over Weeks 7-12, the Jets, Broncos, Buccaneers, Steelers and Rams have it easiest; the Chargers, Raiders, Jaguars, Lions, Packers and 49ers have it toughest. Matchups are a tiebreaker, not a rule of thumb.

TIER 3: THE TE2s
Michael Mayer, Colby Parkinson, Hunter Henry, Pat Freiermuth, Mike Gesicki, Juwan Johnson.
Key question: which tight ends have striking splits inline vs. in the slot or out wide? Bowers (91%), Likely (92%) and McBride (83%) do most of their damage in the slot or out wide, George Kittle gets 82% of his production inline, and Mike Gesicki is at 0% inline.

TIER 4: NO THANK YOU
Kenyon Sadiq, Harold Fannin Jr., AJ Barner, Darren Waller, Dalton Schultz, Mark Andrews.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:23 Tier 1: The big six
4:58 Key question: best on-paper matchups this week
6:36 Tier 2: TE1s with a question mark
12:59 Key question: best and worst schedules moving forward
14:14 Tier 3: The TE2s
19:34 Key question: inline vs. slot and wide splits
20:57 Sling
21:33 Tier 4: No thank you
25:45 Wrapping up

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