Top 4 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets: Tight End (Week 7)

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Michael Mayer (LV): 5% rostered

• Next Opponents: @CHI, @DET, NYG
• True value: $4
• Desperate need: $8
• Budget-minded: $2

Analysis: Finally! Mayer is now a full-time player in the Raiders’ offense. He played 81% of snaps this week with an 18.7% target share and a 68.7% route run rate (per PFF). Over the last two weeks, he has produced some electric efficiency numbers, with a 25% target per route run rate and 3.16 yards per route run. Mayer has top-12 rest-of-season upside. Over the next four weeks, he has cushy matchups with the Bears, Lions and Jets, who have allowed the 13th-most, sixth-most and most fantasy points per game to tight ends this season.

Jonnu Smith (ATL): 19% rostered

• Next Opponents: @TB, @TEN, MIN
• True value: $2
• Desperate need: $4
• Budget-minded: $1

Analysis: Smith continues to be the Falcons’ WR3. In Weeks 2-5, he had a 64.2% route run rate, an 18.7% target share and a 22.4% first-read share. From Week 2 to Week 5, among 36 qualifying tight ends, Smith ranked 10th in target share, second in receiving yards per game, second in yards per route run and fifth in first read share (per Fantasy Points Data). Over that span, he was the TE10 in fantasy. Smith will continue to be a weekly borderline TE1 if this usage continues.

Luke Musgrave (GB): 18% rostered

• Next Opponents: @DEN, MIN, LAR
• True value: $2
• Desperate need: $4
• Budget-minded: $1

Analysis: I know I sound like a broken record, but Musgrave’s ancillary usage metrics all scream that he will be a weekly TE1 at some point this season. In the full games he has played, he has a 72.7% route run rate, a 17.6% target share and 1.56 yards per route run (per Fantasy Points Data). Among 34 qualifying tight ends this season, those metrics rank 11th, 10th, and 10th. Over the next three weeks, he faces Denver and Los Angeles, who have allowed the second-most and third-most fantasy points per game to tight ends. Spike weeks are coming for Musgrave.

Cade Otton (TB): 3% rostered

• Next Opponents: ATL, @BUF, @HOU
• True value: $1
• Desperate need: $2
• Budget-minded: $0

Analysis: Otton is a matchup-based streaming option only this week. If you don’t want to travel this far down the streaming rabbit hole, I get it. Otton just had another beautiful streaming matchup against the Lions and finished with a 5.4% target share, so if you want to disregard him totally, I get it. This week’s matchup against the Falcons, who have given up the fifth-most fantasy points per game and receiving yards to tight ends, offers another opportunity for Otton to put up borderline TE1 numbers.