Top 4 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets: Tight Ends (Week 6)

We will have you covered throughout the 2023 fantasy football season with our bevy of tools, including our Waiver Wire Assistant. Find the top available players and get detailed analysis on how potential waiver wire adds will impact your team. Of course, our team of analysts will also have written advice each week. Check out some of our top waiver wire targets for the week below. And here is all of our fantasy football waiver wire advice for Week 6.

Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets

TIGHT ENDS

Written by Derek Brown

Logan Thomas (WAS): 15% rostered

Next Opponents: @ATL, @NYG, PHI
True value: $4
Desperate need: $8
Budget-minded: $2

Analysis: Thomas blew up last week with a 21.5% target share, nine grabs, 77 receiving yards and a touchdown. Thomas has surpassed 40 receiving yards in three of his four games and now has two contests with at least eight targets under his belt. Thomas could be a top-12 fantasy option in each of the next three games. Over that stretch, he faces defenses that have allowed the seventh-most, 14th-most and second-most fantasy points per game to tight ends.

Luke Musgrave (GB): 24% rostered

Next Opponents: BYE, DEN, MIN
True value: $3
Desperate need: $5
Budget-minded: $1

Analysis: Entering Week 5, in Musgrave’s full games played (he left one early with a concussion), he had a 15.8% target share, a 16.5% air-yard share, 1.55 yards per route run and a 16.2% first-read share (per Fantasy Points Data). Musgrave is third on the team with three red-zone targets. I continue to pound the drum for Musgrave, who is low-key getting TE1 usage. Pick him up now and play him in Week 7 against the Broncos, who have allowed the third-most fantasy points per game to tight ends.

Cade Otton (TB): 2% rostered

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

Analysis: Otton is a matchup-based streaming option for the next two weeks. His 12.6% target share isn’t amazing, but he is running all of the routes for Tampa Bay and has electric matchups for Week 6 and 7. The Lions and Falcons have allowed the sixth- and seventh-most fantasy points per game to tight ends. Otton could return TE1 production for the next two weeks for pennies.

Tyler Conklin (NYJ): 6% rostered

Next Opponents: PHI, BYE, @NYG
True value: $1
Desperate need: $2
Budget-minded: $0

Analysis: Conklin entered Week 5 with a 16.4% target share (13th-best) and 75% route participation. Against the Broncos on Sunday, he had a 19.2% target share and led the team with 67 receiving yards. While Zach Wilson turned back into a pumpkin, Conklin was still productive. This is why he makes the waiver wire article as a matchup-based streaming option. The Eagles have allowed the third-most fantasy points per game and the seventh-most receiving yards to the TE position.