Here are my fantasy football rankings and tiers for Week 9. As always, feel free to use these tiered rankings as a tiebreaker for your difficult lineup decisions. Beneath the tiers, I’ll offer a few brief thoughts on some of the borderline start/sit guys and some other interesting cases.
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Dalton Kincaid SZN is upon us. With fellow TEs Dawson Knox and Quintin Morris out with injuries, Kincaid had a season-high 84% snap share against the Buccaneers in Week 8, ran routes on 39 of his 58 snaps and finished with 5-65-1. Now he gets a matchup against the Bengals, who have given up the most fantasy points to tight ends this season. Opposing TEs are averaging 8.7 yards per target against Cincinnati.
Taysom Hill‘s TE eligibility annoys a lot of fantasy managers, but for those of you with the “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” mindset, I’ll mention that Hill is TE2 in fantasy scoring (0.5 PPR) over the last three weeks. Hill isn’t a safe weekly play because it’s hard to get a handle on how many touches he’ll get in any given game. It’s reassuring, however, that Hill has played at least 28 offensive snaps in each of his last five contests. He’s played 191 snaps over that stretch, and he’s gotten a carry, a target or a pass attempt on 22% of those snaps — an average of 8.4 opportunities per game. I have Hill ranked TE6 in a seemingly favorable matchup against the Bears.
Trey McBride was a smash play in Week 8, with 10-95-1 on 14 targets — good for a TE2 finish in 0.5 PPR fantasy scoring. He managed to do it against the Ravens, who had been extremely stingy to opposing TEs all season. With Zach Ertz out, McBride played a season-high 63 snaps last week, and his increased usage puts him squarely in the TE1 class. That said, McBride is a dicey proposition this week. He’ll be playing with fifth-round rookie QB Clayton Tune, who’ll be making his first NFL start, and McBride will be facing a Browns defense that has given up the fewest fantasy points to tight ends.
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