8 Tight Ends Experts Draft (2024 Fantasy Football)

When preparing for your fantasy football drafts, knowing which players to target and others to avoid is important. The amount of information available can be overwhelming, so a great way to condense the data and determine players to draft and others to leave for your leaguemates is to use our expert consensus fantasy football rankings compared to fantasy football average draft position (ADP). In this way, you can identify players the experts are willing to reach for at ADP and others they are not drafting until much later than average. Let’s dive into a few notable fantasy football players below.

2024 Fantasy Football Draft Advice

PLAYER NAME	TEAM	POS	ECR	ADP	ECR VS. ADP	BYE WEEK	SOS SEASON
Pat Freiermuth	PIT	TE13	118	127	9	9	3 out of 5 stars
Luke Musgrave	GB	TE16	142	166	24	10	3 out of 5 stars
Hunter Henry	NE	TE18	152	187	35	14	3 out of 5 stars
Tyler Conklin	NYJ	TE19	160	185	25	12	3 out of 5 stars
Taysom Hill	NO	TE20	164	195	31	12	4 out of 5 stars
Cade Otton	TB	TE21	168	191	23	11	3 out of 5 stars
Noah Fant	SEA	TE22	177	199	22	10	3 out of 5 stars
Juwan Johnson	NO	TE24	191	251	60	12	4 out of 5 stars

Fantasy Football Draft Outlook

Pat Freiermuth (PIT)

After averaging 9.5 and 9.9 PPF fantasy points per game in his first two seasons in the league, Pat Freiermuth averaged only 6.4 PPR points per game in 2023, as he was thwarted by uneven QB play and a hamstring injury that cost him five games. Freiermuth had seven TD catches as a rookie in 2021. He only scored two touchdowns in 2022 but ramped up his yardage, finishing with 63 receptions for 732 yards. Freiermuth is adept at working the middle of the field, has dependable hands and is tough to bring down after the catch. A nine-catch, 120-yard performance vs. the Bengals in late November showed what Freiermuth is capable of. The Steelers aren’t exactly loaded at the WR position, so Freiermuth should see enough targets in 2024 to give him a chance at low-end TE1 fantasy value.
– Pat Fitzmaurice

Hunter Henry (NE)

Henry had an up-and-down season, which can be traced to an ankle and knee issue. The ankle ailment slowed him down during the middle of the season (Weeks 6-8) and the knee problem ended his season early (Week 16). Henry had ten games last year where he was able to play at least 70% of the snaps. In that sample, he finished as a TE1 in 50% of his games while drawing a 15.2% target share with 1.35 yards per route run and 35.7 receiving yards per game. He averaged 10.8 fantasy points per game. The interesting takeaway in that sample was that among 41 qualifying tight ends, he ranked seventh in first downs per route run, and that fantasy points per game mark would have made him TE8 in fantasy if he had kept up the pace all year. Henry is a strong late-round tight end who could flirt with TE1 production this year.
– Derek Brown