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Welcome to Fantasy Football Championship Week. Congratulations if you are still alive. This will be the last week of my position preview; let’s go get a championship! While there will be plenty of content for those trying to win it all this week, I look to also take a look ahead this time of year to 2026. So you’ll still find waiver wire adds, numbers to know, and Week 17 DFS plays below like normal. But to start, I would like to offer a short overview as to what the position might look like in 2026.Tight end this year has been phenomenal, unlike any year I can remember. After all those false starts saying “tight end looks deep this year” and then looking foolish, it actually happened in 2025. Through Week 16, there are 12 tight ends averaging at least 11 PPR FPPG and another four averaging double digits. Off that pace are two guys who we expect to be better next year: Oronde Gadsden II and Colston Loveland. I am already excited about the options we are going to have next year.That being said, there are several tight ends who have been good this year who could disappear. At the top of the list is Travis Kelce, who would surprise no one if he chooses to retire. I have no idea if Darren Waller will come back either. And George Kittle won’t retire, but he will turn 33, so we have to at least consider a dropoff. Jake Ferguson is probably in trouble if George Pickens comes back; he has had much less success when Pickens and CeeDee Lamb are available. And Dallas Goedert will be the posterboy for touchdown regression.With little doubt that the position will be deep, the question becomes about tier breaks. Are Brock Bowers and George Kittle in the same tier as Trey McBride? Just how big of a leap do we project for Tyler Warren, Harold Fannin, and Colston Loveland in Year 2? And what roles do Sam LaPorta and Tucker Kraft claim in their returns? These are the questions we will tackle this offseason. For now, let’s go win a championship.Here’s everything else you need to know about tight end in Week 17:
Week 17 TE Preview
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