Updated Fantasy Football TE Rankings Week 15: Who to start, best sleepers at tight end

Everyone's favourite second-half breakout, Jonnu Smith, was connected the verge of posting a donut past week against the Jets. Thankfully, this matchup went to overtime, and Smith racked up 3 receptions for 44 yards and a people successful the other period. Smith is good connected his mode to being the league-winning choky extremity that galore hoped he'd be.

George Kittle kept his ft connected the state arsenic good past week. He finished with a season-high 151 receiving yards against the Bears. This was Kittle's 5th clip scoring astatine slightest 20 PPR points this year, the astir games with 20-plus points of immoderate choky end. If Kittle did not miss 2 games implicit the people of the year, helium could beryllium contending for the TE1 title.

Hopefully, your choky extremity volition beryllium capable to enactment unneurotic a 20-point show each week. With the Sporting News' choky extremity rankings successful hand, you'll beryllium successful the champion presumption imaginable to get a large time from your choky end.

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Fantasy TE Rankings Week 15: Who to start, beryllium astatine choky end

Rankings based connected PPR scoring. These rankings were updated connected Dec. 11 and volition beryllium updated passim the week, truthful cheque backmost often. 

Who are the champion phantasy TEs for Week 15?

Brock Bowers has officially acceptable the grounds for astir receptions by a rookie choky end, and we inactive person a period near successful the year. He's conscionable 21 years old, and he's arguably the champion choky extremity successful the NFL. You tin adjacent marque the statement for Bowers being 1 of the champion walk catchers successful the NFL. Bowers is the TE1 successful fantasy, and he'll vie for a TE1 ranking each and each week.

George Kittle is 1 of the different choky ends who person been carrying the presumption this season. Aside from the 49ers' Week 13 matchup successful a blizzard, Kittle has finished arsenic a top-10 choky extremity successful each crippled he's played this season. His quality to make yards aft the drawback and playing a cardinal relation successful the reddish portion volition let him to beryllium a accordant shaper successful phantasy lineups for the remainder of the year.

Aside from his allergy to uncovering the endzone, Trey McBride has been sensational this season. He's present been targeted 41 times successful his past 3 games. Much similar Kittle, McBride is 1 of the astir talented choky ends successful the league astatine creating yards aft the catch. McBride pops some connected movie and successful spreadsheets; everyone tin get down this feline being an elite phantasy asset.

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Who are the champion phantasy TE waiver pickups for Week 15?

With Taysom Hill retired of the picture, Juwan Johnson took implicit arsenic the Saints' superior pass-catching choky end. He played 49 snaps and ran 28 routes connected 36 dropbacks against the Giants successful Week 14. He yet drew 5 targets, finishing with 4 receptions and 50 yards. Considering his superior people contention is Alvin Kamara and Marquez Valdes-Scantling, determination successful the scope of a fractional twelve targets each week is simply a tenable expectation. If helium tin proceed to grow his relation successful the coming weeks, Johnson could propulsion to beryllium a fringe TE1 enactment successful beardown matchups.

Dallas Goedert was placed connected IR heading into Week 14, elevating Grant Calcaterra into the TE1 relation for the remainder of the phantasy season. This wasn't Calcaterra's archetypal spot commencement of the season, but helium looked bully against the Panthers arsenic the Eagles' starter. He hauled successful each 3 targets and recovered the extremity portion for 10.6 PPR points connected the day. Calcaterra volition beryllium a touchdown-dependent phantasy option, but successful the Philadelphia offense, determination volition beryllium plentifulness of touchdowns to spell around. 

Who are the champion phantasy TE sleepers for Week 15?

The Bears person been investigating the conditioning of their accomplishment players implicit the past month. Following the firing of Shane Waldron, Cole Kmet has played astir each violative snap. Kmet is purely a routes-based bet; with a full-time role, he'll person plentifulness of opportunities to gully targets. Many of his routes volition beryllium empty, but Kmet has shown the quality to bid a 20-percent people stock successful a azygous game. Against the Vikings, who make plentifulness of unit connected the quarterback, we could spot immoderate speedy hitters to Kmet.

Zach Ertz could beryllium connected this sleeper database each week. Ertz has produced among the TE1 ranks, but helium is viewed extracurricular of the top-12 choky ends by astir phantasy managers. Well, Ertz has scored astatine slightest 12.5 PPR points successful 3 consecutive games, a fig that would permission astir managers satisfied. The Commanders shouldn't person overmuch of an contented moving the shot against the Saints, and Ertz tin beryllium a cardinal portion of their violative production, peculiarly successful the reddish zone.

What are the biggest TE injuries for Week 15?

Dalton Kincaid near during Week 10 with a genu wounded and has not played since. There was immoderate optimism that helium would beryllium capable to instrumentality successful Week 14, truthful there's a bully accidental that he'll beryllium backmost successful enactment against the Lions connected Sunday.