2026 Fantasy Football TE Rankings: Rich Hribar’s Notes on Every Player

These are Rich Hribar's 2026 fantasy tight end rankings with brief analytical notes on every fantasy relevant player.

The full rankings for PPR, Half-PPR, Superflex, and TE Premium leagues are downloadable and sortable on our main fantasy rankings page.

Rich's 2026 positional tiers will publish later this summer.

These notes will be updated throughout the offseason as the landscape changes.

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2026 Fantasy Tight End Rankings:

1. Trey McBride: A perfect storm of team injuries propelled him to the most positional leverage for a TE1 ever. Ran 121 more routes than the next closest tight end. Even expecting regression and the field to be tighter on his heels in 2026, McBride has usage, age, and production on his side. I still believe he is a better bet to run more routes than Bowers to split hairs up top.

2. Brock Bowers: Injuries impacted his top-down production in 2025, but has still opened his career as the TE3 and TE2 in fantasy points per game. Clear lead target in his passing tree with an upgrade in play-caller. The only potential hang-up is high-end ceiling attached to a rookie passer.

3. Colston Loveland: Ended the season with at least 15% of the team’s targets in each of the final nine games, drawing a target on 24.7% of his routes for 1.97 yards per route run over that span. Over the final five games of the season, Loveland was on the field for 80.9% of the team's dropbacks, receiving a target on 30.5% of his routes with 2.34 yards per route run.

4. Tyler Warren: Strong rookie season, catching 76 of 112 targets for 817 yards and 4 touchdowns. TE3 in route participation (83.6%). Is expected to have more on his plate in year two with Michael Pittman gone.

5. Tucker Kraft: Was on his way to a massive breakout season last year before an ACL injury in Week 9. Before his injury, Kraft was third among tight ends with 469 receiving yards, second in touchdowns (6), and fourth in fantasy points per game (14.7). Kraft will be right around 10 months in his recovery at the start of the season, with the Packers losing wide receiver targets Romeo Doubs and Dontayvion Wicks.