Pat Fitzmaurice has you covered each week with his rankings and positional tiers. This will help guide your lineup decisions. You can find Fitz’s full Week 3 fantasy football rankings and tiers article here. And below we dive into a few players of note ahead of this weekend’s games.
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Fantasy Football Outlook (Week 3)
This could be a good week to play Taysom Hill. The Saints will be without RBs Jamaal Williams (hamstring) and Alvin Kamara (suspension). Rookie Kendre Miller is coming back from a hamstring injury of his own and probably won’t get a big workload in his NFL debut, and veteran RB Tony Jones is just a jobber. Hill had 9-75-0 rushing against the Panthers in Week 2, and we might see a lot of him when the Saints visit Green Bay on Sunday. I have Hill ranked inside the top 10 at the TE position this week.
Hunter Henry already has two TD catches, and he’s been heavily involved in the New England passing game, with 11 catches for 108 yards on 13 targets. Henry has a nice matchup this week against the Dolphins, who have given up the second-most receptions (16) to tight ends this season. Miami has also given up a pair of TD catches to tight ends this season after yielding 10 touchdowns to TEs a year ago.
Jake Ferguson hasn’t exactly been a model of efficiency this season, with 22 receiving yards on 11 targets. But Ferguson leads all tight ends with seven red-zone targets, and he gets a favorable Week 3 matchup against a Cardinals defense that gave up a league-high 101 receptions and 12 touchdowns to TEs in 2022. Ferguson is playable in Week 3.
The Saints continue to be a horrible matchup for opposing tight ends. New Orleans gave up the fewest receiving yards and fantasy points to TEs a year ago. Two games into the 2023 season, the Saints have given up only three catches and 20 receiving yards to tight ends. With the Packers hosting the Saints this weekend, leave Green Bay rookie Luke Musgrave on your bench.
Zach Ertz has 12 receptions on 18 targets. But Ertz has given us empty-calorie PPR production. He has 77 receiving yards and no touchdowns. Ertz is averaging 6.4 yards per catch and 4.3 yards per target. I realize TE is a challenging position for fantasy managers, but it would take extremely stormy seas at the position for me to consider starting Ertz.
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