Fantasy Football Busts to Avoid (2025)

To make your fantasy football draft selection process easier, I have tight ends who you should completely avoid in fantasy football drafts. Here are fantasy football busts to let other managers draft.

Tight End Busts to Avoid: Overvalued Fantasy Football Picks

Kyle Pitts (TE – ATL)

Kyle Pitts has consistently been a guy who’s loaded with talent, but the fantasy production hasn’t ever come. Last season, Pitts caught 47 passes for 602 yards and four touchdowns. His four touchdowns were a single-season high. However, the yardage, catches and targets were down from the previous year.

Those figures were already quite low, with 53 catches for 667 yards and three touchdowns. In 2024, Pitts averaged eight points per game, which ranked as the TE18. He finished with single-digit points in 10 games from Weeks 1 to 17. Pitts had just two games with more than 15 points.

With Michael Penix Jr. in his first full season with other weapons like Drake London, Darnell Mooney and do-it-all running back Bijan Robinson, Pitts may be in for another tough season. Save yourself the heartbreak.

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Cole Kmet (TE – CHI)

Cole Kmet is going quite late in drafts at TE30, but even still, I’m not even taking a risk with a late-round pick on him. In 2024, Kmet caught 47 passes on 55 targets for 474 yards and four touchdowns.

This was a far cry from his 73 catches for 719 yards and six touchdowns in 2023. Additionally, the Bears have a new coaching staff led by Ben Johnson. With the first draft pick as part of his new regime, he selected Colston Loveland, a tight end from Michigan.

Kmet’s days as a decent pass-catching weapon for the Bears appear over.