We will have you covered throughout the fantasy football season with our bevy of tools, including our Waiver Wire Assistant. Find the top available players and get detailed analysis on how potential fantasy football waiver wire adds will impact your team. Of course, our team of analysts will also have written advice each week. Check out some of our top fantasy football waiver wire tight ends to target for the week below. And here are all of our fantasy football waiver wire pickups for Week 12.
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Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets: Tight Ends
Tight Ends
Written by Derek Brown
Juwan Johnson (TE – NO): 45% Rostered
- Next Opponents: ATL, @MIA, @TB
- True Value: $3
- Desperate Need: $5
- Budget-Minded: $2
Analysis: In Tyler Shough‘s two starts, Juwan Johnson has had a 15.1% target share, 61.5 receiving yards per game, 3.00 yards per route run and an 11.8% first-read share, per Fantasy Points Data. He was the TE9 and TE3 in fantasy scoring in those weeks, seeing two red-zone targets and a deep target. Johnson should continue to produce borderline TE1 numbers as the Saints’ No. 2 target behind only Chris Olave.
Dalton Schultz (TE – HOU): 49% Rostered
- Next Opponents: BUF, @IND, @KC
- True Value: $2
- Desperate Need: $4
- Budget-Minded: $1
Analysis: In Weeks 3-10, Dalton Schultz had an 18.5% target share, 54.4 receiving yards per game, 1.75 yards per route run and a 20.2% first-read share, per Fantasy Points Data. In those seven games, he has had four red-zone targets and three deep targets. In Week 11, even with a bad matchup against the Titans, Schultz commanded a 21.9% target share, producing six receptions and 51 receiving yards. While I’m not in love with Schultz’s matchups over the next three games, if he continues to see this type of weekly volume, he’ll continue to flirt with TE1 fantasy production.
Colston Loveland (TE – CHI): 48% Rostered
- Next Opponents: PIT, @PHI, @GB
- True Value: $1
- Desperate Need: $2
- Budget-Minded: $0
Analysis: In Week 10, with Cole Kmet back from injury, Colston Loveland had a 51.2% route share, but he only had an 11.1% target share with 55 receiving yards and an 8.7% first-read share, per Fantasy Points Data. Loveland followed that up with a 58.3% route share, 12.5% target share and 40 receiving yards against the Vikings in Week 11. Loveland’s role remains capped with Kmet around. Chicago has moved to more 12 personnel to get Loveland onto the field, but with these types of route shares, Loveland is only a fringe weekly streaming option at tight end. The reason to pick him up is mostly with the hope that he can push Kmet aside at some point and earn a full-time route share. If that were to happen, Loveland would vault into low-end TE1 status for the rest of the season.
Mason Taylor (TE – NYJ): 17% Rostered
- Next Opponents: @BAL, ATL, MIA
- True Value: $1
- Desperate Need: $2
- Budget-Minded: $0
Analysis: Since Week 4, Mason Taylor has had a 20.2% target share with 33.8 receiving yards per game, 1.22 yards per route run and a 22.5% first-read share. In those six games, Taylor has had seven red-zone targets, one score and three weekly finishes in TE1 range. Taylor’s role in the Jets’ offense is solid, but with issues of quarterback play and passing volume, he remains a dicey weekly streaming candidate.
Noah Fant (TE – CIN): 3% Rostered
- Next Opponents: NE, @BAL, @BUF
- True Value: $0
- Desperate Need: $1
- Budget-Minded: $0
Analysis: Noah Fant is a deep league or desperation tight end streaming option this week. In Week 11, Fant had a 48.4% snap share, a 41.4% route share and a 15% target share. He turned it into five receptions and 35 receiving yards. This week, Fant gets a Patriots defense that has allowed the eighth-most receiving yards per game and the 12th-most fantasy points per game to tight ends.
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