Top 6 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups: Tight Ends (Week 10)

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 10.

Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets: Tight Ends

Tight Ends

Written by Derek Brown

Harold Fannin Jr. (TE – CLE): 42% Rostered

Next Opponents: @NYJ, BAL, @LV
True Value: $3
Desperate Need: $5
Budget-Minded: $2

Analysis: Harold Fannin Jr. shouldn’t even be on this list at this point. Fannin is the TE12 in fantasy points per game and ranks 14th in red-zone targets at the position. Fannin has four weekly TE1 scoring finishes (TE6, TE12, TE7, TE4). He has a 16.6% target share while averaging 44 receiving yards with 1.73 yards per route run and an 18.9% first-read share. Fannin should flirt with TE1 production for the rest of the season. Pick him up immediately.

Colston Loveland (TE – CHI): 23% Rostered

Next Opponents: NYG, @MIN, PIT
True Value: $2
Desperate Need: $4
Budget-Minded: $1

Analysis: OK, well, there was the big Colston Loveland breakout game we’ve been waiting for. I honestly thought this game was coming in Week 8, but it didn’t happen. I faded Loveland entering Week 9 with the return of Cole Kmet, but Kmet left the game with a concussion. Assuming Kmet will be out for Week 10, Loveland gets at least one more game with full-time run before the Chicago tight end situation becomes a mess again. In Week 9, Loveland had an 18.9% target share with six grabs, 118 receiving yards and two scores. The Giants are 18th in schedule-adjusted fantasy points per game allowed to tight ends, per Fantasy Points Data. Loveland is a solid streamer this week with TE1 upside.

Mason Taylor (TE – NYJ): 20% Rostered

Next Opponents: CLE, @NE, @BAL
True Value: $2
Desperate Need: $4
Budget-Minded: $1

Analysis: Mason Taylor has been a TE1 in weekly scoring in three of his last five games (TE11, TE8, TE7). Since Week 4, he has a 20.4% target share, 39.8 receiving yards per game, 1.26 yards per route run and a 22.6% first-read share, per Fantasy Points Data. In those five games, Taylor has seven red-zone targets. Taylor is a solid volume-infused streaming option moving forward.

Cade Otton (TE – TB): 37% Rostered

Next Opponents: NE, @BUF, @LAR
True Value: $2
Desperate Need: $4
Budget-Minded: $1

Analysis: If you’re looking at Cade Otton on the waiver wire, it’s as a one-week streamer for Week 10. Since Week 5, Otton has a 19.2% target share with 59.3 receiving yards per game, 2.14 yards per route run and a 12.5% first-read share, per Fantasy Points Data. In those four games, Otton has one weekly TE1 finish (TE11). If you need help at tight end, stream him this week against the Patriots, who have allowed the 10th-most scheduled-adjusted fantasy points per game to tight ends.

Dalton Schultz (TE – HOU): 27% Rostered

Next Opponents: JAX, @TEN, BUF
True Value: $2
Desperate Need: $4
Budget-Minded: $1

Analysis: Entering Week 9, Dalton Schultz was the TE20 in fantasy points per game with one weekly TE1 finish this season (TE5). He had a 16.5% target share with 44 receiving yards per game, 1.66 yards per route run and a 17.5% first-read share, per Fantasy Points Data. Against the Broncos on Sunday, Schultz had a 20% target share with six receptions and 77 scoreless receiving yards. Schultz is a strong streamer this week against a Jacksonville defense that has allowed the eighth-most schedule-adjusted fantasy points per game to tight ends.

Theo Johnson (TE – NYG): 33% Rostered

Next Opponents: @CHI, GB, @DET
True Value: $1
Desperate Need: $2
Budget-Minded: $0

Analysis: Entering Week 9, Theo Johnson had been the TE11 in fantasy points per game since Week 4, drawing an 18.8% target share with 32.6 receiving yards per game, 1.22 yards per route run and a 22.6% first-read share, per Fantasy Points Data. In those five games, he had five red-zone targets and a deep target. Against the 49ers on Sunday, Johnson had an 18.1% target share, three receptions, 27 receiving yards and a score. With Jaxson Dart playing lights out and Johnson heavily involved near the goal line, he’ll continue to be a strong weekly streaming option at tight end who can pop off at any time with TE1 upside.