TE Draft Strategies

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Tight end is the wild west of fantasy football. You’re either locked and loaded with a stud or out in the desert hoping your dart throw doesn’t dry up by Week 3. In this episode, Jeff breaks down all the key TE strategies for 2025: from paying up for the elite monsters in Robust TE, to finding the sweet spot in the TE Wheelhouse, to living dangerously with the Late-Round TE approach. He talks risk vs. reward, how to read the room in your draft, and why this position can make or break your season. Whether you’re hunting for Travis Kelce’s successor or trying to nail the next late-round gem, he has you covered.

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0:00.0	Yeah, yo, what's up?
0:14.1	Yo, yo, what's up?
0:16.5	This is a rant.
0:17.4	I'm Jeff.
0:18.3	It's Wednesday, July 23rd. Every single team is in camp now.
0:24.7	It's on. It's on. And a lot of these podcasts going forward are going to be more news oriented
0:30.4	because the news is going to move very, very quickly now that we are into camp. But as you can see today,
0:36.8	one more strategy piece has as promised, I wanted
0:39.2	to get into tight-end draft strategies. Tight-end is really, I think, the easiest position from a
0:45.4	strategy standpoint because it's pretty straightforward. It's not the easiest position to nail,
0:50.2	obviously, but strategy-wise, there's really one of three strategies. And I also want to talk a
0:55.8	little bit about how you might adjust in a tight-end premium format. A lot of people are in that
1:01.8	style. I personally dislike it. I'll tell you why, but I'll also tell you how I do adjust
1:06.5	because I actually am drafting in one right now. Before I get into that, FtnFantasy.com, it's tiers week over at FtnFantasy.com.
1:14.0	We just released my wide receiver tiers.
1:17.6	So right now we have quarterback, running back, and wide receiver up.
1:20.4	Tight end will be up tomorrow.
1:22.8	They're free.
1:23.7	You can check them out.
1:24.7	But of course, if you want to get behind the paywall and get access to our 16 different cheat sheets, rankings, projections, the tools galore, access to me in the Discord, premium article content, so much more for a 365-day subscription. Go check out the NFL Pro subscription and use the promo code rat pack for 10% off i do recommend
1:46.3	an NFL pro for the serious fantasy player but you could also check out i mean we have other
1:51.1	tiers we have just a draft kit for fantasy draft season we have like higher tier that has
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