Top 12 TEs for 2026! Tough Calls with the Sophomore TEs (01/21 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today

CBS Sports

Sports, Football

4.6 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

A quick round of news and notes (3:00) as we react to Mike McDaniel going to the Chargers. Is this great news for every Charger? Then we have some fun facts (6:35) for the AFC Championship game including a reason for Broncos fans to have hope ... Unveiling our Top 12 tight ends for 2026, we start with the Top 3 (8:40). Is there a big gap between Trey McBride and Brock Bowers? Which sophomore TE made the Top 3? We move on to TEs 4-6 (17:05) and debate Harold Fannin Jr. vs. Colston Loveland vs Tyler Warren. Also, Tucker Kraft makes the list ... TEs 7-9 (25:35) include Sam LaPorta, Dalton Kincaid and Kyle Pitts while TEs 9-12 (37:40) include Jake Ferguson, George Kittle, Oronde Gadsden, Isaiah Likely and Juwan Johnson depending on whose list you're referencing ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi,com

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0:00.0	This is fantasy football today from CBS Sports.
0:03.6	What a play!
0:04.8	Can you believe this?
0:06.3	It's a no idea.
0:08.0	It's time to dominate your fantasy league.
0:10.6	Off to the races and he stays on his feet.
0:13.4	It's just going to go the distance.
0:15.2	Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath.
0:20.9	Top 12, tight ends for 2026. Welcome to Fantasy Football today, presented by FedMGM. Make it legendary.
0:28.2	It's Wednesday, January 21st. Tomorrow, we will break down the conference championship games.
0:34.4	Tell you who to put in your DFS lineups and all those things. Today, though,
0:38.0	just a quick news update, a few of them for you, and then we'll get into the tight ends.
0:42.8	One and two are going to be pretty easy. After that, there'll be a lot of debate. Adam, Azer here.
0:47.1	Hello, good morning, Dave Richard. Adam, hello. It's an interesting position already, tight ends.
1:27.7	It's not going to be like it was last year. It'll be kind of like it was a couple of years ago. And we'll see where are we going to put George Kittle, who thinks he's going to be ready fairly early in the season. Heath, good morning. Good morning, Adam. Hello. Jamie, permanent glasses wearer, apparently, Jamie. He's on a little bit of a streak here. Good morning, Adam. Hello. Jamie, permanent glasses wearer, apparently, Jamie Isberg. He's on a little bit of a streak here. Good morning, Jamie. Good morning. How are you? Stealing my look, man. How am I? I'm doing well. I have something happened to me today. I went to the doctor today. Good. And they told me something that I cough.
1:32.6	Doctors, no one that the doctors ever said this to me. I showed up. They said,
1:36.6	Adam, your appointment is tomorrow. And then I went home.
2:19.3	So that's my warning so far. May, may add a few tests to the, uh, what we were planning on running. Yeah, maybe. Tomorrow we'll see. It'll be a longer appointment. I'll enjoy that glove's nap. Oh, no. Here are your news and notes. Giants news. Hooray, Cam Scadaboo could be ready. Should be ready for the start of OTAs. So it looks like he's doing pretty well in his recovery. Malik neighbors, they're hoping that he'll be ready for the start of training camp. We'll say about that. The Chargers is the big one here. Now, Jamie and I are going to do FFT Express after the show. We're going to talk about the coaching news in general. So I'm not going to let Jamie even speak during this segment.
2:21.7	Jamie can wipe his, clean his glasses.
2:27.6	But Heath, Chargers expected to hire Mike McDaniel as their new offensive coordinator.
2:28.2	You like it?
2:29.4	It's very exciting.
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