Last week was the first week that I ranked Mark Andrews based on where he projected, which was outside the top 20 tight ends. In previous weeks, I had fudged Andrews’ ranking based on his reputation and the fact that I wasn’t going to sit him anywhere. He responded with his best game of the year, which was just 9.5 PPR Fantasy points, the third-best tight end on his own team. 

This week, the internal debate I am having is over Sam LaPorta. Coming off his bye, the Lions tight end has not scored double-digit Fantasy points in a game yet this year. He also does not have a game with more than five targets. In the projections, he’s closer to TE24 than he is to TE12. I’m buying into the narrative that the Lions may have changed some things on their bye week and pushing LaPorta up into my top 12 in the rankings.

One guy you may have added last week to start during LaPorta’s bye is Tucker Kraft. If you did, I would start Kraft again. He has 141 receiving yards and three scores in his last two games. I’m not sitting him until he gives me a reason to. 

Here’s everything else you need to know about tight end in Week 5:

Week 6 TE Preview

• 22.8% — Dallas Goedert leads all tight ends with a 22.8% target share. Expect that to decrease with A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith back.
• 27% — Trey McBride’s 27% TPRR leads all qualified tight ends. Hopefully, that opportunity turns into Fantasy production soon.
• 2.27 — Brock Bowers‘ 2.27 yards per route run is second only to Goedert. Bowers is the Dynasty TE1 and may compete for the redraft title as well.
• 15.9 — Tucker Kraft is averaging 15.9 PPR FPPG in three games with Jordan Love. That would tie George Kittle for TE1.
• 6 — Colby Parkinson has six red zone targets. Only George Kittle has more. Parkinson has not scored a touchdown.
• 19 — Travis Kelce has 19 targets over the past two weeks. It appears he’ll be in contention for TE1 overall this season, thanks to the injuries.

My full set of Week 6 Fantasy football projections for every position are now available on SportsLine. You can find them here. Find out which of my favorite plays are projected to score higher than consensus rankings and which don’t live up to their draft hype, at least in Week 6. Projected stats for all starting tight ends are available, so be sure to check out the full set of projections at SportsLine.