Fantasy Football Week 11 Tight End Preview: Projections, numbers to know, and more

The tight end position continues to be entertaining, if not reliable. This week, in things we didn’t think we would ever be saying, it sure looks like Cade Otton and Dalton Schultz are both must-start tight ends. In my early Week 11 projections, they both project as top five tight ends. In our early Week 11 tight end consensus rankings, they are both in the top eight. What could go wrong?

That question is probably easier to answer for Schultz. The last time we got really excited about starting Schultz, he scored 4.4 PPR Fantasy points. We all felt ashamed and immediately dropped him in the rankings. We should have ignored it. In his last two games he has averaged 16 PPR Fantasy points. In fact, Week 8 is the only game in his last five that he has scored less than 10 PPR Fantasy points. His matchup against the Titans doesn’t look great on paper, but we are starting him anyway.

Otton is an easier case to make. With Mike Evans and Chris Godwin out, Baker Mayfield doesn’t have much choice to throw to Otton. He had 12 targets last week and has 37 in his last five games. His low point total in that stretch is eight PPR Fantasy points. Like Schultz, Otton has a bad matchup on paper, but you aren’t going to find anyone on the waiver wire who we like better.

We are not just starting the hot hand at tight end. We are going back to ice cold Jake Ferguson coming off a bye, we’re starting Travis Kelce against a defense that has erased Ferguson and Brock Bowers in recent weeks, and we are ignoring Kyle Pitts‘ disappointing Week 10. The one guy we don’t want to start is T.J. Hockenson, he is not a top 15 tight end for any of our rankings.

Here’s everything else you need to know about tight end in Week 11:

Week 11 TE Preview

• 22.7 — The Bengals are giving up 22.7 PPR FPPG to tight ends, the highest mark in the league. Good luck guessing which Steelers tight end it will be this week. We like Pat Freiermuth the most.
• 10.6 — Travis Kelce has the most points of any tight end against the Bills this year, 10.6. Hopefully, Cade Otton tops that.
• 16.7% — Brenton Strange had a 16.7% target share in the first month of the season. He is eligible to come off Injured Reserve and could have an even bigger role if both Brian Thomas and Travis Hunter are out.
• 84 — George Kittle had 84 receiving yards in Week 10. That’s more than he had in his last three games combined. He’s back.
• 20.4 — Travis Kelce scored 20.4 PPR Fantasy points the last time he faced the Broncos.
• 21.9% — Harold Fannin had a disappointing Week 10, but he still had a 21.9% target share. We are going right back to him.
• 51.2% — David Njoku barely ran half of the routes for the Browns. He’s the clear TE2 in Cleveland.
• 11.9 — Since Jaxson Dart took over as the starter, Theo Johnson is averaging 11.9 PPR FPPG, good enough for TE10 in that stretch.

My full set of Week 11 Fantasy football projections for every position is 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 11. Projected stats for all starting tight ends are available, so be sure to check out the full set of projections at SportsLine.