We’ve already discussed running backs and wide receivers. Now it’s time to complete our skill-position group with the tight-ends. This is a position that continuously morphs as the demands of them change over time. Generally, you differentiate between the more traditional “Y”, attached to the hip of the offensive tackle and heavily involved in your run-blocking schemes, and the more movement-based “F”, who often times is more like an oversized wide receiver. I will talk about which roles these guys are capable of filing and where they may not still grow at the next level.

Although we don’t quite have a duo at the top like last year with Colston Loveland and Tyler Warren, who already look like two of the best tight-ends in the NFL, my number one is just one notch down from those guys. After that, I don’t believe there’s another player I’d consider until the middle of day two, but then we get to a pretty strong cluster of names after that, to where my entire top ten is worthy of being selected within the first four rounds, and there’s enough depth to where we should likely beat last year’s total number of guys drafted altogether (16).

This is how they stack up for me:

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