What Is a Spike Week?

For Our Analysis, We Define Them as Such:

Comparing Top Tight Ends to Wide Receivers

The Efficiency of the Tight End Market at the Top of the Draft Is What Stands out to Me This Year. Performs Like One of the Better Wide Receivers from a Fantasy Perspective and Is Drafted Before All of Them in Many Drafts. His Enormous Spike Week Expectation When Rated at the Te Position Is Also Fully Priced into That Draft Slot. in Fact, the Price Points for the Top Tes Are Basically the Same as Many Wr1S and Top Qbs. So That Begs the Question for Me: Do These Te’s “Spike” at the Same Level as Wrs or Even Close?

Evaluating Top Tight End Rankings

The Adp Does a Good Job of Accurately Pricing Tes Relative to Each Other Based on Our Median Expected Fpts and Our Spike Week Analysis. Kelce Is Proven, Consistent, and Advantageous to Own. He’s Rates Significantly Better Than Anyone Else by Any Metric You Want to Use for Evaluation. However, He Also Has by Far the Highest Cost I Think I’ve Ever Seen for a Te. That Makes It More Difficult to Capitalize on That Margin. Both Waller and Kittle Are Also Priced Fairly for the Otherwise Glaring Edges They Carry at the Position.

Why Is the Best Balance of Price and Upside

The Two Most Interesting Tes in This Draft Are (Underdog Adp 60) and (Underdog Adp 86). Expected Spike Weeks Fall off at a Noteworthy Level After Pitts and Andrews, but the Strike Weeks Do Not. Furthermore, the Team Situations for These Players Leave Room for Upside. This Cannot Be Stated for Any of the 5 Tes Above Them.

The Lower Tier of Te1

Players Like, ,, and Fit the Description of Talents Who Could Very Well Be Mentioned with the Players Above in Terms of Fantasy Upside. However, the Projected Opportunity Shares Just Don’t Reach the Same Heights.

Appendix a: My Favorite Lottery Tickets

— – 6.29 Expected Strikes, Adp 130— – 6.13 Expected Strikes, Adp 151— – 5.71 Expected Strikes, Adp 162— – 5.74 Expected Strikes, Adp 168

Draft Dallas Goedert in Best Ball

By Robert Thorne

• Oct 9, 2026 • 11 min read

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