2010’s Top 15 Fantasy Tight Ends

2010’s Top 15 Fantasy Tight Ends by: Total Points per Games Played (Games Played in Parenthesis)

1. Antonio Gates 20.32 (10 games)
2. Jacob Tamme 15.91 (10 games)
3. Jason Witten 15.83 (16 games)
4. Dallas Clark 14.95 (6 games)
5. Jermichael Finley 13.42 (5 games)
6. Vernon Davis 13.42 (16 games)
7. Mercedes Lewis 11.63 (16 games)
8. Chris Cooley 11.18 (16 games)
9. Tony Gonzalez 11.04 (16 games)
10. Zach Miller (Oakland) 10.90 (15 games)
11. Brandon Pettigrew 10.76 (16 games)
12. Kellen Winslow 10.56 (16 games)
13. Benjamin Watson 10.46 (16 games)
14. Aaron Hernandez 10.16 (14 games)
15. Rob Gronkowski 10.04 (16 games)

Scoring System: 1 point per 10 yards receiving/rushing, 1 point per reception, 6 points per touchdown rushing/receiving, -1 point per fumble lost, 5 bonus points per 100 yard receiving or rushing game.

As he has been for a decade, Antonio Gates is still far and away the top fantasy tight end in the game. We’ll see if Gates missing 6 games in 2010 with injury becomes a trend that points toward an impending retirement for the perennial All-Pro veteran.

Evidently, it doesn’t much matter who plays the tight end position for Indianapolis. Whether it’s Dallas Clark or Jacob Tamme or possibly your own grandmother, Peyton Manning is going to feed them with a steady stream of passes.

While many expected an injury-prone Jermichael Finley to surpass him statistically in 2010, Jason Witten put in the best season for any tight end physically able to play all 16 games of the season. With the biggest and only surprise on the list being Mercedes Lewis, the tight end category offers up quite the vanilla amount of intrigue, what with there being so little statistical deviation between ranked players beyond the first handful.