Roster management is the single most crucial in-season task for fantasy football managers. Knowing which players to let go is as important as adding the right guys.
Which tight ends find themselves on our Week 12 fantasy football cut list based on roster percentages from Yahoo? We take a closer look below.
If you’re looking for all other positions, head over to our Week 12 Fantasy Cut List, which covers quarterback, running back, wide receiver, and tight end.
Pat Freiermuth | PIT
Rostered: 57%
It’s kind of incredible that Pat Freiermuth is this heavily rostered this late in the season. What more evidence do we need that he’s not a productive tight end?
Freiermuth averaged 6.4 fantasy points per game last year. He’s averaging 8.1 ppg this year and has only even gotten to double-digit fantasy points because he has three games with touchdowns. Well, he only hit double-digits in two of those games. You are never trusting Freiermuth.
Cole Kmet | CHI
Rostered: 51%
Cole Kmet had his best outing since Week 6 last week. It consisted of three catches on three targets for 42 yards. He scored a whopping 7.2 fantasy points.
Kmet has now given fantasy managers two elite TE1 efforts and nothing else useful. If you think you can guess when his next one will come, I wish you the best of luck. Kmet can be dropped from fantasy rosters.
Mike Gesicki | CIN
Rostered: 32%
As it turns out, Mike Gesicki is incredibly easy to project for fantasy. Is Tee Higgins playing? If no, start Gesicki. If yes, keep him as far away from fantasy lineups as possible.
Gesicki is a unique asset in that he’s a handcuff TE to a WR. If Higgins misses time again, Gesicki is back on the menu. But with Higgins back on Sunday night in Week 11, Gesicki simply wasn’t targeted.
He was still the clear TE1. He ran 43 routes. Joe Burrow simply had no reason to look his way with Higgins and Ja’Marr Chase on the field. As a result, Gesicki saw two targets, catching neither. There’s absolutely no reason to hold him through the bye week.
Tucker Kraft | GB
Rostered: 73%
Considering Cutting? Here’s Why You Shouldn’t.
After a game where he saw a single target and did not catch it, fantasy managers are justifiably frustrated at the Green Bay Packers TE. He is the third-most dropped tight end in Sleeper leagues.
There’s definitely a chance Tucker Kraft’s run as a fantasy TE1 is over. With a very difficult schedule over the next three weeks, I wouldn’t necessarily blame anyone for dropping Kraft.
At the same time, it was one bad game. From Weeks 4-8, Kraft scored at least 12.3 fantasy points in four of those five games.
It’s more likely than not that Kraft is properly on the cut list next week, but I’m willing to give him one more week before abandoning the ship.