Fantasy Football Week 9 TE Rankings: Eric Ebron Up, George Kittle Hurt

Welcome to our Fantasy Football Tight End Rankings for Week 9 of the 2020 NFL regular season. This week we examine the fallout of George Kittle’s injury. Plus, a former Pro Bowler looks to be resurrecting his fantasy value in Pittsburgh.

* If you’re looking for more information on how to best set your lineup this coming week check out our Week 9 TE Start ‘Em, Sit ‘Em.

Reminder: These rankings are based on full-PPR scoring formats.

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Tight End Outlook Week 9

According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, George Kittle will miss eight weeks with a broken bone in his foot. While an obvious loss for fantasy owners, Kittle had not been the dominant week-in, week-out presence this year that he had in years past. Kittle has had two monster performances this season, a 40.10 point outing and a 23.9 point performance. However, toss those two showings aside and he averages just 8.53 points and totaled zero TDs on the year. Plenty of that has to do with the team’s QB play, which isn’t likely to receive much of a boost anytime soon. Schefter also reported that Jimmy Garoppolo is expected to be “out indefinitely” after re-aggravating his ankle injury this past week. In return, either Nick Mullens or C.J. Beathard (or both) will be pressed into starting duty on a short week.

The Packers defense has allowed the fourth-fewest points to the position this season, allowing just one TD to an opposing TE all year. They’ve also held all TEs to 51 receiving yards or fewer in all but two games this year. With Kittle out, Ross Dwelley (TE21) gets a slight bump, especially in an offense that has been devastated by injuries across their skill positions. Still, the situation makes Dwelley nothing less than a bye week/injury replacement flyer.

Eric Ebron (TE12) has now scored 11-plus points in back-to-back weeks and looks to be building a solid rapport with QB Ben Roethlisberger. While Ebron’s opponents, the Dallas Cowboys, are just middle of the pack when it comes to points surrendered to TEs, their secondary as a whole is extremely poor, allowing 18 passing TDs (3rd-most in NFL). Owned in just 45% of Yahoo leagues, Ebron is a must-add at a position extremely thin with top-end talent.

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Week 9 Fantasy Rankings: Tight End

1. Rankings
2. [QBs | RBs | WRs | TEs | DEF | Ks]
3. Start-Sit
4. [QBs | RBs | WRs | TEs | DEF | Ks]

1. • Matchup: Great l Avg l Tough

2. – NOTABLE TE BYE WEEKS: Drew Sample (CIN), Austin Hooper (CLE), Harrison Bryant (CLE), David Njoku (CLE), Dallas Goedert (PHI), Richard Rodgers (PHI), Gerald Everett (LAR), Tyler Higbee (LAR)

3. #	Tight End TEAM	Opp.
   1	Travis Kelce KC	vs. CAR
   2	Darren Waller LV	@ LAC
   3	Mark Andrews BAL	@ IND
   4	Noah Fant DEN	@ ATL
   5	T.J. Hockenson DET	@ MIN
   6	Rob Gronkowski TB	vs. NO
   7	Jared Cook NO	@ TB
   8	Hayden Hurst ATL	vs. DEN
   9	Evan Engram NYG	@ WAS
   10	Hunter Henry LAC	vs. LV
   11	Trey Burton IND	vs. BAL
   12	Eric Ebron PIT	@ DAL
   13	Robert Tonyan GB	@ SF
   14	Logan Thomas WAS	vs. NYG
   15	Dalton Schultz DAL	vs. PIT
   16	Jimmy Graham CHI	@ TEN
   17	Darren Fells HOU	@ JAC
   18	Jonnu Smith TEN	vs. CHI
   19	Jack Doyle IND	vs. BAL
   20	Albert Okwuegbunam DEN	@ ATL
   21	Ross Dwelley SF	vs. GB
   22	Mike Gesicki MIA	@ ARI
   23	Anthony Firkser TEN	vs. CHI
   24	Irv Smith Jr. MIN	vs. DET
   25	Dan Arnold ARI	vs. MIA
   26	Mo Ali-Cox IND	vs. BAL
   27	Kyle Rudolph MIN	vs. DET
   28	Cameron Brate TB	vs. NO
   29	Chris Herndon IV NYJ	vs. NE
   30	Greg Olsen SEA	@ BUF
   31	Jace Sternberger GB	@ SF
   32	Jordan Akins HOU INJ	@ JAC
   33	Tyler Eifert JAC INJ	vs. HOU
   34	Adam Shaheen MIA	@ ARI
   35	Ryan Izzo NE	@ NYJ
   36	Tyler Kroft BUF	vs. SEA
   37	Ian Thomas CAR	@ KC
   38	Will Dissly SEA	@ BUF
   39	Dawson Knox BUF COV	vs. SEA
   40	Jake Butt DEN	@ ATL
   41	James O’Shaughnessy JAC	vs. HOU
   42	Nick Vannett DEN	@ ATL
   43	Charlie Woerner SF	vs. GB
   44	Adam Trautman NO	@ TB
   45	Nick Boyle BAL	@ IND
   46	Vance McDonald PIT	@ DAL
   47	Durham Smythe MIA	@ ARI
   48	Jesse James DET	@ MIN
   49	Ryan Griffin NYJ	vs. NE
   50	Kaden Smith NYG	@ WAS
   51	Jacob Hollister SEA	@ BUF
   52	Tanner Hudson TB	vs. NO
   53	Blake Bell DAL	vs. PIT
   54	Darrell Daniels ARI	vs. MIA
   55	Cole Kmet CHI	@ TEN
   56	Trevon Wesco NYJ	vs. NE
   57	Jaeden Graham ATL	vs. DEN
   58	Chris Manhertz CAR	@ KC
   59	Nick Keizer KC	vs. CAR
   60	Demetrius Harris CHI	@ TEN
   61	Luke Stocker ATL	vs. DEN
   62	Devin Asiasi NE	@ NYJ
   63	MyCole Pruitt TEN	vs. CHI
   64	Lee Smith BUF	vs. SEA
   65	Tyler Conklin MIN	vs. DET
   66	Levine Toilolo NYG	@ WAS
   67	Jeremy Sprinkle WAS	vs. NYG

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