• TE Luke Musgrave, Green Bay Packers (66.3 PFF preseason offense grade): He secured the team’s No. 1 tight end role this preseason, crucially outplaying third-round rookie Tucker Kraft as both a receiver and a run blocker.
• TE Dalton Kincaid, Buffalo Bills (60.4 PFF preseason offense grade): Kincaid is a high-upside TE1 option available in the 10th round or later in all three home-league platforms.
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Successfully identifying a high-scoring late-round tight end gives fantasy football managers an advantage over opponents who used an early-to-mid-round draft pick on a non-elite tight end with middling production.
Below are three tight ends with high-scoring TE1 upside, found in the double-digit rounds on the three major home-league platforms: ESPN, Sleeper and Yahoo!.
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TE Luke Musgrave, Green Bay Packers
Per PFF senior fantasy analyst Nathan Jahnke, Green Bay’s second-round tight end Luke Musgrave (66.3 PFF preseason offense grade) secured the team’s No. 1 tight end role this preseason, crucially outplaying third-round rookie Tucker Kraft (45.6 PFF preseason offense grade) as both a receiver and a run blocker.
Pat Kerrane’s recent “Impact TEs in the early rounds“ piece expertly explains run blocking’s positive impact on fantasy football production for tight ends. The 6-foot-6, 253-pound Musgrave is expected to dominate first-team snaps this season, operating as a high-volume target earner against PFF’s second-softest tight end strength of schedule.
The table below compares Green Bay’s rookie tight end preseason data against one another.
| GB TE PFF Preseason Grades | Luke Musgrave | Tucker Kraft |
| PFF Receiving Grade | 69.0 | 49.1 |
| PFF Run-Blocking Grade | 58.5 | 52.0 |
Musgrave can be drafted in Round 15 or later on all three home-league platforms.
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