Fantasy Football Off-Season Movement: 2024 Tight End Landscape
Each off-season, I track team needs and the players most likely to fill those needs in a chart like this. In the coming weeks and months, NFL teams will have multiple opportunities to fill those holes, namely the March free agency period and April’s NFL Draft.
In this series, I’ll go position-by-position looking at teams in need, along with the veterans and rookies who could eventually fill the blanks on the chart below. We'll wrap up the series with the tight ends.
Team Needs
Cincinnati Bengals
The Bengals have gone the free agent route to fill their tight end need the past two seasons, hitting on Hayden Hurst in 2022 but flopping on last year’s Irv Smith signing. With a subpar rookie crop, I expect Cincinnati to try it again unless Brock Bowers falls into their laps in the back half of the first round.
Houston Texans
Houston was aggressive in signing last year’s top free agent tight end, Dalton Schultz, but he’s now on the open market again. If they can’t keep Schultz in Houston, the young Texans offense will again be searching for help at the position. The Texans have the allure of a budding superstar quarterback, which will obviously be attractive to Schultz or other prospective signees.
