New York Jets Fantasy Projections: Tight Ends

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Teams with shaky passing games generally don’t get much production from their tight ends. Whether it’s quarterback play holding back offensive statistics as a whole or iffy offensive play keeping tight ends in to block more often, it’s hard to get high-level tight end production from a below-average offense. Unfortunately for the Jets, that’s what they’ve been the past few seasons. It hasn’t always been that way, though.

Over the last three years, no Jets tight end has ranked in the top 25 for fantasy scoring at the position - Jeff Cumberland came the closest, ranking 26^th in 2013. Before that, however, the Jets got four seasons of top-20 production from 2008 first-round pick Dustin Keller, who even cracked the top 10 in 2010 and 2011 with ninth-places finishes each year. On top of being a talented player with the ability to stretch the seam, Keller was Mark Sanchez’s safety valve, and most Jets fans remember how often Sanchez utilized him in that manner.

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