Players — 2024 Week 5

Some seasons ahead are not ranked for TE here, because what we have for them doesn't hold up; the seasons offered above are the ones we publish.

No ranking by the rest of the 2024 season and the 2025–2026 seasons combined is shown. That combined total is tested for only some players at this position, and a ranking that left the rest out would not be a ranking of the position.

Early read: these figures are projected for him individually, and the chance he plays is the historical rate for players who carried his workload at his age. During the season, his figures for the seasons he will play before 30 are also raised, by as much as we have measured full-time tight ends that age outperform their projections.

Early read: these figures are projected for him individually, and the chance he plays is the historical rate for players who carried his workload at his age.

He was not a full-time starter last season. These figures start from his own most recent season and move every stat he is scored on by how much players at his position and age have actually changed over the same span. The range around them moves those stats together, the way real seasons did, and was widened by exactly as much as we measured it had been too narrow, and the chance he plays is the historical rate for players like him at his age.

14 players here are projected from the 2023 season, marked † below: no game in 2024. The number comes from the model that looks 2 seasons ahead of a 2023 season, to reach the 2025 season. From a 2023 season we publish through 2026 and no further.

Only 18 of the 80 players here were full-time starters last season projected for them individually, and what follows is about them: This range carries a correction we measured. We compared the season-ahead ranges we had published against the seasons that actually followed, found them about 12% too narrow and centered about 10% of a range's width too low, and moved them by exactly what that comparison measured — nothing was widened to make a number look better. The figure above is a prediction from the corrected model.

About this range: we checked ranges like it against the seasons that actually followed, and it held at both levels we test — 79% of real seasons landed inside the 80% range and 86% inside the 90% range, measured on 95 player-seasons. What that testing could not settle, using only the seasons completed by then (through 2023), is whether this projection is more accurate than a simple baseline. We publish it because the range holds, not because it has been shown to beat one.