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Fantasy Football: Which TEs will rise up to top-12 status for first time in 2017?

Related Topics: Tight end, ALCO RSD-1

The good news is the TE1 class, though not turned over as frequently as RB1s and WR1s, has seen an average of four newcomers annually since 2007 and at least three have made their debuts in the top 12 of positional scoring in nine of the past 10 years.

The bad news: unlike Jordan Reed, Cameron Brate and Hunter Henry were fantasy mostly fantasy afterthoughts at this time last year. Two seasons ago it was similarly unpredictable that Gary Barnidge and Benjamin Watson would go from journeymen to just grown ass men in the fantasy world (spoiler: it didn't last).