The scandalous secret about tight ends in fantasy football is that every player we draft at this position is nearly indistinguishable from a wide receiver in terms of their usage. All of them, to a man, are running routes on almost every dropback.
Mark Andrews lined up in the slot on 66.3% of passing snaps last season and was in-line only 12.7% of the time. For Travis Kelce, those rates were 44.2% and 25.6%. All the players we're drafting at this spot are professional route-runners and pass-catchers who — while they might be shaped a little differently than traditional wide receivers — are generally just doing all the things that wide receivers do.