2019 Fantasy Football Tight End Dynasty Rankings: Hunter Henry and Darren Waller rising in the preseason

Heath Cummings says Hunter Henry and Darren Waller have improved their status since his last rankings.

By Heath Cummings

Aug 22, 2019 at 11:46 am ET • 2 min read

Training camp and the preseason shouldn't have too much impact on your redraft rankings. They should have even less effect on your Dynasty rankings. That doesn't mean they should have no impact.

The wonderful thing about tight end is it doesn't take all that much to show star potential and it takes even less to be Fantasy relevant. There's perhaps no better example of that than our first riser, Darren Waller.

Waller has caught 18 passes for 178 yards and two touchdowns since entering the NFL in 2015. He'll turn 27 years old in September. But he's won the starting tight end job in Oakland with some spectacular training camp catches and he's won our attention. This is the same job that led Jared Cook to Fantasy greatness last year, but I'm going to have see a little more before I move Waller into starting range in either redraft or Dynasty. For now he's just a speculative add.

Hunter Henry missed all of 2018 due to a torn ACL but it only took a couple of glimpses of him in the preseason for me to believe Henry could be a dominant force at the position in 2019. He has averaged 9.2 yards per target over his career and Philip Rivers has regularly targeted his tight end 120-plus times in a season. Even with the lost year, Henry is one of the youngest starting tight ends in the league and could legitimately be a top-two option in Dynasty by October.

Here is the final preseason update to my Dynasty Tight End Rankings:

Rank	Player	Team	Age
1	Travis Kelce	KC	29
2	George Kittle	SF	25
3	Zach Ertz	PHI	28
4	Hunter Henry	LAC	24
5	O.J. Howard	TB	24
6	Evan Engram	NYG	25
7	T.J. Hockenson	DET	22
8	Noah Fant	DEN	21
9	Austin Hooper	ATL	24
10	David Njoku	CLE	23
11	Mark Andrews	BAL	24
12	Dallas Goedert	PHI	24
13	Eric Ebron	IND	26
14	Chris Herndon IV	NYJ	23
15	Jordan Reed	WAS	29
16	Vance McDonald	PIT	29
17	Jared Cook	NO	32
18	Irv Smith Jr.	MIN	21
19	Jace Sternberger	GB	23
20	Trey Burton	CHI	27
21	Will Dissly	SEA	23
22	Ian Thomas	CAR	23
23	Darren Waller	OAK	26
24	Kyle Rudolph	MIN	29
25	Hayden Hurst	BAL	26
26	Delanie Walker	TEN	35
27	Jack Doyle	IND	29
28	Dawson Knox	BUF	22
29	Mike Gesicki	MIA	23
30	Tyler Eifert	CIN	29
31	Jimmy Graham	GB	32
32	Greg Olsen	CAR	34
33	Gerald Everett	LAR	25
34	Josh Oliver	JAC	22
35	Jonnu Smith	TEN	24
36	Kahale Warring	HOU	22
37	Foster Moreau	OAK	22
38	C.J. Uzomah	CIN	26
39	Ricky Seals-Jones	ARI	24
40	Adam Shaheen	CHI	24