After Monday night, Jared Goff has more receiving touchdowns on the year than Sam LaPorta. I don’t need to remind anyone who drafted LaPorta in the first round of FFPC leagues how disappointing he’s been. But it’s not only LaPorta who’s disappointed. Mark Andrews, Dalton Kincaid, Kyle Pitts, and Travis Kelce have all failed to live up to expectations. Indeed, the perception is that tight end scoring is down across the board.
The perception, in this case, is right.
Through four weeks, top-12 TEs are scoring less PPR points than they have since 2003. In fact only the years 2003 and 2000 were worse than 2024 for the top-12 TEs. But TE scoring is down at all levels. It’s not simply that the top TEs aren’t scoring as much as they used and the position is flat. TE2 scoring is at its lowest level since 2004. Even TEs outside the top 25 are scoring less than they used to. TE3 scoring hasn’t been this low since 2008.
In large part this phenomenon is explained by a lack of opportunity. Across the position, TE targets are down to the lowest level they have been since 2005. TE expected points haven’t been this low since 2000.
