Analyzing 6 Years of Route and Target Data to Identify TE Values and Fades For 2025: TE Advanced Stats Deep Dive, Part 1
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When it comes to fantasy football, receiving production at running back, wide receiver, and tight end is the backbone of strong roster construction. While counting stats such as yards, receptions, and touchdowns helps to tell the story, delving deeper can help fantasy managers identify breakouts before they occur, rather than reacting to last year’s trends.

That is where RotoViz’s Advanced Stats Explorer comes in. With six years of advanced passing, rushing, and receiving data, the Advanced Stats Explorer gives us an opportunity to get ahead of the competition by digging deeper into the data. This can help to both find potential stars and identify players who could be headed for a decline before other fantasy managers see it coming.

The TE data from the Advanced Stats Explorer includes 735 individual seasons in which a player at the position earned at least one target. Moving forward, there will be plenty of references to percentiles. For the sake of simplicity, a season at or above the 90th percentile in any given metric equates roughly to a top-12 finish in any given season, while being in the 75th percentile or above generally represents a finish in the top 30.

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