Mark Andrews Is The Late-Round Tight End To Target In Fantasy Football
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Mark Andrews Is The Late-Round Tight End To Target In Fantasy Football

Ian Hartitz analyzes the tight end room for the Baltimore Ravens, focusing on if Mark Andrews could return to fantasy football prominence in 2026.

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Approaching his age-31 season, Mark Andrews is facing a pivotal season. On the one hand, he has five seasons with at least 50 receptions, three times hitting 9 or more TDs, and his main competition for TE targets left in free agency. On the other hand, he had a career low in receiving yards (422) and yards per reception (8.8). Is this a sign of losing his step? Ian Hartitz breaks it down as part of his Baltimore Ravens Team Preview.

Is Mark Andrews poised to put up HUGE numbers without Isaiah Likely?

Fun fact: Mark Andrews joined Brock Bowers as the only two tight ends to reach 20+ miles per hour as a ballcarrier in 2025 (Next-Gen Stats). That fake tush push touchdown was a fever dream.

Another fun fact: Andrews otherwise looked pretty, pretty, pretty washed during his eighth professional season. A career-low 422 receiving yards also featured career-low and miserable marks in yards per reception (8.8) and yards per target (6). Andrews gained 50 receiving yards in a game just once all season and didn't catch a touchdown after Week 10.

This begs the question: Is Andrews complete dust … or is a bounceback season en route with Isaiah Likely (Giants) and Charlie Kolar (Chargers) suddenly out of the picture?

There's reason for optimism with the latter scenario. After all, advanced metrics meant to quantify separation ability, like ESPN's Open Rate (TE1!) and Fantasy Points' separation win rate (TE6!) tell us that Unc has still got it. Throw in the reality that Andrews is just one season removed from catching 11 touchdowns and averaging a robust 9.8 yards per target, and it's not like we're dealing with red flag after red flag here.

Throw in a very reasonable TE12 (pick 126.7) ADP, and Andrews is one of many reasons why I'm content deploying a "first or last" approach at tight end this season: If you're going to pay up, make it for someone like Brock Bowers or Colston Loveland. And if not? Bypass the mid-round options in favor of Round 11+ guys like Andrews, Dalton Kincaid, Isaiah Likely, and Dallas Goedert, who all have the sort of talent and volume to f*ck around and carry similar upside to the TE5-TE11 dudes.

Players Mentioned in this Article

  1. Mark Andrews
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    6.2
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    133.1

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