Thyrl's Bio
Greg "Thyrl" Nelson brings his patented “Mobtown Twist” to the weekday airwaves this summer while continuing his unique perspective and delivery every Saturday morning. Born and raised in Essex, he is a lifelong Baltimore sports diehard and an avid follower of baseball, football, basketball, boxing, and MMA. Thyrl joined the WNST family in 2006 after he was finalist in the “So You Wanna Be a Sports Talk Show Host” contest.
Thyrl's Posts
Upsets and Underdogs Have Ruled the ACC and Big East Tourneys so far. What Might ...
Read It »Can you jinx a team that already hasn’t won in 12 seasons? It seems that ...
Read It »Ranking the Gary Williams Era Terps’ NBA Careers, and Where Might Greivis Vasquez Fit on ...
Read It »If Kurt Warner doesn’t belong in the Hall of Fame, then they should just blow ...
Read It »
Thyrl's Archive
When it comes to shuffling your lineup from week to week, tight end performance might be the toughest to predict. Unless you have a tight end who functions as a staple of his passing game, like Gates, Gonzalez or Witten, it may be safer just to stick with one guy that you believe in week in and week out. Even at this late stage in the season, Gates has just 6 TD to lead all tight ends, and no tight ends are over 600 yards yet this season. Nonetheless, here are this week’s tight end rankings, and match up previews.
Keep in mind that the power rankings, listed here, are based on year to date performance and not a reflection of your best options for week 12. Just below the power rankings are match up previews advising who should be better or worse than usual this week, based on their opponents. At the bottom, are the week 12 start rankings; that’s where you should look for help with your week 12 lineup decisions.
Week 12 Fantasy Tight End Power Rankings
TE Power Rankings Archive – 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11
(last week’s rankings in parentheses)
1. Tony Gonzalez (1) – KC – 583 yds 5 TD
2. Antonio Gates (2) – SD – 479 yds 6 TD
3. Tony Scheffler (6) – DEN – 351 yds 2 TD
4. Kellen Winslow Jr. (5) – CLE – 402 yds 3 TD
5. Jason Witten (4) – DAL – 583 yds 2 TD
6. Dallas Clark (3) – IND – 459 yds 3 TD
7. Owen Daniels (7) – HOU – 555 yds 2 TD
8. Kevin Boss (8) – NYG – 217 yds 4 TD
9. Anthony Fasano (10) – MIA – 305 yds 3 TD
10. Chris Cooley (9) – WAS – 576 yds 1 TD
11. Bo Scaife (11) – TEN – 450 yds 2 TD
12. Dustin Keller (12) – NYJ – 341 yds 3 TD
13. Billy Miller (13) – NO – 388 yds 0 TD
14. Zach Miller (16) – OAK – 430 yds 1 TD
15. Visanthe Schiancoe (14) – MIN – 293 yds 4 TD
16. Jerramy Stevens (NR) – TB – 238 yds 1 TD
17. John Carlson (16) – SEA – 337 yds 2 TD
18. Greg Olsen (17) – CHI – 391 yds 2 TD
19. Daniel Graham (NR) – DEN – 202 yds 4 TD
20. Martellus Bennett (NR) – DAL – 206 yds 2 TD
Dropped from Rankings: Mercedes Lewis – JAX; Alex Smith – TB; Todd Heap – BAL
TEs Who Should Be Better Than Usual In Week 12: Dallas Clark @ SD; Bo Scaife vs. NYJ; Zach Miller @ DEN; Kellen Winslow Jr. vs. HOU; Dante Rosario @ ATL; Dustin Keller @ TEN; Mercedes Lewis vs. MIN
TEs Who Could Be Sleepers Based On Week 12 Match Ups: Todd Heap vs. PHI; Alex Smith & Jerramy Stevens @ DET; Joe Klopfstein vs. CHI
TEs With Tough Week 12 Match Ups: Jason Witten & Martellus Bennett vs. SF; Tony Gonzalez vs. BUF; John Carlson vs. WAS; Vernon Davis @ DAL; Chris Cooley @ SEA; Antonio Gates vs. IND; Heath Miller vs. CIN
TEs You Might Want To Avoid In Week 12: Leonard Pope vs. NYG; Benjamin Watson @ MIA; Casey Fitzsimmons vs. TB
And here are the week 12 Fantasy TE start rankings; it’s the projected top 35 TEs in the order that you should consider them this week. They were gotten using the Fantasy Flavor secret formula, and have their formulary numbers in parentheses, the lower the better. We’ll get all of the positional rankings out to you in time for the Thursday night game, so keep checking back for the rest.
1. Dallas Clark (13)
2. Kellen Winslow Jr. (15)
3. Tony Scheffler (20)
4. Bo Scaife (24)
5. Antonio Gates (28)
6. Owen Daniels (29)
7. Tony Gonzalez (33)
8. Kevin Boss (34)
9. Anthony Fasano (34)
10. Dustin Keller (34)
11. Zach Miller (34)
12. Billy Miller (38)
13. Jerramy Stevens (39)
14. Jason Witten (42)
15. Visanthe Schiancoe (43)
16. Chris Cooley (45)
17. Greg Olsen (53)
18. Alex Smith (53)
19. Mercedes Lewis (55)
20. Todd Heap (55)
21. Tom Santi (61)
22. John Carlson (63)
23. Daniel Graham (64)
24. LJ Smith (66)
25. Derek Fine (69)
26. Steve Heiden (73)
27. Vernon Davis (76)
28. Dante Rosario (78)
29. Donald Lee (79)
30. Heath Miller (80)
31. Martellus Bennett (80)
32. Brent Celek (80)
33. David Martin (80)
34. Alge Crumpler (80)
35. Jeremy Shockey (82)
Use the links below to check out all of the other positional rankings, and I’ll try to consolidate all of this week’s start rankings into one blog, that I’ll update as injury information becomes available too. Remember to trust your gut and have fun, and as always, good luck this week.
Peace,
T
Week 12 QB Rankings and Previews
Week 12 RB Rankings and Previews
Week 12 WR Rankings and Previews
Week 12 K Rankings and Previews
Week 12 D/ST Rankings and Previews
alex, alge, anthony, antonio, ari, arizona, atl, atlanta, az, baker, bal, baltimore, bears, ben, bengals, benjamin, bennett, bills, billy, bo, boss, brad, brandon, brent, broncos, browns, bubba, buccaneers, bucs, buf, buffalo, campbell, car, cardinals, carlson, carolina, casey, catches, celek, chargers, cheifs, chi, chiefs, chigago, chris, cin, cincinnati, cincinnatti, city, clark, cle, cleveland, cooley, cottam, cowboys, crumpler, dal, dallas, dan, daniel, daniels, dante, darnell, david, davis, delanie, den, denver, derek, desmond, det, detroit, dinkins, dolphins, donald, dustin, eagles, estandia, falcons, fantasy, Fantasy Flavor, fasano, fitzsimmons, flavor, forty, fortyniners, fourty, fourtyniners, franks, gaines, garrett, gates, gb, giants, gijon, gilmore, gonzalez, graham, greenbay, greg, hartsock, heap, heath, heifen, hou, houston, humphrey, ind, jac, jackson, jacksonville, jaguars, jason, jax, jeff, jerame, jeremy, jerramy, jets, jim, joe, john, justin, kansas, kansascity, kc, kellen, keller, kelly, kevin, king, kleinsasser, klopfstein, lee, leonard, lewis, lions, lj, manumaleuna, mark, martellus, martin, matthews, mcmichael, mercedes, mia, miami, michael, miller, mills, min, minnesota, nate, ne, newengland, neworleans, newyork, niners, no, nyg, nyj, oak, oakland, olsen, owen, packers, panthers, patrick, patriots, pats, peele, phi, philadelphia, pit, pittsburg, pittsburgh, pope, positional, positional power rankings, positional rankings, power, power rankings, preview, raiders, rams, randy, rankings, Ravens, receptions, redskins, reggie, robert, robinson, rosario, royal, saints, sandiego, sanfrancisco, santi, scaife, scheffler, schiancoe, schouman, sd, sea, seahawks, seattle, sf, shockey, sleeper, sleeper.waiver, smith, steelers, steve, stevens, stl, stlouis, t, tampabay, tb, td, ten, tennessee, texans, thomas, thyrl, titans, todd, tom, tony, tory, touchdown, tuman, utecht, vernon, vikings, visanthe, waiver, walker, was, washington, watson, wilcox, winslow, witten, yoder, zach
Blog categories
Share
Email
Print
RSS
Comment
Set Gravatar
November 20th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
[...] return of Lawrence Tynes to the Giants this week, forced John Carney from the…Read It » The Fantasy Flavor Positional Power Rankings - Week 12 TEs 7 hours, 5 minutes [...]
Set Gravatar
November 20th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
[...] return of Lawrence Tynes to the Giants this week, forced John Carney from the…Read It » The Fantasy Flavor Positional Power Rankings - Week 12 TEs 7 hours, 7 minutes [...]
Set Gravatar
November 20th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
[...] return of Lawrence Tynes to the Giants this week, forced John Carney from the…Read It » The Fantasy Flavor Positional Power Rankings - Week 12 TEs 7 hours, 12 minutes [...]
Set Gravatar
December 11th, 2008 at 6:25 am
[...] Power Rankings Archive – 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - [...]
Set Gravatar
December 18th, 2008 at 7:38 am
[...] Power Rankings Archive – 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - [...]