Tight end is a draft-day trap. Every year guys punt the position late, assume there's a name to stream week to week, and get burned when the position just doesn't produce.

Here's the data point that should scare you: we just put out our Preseason Top 50, and exactly one tight end made the board. Terrance Carter Jr. out of Texas Tech. Rank 50. Dead last spot on the list.

That's not a snub. That's the position telling you something. Forty-nine skill players graded out ahead of the entire TE room in college football before Carter cracked the board at the very bottom. If you're building a fantasy roster off our Top 50 and treating tight end like every other skill spot — plug a name in the mid-rounds, stream the rest — you're already misreading how top-heavy this is.

The takeaway isn't "here are your three tiers." It's simpler and meaner than that: draft capital at tight end is basically one player deep on paper right now, and he's priced at the floor of a 50-man board. Everyone after him is undifferentiated in the numbers we have. That's not a reason to punt the position — it's a reason to stop assuming there's a safety net.

Watch camp reports and role news closely before your draft. Rankings move once real target shares and blocking snaps start showing up. Right now, the board says one guy, and he's barely on it.

Who you got at TE? Tell me why I'm wrong.