NFL tight end receiving ratings

Average of four season numbers, each compared with other qualified tight ends that season (0 is average): targets, share of the team's air yards, efficiency with the quarterback's quality taken out, and yards per game.

Each tight end is compared only with tight ends this far into the season, so early scores swing a lot.

The four numbers are weighted equally.

Blocking is not rated. Free public data does not grade tight-end blocking play by play, and the paid sources are priced beyond this site. A stand-in built from snap counts ranked backup blocking tight ends above Kelce, Kittle and Goedert in testing, so it was dropped. If blocking grades become available, they will be added as a fifth part. Until then this is the receiving half of a tight end rating.

It describes the season; it is not a projection.

The weekly grid is the season itself; the score above is the season's verdict. It goes back to 2017. A tight end's week is a receiving score only. Nothing here grades blocking, so a week under the target floor shows his snap count instead. Like the receiver number, it reflects his offense as much as his own play.

Projected usage is the preseason prior, updated as games are played. Until mid-season it is the steadier read of who matters; the scores describe only the weeks played so far.

Style. Style is where a tight end sits on two axes: how deep his targets are on average and how often he is on the field for runs compared with his team. Each axis is cut at the season median of eligible players, which gives four boxes. It is a scale, not a type: players near a cut are marked close, and nobody is a pure example of a box. Style is separate from the score and says nothing about how good he is.