My last article analyzed the five fantasy football tight ends who performed most consistently over the course of the 2013 fantasy season. This article will review the five tight ends who were major fantasy frustrations, and far from consistent utilizing eDraft’s player consistency ranking tool.
In analyzing tight ends who performed and started in at least 14 of the 16 regular season games in 2013, who you may have had the unfortunate experience in owning, I have determined that Jared Cook, Zach Ertz, Jeff Cumberland, and Tyler Eifert, and Joseph Fauria are the five who performed most inconsistently over the 2013 fantasy football season.
Likely, if you owned one or more of these tight ends at any given time last year, you probably waited to choose your tight end late in your fantasy draft, and probably rotated this sad-performing crew in and out of your lineup on a matchup play basis.
Edraft’s player consistency can be set to rank the tight ends on how they performed, using a metric set to a minimum number of total yards and total touchdowns they had per game. The yards can be set anywhere from 25 to 200 with scoring one or two touchdowns in a game.
At its default setting, eDraft’s tool measures consistency for a tight end completing 50 total yards and/or scoring one touchdown per game.
In this setting, Cook out of St. Louis met these numbers in 25% of his games. This isn’t anywhere near to how Jimmy Graham of the Saints performed as he achieved these numbers in 81% of his games.
Jared Cook | Consistency | 50+Total Yds | 75+Total Yds | 100+Total Yds | 1+TD | 2+TD | Either |
| 25% | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
Taking the consistency scale and increasing the yards to 100 minimum total per game and/or scoring one touchdown, Philadelphia Eagles’ Ertz met these results in just 19% of his 16 games played in 2013.
Zach Ertz | Consistency | 100+Total Yds | 125+Total Yds | 150+Total Yds | 1+TD | 2+TD | Either |
| 19% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
To rank the tight ends even more strictly, adjusting the consistency tool to 150 minimum total yards and/or having one touchdown per game, Cumberland from the New York Jets accomplished this in 27% of his games.
Jeff Cumberland | Consistency | 150+Total Yds | 175+Total Yds | 200+TD | 1+TD | 2+TD | Either |
| 27% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Perhaps Cumberland will perform better now that he has sold his No. 87 to newly signed wide receiver, Eric Decker.
In analyzing the consistency of Eifert of the Cincinnati Bengals, adjusting the metric scale back down to a minimum of 50 yards, but increasing the touchdowns to two per game, he met these standards in 20% of his 15 games from 2013. This is quite inconsistent compared to tight end, Jordan Cameron who ranked at 60% consistency with these numbers.
Tyler Eifert | Consistency | 50+Total Yds | 100+Total Yds | 125+Total Yds | 1+TD | 2+TD | Either |
| 20% | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Finally there is Fauria, the huge tight end from Detroit, who was like the invisible man half of 2013, either posting randomly large fantasy numbers, then laying a goose egg the next week. When the consistency tool is set more difficult at 100 total yards per game and/or scoring two touchdowns, Fauria only ended up meeting these numbers in six percent of his games in 2013.
Joseph Fauria | Consistency | 100+Total Yds | 125+Total Yds | 150+Total Yds | 1+TD | 2+TD | Either |
| 6% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
So, as you can see, this consistency tool can be utilized in multiple settings to achieve different results depending on how strictly you want to rank the tight ends. This is a fabulous tool to use and will assist fantasy football players when planning for their upcoming drafts.
Furthermore, unless these five tight ends improve their consistency dramatically in 2014, they are better left undrafted next season if they continue to put up these results.
Keep in mind the player consistency tool can also be used to rank quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers. Check it out for yourself at eDraft.com under the NFL tab.