Fantasy Football Week 3 waiver wire pickups: Top 5 TE’s

The tight end position used to be a throw-away in fantasy football, but as offenses have evolved having a productive option at the position has gone from a luxury to a necessity. As offensive schemes change and injuries occur, there are some nice emerging options at TE to help owners who may need to hit the waiver wire this week to get some help in filling that roster spot

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For the sake of all our waiver wire posts, all players listed are owned in less than 50% of ESPN leagues. That means that two big names–Antonio Gates and Delanie Walker– aren’t on this list even though they would be my first choices if available (which they are in over 20% of leagues as of Wednesday morning).

If you have a specific question about a TE on your waiver wire or whether or not you should make a move, you can ask always call out your questions @FansidedFantasy on twitter.  I’ll do my best to answer as many questions as possible as quickly as I can to help you get your roster in the best place it can be headed into week three.

Here are my top five tight ends from the waiver wire heading into week 3: