10 TE sleepers to target for fantasy football Week 8

6. Tommy Sweeney, Buffalo Bills

Rostered: 2.1%

Across the first six weeks of the season, Dawson Knox was a top-five fantasy tight end. Unfortunately, Knox fractured his hand in the Bills’ Week 6 game against the Titans.

With Knox out, Tommy Sweeney will start at tight end for the Bills, and he is in a great position to succeed. The Bills are scoring 33.8 points per game, which is the second-most in the NFL.

Knox directly benefited from being a part of their high-scoring offense. In six games, he scored five touchdowns and received seven red-zone targets.

Sweeney recorded the first receiving touchdown of his career against the Titans in Week 6.

He is a high upside flier.

5. Mo Alie-Cox, Indianapolis Colts

Rostered: 14.3%

Mo Alie-Cox has been a surprisingly reliable fantasy option over the past four weeks. He has four receiving touchdowns over his last four games, and he is ninth among tight ends in fantasy points during that span.

Fellow tight end Jack Doyle has played a reduced role. Doyle has been targeted only once in each of the last four games, and he has not recorded a catch in two weeks.

Despite his recent success, Alie-Cox does not receive a lot of targets, even with little competition from Doyle. Alie-Cox is averaging only three targets per game this season, and he has been targeted three times in each of the last two games.

Alie-Cox is a touchdown-dependent streaming option.