Risers & Flyers: Tight Ends
After reviewing teams from across the country Purple Reign has identified players that look will take a leap in their fantasy value for the 2025 College Fantasy Football Season. These players are divided into two groups:
RISERS
These are players that have some form of past statistic production. These players have a high fantasy floor, presenting less risk when drafting them. The lower risk associated with these players makes them worth drafting in the first two thirds of your fantasy drafts.
FLYERS
These are players that have limited to no past statistical production. These players have a low fantasy floor, presenting more risk when drafting these them. The higher risk associated with the players makes them worth drafting in the final third of your fantasy drafts.
**This article will be updated as position battles sort themselves out through the summer**
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HONORABLE MENTIONS
RISERS
Joe Royer – Cincinnati
96.6 Fantasy Points In 2024
Joe Royer spent four seasons at Ohio State with hardly any playing time so he decided to leave for Cincinnati. In 2024 Royer had the perfect breakout season, being targeted 80 times with 50 receptions, 521 yards and 3 TDs. Now Royer enters his sixth (that’s right) season of college football as the top returning pass catcher for the Bearcats. His 2024 performance was the best of any TE for offensive coordinator Brad Glenn. While I see Royer as a Riser for 2025, I think the amount of higher fantasy production from last year will likely be smaller than the rest of this group.
FLYERS
Arlis Boardingham – Bowling Green
33.8 Fantasy Points In 2024
In three years at Florida there was hope that Arlis Boardingham would blossom into a top flight tight end. That hope was never meet and Boardingham packed his bags for Bowling Green. This move seemed like a perfect fit as the replacement for Harrold Fannin. Things have only gone wrong since he arrived at Bowling Green. There was a change of coaching staffs and instead of a high usage tight end system, it was replaced by new offensive coordinator Travis Patridge’s system which doesn’t hold fantasy value for the tight end position. Boardingham’s talent in the MAC does provide hope that he will still be fed a healthy diet of targets. But Boardingham sat out of spring camp and underwent surgery in May for an undisclosed injury which brings more uncertainty to his future..
Ty Thompson – Tulane
79.95 Fantasy Points as a QB in 2024
Ty Thompson spent three seasons as a back-up quarterback at Oregon before transferring to Tulane in 2024. Thompson was not able to lockdown the starting job at Tulane and going into this year’s spring camp he was moved to the tight end position. The transition to tight end was as smooth as it could be, and Thompson looks like a natural as he made plays throughout spring ball. Tragedy struck during the spring game when Thompson suffered a knee injury. We need to wait and see what news comes out of fall camp before drafting Thompson this summer.
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