While many fantasy players spent an early-round draft pick on a big-name tight end like Sam LaPorta or Travis Kelce, neither has worked out.
By comparison, Brock Bowers and George Kittle were mid-round picks. Both players have been outstanding fantasy football tight ends this season.
Meanwhile, David Njoku, Tucker Kraft, and Juwan Johnson have played well lately. Which tight end should fantasy players start in Week 15?
Should I Start David Njoku For Fantasy Football?
Njoku is the TE9 for the year despite missing time with an ankle injury. The star tight end has been outstanding since Jameis Winston took over under center. He has averaged 9.7 targets and 12.2 half-point PPR fantasy points per game, with Winston starting, totaling three receiving touchdowns over the past three weeks.
David Njoku puts up 6️⃣ for the @Browns!
📺: #CLEvsPIT on CBS/Paramount+
📱: https://t.co/waVpO909ge pic.twitter.com/l3JJ1Ojecs— NFL (@NFL) December 8, 2024
However, the former first-round pick is officially questionable to suit up on Sunday due to a hamstring injury. The belief is that he is on the wrong side of questionable, so fantasy managers should be ready to pivot should he be ruled out.
The star tight end has an excellent matchup in Week 15 against the Kansas City Chiefs. They have surrendered 13 fantasy points per game to tight ends, the third-most in the NFL. The Chiefs have given up 17 receptions for 218 receiving yards and 36.5 fantasy points to tight ends over the past two weeks. Njoku is a must-start tight end against Kansas City if he can go.
Should I Start Tucker Kraft For Fantasy Football?
Kraft has been one of the top surprises in fantasy football this season. He is the TE6 for the year, averaging 8.8 half-point PPR fantasy points per game. The second-year pro has played well, totaling seven receiving touchdowns, including two in the past three games.
Touchdown Tucker Kraft!
📺: #GBvsJAX on FOX
📱: https://t.co/waVpO909ge pic.twitter.com/SQTfRjF9Kt— NFL (@NFL) October 27, 2024
Last week, Kraft had three receptions on five targets for 41 receiving yards, a touchdown, and 11.6 fantasy points against the Detroit Lions. He has scored 9.6 or more fantasy points in three consecutive games. Meanwhile, the second-year pro faces a Seattle Seahawks defense that has surrendered 85.7 receiving yards and 1.9 fantasy points per game to tight ends over their past three matchups. He is a mid-range TE1.
Should I Start Juwan Johnson For Fantasy Football?
Unfortunately, the New Orleans Saints will be without Chris Olave (concussion), Rashid Shaheed (knee), and Taysom Hill (knee) for the rest of the season. However, Johnson stepped up for the Saints last week in the win over the New York Giants, totaling four receptions for 50 receiving yards, a touchdown, and 13 half-point PPR fantasy points.
Uncovered. Untouched. Touchdown Juwan 😤
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— New Orleans Saints (@Saints) December 8, 2024
The veteran tight end faces the Washington Commanders in Week 15. They have surrendered 12.1 fantasy points per game to tight ends over their past five contests, giving up double digits in three matchups. Johnson is a solid streaming option with some upside this week against Washington.
Popular Week 15 Searches - Start/Sit Comparisons
Below are some popular Week 15 searches and comparisons from our Who To Start tool for David Njoku, Tucker Kraft, Juwan Johnson compared to others. You can also use the free Who Should I Start tool to run your own start/sit comparisons, up to four players at once:
Hunter Henry or Tucker Kraft
Mark Andrews or Tucker Kraft
Zach Ertz or Tucker Kraft
Tj Hockenson or Tucker Kraft
Evan Engram or Tucker Kraft
Kyle Pitts or Juwan Johnson
Hunter Henry or Juwan Johnson
Jake Ferguson or Tucker Kraft
Sam Laporta or Tucker Kraft
Cade Otton or Tucker Kraft
Dalton Schultz or Juwan Johnson
Tj Hockenson or David Njoku
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Dalton Schultz or Tucker Kraft
Trey Mcbride or Tucker Kraft
Dalton Kincaid or Tucker Kraft
Pat Freiermuth or Juwan Johnson
Zach Ertz or Juwan Johnson
Tucker Kraft or Juwan Johnson
Cade Otton or David Njoku
Mark Andrews or David Njoku
Tucker Kraft or David Njoku
Dalton Kincaid or Juwan Johnson
Pat Freiermuth or Tucker Kraft
Trey Mcbride or David Njoku
Cade Otton or Juwan Johnson
Christian Watson or Tucker Kraft
Elijah Moore or Tucker Kraft
Isaiah Likely or Juwan Johnson
Jake Ferguson or Juwan Johnson
Quentin Johnston or Tucker Kraft
Sam Laporta or Tucker Kraft
Stone Smartt or Juwan Johnson
Travis Kelce or Tucker Kraft
Brock Bowers or David Njoku
George Kittle or David Njoku
George Kittle or Tucker Kraft
Hunter Henry or Tucker Kraft
Jayden Reed or Tucker Kraft
Jonnu Smith or Tucker Kraft
Mark Andrews or Juwan Johnson
Adam Thielen or David Njoku
Brenton Strange or Tucker Kraft
Brock Bowers or Tucker Kraft
Cole Kmet or Juwan Johnson
Dalton Kincaid or Juwan Johnson
Devaughn Vele or Juwan Johnson
Evan Engram or Juwan Johnson
Evan Engram or Tucker Kraft
Hunter Henry or Juwan Johnson
Hunter Henry or Juwan Johnson
Jake Ferguson or Tucker Kraft
Jameson Williams or David Njoku
Jaylen Waddle or David Njoku
Kyle Pitts or Tucker Kraft
Sam Laporta or David Njoku
Sam Laporta or Tucker Kraft
Sam Laporta or Tucker Kraft
Taysom Hill or David Njoku
Travis Kelce or David Njoku
Zach Ertz or Tucker Kraft
Adam Thielen or Tucker Kraft
Cade Otton or Tucker Kraft
Cedric Tillman or Tucker Kraft
David Njoku or Tucker Kraft
Dawson Knox or Juwan Johnson
Deebo Samuelsr or Tucker Kraft
Demarcus Robinson or Tucker Kraft
Devaughn Vele or Tucker Kraft
Elijah Moore or Tucker Kraft
Evan Engram or Tucker Kraft
Grant Calcaterra or Juwan Johnson
Hunter Henry or David Njoku
Hunter Henry or Juwan Johnson
Jake Ferguson or Juwan Johnson
Jake Ferguson or Tucker Kraft
Jonnu Smith or David Njoku
Jonnu Smith or David Njoku
Jonnu Smith or Tucker Kraft
Juwan Johnson or Tucker Kraft
Mark Andrews or Tucker Kraft
Marvin Harrisonjr or David Njoku
Michael Pittmanjr or Juwan Johnson
Mike Evans or David Njoku
Najee Harris or David Njoku
Pat Freiermuth or David Njoku
Patrick Taylorjr or Tucker Kraft
Rome Odunze or David Njoku
Sam Laporta or Tucker Kraft
Sam Laporta or Tucker Kraft
Tj Hockenson or Juwan Johnson
Tj Hockenson or Tucker Kraft
Tj Hockenson or Tucker Kraft
Travis Kelce or Juwan Johnson
Travis Kelce or Tucker Kraft
Zach Ertz or David Njoku
Zach Ertz or Juwan Johnson
Aaron Jones or David Njoku
Brian Robinsonjr or David Njoku
Bucky Irving or David Njoku
Bucky Irving or David Njoku
Bucky Irving or Juwan Johnson
Bucky Irving or Juwan Johnson
Cade Otton or Juwan Johnson
Cade Otton or Juwan Johnson
Cade Otton or Juwan Johnson
Cade Otton or Tucker Kraft
Calvin Ridley or David Njoku
Christian Watson or Tucker Kraft
Cole Kmet or David Njoku
Cole Kmet or Juwan Johnson
Cole Kmet or Juwan Johnson
Dalton Kincaid or Tucker Kraft
Dalton Schultz or Juwan Johnson
Dalton Schultz or Juwan Johnson
Dalton Schultz or Juwan Johnson
Dalton Schultz or Juwan Johnson
Dalton Schultz or Juwan Johnson
Dandre Swift or Tucker Kraft
Darnell Mooney or Tucker Kraft
Dawson Knox or Juwan Johnson
Deebo Samuelsr or David Njoku
Demario Douglas or Tucker Kraft
Devaughn Vele or Tucker Kraft
Dk Metcalf or Tucker Kraft
Dk Metcalf or Tucker Kraft
Elijah Moore or Tucker Kraft
Evan Engram or Juwan Johnson
Evan Engram or Juwan Johnson
Evan Engram or Tucker Kraft
Evan Engram or Tucker Kraft
Evan Engram or Tucker Kraft
Evan Engram or Tucker Kraft
Hunter Henry or David Njoku
Hunter Henry or Juwan Johnson
Hunter Henry or Tucker Kraft
Hunter Henry or Tucker Kraft
Hunter Henry or Tucker Kraft
Isaac Guerendo or David Njoku
Isaac Guerendo or David Njoku
Isaiah Likely or Tucker Kraft
Isiah Pacheco or David Njoku
Jake Ferguson or David Njoku
Jake Ferguson or David Njoku
Jake Ferguson or Juwan Johnson
Jake Ferguson or Juwan Johnson
Jake Ferguson or Juwan Johnson
Jake Ferguson or Juwan Johnson
Jake Ferguson or Juwan Johnson
Jake Ferguson or Juwan Johnson
Jake Ferguson or Juwan Johnson
Jake Ferguson or Tucker Kraft
Jake Ferguson or Tucker Kraft
Jake Ferguson or Tucker Kraft
Jakobi Meyers or David Njoku
Jakobi Meyers or Tucker Kraft
Jalen Mcmillan or Tucker Kraft
Jauan Jennings or David Njoku
Jauan Jennings or Juwan Johnson
Javonte Williams or Tucker Kraft
Jaxon Smithnjigba or Tucker Kraft
Jaylen Waddle or David Njoku
Jaylen Waddle or Tucker Kraft
Jerry Jeudy or David Njoku
Jonnu Smith or David Njoku
Jonnu Smith or David Njoku
Jonnu Smith or David Njoku
Jonnu Smith or David Njoku
Jonnu Smith or David Njoku
Jonnu Smith or David Njoku
Jonnu Smith or David Njoku
Jonnu Smith or Tucker Kraft
Jonnu Smith or Tucker Kraft
Jonnu Smith or Tucker Kraft
Jonnu Smith or Tucker Kraft
Jordan Addison or David Njoku
Jordan Addison or Tucker Kraft
Jordan Addison or Tucker Kraft
Jordan Addison or Tucker Kraft
Juwan Johnson or Juwan Johnson
Juwan Johnson or Tucker Kraft
Keenan Allen or Tucker Kraft
Kyle Pitts or David Njoku
Kyle Pitts or Juwan Johnson
Kyle Pitts or Juwan Johnson
Kyle Pitts or Tucker Kraft
Kyle Pitts or Tucker Kraft
Malik Nabers or Juwan Johnson
Mark Andrews or Juwan Johnson
Mark Andrews or Tucker Kraft
Mark Andrews or Tucker Kraft
Mark Andrews or Tucker Kraft
Mark Andrews or Tucker Kraft
Mark Andrews or Tucker Kraft
Mark Andrews or Tucker Kraft
Mark Andrews or Tucker Kraft
Mark Andrews or Tucker Kraft
Michael Pittmanjr or Juwan Johnson
Najee Harris or Juwan Johnson
Nick Westbrookikhine or Juwan Johnson
Nick Westbrookikhine or Tucker Kraft
Nick Westbrookikhine or Tucker Kraft
Noah Fant or Juwan Johnson
Noah Gray or Juwan Johnson
Noah Gray or Tucker Kraft
Noah Gray or Tucker Kraft
Pat Freiermuth or David Njoku
Pat Freiermuth or Juwan Johnson
Pat Freiermuth or Juwan Johnson
Pat Freiermuth or Juwan Johnson
Pat Freiermuth or Tucker Kraft
Pat Freiermuth or Tucker Kraft
Pat Freiermuth or Tucker Kraft
Pat Freiermuth or Tucker Kraft
Quentin Johnston or David Njoku
Quentin Johnston or Tucker Kraft
Rachaad White or David Njoku
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Rico Dowdle or Tucker Kraft
Sam Laporta or Tucker Kraft
Sam Laporta or Tucker Kraft
Sam Laporta or Tucker Kraft
Sam Laporta or Tucker Kraft
Sincere Mccormick or David Njoku
Sterling Shepard or Tucker Kraft
Tank Bigsby or Juwan Johnson
Tank Bigsby or Juwan Johnson
Tank Dell or Juwan Johnson
Tee Higgins or Tucker Kraft
Tj Hockenson or David Njoku
Tj Hockenson or Tucker Kraft
Tj Hockenson or Tucker Kraft
Tj Hockenson or Tucker Kraft
Tj Hockenson or Tucker Kraft
Tj Hockenson or Tucker Kraft
Tony Pollard or David Njoku
Tony Pollard or Tucker Kraft
Travis Kelce or David Njoku
Trey Mcbride or David Njoku
Trey Mcbride or David Njoku
Trey Mcbride or Tucker Kraft
Trey Mcbride or Tucker Kraft
Trey Mcbride or Tucker Kraft
Trey Mcbride or Tucker Kraft
Tucker Kraft or Juwan Johnson
Tyler Conklin or Juwan Johnson
Will Dissly or Juwan Johnson
Will Dissly or Tucker Kraft
Will Dissly or Tucker Kraft
Will Dissly or Tucker Kraft
Xavier Worthy or Tucker Kraft
Zach Ertz or Juwan Johnson
Zach Ertz or Juwan Johnson
Zach Ertz or Tucker Kraft
Zay Flowers or David Njoku
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