We all know how frustrating the tight end position can be in fantasy football. We’ve also reached a bit of a transitional period for TEs, as the old guard is starting to gradually get phased out, and stalwarts like Travis Kelce and Mark Andrews are no longer the week-to-week locks that they used to be.
Andrews, in particular, is a very interesting case as we sit hours away from kickoff of Monday Night Football in Week 3. The former All-Pro rebounded in 2024 with a very nice campaign, leading all tight ends in receiving touchdowns by a fairly wide margin (11). However, two games into 2025, and you’d be forgiven if you haven’t even noticed Andrews on the field in the Ravens’ contests.
Can you keep trusting old results and go back to the well with Andrews one more time on Monday evening against the Lions?
Mark Andrews Fantasy Outlook
Let’s cut straight to the chase. In two games this season, Andrews has hauled in two passes for seven yards. You read that right. Two catches. Seven yards. Yikes.
Somehow, these stats are made more upsetting by the fact that Baltimore has eclipsed 40 points in both of these contests, meaning environment is not to blame at all for these extremely modest returns. It’s also not like his opportunity can be questioned, as Andrews has been on the field for 77.6% of the Ravens’ offensive snaps. Isaiah Likely (foot) isn’t even healthy and competing for playing time. On paper, this has been a dream scenario for Andrews’ onwers.
So what’s gone wrong? Not to oversimplify things too much, but this just seems to be a case of Zay Flowers running a monopoly on Lamar Jackson’s targets. Flowers was targeted on a jaw-dropping 40.9% of his routes in Week 1. He was then targeted on 34.9% of his routes in Week 2. Both of those rates easily ranked inside the top 10 among all skill position players in that respective week. Flowers has 20 total targets in 2025. No other Baltimore receiver is in double-digits and only one has more than five.
Remember, the Ravens don’t throw the ball all that often. The team ranked 31st in pass rate in 2024 (46.5%) and not much has changed so far in 2025 (51.5%). Flowers is taking a large piece of a very small pie. That said, it’s not like Andrews is staying in to block on passing downs. Andrews actually has posted an 89.4% route participation through two weeks, which is very promising when projecting forward. He’s also seen half of his four targets in the red zone. That makes sense, given that Andrews led Baltimore in red zone targets last season (15).
At the end of the day, Mark Andrews is never going to be a tight end that derives fantasy value from his huge volume of targets. He’s essentially touchdown or bust. However, if you’re going to fill that archetype, there’s no better place to do it then on a squad that’s averaging 40.5 points per game so far this season. Andrews’ touchdown probability alone should continue to make him a low-end TE1 in most 12-team formats, while a huge discount in salary makes him a FLEX option to consider in DFS slates like tonight’s $1.5M Monday Night Showdown on DraftKings. Andrews was $7,000 in Showdown in Week 2. He’s just $4,400 against Detroit.
