Brenden Bates

✦ Blitz AI

Brenden Bates is a low-floor tight end ranked 90th of 103 at his position, held back by scarce opportunity and a near-absent red zone role. His efficiency metrics are genuinely elite—he's in the 90th percentile in context-adjusted efficiency and 86th percentile in yards per opportunity—but he's only averaging 1.8 fantasy points per game through four contests played in 2025, and his rating is compressed by a sample-size adjustment that pulls his raw score toward the position mean since he hasn't yet played a full season. The core problem is touch scarcity: he ranks in the 11th percentile in opportunity and the 7th percentile in red zone usage, meaning even when he's efficient, there aren't enough chances to produce league-average fantasy value.

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