Knowing how each player ranked among his position group each week is a handy little tool - whether you want a quick reference guide in your redraft leagues to help set expectations for a certain player or need an idea on the range of a player's performances to help break a tie between two or three options in your DFS lineups.

For the sake of time and space (not to mention my sanity), not every player that has scored a fantasy point appears below. The first cutoff was the player had at least five non-zero games, which should theoretically remove non-regular players and minimize any fluky occurrences. The last qualification was for the receiver to post an average rank of at least 24 (the worst finish for a TE2).

Key to the table below:

AR - Average weekly finish
Max - Best weekly fantasy finish
Min - Worst weekly fantasy finish
TE1 - How often he finished among the top 12 at his position
TE2 - How often he finished between 13th and 24th at his position
TE1% - Percentage of TE1 finishes
TE2% - Percentage of TE2 finishes

The bigger surprise here is probably Mike Gesicki, although his overall ranking (TE3) and even his spot in this analysis needs some context. The Dolphins have been one of the pass-heaviest teams in the league this season, which should not have come as much of a shock to anyone who remembers my offensive line piece from late June (The Big Uglies - AFC). What most people were not predicting was Miami playing without Will Fuller (missed all but two games, out since Week 4) and DeVante Parker (missed five games, out since Week 8) for so many games. Jaylen Waddle and Gesicki have been force-fed as a result. In short, Gesicki's volume (he is tied with Mark Andrews for third among tight ends with 69 targets) is going to leave him in a great position to continue racking up top 12 and top 24 finishes, although last week was a prime example of why I would struggle with him as my top option every week.

1) Tight end has not been the cesspool it often is in 2021. Nine players have finished inside the weekly TE1 ranks in half of their games, while another seven have done it 40 percent of the time. Even more encouraging, two players from that second group appear poised to join the first group. Dan Arnold and Pat Freiermuth have each registered two top-seven finishes in the last three weeks and are getting the kind of volume necessary to maintain their recent level of play.

2) There should never be a game in which T.J. Hockenson sees only one target, regardless of whether his quarterback only attempted 25 passes or not. HC Dan Campbell took over play-calling duties for the Iowa product's forgettable performance in Week 10, putting an inglorious end to Hockenson's three-game streak of TE1 finishes. His fantasy managers also experienced a stretch in Weeks 3-5 in which Detroit was slow to adjust to defenses adjusting to Hockenson. Like Gesicki, he will bust on occasion because of his quarterback and play-caller situation.

3) Pitts has been exceeded the hype in some ways and disappointed in others, but it would be completely inaccurate to say he has been a disappointment. We saw an example of his incredible future in Week 5 (9-119-1) and Week 7 (7-163-0). Since that game, Calvin Ridley has not been with the team due to a personal matter. In his last three outings (all without Ridley), the primary defenders on Pitts have been Stephon Gilmore, Marshon Lattimore and Trevon Diggs. In other words, he is not only being asked to be his team's primary receiver as a rookie, but Atlanta's opponents are also treating him as the primary receiver. As such, we have only seen one TE1 performance from him over that stretch. For his sake (as well as the Falcons' playoff hopes), fantasy managers can only hope Ridley is ready to return to the game soon.

3) Enjoy the Hunter Henry experience for as long as you can. Henry is the overall TE3 over the last five weeks despite not seeing more than four targets in any game. To say he is due for some major touchdown regression would be an understatement, if only because he is averaging a score every three catches since Week 3. Perhaps the most interesting part of Henry, however, is that last week's two-TD effort was his first TE1-level performance since Week 5. It is almost unfathomable that a tight end could score five touchdowns over a five-game period and finish as a TE1 only once.