Brock Bowers

Of the 10 tight ends most similar to Brock Bowers, 4 finished TE1, 1 finished TE2, 4 finished TE3, 1 finished TE4+.

Based on just 10 analogs — directional, not a forecast.

Bowers enters his third season fully recovered from the left-knee PCL injury that shadowed his entire 2025 — he says he is 100%, practiced full-speed all spring, and still led the Raiders in catches and receiving touchdowns while hurt. The situation around him improved materially: new coach Klint Kubiak has publicly built the offense around Bowers as his joker tight end, the front office added quarterback Fernando Mendoza with Kirk Cousins as insurance, and no wide receiver on the roster threatens his standing as the clear primary target. His late-2025 usage (23% target share, near-100% snaps, target share trending up) confirms the role never eroded even on a bad knee, and Michael Mayer functions as a complementary in-line Y rather than competition. The residual risks are a knee that already lingered for a full year and the ordinary volatility of a rookie passer in a run-leaning scheme. In dynasty he is an elite, top-tier tight end asset whose price sits below his rookie-year peak — a rare discount window on a 23-year-old positional cornerstone. Recommendation: buy — he costs more than any single rookie pick (think 1.01 plus meaningful additional capital), and that price is still worth paying before a healthy Kubiak season resets it; at minimum a conviction hold, and sell only at a premium reflecting overall-TE1 upside.