Colm Kelly encouraged drafters to prioritize Ben Sinnott in the final five rounds, calling him the type of athletic upside play that can actually change tournament outcomes. Kelly argued that most 15th-to-20th-round selections end up giving you “very, very little” and that burning those picks on low-ceiling floor guys is a mistake. Sinnott, on the other hand, brings rare movement skills for a 250-pound tight end and a clear path to early snaps in Washington’s thin TE room. Even though Sinnott went undrafted in many early formats last season, Kelly prefers taking repeat swings because the payoff of landing a breakout tight end dwarfs the opportunity cost of a miss. In short, if you are going to gamble late, do it on a player with real difference-making athletic traits instead of a placeholder who will never crack your best-ball starting lineup.

Best Ball Guy advised keeping a late-round light on Ben Sinnott as an upside dart. Washington invested the 54th overall pick in the Kansas State product, who posted a true-junior breakout season with 49 catches for 700 yards and six scores while lining up almost exclusively as a receiver. With Zach Ertz turning 35 on November 10 and logging 70-90% snap shares in every game last year, the tout expects age-related decline or injury risk to open routes for Sinnott. Because Sinnott’s college profile shows receiving-only usage and no carries, Best Ball Guy believes he could step directly into high-value tight-end targets if Ertz “fizzles.” He is adding Sinnott to 0.1–0.3% of his portfolio—roughly one to three of every thousand teams—as a leverage play on Ertz’s durability.

Shepardson urged drafters to stash Sinnott at 215.0 ADP (TE36). The second-round pick logged only 5 targets as a rookie while Zach Ertz soaked up snaps, but Shepardson reminded readers that Trey McBride followed a similar path before exploding. He emphasized Ertz’s steep age curve – Stathead shows only eight 35-plus seasons with 35+ receiving yards per game in the past 20 years – and suggested 2024 already looked like Ertz’s cliff. Sinnott’s profile screams upside: a 9.73 Relative Athletic Score (33rd out of 1,199 TEs since 1987) and elite final-year college production (PFF receiving grade 81.0, 7th in YPRR at 2.02, 48-669-6 line). With Jayden Daniels expected to run a high-scoring attack, Shepardson views Sinnott as a perfect TE3 dart or cheap Daniels stack, while cautioning he should not be relied on as a TE2 beside another mid-tier option.