Greg Brainos cautioned drafters against leaning on Tyler Higbee for late-season production. Brainos noted repeated comments from GM Les Snead and beat writers calling third-round rookie Terrance Ferguson the "heir apparent" and a future mismatch piece that Sean McVay has been chasing since the Rams tried to trade up for Brock Bowers. The staff has already hinted at more 12-personnel looks, which would keep Ferguson running routes while Higbee is asked to stay in and block—something that happened two years ago when Cooper Kupp was pulled for better run-blocking wideouts. Brainos is fine sprinkling Higbee in season-long projection contests, but in Best Ball Mania he wants playoff upside and fears Ferguson will overtake the high-mileage veteran by Weeks 15-17. He prefers taking Ferguson 40–50 picks later for the higher ceiling.

Pat Fantasy Dog Pound grabbed his first share of Tyler Higbee in the late rounds, calling it a no-brainer because it completed a double stack with Matthew Stafford and created a Week-16 bring-back versus Zach Charbonnet’s Seahawks. Higbee’s bye week fits cleanly with Pat’s Caleb Williams/J.J. McCarthy/Stafford three-QB build, and the veteran tight end still ran a route on 78 % of Stafford drop-backs last year. Pat likes the fact that Higbee plays indoors in the fantasy semifinals (SoFi Stadium) and expects the Rams-Lions Week-17 tilt to be one of the highest-total games on the slate. At a sub-200 ADP, he sees Higbee as inexpensive, correlated exposure to a passing game that finished top-10 in red-zone pass rate, making him a perfect third tight end in triple-onsie builds.

Davis Mattek endorsed Tyler Higbee as a sneaky Eliminator tight end, arguing his weekly 5-for-50 floor crushes the 3-point ‘hope and pray’ outputs you get from Round-18 punts like Cole Kmet or Dawson Knox. Mattek pointed to Higbee’s 16% target rate in games where Cooper Kupp was hobbled and said the Rams’ shallow receiver depth behind Puka Nacua virtually guarantees 5-7 looks every week. That steady diet of short receptions is far more valuable in a format where advancing requires beating live opponents rather than accumulating season-long points. With most drafts obsessed with upside swings, Mattek is happy to click Higbee as his TE2/TE3, locking in safe points while the field chases long-shot breakout profiles.