Mark Andrews Fantasy 2026: Is the Ravens TE a Cheap TE1 Bounce-Back?

Mark Andrews is coming off the worst receiving season of his career, and the price has finally moved to match. He caught 48 of 70 targets for 422 yards and five receiving touchdowns across 17 games in 2025, good for about 7.7 PPR points per game. For a player who spent years as a set-and-forget TE1, that is a real step down, and the market has responded by letting him fall to a TE16 price, around pick 136 overall. The question for 2026 is whether the role still points up.

It does in the one place that decides tight-end weeks. Andrews drew 15 red-zone targets, nine inside-the-10 looks, and seven goal-line touches even in a down year, and he added a rushing touchdown on top of the five through the air. That is a genuine scoring role, and touchdowns are what separate a startable tight end from a replacement-level one.

Baltimore funnels targets to the tight end, and the room just thinned

The team context is the strongest part of the case. Baltimore sent 30.7% of its pass targets to the tight end position in 2025, well above the 25.4% league average and more than a full standard deviation clear of it, a clear positional funnel with Lamar Jackson throwing. Isaiah Likely absorbed a chunk of that as the number-two tight end, drawing 37 targets before his move to New York. With Likely now a Giant, more of that elevated tight-end share should concentrate back on Andrews as the clear starter, who already played a 61% snap share and a 17% target share.

But the target tree still runs through Zay Flowers

Here is the bear case the price is pointing at. Zay Flowers is the engine of this passing game, with 118 targets for 1,211 yards and five touchdowns on a team-high 35.7% air-yards share. Rashod Bateman is the vertical complement at a 12.3-yard average depth of target. Andrews is, at best, the clear second read in the pecking order, and his own 7.3-yard average depth of target is a short, possession profile that caps how much yardage he can pile up. The scoring role is real, but the week-to-week yardage floor is thin.

Lamar Jackson's availability is the swing

One more thing to monitor: Lamar Jackson reads questionable on the current injury report. Jackson is the reason the tight-end funnel and the red-zone looks exist in the first place, throwing to a healthy 8.8-yard average depth of target, so any missed time would reshape the whole passing game and Andrews's value along with it. We do not project a return date here; treat it as a known unknown that raises the range of outcomes.