DET · TE
Tyler Conklin
Tyler Conklin is a tight end for the Detroit Lions. Depth chart: TE3.
Scouting report
Tyler Conklin: the full picture
Tyler Conklin at a glance
Tyler Conklin is a 31-year-old tight end for the Detroit Lions, listed at 6'3" and 245 pounds. The Minnesota Vikings drafted Conklin 157th overall in the fifth round in 2018, out of Central Michigan; this is year nine in the league.
2026 projection
Our season projection has Conklin at 24.9 PPR points for 2026, which ranks TE63 at the position and works out to 1.8 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Conklin has finished as TE52 in 2020, TE16 in 2021, TE16 in 2022, TE18 in 2023, TE18 in 2024 and TE81 in 2025. The high-water mark is 138.3 PPR points in 2021. Across 95 regular-season games on record, the totals read 270 receptions, 2,645 receiving yards and 11 receiving touchdowns.
Tyler Conklin by the numbers
Conklin has been the highest-scoring tight end of the week 1 time, finished in the weekly top five at the position 7 times and finished in the top twelve 16 times. The career high is 25.9 PPR points, set in Week 8 of 2022 against NE, the top TE score of that week. In all, Conklin has reached 20 points in 3 games, 3% of career appearances.
Contract
Conklin is playing on a one-year, $1.3 million contract signed with the Detroit Lions in 2026, an average of $1.3 million per year. The deal runs through the 2026 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Conklin carries a GV stock price of 2,009, which ranks 390th overall and TE63 among tight ends out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Conklin 260th overall. Value has moved down 1.8 since the previous model run. See where Conklin sits on the trade value chart.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 24.9
- PPR / game
- 1.8
Week 1 projection
Tyler Conklin is projected for 1.8 PPR points at home against NO in week 1, with a likely range of 0.0 to 10.9.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is down 1.8 since the previous model run (stable).
- Redraft
- 20.2
- Dynasty
- 19.5
- Superflex redraft
- 33.0
- Superflex dynasty
- 24.9
- TE premium dynasty
- 17.4
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Car | Rush yds | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | LAC | 6 | 10 | 7 | 101 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 17.3 |
| 2024 | NYJ | 16 | 72 | 51 | 449 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 121.9 |
| 2023 | NYJ | 17 | 87 | 61 | 621 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 123.1 |
| 2022 | NYJ | 17 | 87 | 58 | 552 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 131.5 |
| 2021 | MIN | 17 | 87 | 61 | 593 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 138.3 |
| 2020 | MIN | 9 | 26 | 19 | 194 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 44.4 |
| 2019 | MIN | 9 | 10 | 8 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.8 |
| 2018 | MIN | 4 | 7 | 5 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.7 |
Tight ends ranked near Tyler Conklin
- Ja'Tavion Sanders TE60 · 26.2 PPR
- Luke Musgrave TE61 · 26.0 PPR
- Seydou Traore TE62 · 25.8 PPR
- Jake Tonges TE64 · 24.8 PPR
- Nate Adkins TE65 · 22.6 PPR
- Josh Cuevas TE66 · 20.5 PPR
Detroit Lions fantasy players
- Jahmyr Gibbs RB · 349.0 PPR
- Amon-Ra St. Brown WR · 322.7 PPR
- Jared Goff QB · 304.9 PPR
- Jameson Williams WR · 169.2 PPR
- Sam LaPorta TE · 154.9 PPR
- Isaac TeSlaa WR · 95.1 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-09-24.