Eye on the Prize: Week 15 Fantasy Football Tight End Rankings

It's playoff time! FanHouse fantasy positional rankings are compiled in order to provide answers to lineup questions. These are assuming most leagues use Fleaflicker's standard scoring structure. If you need clarification, you need more players ranked, or have funky league rules, feel free to shoot us an email question.

Not much shakeup at the top, except for one surprise. Yes, it's time to bump Antonio Gates down just a peg. Let's face it, anytime your star tight end puts up a goose egg as he did against Oakland in a critical game, something must give.

The great Tony Gonzalez continues to ride out the hot streak, and he just loves playing the Chargers. Look for Jason Witten and Tony Romo to get back on the same page this weekend after they both took blame for the collapse in Pittsburgh last week.

Climbing up the tight end ladder this week is an old familiar face in Jeremy Shockey. Let me explain. Since he took the scolding from Drew Brees on the sideline against Atlanta, here are his averages in the past four games; five receptions per game and 53 yards per game. Yup, he hasn't scored a TD yet this season, but it could be coming Thursday night against Chicago.

Welcome back to earth Dustin Keller. You can thank your QB for the slippage this week. And now let's tap into the rest of the rankings.

1. Tony Gonzalez, SD
2. Jason Witten, NYG
3. Chris Cooley, @ CIN
4. Dallas Clark, DET
5. Tony Scheffler, @ CAR
6. Antonio Gates, @ KC
7. John Carlson, @ STL
8. Jeremy Shockey, @ CHI
9. Owen Daniels, TEN
10. Bo Scaife, @ HOU
11. Zach Miller, NE
12. Dustin Keller, BUF
13. Visanthe Shiancoe, @ ARZ
14. Kevin Boss, @ DAL
15. Donald Lee, @ JAX
16. Greg Olsen, NO
17. Heath Miller, @ BAL
18. Anthony Fasano, SF
19. Todd Heap, PIT
20. Vernon Davis, @ MIA
21. Jerramy Stevens, @ ATL
22. Benjamin Watson, @ OAK
23. L.J Smith, CLE
24. Marcedes Lewis, GB
25. Desmond Clark, NO