Harold Fannin vs Trey McBride: Who Should You Start?
Harold Fannin and Trey McBride are both viable fantasy tight ends heading into 2026, but their 2025 production tells two different stories. Harold Fannin averaged 9.4 PPG across 16 games with the Cleveland Browns, while Trey McBride posted 14.9 PPG in 17 appearances for the Arizona Cardinals.
A 5.5-PPG gap gives Trey McBride the edge on paper, but paper does not account for Thursday night matchups, weather games, or a star defender returning from injury. The real question is not who was better in 2025, but who is the better start this specific week.
Trey McBride is the volume tight end in this matchup with 126 receptions for 1239 yards, while Harold Fannin profiles as a more touchdown-dependent spike play (6 scores on 72 catches). In weeks where Harold Fannin finds the end zone he out-scores Trey McBride, but the floor gap is real.
Harold Fannin has his bye in Week 10, and Trey McBride rests in Week 11. Managers rostering both need waiver wire depth at tight end for those two weeks, and that is exactly the kind of planning DraftCall's matchup engine surfaces automatically so you are not scrambling on a Sunday morning.
