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Yahoo Fantasy Football Adds Tight End Premium Format

By Nemanja Milosavljević

August 11, 2026 • 9:02 AM EDT

Updated 5 hours ago

Yahoo Fantasy Football Adds Tight End Premium Format

For years, fantasy football players have been clamoring for Tight End Premium scoring on Yahoo Fantasy. Now, the wish has landed. Yahoo Fantasy is rolling out Tight End Premium as an option for the 2026 NFL season, bumping tight end reception scores to a full 1.0 point per catch—not the standard 0.5 PPR. That one tweak has real consequences, and trust me, you’ll feel it on draft day.

Tight End Premium flips the script on fantasy value. Suddenly, tight ends aren’t just lineup-fillers after you’ve picked your wide receivers and running backs. The position jumps way up in both draft and weekly strategy, turning high-volume tight ends into genuine difference makers.

If you’re a commissioner, you can set it up in seconds. Yahoo has made Tight End Premium an easy “Custom Recipe,” which means no messy customization—just a single tap from your scoring settings. You can even tune the scoring, cranking up TE points per reception to 1.5, 2.0, or any number your league fancies.

So why does this matter? Let’s look at what happened in 2025. If you compare the top five tight ends’ half-PPR scores to what they’d have done with Tight End Premium, you’ll spot a real gap. Guys like Trey McBride go from strong starters to every-week lineup anchors. McBride vaulted from 242.9 points in half-PPR to a whopping 302.4 in TE Premium. That’s a 25 percent jump just by tweaking one setting. Same deal for others: Kyle Pitts Sr. and Travis Kelce both leap ahead in value, and Jake Ferguson sneaks into the top five on the Premium side.

That difference holds real weight. In half-PPR last season, the best wide receivers still usually outscored the tight ends. With Tight End Premium, the scales tip toward elite TEs. Now, a guy like Trey McBride can realistically put up numbers that rival the top wideouts, which means your draft priorities must change. In other words, you can’t snooze on tight end if your league bumps up their scoring. If you’re used to only caring about Kelce, it’s time to dig deeper into breakout tight end prospects.

Key Developments That Matter

Yahoo Fantasy now offers Tight End Premium as a built-in setting.
Tight ends get 1.0 points per reception in this format, up from 0.5 PPR.
Commissioners can customize TE PPR to any number, making every league unique.
Top TEs like Trey McBride and Kyle Pitts Sr. now rival the highest-scoring receivers.
Draft strategy shifts: tight ends are now a premium pick, not an afterthought.
Tight End Premium is available as a “Custom Recipe” for easy league setup.

How Tight End Premium Compares

Tight End Rankings (2025 Half-PPR)

Trey McBride: 242.9
Kyle Pitts Sr.: 158
Dallas Goedert: 155.1
Travis Kelce: 152.5
Harold Fannin Jr.: 150.4

Tight End Rankings (Tight End Premium, PPR)

Trey McBride: 302.4
Kyle Pitts Sr.: 199
Travis Kelce: 189
Jake Ferguson: 186.6
Harold Fannin Jr.: 186.4

Wide Receiver Rankings (2025 Half-PPR)

Puka Nacua: 289.5
Jaxon Smith-Njigba: 289
Amon-Ra St. Brown: 246.1
George Pickens: 244
Ja’Marr Chase: 231.5

Making the Switch in Your League

Anyone running a Yahoo Fantasy league can activate Tight End Premium directly from Commissioner Tools. Just pop into Scoring Settings, apply the Custom Recipe for Tight End Premium, and you’re set. You can also slide the number higher or lower, so if your group wants an extreme experiment, take it up to 2.0 and see what happens. Point is, it’s dead simple—no more hacking the rules or making your league wait on wishlists.

This isn’t just a technical tweak. Changing how you score tight ends breathes new life into your league. You’ll see managers weighing TEs earlier in drafts and scrambling more each week looking for injury replacements or breakouts. It makes depth charts and streaming decisions way more interesting.

Key Takeaways, In Plain English

Tight End Premium locks in 1.0 points per catch for tight ends, reshaping value.
Top-tier TEs are now core fantasy assets, not just set-and-forget positions.
The strategy for your draft board changes big time: ignore tight end at your own risk.
Yahoo’s Custom Recipe setup means everyone can turn Tight End Premium on quickly.
Commissioners have new control to adjust TE value midseason, whenever needed.
If your league has always wanted a more dynamic, challenging scoring system, now’s the time.
Big-time TE performances will swing weekly matchups more than before.
You can experiment with extra-high TE points and see which managers adapt fastest.

According to Yahoo, everything is ready for you to activate and try the new format. The TE spot on your roster just got a major upgrade—and now, what you do with it can win or lose you a season.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Tight End Premium is a fantasy scoring format where tight ends earn 1.0 point per reception instead of the standard 0.5, making them much more valuable in your lineup.

Commissioners can apply Tight End Premium as a Custom Recipe from the Scoring Settings in Commissioner Tools. It only takes a single tap to enable it.

Yes, commissioners can set tight ends to earn as many points per reception as they want—1.5, 2.0, or any other number—directly from Scoring Settings.

With tight ends scoring more, they become must-target assets. Grabbing a top TE early can give you a big edge, and you’ll want to rethink your old approach to the position.

With Tight End Premium, the gap narrows. Top tight ends can now match or even exceed the scoring of many elite wide receivers, so both positions need close attention.

It’s in the Scoring Settings under Commissioner Tools on Yahoo Fantasy. Look for the Custom Recipe options.

Yes, any Yahoo Fantasy league can activate Tight End Premium for the 2026 NFL season and beyond.