Updated Fantasy Football Rankings at Week 12: Top 30 TE's for the Rest of 2010

Indianapolis Colts rookie tight end Jacob Tamme has moved up to second among tight ends for the remainder of the season. Tamme, who wasn’t even a fantasy consideration going into the season, has filled in admirably for the injured Dallas Clark.

While he hasn’t been quite as successful as Clark normally is, Tamme has caught six receptions in each of his four starts and has quickly become a trusted target of perhaps the league’s best quarterback.

He has battled a slight back injury, but that’s no reason to keep him out of your lineup. Unless you have both Antonio Gates and Tamme on the same roster, he should be in your lineup every week at this point.

Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten has been predictably unpredictable since Jon Kitna took over at quarterback.

In his past five games, Witten has had games with 10 catches, 3 catches, 1 catch, 4 catches, and again 10 catches on Thursday against the Saints.

The biggest concern for Witten owners is how much he’s going to be used as a blocker because it has been extremely difficult to determine how the Cowboys will use him from week to week.

Regardless, 2010 has been a very low production year for tight ends, so Witten is probably still an every-week must-start for owners that have him.

Perhaps the biggest disappointment of the second half of the season has been New York Jets tight end Dustin Keller.

After an excellent start to the season, Keller has absolutely fallen apart over the team’s past seven games, posting five or less fantasy points in six of those games. Keller caught five touchdown passes in his first three games and hasn’t caught one since.

While Mark Sanchez is looking for Braylon Edwards and Santonio Holmes more often, Keller has simply not been open nearly as much lately as he was to start the season.

Perhaps defenses are focusing in on him a bit more, but it’s certainly not helping his fantasy numbers. He drops another two spots this week to seventh among tight ends going forward.

View all of the Week 12 Rankings for the Rest of 2010:

Quarterbacks | Running Backs | Wide Receivers | Tight Ends

RANK	PLAYER	TEAM	PREVIOUS RANK	MOVEMENT
1	Antonio Gates	SD	1	0
2	Jacob Tamme	IND	3	1
3	Vernon Davis	SF	2	-1
4	Jason Witten	DAL	6	2
5	Zach Miller	OAK	4	-1
6	Marcedes Lewis	JAC	9	3
7	Dustin Keller	NYJ	5	-2
8	Aaron Hernandez	NE	7	-1
9	Todd Heap	BAL	8	-1
10	Chris Cooley	WAS	10	0
11	Tony Gonzalez	ATL	11	0
12	Brandon Pettigrew	DET	13	1
13	Kellen Winslow	TB	12	-1
14	Benjamin Watson	CLE	14	0
15	Rob Gronkowski	NE	17	2
16	Heath Miller	PIT	18	2
17	Jermaine Gresham	CIN	19	2
18	Visanthe Shiancoe	MIN	15	-3
19	Greg Olsen	CHI	22	3
20	Tony Moeaki	KC	16	-4
21	Jeremy Shockey	NO	21	0
22	Joel Dreessen	HOU	NR	-
23	Evan Moore	CLE	29	6
24	Kevin Boss	NYG	24	0
25	Tony Scheffler	DET	23	-2
26	Brent Celek	PHI	20	-6
27	Bo Scaife	TEN	26	-1
28	Andrew Quarless	GB	27	-1
29	Anthony Fasano	MIA	28	-1
30	John Carlson	SEA	25	-5