BUF · Bye 7
Dalton Kincaid
LMD TE Tier 5 for Week 9 · 5.8 projected Standard points · TE10 rest of season
Regular season
Week 9 and rest of season fantasy rankings
We project 5.8 points this week, TE Tier 5. The middle 80% of simulated scores runs 1.8 - 11.9 points. Top 3: 7% · Top 12: 27% · Top 24: 56% of simulated weeks.
Week 9
TE Tier 5
5.2 - 5.9 projected points
Rest of season
TE10
93rd by projected points
Projected
5.8
week 9, Standard
Top 12
27%
Top 3: 7% · Top 24: 56% at TE
Movement
↓ 3
TE9 in Week 8, TE12 now
Should you start Dalton Kincaid in Week 9?
Start
Yes in a standard 12-team league. LMD ranks Dalton Kincaid TE12 for Week 9, inside the TE12 starter line. He finishes inside TE12 in 27% of simulated weeks.
The starter line is a standard 12-team lineup's, and is the line LMD's weekly accuracy review grades this board against.
- Draft / market prior
- Neutral0.00 pts
- Recent usage & efficiency
- Slight positive+0.30 pts
- AvailabilityAvailable
- Neutral0.00 pts
- Outside projection
- Slight negative-0.18 pts
- Betting markets
- Slight negative-0.20 pts
Why isn’t matchup a separate factor?
How to read
- Full model minus the model without each factor.
- Effects are not additive or changes in rank.
- Recent data includes its effect on blending weights.
- A range note means a factor moved the spread and not the expected points.
Standard scoring · Updated November 5, 2026
LMD Rankings are produced by Let's Mock Draft's own statistical and market model. They are not analyst rankings: consensus boards are not an input, and nothing is edited by hand.
Updates
Recent updates
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Dalton Kincaid a limited participant
lufkindailynews.com ·
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Fantasy Football Week 9 Tight End Projections & Rankings: Start Mike Gesicki, Sit Dalton Kincaid
Sports Illustrated ·
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Fantasy football best and worst Week 9 matchups: Start J.J. McCarthy, sit Dalton Kincaid
The New York Times ·
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Dallas Goedert and Dalton Kincaid Headline Week 9 Fantasy Football Must-Sit Tight Ends
Sports Illustrated ·
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Buffalo Bills Week 8 Inactives: DJ Moore, Dalton Kincaid Will be in Action
Sports Illustrated ·
Headlines from other publishers, discovered automatically and matched to Dalton Kincaid by name -- we did not write these and we do not host them, and each one opens at the publisher who did.
Season performance
Performance vs. projection
Over 7 completed games Dalton Kincaid has averaged +1.8 points a game against what we projected before kickoff.
| Week | Opp | Proj | Actual | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | @ HOU | 3.9 | 13.0 | +9.1 |
| Wk 2 | vs DET | 4.8 | 15.5 | +10.7 |
| Wk 3 | vs LAC | 7.7 | 1.8 | -5.9 |
| Wk 4 | vs NE | 7.0 | 0.7 | -6.3 |
| Wk 5 | @ LAR | 6.3 | 2.7 | -3.6 |
| Wk 6 | @ LV | 5.7 | 3.8 | -1.9 |
| Wk 8 | vs BAL | 4.2 | 14.6 | +10.4 |
| Wk 9 | @ MIN | 5.8 | — | — |
Each week's projection is the last one Let's Mock Draft published before that game kicked off, recorded at the time and never recalculated afterwards. The shaded band is the middle 80% of that week's simulated outcomes. Actual points are scored from official statistics under the scoring rule selected above.
Draft Return
How he compares with his draft price
The draft market had him at TE14. For the rest of the season LMD has him 4 spots higher, at TE10.
Preseason market: TE14 · ADP 135.3
Season to date
Ranking what he has actually scored needs every player's season, and that board is not published yet.
Rest of season
TE10 +4
LMD has him 4 spots higher than his TE14 draft price.
Week 9
TE12 +2
LMD has him 2 spots higher than his TE14 draft price.
Standard scoring · benchmark September 9, 2026
Season to date is what he has actually scored, ranked among his position. Rest of season and this week are LMD's current expectations rather than results. All three are compared with where the draft market had him before the season started.
TE14 is where Fantasy Football Calculator had him on September 9, 2026, the last board taken before the season's first kickoff. Later boards absorb what has happened since, so they are a current market rather than a draft price.
Regular season
Why LMD has him here
We project 59.8 points this season, TE10. Top 3: 7% · Top 12: 49% · Top 24: 86% of simulated seasons. That is 5.8 a game over 9.92 remaining games. Down 1 since the Nov. 4 board.
Per game
5.8 / game
Over 9.92 remaining game(s)
Finishing odds
Top 3: 7% · Top 12: 49% · Top 24: 86%
Share of simulated seasons finishing inside that place at TE
Market input
broad
Broad market coverage across several venues and markets.
LMD Rankings, rankings-v1.5.2. Inputs: Ball Don't Lie (fantasy market, player status, projections); PropLine (player props). · 2026 Rest of season board updated November 5, 2026
Dynasty
Long-term value
LMD's dynasty model has Dalton Kincaid #146 in 1QB and #143 in Superflex, TE15 at his position. Age 26.
1QB
#146
TE15 · tier 32 · of 300
Superflex
#143
TE15 · tier 26 · of 307
- Last season 106.6 pts 8.9 per game, half-PPR scoring, in the games he played.
- Availability 77% Share of his team's games he played over the seasons the model reads.
- History 3 seasons Seasons of production the model read; more history is weighed more confidently.
- Touches 4.9 / game Carries plus receptions per game; 17% of his team's targets.
LMD dynasty model 1.2.0: a 3-season projection from observed NFL statistics, priced above a lineup's replacement level. Our own ranking, not an ADP, a consensus or a market price. Updated October 2026.
Draft season Draft position and availability
ADP, draft range, availability at a pick and who goes around him, measured over 10,000 simulated 12-team Standard 1QB drafts.
Simulated draft position
Where he goes
Simulation average
11.08
pick 128.0 overall, averaged over every simulated draft
Median pick
11.06
half of simulations take him by pick 126
Draft range
9.08 - 14.06
the middle 80% of simulations (P10-P90)
Simulations
10,000
drafted in 9,575 of them
Filters
League format
Availability
Odds he reaches your pick
Available at 11.06 in 54% of simulations
Pick 126 overall in a 12-team draft · 10,000 simulations
From draft slot 6, the same seat picks again at 12.07, where he is available in 26% of simulations.
Slot 6's remaining turns: 11.06 54% · 12.07 26% · 13.06 16% · 14.07 14% · 15.06 8%
The middle half of simulations take him between 10.07 and 12.05.
| Pick | Available |
|---|---|
| 11.04 | 59% |
| 11.05 | 56% |
| 11.06 | 54% |
| 11.07 | 52% |
| 11.08 | 50% |
| 11.09 | 47% |
| 11.10 | 45% |
| 11.11 | 43% |
| 11.12 | 40% |
| 12.01 | 38% |
| 12.02 | 36% |
| 12.03 | 34% |
| 12.04 | 32% |
| 12.05 | 30% |
| 12.06 | 27% |
Distribution
Draft position distribution
| Pick | Share of simulations | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 9.08-9.10 | 4% | 363 of 10000 simulations |
| 9.11-10.01 | 4% | 399 of 10000 simulations |
| 10.02-10.04 | 4% | 437 of 10000 simulations |
| 10.05-10.07 | 5% | 538 of 10000 simulations |
| 10.08-10.10 | 6% | 574 of 10000 simulations |
| 10.11-11.01 | 6% | 579 of 10000 simulations |
| 11.02-11.04 | 6% | 626 of 10000 simulations |
| 11.05-11.07 | 7% | 679 of 10000 simulations |
| 11.08-11.10 | 7% | 704 of 10000 simulations |
| 11.11-12.01 | 7% | 684 of 10000 simulations |
| 12.02-12.04 | 6% | 610 of 10000 simulations |
| 12.05-12.07 | 6% | 605 of 10000 simulations |
| 12.08-12.10 | 5% | 479 of 10000 simulations |
| 12.11-13.01 | 3% | 289 of 10000 simulations |
| 13.02-13.04 | <1% | 13 of 10000 simulations |
| 13.05-13.07 | <1% | 17 of 10000 simulations |
| 13.08-13.10 | <1% | 22 of 10000 simulations |
| 13.11-14.01 | <1% | 36 of 10000 simulations |
| 14.02-14.04 | <1% | 84 of 10000 simulations |
| 14.05-14.06 | <1% | 54 of 10000 simulations |
Draft context
Who goes around him
Measured over the 9575 simulations in which Dalton Kincaid was drafted.
Usually taken just before
- Jake Ferguson TE · DAL 2%
- Juwan Johnson TE · NO 2%
- Dalton Schultz TE · HOU 2%
- Kyle Pitts Sr. TE · ATL 2%
Usually taken just after
- Travis Kelce TE · KC 3%
- Dalton Schultz TE · HOU 2%
- Jake Ferguson TE · DAL 2%
- Juwan Johnson TE · NO 2%
Methodology
How this is measured
Every figure on this page comes from a Monte Carlo batch of 10,000 simulated 12-team Standard 1QB drafts, each one played out pick by pick by the same simulated managers that fill an empty seat in a live room.
Dalton Kincaid was selected in 9575 of those 10000 drafts. Every probability here rests on that count.
Each player's expected draft position starts from Fantasy Football Calculator's aggregate ADP as of November 5, 2026; the simulated managers move him from there. Players it does not price keep a price inferred from our own rankings.
A reach or a fall on this page is measured against Fantasy Football Calculator's aggregate ADP where it prices a player, and against a price inferred from our own rankings where it does not.
- Simulation model
- simulation-v1.2
- Generated
- November 5, 2026
- Player dataset
- nflverse-2026@c60914d598b9e57d
- Baseline
- mixed
- Market prior
- ADP data from Fantasy Football Calculator (2026-11-05)
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