Fantasy Football: 5 Players You Can Drop After Week 2

Tyler Eifert, TE, Cincinnati Bengals

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Another former first-round NFL prospect is biting the fantasy dust here. Tyler Eifert has dealt with constant injuries that have derailed his career, to the point where he was allowed to walk in free agency this offseason before finding no work and returning to the Cincinnati Bengals on a “prove-it deal”.

And, sadly, he’s not proving much.

Eifert has earned just 10.1 percent of his team’s targets this season and is letting too many of them clang off his hands. Maybe a 71.4 percent catch rate looks good, but when every one of his looks has been perfectly delivered, his 28.6 percent drop rate -- easily the highest in the league -- looks very bad.

So far, Eifert has basically operated in a perfectly-split timeshare with C.J. Uzomah, who has played 73 snaps to Eifert’s 72. Even Tyler Kroft has been in on 52 snaps this year, so the Bengals are not funneling their offense to Eifert anymore. Tight end is a thin position in fantasy, but there are more compelling options than Eifert.