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Hit rates by week, TE
Over 2019–2025, 42 games played. Bars show this player's rate against the TE rate over the same games.
Usage, TE
5 targets / game
9 games
[2025,2026] season, 9 games played. Share of team targets against the TE median.
Iowa has been sending tight ends to the league for years, and most of them arrive with a blocking pedigree and a prayer. LaPorta arrived as a second-round pick in Detroit and simply became the best receiving option the school has produced at the position, which tells you either that he is special or that the bar was on the ground. Detroit's offense says the former. The Detroit Lions took him in the second round, and he has spent his career since making that look like the easiest call of that draft.
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Sam LaPorta's Lions head into Week 3 against the Jets amid uneasy coverage: a Pride Of Detroit stock report after the Bills game lists eleven fallers against five risers, a fan discussion asks how much panic is warranted, and a separate piece asks what still gives hope for 2026, while Pro Football Rumors reports defensive coordinator Kelvin Sheppard's job is not in jeopardy. None of the Jets-focused preview pieces from Gang Green Nation or Yahoo Sports NFL single out LaPorta by name. For fantasy purposes, tight end guidance appears in Hayden Winks' Yahoo Sports NFL Blueprint columns for Weeks 2 and 3, FantasyPros' Week 3 start-or-sit expert picks, and Justin Boone's tight end trade value breakdown on Yahoo Sports NFL. No injury specific to LaPorta was reported this week.
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