Tight ends: the playoff slate

Weeks 15–17, 2024 last season's final profiles, while this season has fewer than three games

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Each offense's three opponents in weeks 15 to 17 and the mean of what those defenses have allowed a game to tight ends this season, the softest slate first. What a defense has allowed is history, and our own check found it tracks the next game only faintly: read it as the matchup a player walks into, not as what he will do in it.

#	Offense	Week 15	Week 16	Week 17	Mean
1	Titans	633rd	@ 539th	@ 5311th	56.3
2	Chargers	642nd	641st	@ 4031st	56.0
3	Broncos	539th	@ 5212th	@ 633rd	56.0

1 Titans wk 15 CIN · wk 16 @ IND · wk 17 @ JAX 56.3rec yds a game, mean
2 Chargers wk 15 TB · wk 16 DEN · wk 17 @ NE 56.0rec yds a game, mean
3 Broncos wk 15 IND · wk 16 @ LAC · wk 17 @ CIN 56.0rec yds a game, mean

Yards and targets allowed are from each defense's final games this season, ranked among the 32 (1 = allows the most). Shares are of the team's carries or targets over the player's last four games. Data from nflverse (CC BY 4.0). The definitions and floors are on How we count.