Tight ends: the playoff slate

Weeks 15–17, 2026 last season's final profiles, while this season has fewer than three games

RB WR TE

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	Panthers	851st	@ 665th	636th	71.3
2	Ravens	@ 665th	5219th	@ 851st	67.4
3	Colts	@ 5615th	851st	@ 5219th	64.0

1 Panthers wk 15 CIN · wk 16 @ PIT · wk 17 SEA 71.3rec yds a game, mean
2 Ravens wk 15 @ PIT · wk 16 CLE · wk 17 @ CIN 67.4rec yds a game, mean
3 Colts wk 15 @ TEN · wk 16 CIN · wk 17 @ CLE 64.0rec 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.