Tight ends vs the defense

Week 5, 2026 2026 through week 4

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Every week, the defenses that have been hardest and easiest on tight ends this season, after adjusting for who they have played, and the players who face them this week. What a defense has allowed is history, never a forecast.

The toughest matchups for tight ends

Tight ends with a real workload have gained 84% of their recent average against defenses like that since 2022, and beaten it in 32% of games. Against the middle of the league, 40% have.

at Patriots

Holds them to 38 fewer receiving yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Brock Bowers

32% of targets over his last four, 101 rec yds a game.

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Michael Mayer

17% of targets over his last four, 42 rec yds a game.

at Rams

Holds them to 30 fewer receiving yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Dalton Kincaid

17% of targets over his last four, 68 rec yds a game.

Maxwell Hairston apologizes, Joe Brady wants Dalton Kincaid more involved and Jim Leonhard on Cole Bishop's alignment Buffalo Bills official site, 12 h ago

at Titans

Holds them to 29 fewer receiving yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Dalton Schultz

17% of targets over his last four, 54 rec yds a game.

The softest matchups for tight ends

Tight ends with a real workload have gained 95% of their recent average against defenses like that since 2022, and beaten it in 45% of games. Against the middle of the league, 40% have.

vs Lions

Allows 42 more receiving yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Trey McBride

32% of targets over his last four, 61 rec yds a game.

NFL suspends official involved in Cardinals McBride’s tirade Revenge of the Birds, 9 h ago

at Commanders

Allows 38 more receiving yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Isaiah Likely

31% of targets over his last four, 48 rec yds a game.

at Cardinals

Allows 24 more receiving yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Sam LaPorta

19% of targets over his last four, 57 rec yds a game.

Report: Lions, Sam LaPorta break off contract extension talks ProFootballTalk (RSS), 1 d ago

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 the record are on How we count.