Tight ends vs the defense

Week 7, 2026 2026 through week 6

QB RB WR TE

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 85% of their recent average against defenses like that since 2016, and beaten it in 34% of games. Against the middle of the league, 40% have.

at Rams

Holds them to 33 fewer receiving yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Brock Bowers

27% of targets over his last four, 96 rec yds a game.

A tale of the 2 best tight ends in the NFL: George Kittle vs. Brock Bowers Niners Nation, 2 d ago

vs Seahawks

Holds them to 31 fewer receiving yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Travis Kelce

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

Chiefs stretch lead to 21-12 on Travis Kelce TD on fourth down ProFootballTalk (RSS), 12 min ago

vs Titans

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

Harold Fannin Jr.

20% of targets over his last four, 23 rec yds a game.

Browns add TE Harold Fannin to injury report, Deshaun Watson remains out ProFootballTalk (RSS), 2 d ago

The other 22 defenses on the field this week are on the full board, with the players who face each one.

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The softest matchups for tight ends

Tight ends with a real workload have gained 98% of their recent average against defenses like that since 2016, and beaten it in 48% of games. Against the middle of the league, 40% have.

vs Lions

Allows 54 more receiving yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Tucker Kraft

16% of targets over his last four, 42 rec yds a game.

at Chiefs

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

AJ Barner

15% of targets over his last four, 29 rec yds a game.

at Bengals

Allows 50 more receiving yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

No tight end on the Ravens has a big enough share of the work to name.

Yards and targets allowed are from each defense's final games this season. Every rank is over usual: what the defense allowed each game against that offense's own average in its other games, 1st the biggest margin, over each row's games. 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.