Eli Heidenreich

Pittsburgh Steelers · Running backRB depth

6′0″, 198 lb · age 23 · Navy · 2026 draft, round 7

Week 2 stats

Sun Sep 20, at NE: Eli Heidenreich did not play.

Stats through week 2; the week 7 projection below. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Full game log.

Eli Heidenreich has no full prior season to anchor to, so this week’s projection leans on his 1 game of current-season usage alone — treat it as a thinner read than a veteran’s.

Week 7 projection

PPR points

0.5

RB92 this week

Receptions

0.5

Returning from a missed week. Players in their first game back come in about a third of a reception below recent form, so this projection is held down rather than reading his last line straight across.

What a realistic week looks like

The projection is the center of this, not a prediction of one number. Eight weeks in ten he lands between 0 and 2 receptions. The shaded bars are that range. This distribution is calibrated — predicted against realized agrees within 0.012 in every decile across 49,202 checks.

Game log

Game	Opp	Snap share	TD	We said
26 wk2	NE	—	0	—
26 wk1	ATL	4%	0	—

“We said” is the projection as it was published that week, stored before the game, with the miss beside it. Re-running today’s model on a past week would grade a model that did not exist when the number went out, so those weeks show a dash instead.

Eli Heidenreich 2026 stats

His first season in the warehouse, so there is no prior year to compare against and no career arc to draw — the projection leans on the league's rookies rather than on him.

	2026 so far (2 games)
Catches per game	0.0
Receiving yards per game	0.0
Target share	0.0%

The whole Pittsburgh Steelers roomEvery pass-catcher ranked by the usage that predicts production

Related players

The rest of the Pittsburgh Steelers running back room, by target share.

Ranked next to him at RB for week 7.

Kene Nwangwu RB89 · NYJ
Lew Nichols III RB90 · PIT
Travis Homer RB91 · PIT
Emari Demercado RB93 · DAL
Kalel Mullings RB94 · TEN
Julius Chestnut RB95 · TEN

What we have measured about running backs

Does a new head coach change who gets the ball?It changes WHO, not how much Do touchdowns repeat from year to year?Much less than receptions

Projections are as-of-week with no lookahead · usage from official play-by-play and snap counts · 2026 week 7