Marlin Klein

Houston Texans · Tight endTE depth

6′6″, 250 lb · age 24 · Michigan · 2026 draft, round 2

Week 3 stats

Sun Sep 27, at IND: Marlin Klein played 7% of snaps without a touch.

Stats through week 3; the week 7 projection below. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Full game log.

Marlin Klein has no full prior season to anchor to, so this week’s projection leans on his 2 games of current-season usage alone — treat it as a thinner read than a veteran’s.

Week 7 projection

PPR points

1.0

TE79 this week

Receptions

0.2

Receiving yards

Anytime TD

12%

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 1 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.

Marlin Klein snap share, game by game

Snap shareTarget share

Role is the most repeatable thing a player has. Snap share reproduces at 0.96 between halves of a season; receptions manage 0.89 and touchdowns 0.56. When these lines move, production follows — not the other way round. Snap share leaders.

Game log

Game	Opp	Snap share	Target share	Tgt	Rec	Rec yds	TD	We said
26 wk7	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2 projected
26 wk3	IND	7%	0.0%	0	0	0	0	0.9 -0.9
26 wk2	CIN	11%	0.0%	0	0	0	0	—
26 wk1	BUF	11%	2.7%	1	1	16	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.

Marlin Klein 2026 stats

Through 3 games of 2026, Marlin Klein has 1 catches for 16 receiving yards (0.3 catches and 5.3 yards a game), on 10% of snaps.

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 (3 games)
Catches per game	0.3
Receiving yards per game	5.3
Target share	0.9%

The whole Houston Texans roomEvery pass-catcher ranked by the usage that predicts production

Related players

The rest of the Houston Texans tight end room, by target share.

Ranked next to him at TE for week 7.

Max Klare TE76 · LA
Nick Vannett TE77 · BAL
Payne Durham TE78 · TB
Robert Tonyan TE80 · PIT
Tanner Arkin TE81 · NE
Thomas Fidone II TE82 · NYG

What we have measured about tight ends

Does a new head coach change who gets the ball?It changes WHO, not how much Is any defense actually “weak against tight ends”?Not a real trait

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