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Noah Fant

New Orleans Saints · Tight endTE2

6′4″, 249 lb · age 28 · Iowa · 2019 draft, round 1

Week 6 stats

Sun Oct 18, at NYG: Noah Fant was targeted once without a catch on 58% of snaps.

Stats through week 6; the week 7 projection below. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Full game log.

Through 5 games this season Noah Fant is averaging 1.8 receptions and 15 receiving yards on 53% of snaps, against 2.3 receptions and 19 receiving yards over 15 games last season. For week 7 the model projects 5.1 PPR points, TE35 this week.

Week 7 projection

PPR points
5.1
TE35 this week
Receptions
2.2
0.1 below his 2025 average
Receiving yards
15
Anytime TD
20%
He is used near the goal line, a role that runs slightly ahead of trailing form: +0.07 receptions.
His snap share has grown from last season. The projection is lifted to reflect the larger role.

What a realistic week looks like

16%025%123%216%310%45%53%678910111213Receptions
The projection is the center of this, not a prediction of one number. Eight weeks in ten he lands between 0 and 5 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.

Noah Fant 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

GameOppSnap shareTarget shareTgtRecRec ydsTDWe said
26 wk7———————2.2 projected
26 wk6NYG58%3.3%10002.4 -2.4
26 wk5MIN67%4.2%11702.3 -1.3
26 wk3LV57%10.0%443322.0 +2.0
26 wk2BAL44%0.0%0000—
26 wk1DET41%15.4%84331—
25 wk18CLE22%2.6%1150—
25 wk17ARI22%3.0%1000—
25 wk15BAL24%0.0%0000—
25 wk14BUF42%5.6%21150—
25 wk13BAL42%4.5%2130—

“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.

How often he has actually done it

Rates over his last 17 games. A projection says what to expect on average; this says how often the thing you actually need has happened.

OutcomeGames it happenedHow often
3+ receptions8 of 1747%
5+ receptions2 of 1712%
7+ receptions0 of 170%
50+ receiving yards0 of 170%
75+ receiving yards0 of 170%
100+ receiving yards0 of 170%
Scored a touchdown4 of 1724%

Noah Fant 2026 stats

Through 5 games of 2026, Noah Fant has 9 catches for 73 receiving yards (1.8 catches and 14.6 yards a game), with 3 touchdowns, on 53% of snaps.

Against the rest of his career

2026 so far (5 games)2019–2025 (111 games)
Catches per game1.83.0
Receiving yards per game14.632.5
Target share6.6%13.0%

Noah Fant 2025 stats

In 2025 Noah Fant had 34 catches for 288 yards over 15 games, with 3 touchdowns, on 38% of snaps.

Season by season

Noah Fant: snap share and target share by season02040608010020192020202120222023202420252026Snap shareTarget shareSeasonshare of the team
Role is the part of a player that carries. Snap share repeats at 0.98 between halves of a season and target share at 0.96, so this line is a far better guide to what comes next than a points total would be.
Noah Fant: targets and catches per game by season0246820192020202120222023202420252026TargetsCatchesSeason
Per-game rates over the games he appeared in. Opportunity is what reproduces — carries repeat at 0.97 between halves of a season and target share at 0.92 — while the yards it turns into are a separate and noisier question.
Noah Fant: yards per game by season020406035.1201944.9202041.9202127.6202224.4202335.7202419.2202514.62026
Receiving yards per game reproduce at 0.86 between halves of a season, against 0.61 for yards per catch — which is why this is modeled directly rather than as catches times yards per catch.
Noah Fant: touchdowns per game by season00.20.40.60.80.1920190.2020200.2520210.2220220.0020230.0720240.2020250.602026
The least predictable thing a skill player does. Touchdown rate repeats at 0.55 between halves of a season against 0.89 for catches, so a spike here is mostly not a property of the player. Per game over the games he appeared in, so a season in progress is comparable to a finished one.

8 seasons of usage, 2019–2026 · per-game rates over games he appeared in · snap counts are from official play-by-play and begin in 2016

If Noah Fant sits, who gets his work?The measured redistribution across the NO room — with sample size and t-statisticThe whole New Orleans Saints roomEvery pass-catcher ranked by the usage that predicts production

Related players

The rest of the New Orleans Saints tight end room, by target share.

Ranked next to him at TE for week 7.

What we have measured about tight ends

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