FantasyPros Articles on Sam LaPorta
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Extrapolating that healthy usage rate over a full season projects to roughly 80 catches, 1,000 yards, and 10 touchdowns, and even 90% of that pace would restore him to true top-three tight end form.
STACKED’s take
Healthy LaPorta projects to 80 catches, 1,000 yards, 10 TDs; top-3 TE upside at round 7.
LaPorta was the counter-pick in round seven, a name being drafted at a discount after a frustrating, injury-interrupted season. Once he got fully healthy, a several-week stretch last season showed him as the clear number two target earner on his team, trailing only the top wide receiver in target share and finishing ahead of every other pass catcher on the roster, including a young receiver whose emergence seemed to come partly at LaPorta's expense. Extrapolating that healthy usage rate over a full season projects to roughly 80 catches, 1,000 yards, and 10 touchdowns, and even 90% of that pace would restore him to true top-three tight end form. He's currently going in round seven despite that path.
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