Start Sam LaPorta or Harold Fannin? Week 5
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Sam LaPorta over Harold Fannin Jr.
- Market projects
- 12.2
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 87%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 20%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 9.9
- fantasy pts
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Our Week 5 call
Start Sam LaPorta over Harold Fannin Jr. in Week 5.
Market-based projections have Sam LaPorta at 12.2 points and Harold Fannin Jr. at 9.9, a gap of 2.3.
What the market projects
Player markets imply 12.2 fantasy points for Sam LaPorta, with 100 percent of the markets a TE needs posted.
The market gives Sam LaPorta a 31% chance to score a touchdown (8 market sources).
Player markets imply 9.9 fantasy points for Harold Fannin Jr., with 100 percent of the markets a TE needs posted.
The market has Harold Fannin Jr. at 36.5 receiving yards and 4.5 receptions, with a 27% chance to score a touchdown (15, 10 and 13 market sources).
That puts Sam LaPorta 2.3 points ahead of Harold Fannin Jr. on the market projections.
Injury status
Sam LaPorta is not on the injury report.
Harold Fannin Jr. is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 5
Through Week 4, Sam LaPorta played 87 percent of DET snaps, drew 20 percent of the targets, earned 15 percent of the air yards and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.
Sam LaPorta, Week 1 against NO: 62 of 77 snaps, 8 targets and 5 catches for 48 yards.
Sam LaPorta, Week 2 against BUF: 64 of 65 snaps, 7 targets and 6 catches for 52 yards, 1 touchdown.
Sam LaPorta, Week 3 against NYJ: 60 of 65 snaps, 4 targets and 3 catches for 44 yards.
Sam LaPorta, Week 4 against CAR: 56 of 71 snaps, 13 targets and 8 catches for 84 yards, 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Sam LaPorta played 9 games for DET and scored 106.9 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing TE27.
He caught 40 of 49 targets for 489 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets and 215 air yards.
He was on the field for 90 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 5 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
TE5 · DET · bye 6
2026 vs anytime td line 2-2
- Overall rank
- 45
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
Ranked behind
TE10 · CLE · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 2-2
- Overall rank
- 75
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 5, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board30
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 3 and tier 4
- Board size223 draftable players
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