DET · Bye 6
Sam LaPorta
LMD TE6 for Week 3 · 9.3 projected Half PPR points · TE6 rest of season
Regular season
Week 3 and rest of season fantasy rankings
We project 9.3 points this week, TE6. Top 3: 15% · Top 12: 43% · Top 24: 66% of simulated weeks. Down 3 since Week 2.
Week 3
TE6
61st by projected points
Rest of season
TE6
55th by projected points
Projected
9.3
week 3, Half PPR
Top 12
43%
Top 3: 15% · Top 24: 66% at TE
Movement
↓ 3
TE3 in Week 2, TE6 now
- Draft / market prior
- Negative-1.42 pts
- Recent usage & efficiency
- Positive+0.89 pts
- AvailabilityAvailable
- Neutral0.00 pts
- Outside projection
- Neutral-0.08 pts
- Betting markets
- No signal
Why isn’t matchup a separate factor?
How to read
- Full model minus the model without each factor.
- Effects are not additive or changes in rank.
- Recent data includes its effect on blending weights.
- A range note means a factor moved the spread and not the expected points.
Half PPR scoring · Updated September 22, 2026
LMD Rankings are produced by Let's Mock Draft's own statistical and market model. They are not analyst rankings: consensus boards are not an input, and nothing is edited by hand.
Updates
Recent updates
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Buffalo struggles to cover Sam LaPorta on Thursday night
Yahoo Sports ·
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Detroit Lions tight end Sam LaPorta is an interesting anytime TD bet in Week 2.
Sports Illustrated ·
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STATUS
Sam LaPorta is no longer listed on the injury report.
Let's Mock Draft ·
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ADP UPDATE
Sam LaPorta's ADP at Fantasy Football Calculator moved from 109.7 to 88.7 over the last 7 days.
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Lions interested in extending Sam LaPorta, but there's one issue
Sporting News ·
Headlines from other publishers, discovered automatically and matched to Sam LaPorta by name -- we did not write these and we do not host them, and each one opens at the publisher who did. Draft-position figures are measured, and name the market they came from. Status changes are the club designation carried on our player data, not a report of our own.
Season performance
Performance vs. projection
Over 2 completed games Sam LaPorta has averaged +3.2 points a game against what we projected before kickoff.
| Week | Opp | Proj | Actual | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | vs NO | 6.6 | 7.3 | +0.7 |
| Wk 2 | @ BUF | 8.4 | 14.2 | +5.8 |
| Wk 3 | vs NYJ | 9.3 | — | — |
Each week's projection is the last one Let's Mock Draft published before that game kicked off, recorded at the time and never recalculated afterwards. The shaded band is the middle 80% of that week's simulated outcomes. Actual points are scored from official statistics under the scoring rule selected above.
Draft Return
How he compares with his draft price
The draft market had him at TE8. For the rest of the season LMD has him 2 spots higher, at TE6.
Preseason market: TE8 · ADP 97.9
Season to date
Ranking what he has actually scored needs every player's season, and that board is not published yet.
Rest of season
TE6 +2
LMD has him 2 spots higher than his TE8 draft price.
Week 3
TE6 +2
LMD has him 2 spots higher than his TE8 draft price.
Half PPR scoring · benchmark September 9, 2026
Season to date is what he has actually scored, ranked among his position. Rest of season and this week are LMD's current expectations rather than results. All three are compared with where the draft market had him before the season started.
TE8 is where Fantasy Football Calculator had him on September 9, 2026, the last board taken before the season's first kickoff. Later boards absorb what has happened since, so they are a current market rather than a draft price.
Regular season
Why LMD has him here
We project 141.5 points this season, TE6. Top 3: 23% · Top 12: 86% · Top 24: 100% of simulated seasons. That is 9.3 a game over 15 remaining games. Down 1 since the Sept. 20 board.
Per game
9.3 / game
Over 15 remaining game(s)
Finishing odds
Top 3: 23% · Top 12: 86% · Top 24: 100%
Share of simulated seasons finishing inside that place at TE
Market input
none
No market signal available.
LMD Rankings, rankings-v1.3.0. Inputs: Ball Don't Lie (fantasy market, player status, projections). · 2026 Rest of season board updated September 22, 2026
Dynasty
Long-term value
LMD's dynasty model has Sam LaPorta #122 in 1QB and #122 in Superflex, TE10 at his position. Age 25.
1QB
#122
TE10 · tier 27 · of 297
Superflex
#122
TE10 · tier 21 · of 303
- Last season 86.9 pts 9.7 per game, half-PPR scoring, in the games he played.
- Availability 75% Share of his team's games he played over the seasons the model reads.
- History 3 seasons Seasons of production the model read; more history is weighed more confidently.
- Touches 5.7 / game Carries plus receptions per game; 19% of his team's targets.
LMD dynasty model 1.2.0: a 3-season projection from observed NFL statistics, priced above a lineup's replacement level. Our own ranking, not an ADP, a consensus or a market price. Updated September 2026.
Draft season Draft position and availability
ADP, draft range, availability at a pick and who goes around him, measured over 10,000 simulated 12-team Half PPR 1QB drafts.
Simulated draft position
Where he goes
Simulation average
6.07
pick 67.1 overall, averaged over every simulated draft
Median pick
6.07
half of simulations take him by pick 67
Draft range
5.04 - 7.09
the middle 80% of simulations (P10-P90)
Simulations
10,000
drafted in every one
Filters
League format
Availability
Odds he reaches your pick
Available at 6.07 in 53% of simulations
Pick 67 overall in a 12-team draft · 10,000 simulations
From draft slot 6, the same seat picks again at 7.06, where he is available in 18% of simulations.
Slot 6's remaining turns: 6.07 53% · 7.06 18% · 8.07 1% · 9.06 <1% · 10.07 0%
The middle half of simulations take him between 5.11 and 7.03.
| Pick | Available |
|---|---|
| 6.05 | 60% |
| 6.06 | 57% |
| 6.07 | 53% |
| 6.08 | 50% |
| 6.09 | 46% |
| 6.10 | 42% |
| 6.11 | 39% |
| 6.12 | 36% |
| 7.01 | 32% |
| 7.02 | 29% |
| 7.03 | 26% |
| 7.04 | 24% |
| 7.05 | 21% |
| 7.06 | 18% |
| 7.07 | 15% |
Distribution
Draft position distribution
| Pick | Share of simulations | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 5.04-5.05 | 4% | 357 of 10000 simulations |
| 5.06-5.07 | 4% | 401 of 10000 simulations |
| 5.08-5.09 | 4% | 437 of 10000 simulations |
| 5.10-5.11 | 5% | 519 of 10000 simulations |
| 5.12-6.01 | 5% | 537 of 10000 simulations |
| 6.02-6.03 | 6% | 586 of 10000 simulations |
| 6.04-6.05 | 6% | 619 of 10000 simulations |
| 6.06-6.07 | 7% | 678 of 10000 simulations |
| 6.08-6.09 | 7% | 745 of 10000 simulations |
| 6.10-6.11 | 7% | 674 of 10000 simulations |
| 6.12-7.01 | 6% | 626 of 10000 simulations |
| 7.02-7.03 | 6% | 583 of 10000 simulations |
| 7.04-7.05 | 6% | 572 of 10000 simulations |
| 7.06-7.07 | 5% | 475 of 10000 simulations |
| 7.08-7.09 | 4% | 381 of 10000 simulations |
Draft context
Who goes around him
Measured over the 10000 simulations in which Sam LaPorta was drafted.
Usually taken just before
- Colston Loveland TE · CHI 3%
- Tyler Warren TE · IND 3%
- Jadarian Price RB · SEA 3%
- Bhayshul Tuten RB · JAX 3%
Usually taken just after
- Jadarian Price RB · SEA 3%
- Colston Loveland TE · CHI 3%
- Parker Washington WR · JAX 3%
- Harold Fannin Jr. TE · CLE 3%
Methodology
How this is measured
Every figure on this page comes from a Monte Carlo batch of 10,000 simulated 12-team Half PPR 1QB drafts, each one played out pick by pick by the same simulated managers that fill an empty seat in a live room.
Sam LaPorta was selected in 10000 of those 10000 drafts. Every probability here rests on that count.
Each player's expected draft position starts from Fantasy Football Calculator's aggregate ADP as of September 17, 2026; the simulated managers move him from there. Players it does not price keep a price inferred from our own rankings.
A reach or a fall on this page is measured against Fantasy Football Calculator's aggregate ADP where it prices a player, and against a price inferred from our own rankings where it does not.
- Simulation model
- simulation-v1.2
- Generated
- September 17, 2026
- Player dataset
- nflverse-2026@8a41b71bb222a352
- Baseline
- mixed
- Market prior
- ADP data from Fantasy Football Calculator (2026-09-17)
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