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Noah Fant
Noah Fant is a tight end for the New Orleans Saints. Depth chart: TE2.
Scouting report
Noah Fant: the full picture
Noah Fant at a glance
Noah Fant is a 28-year-old tight end for the New Orleans Saints, listed at 6'4" and 249 pounds. The Denver Broncos drafted Fant 20th overall in the first round in 2019, out of Iowa; this is year eight in the league.
2026 projection
Our season projection has Fant at 61.6 PPR points for 2026, which ranks TE47 at the position and works out to 4.2 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 5 games of 2026, Fant has scored 34.3 PPR points, or 6.9 per game. That is 55.7% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Fant would finish with about 117 points, ahead of the 61.6 projected. The best week so far is 19.3 points in Week 3 against LV, the TE7 finish that week. Fant has cleared the 7-point mark we count as a usable TE start in 2 of 5 games, a 40% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 39 qualified tight ends of 2025, Fant ranks in the 99th percentile in average separation, the 35th percentile in receiving TDs and the 32nd percentile in yards per target. One of the 6 tracked categories sits at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 1st percentile in target share.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Fant has finished as TE9 in 2020, TE12 in 2021, TE17 in 2022, TE32 in 2023, TE26 in 2024 and TE37 in 2025. Two of those 7 seasons ended inside the top twelve. The high-water mark is 159.0 PPR points in 2021. Across 110 regular-season games on record, the totals read 343 receptions, 3,666 receiving yards and 21 receiving touchdowns.
Noah Fant by the numbers
Fant has been the highest-scoring tight end of the week 2 times, finished in the weekly top five at the position 8 times and finished in the top twelve 24 times. The career high is 24.7 PPR points, set in Week 6 of 2021 against LV, the top TE score of that week. The game log also shows 2 100-yard receiving games. In all, Fant has reached 20 points in 5 games, 5% of career appearances.
Contract
Fant is playing on a two-year, $8.8 million contract signed with the New Orleans Saints in 2026, an average of $4.4 million per year with $4.5 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2027 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Fant carries a GV stock price of 2,179, which ranks 284th overall and TE45 among tight ends out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Fant 274th overall. Value has moved down 5.5 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are David Njoku, Cole Kmet and Terrance Ferguson. See where Fant sits on the trade value chart.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 61.6
- PPR / game
- 4.2
Week 2 projection
Noah Fant is projected for 3.7 PPR points on the road at BAL in week 2, with a likely range of 0.0 to 15.1.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is down 5.5 since the previous model run (falling).
- Redraft
- 18.3
- Dynasty
- 21.1
- Superflex redraft
- 29.6
- Superflex dynasty
- 28.0
- TE premium dynasty
- 19.0
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Car | Rush yds | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | NO | 5 | 14 | 9 | 73 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 34.3 |
| 2025 | CIN | 13 | 41 | 34 | 288 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 74.8 |
| 2024 | SEA | 14 | 64 | 48 | 500 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 104.0 |
| 2023 | SEA | 15 | 43 | 32 | 414 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 73.4 |
| 2022 | SEA | 17 | 63 | 50 | 486 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 122.6 |
| 2021 | DEN | 16 | 90 | 68 | 670 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 159.0 |
| 2020 | DEN | 14 | 93 | 62 | 673 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 149.3 |
| 2019 | DEN | 16 | 66 | 40 | 562 | 3 | 3 | -12 | 111.0 |
Tight ends ranked near Noah Fant
- Noah Gray TE44 · 65.4 PPR
- Michael Mayer TE45 · 64.4 PPR
- Foster Moreau TE46 · 63.6 PPR
- Terrance Ferguson TE48 · 50.1 PPR
- Connor Heyward TE49 · 37.6 PPR
- Austin Hooper TE50 · 32.6 PPR
New Orleans Saints fantasy players
- Tyler Shough QB · 241.5 PPR
- Chris Olave WR · 228.6 PPR
- Travis Etienne RB · 167.2 PPR
- Juwan Johnson TE · 126.4 PPR
- Jordyn Tyson WR · 102.2 PPR
- Alvin Kamara RB · 102.1 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-10-20.