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Pat Freiermuth

Pat Freiermuth is a tight end for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Depth chart: TE1.

Scouting report

Pat Freiermuth: the full picture

Written automatically from Gridiron Value model data · updated October 20, 2026

Pat Freiermuth at a glance

Pat Freiermuth is a 27-year-old tight end for the Pittsburgh Steelers, listed at 6'5" and 258 pounds. The Pittsburgh Steelers drafted Freiermuth 55th overall in the second round in 2021, out of Penn State; this is year six in the league.

2026 projection

Our season projection has Freiermuth at 170.4 PPR points for 2026, which ranks TE8 at the position and works out to 11.4 points per game over 17.0 projected games.

2026 season so far

Through 6 games of 2026, Freiermuth has scored 63.4 PPR points, or 10.6 per game. That is 37.2% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Freiermuth would finish with about 180 points, ahead of the 170.4 projected. The best week so far is 21.5 points in Week 5 against IND, the TE4 finish that week. Freiermuth has cleared the 7-point mark we count as a usable TE start in 4 of 6 games, a 67% consistency rate.

Percentile profile

Measured against the 34 qualified tight ends of 2026, Freiermuth ranks in the 91st percentile in receiving TDs, the 54th percentile in receptions and the 44th percentile in receiving yards. One of the 6 tracked categories sits at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 25th percentile in yards per target.

Career track record

By season-long PPR scoring, Freiermuth has finished as TE13 in 2021, TE7 in 2022, TE30 in 2023, TE9 in 2024 and TE25 in 2025. Two of those 5 seasons ended inside the top twelve. The high-water mark is 170.3 PPR points in 2024. Across 80 regular-season games on record, the totals read 282 receptions, 2,856 receiving yards and 26 receiving touchdowns.

Pat Freiermuth by the numbers

Freiermuth has been the highest-scoring tight end of the week 3 times, finished in the weekly top five at the position 10 times and finished in the top twelve 29 times. The career high is 28.1 PPR points, set in Week 7 of 2025 against CIN. The game log also shows 2 100-yard receiving games. In all, Freiermuth has reached 20 points in 5 games, 6% of career appearances.

How the production happens

In 2026, Freiermuth drew 5.2 targets per game at an average depth of 8.8 air yards. 27% of those targets were deep (15 or more air yards), and 5 targets came in the red zone.

Contract

Freiermuth is playing on a four-year, $48.4 million contract signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2024, an average of $12.1 million per year with $11.6 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2027 season.

2026 projected stat line

Projected PPR
170.4
PPR / game
11.4

Week 3 projection

Pat Freiermuth is projected for 8.2 PPR points at home against CIN in week 3, with a likely range of 0.0 to 20.7.

Trade value

Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is down 1.0 since the previous model run (stable).

Redraft
44.9
Dynasty
41.8
Superflex redraft
57.2
Superflex dynasty
55.6
TE premium dynasty
40.5

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Career stats

SeasonTeamGTgtRecRec ydsRec TDCarRush ydsPPR
2026PIT6292118043463.4
2025PIT155441486400113.6
2024PIT177865653700170.3
2023PIT11473230820076.8
2022PIT159863732200148.2
2021PIT167960497700151.7

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