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Kyle Pitts
Kyle Pitts is a tight end for the Atlanta Falcons. Depth chart: TE1.
Scouting report
Kyle Pitts: the full picture
Kyle Pitts at a glance
Kyle Pitts is a 26-year-old tight end for the Atlanta Falcons, listed at 6'6" and 250 pounds. The Atlanta Falcons drafted Pitts 4th overall in the first round in 2021, out of Florida, and 2026 is Pitts's 6th NFL season.
2026 projection
The Gridiron Value season model projects Pitts for 189.8 PPR points in 2026, which ranks TE5 at the position and works out to 12.2 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 6 games of 2026, Pitts has scored 49.9 PPR points, or 8.3 per game. That is 26.3% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Pitts would finish with about 141 points, behind the 189.8 projected. The best week so far is 23.0 points in Week 6 against CHI, the TE2 finish that week. Pitts has cleared the 7-point mark we count as a usable TE start in 3 of 6 games, a 50% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 34 qualified tight ends of 2026, Pitts ranks in the 78th percentile in receiving TDs, the 69th percentile in yards per target and the 60th percentile in average separation. One of the 6 tracked categories sits at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 24th percentile in receptions.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Pitts has finished as TE6 in 2021, TE33 in 2022, TE13 in 2023, TE15 in 2024 and TE2 in 2025. Two of those 5 seasons ended inside the top twelve. The high-water mark is 210.8 PPR points in 2025. Across 84 regular-season games on record, the totals read 299 receptions, 3,748 receiving yards and 18 receiving touchdowns.
Kyle Pitts by the numbers
Pitts has been the highest-scoring tight end of the week 1 time, finished in the weekly top five at the position 12 times and finished in the top twelve 32 times. The career high is 45.6 PPR points, set in Week 15 of 2025 against TB, the top TE score of that week. The game log also shows 1 game of 30 or more PPR points, 4 100-yard receiving games and 1 game with three or more touchdowns. In all, Pitts has reached 20 points in 5 games, 6% of career appearances.
Contract
Pitts is playing on a three-year, $53 million contract signed with the Atlanta Falcons in 2026, an average of $17.7 million per year with $36 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2028 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Pitts carries a GV stock price of 6,012, which ranks 53rd overall and TE6 among tight ends out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Pitts 103rd overall. Value has moved down 2.0 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Theo Johnson, Hunter Henry and Colston Loveland. See where Pitts sits on the trade value chart.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 189.8
- PPR / game
- 12.2
Kyle Pitts fantasy outlook
Kyle Pitts enters the 2026 season with ATL and ranks TE7 and #93 overall in the current Gridiron Value projection. The model projects 171.5 PPR points across 15.6 games, or 11.0 points per game, placing the expected outcome in an elite fantasy tier. The preseason depth chart lists Kyle Pitts as TE1, so the opportunity forecast is tied to that current role rather than name value alone. In 2025, Kyle Pitts produced 210.8 PPR points in 17 games (12.4 per game), giving the projection a recent performance baseline. Projection confidence is 75%, with a 95% modeled chance of a Top-24 positional finish. The main variables are role stability, team scoring volume, and normal efficiency variance.
Week 1 projection
Kyle Pitts is projected for 10.0 PPR points on the road at PIT in week 1, with a likely range of 0.0 to 23.3.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is down 2.0 since the previous model run (stable).
- Redraft
- 50.0
- Dynasty
- 58.3
- Superflex redraft
- 60.8
- Superflex dynasty
- 67.9
- TE premium dynasty
- 58.4
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Car | Rush yds | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ATL | 6 | 22 | 15 | 169 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 49.9 |
| 2025 | ATL | 17 | 118 | 88 | 928 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 210.8 |
| 2024 | ATL | 17 | 74 | 47 | 602 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 131.2 |
| 2023 | ATL | 17 | 90 | 53 | 667 | 3 | 1 | -4 | 137.3 |
| 2022 | ATL | 10 | 59 | 28 | 356 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 75.6 |
| 2021 | ATL | 17 | 110 | 68 | 1,026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.6 |
Tight ends ranked near Kyle Pitts
- Brock Bowers TE2 · 215.9 PPR
- Tyler Warren TE3 · 192.7 PPR
- Tucker Kraft TE4 · 191.7 PPR
- George Kittle TE6 · 180.9 PPR
- Colston Loveland TE7 · 173.4 PPR
- Pat Freiermuth TE8 · 170.4 PPR
Atlanta Falcons fantasy players
- Bijan Robinson RB · 353.7 PPR
- Drake London WR · 288.1 PPR
- Michael Penix Jr. QB · 199.9 PPR
- Brian Robinson RB · 116.5 PPR
- Jahan Dotson WR · 105.5 PPR
- Zachariah Branch WR · 57.4 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-10-20.