LAC · TE
Oronde Gadsden II
Oronde Gadsden II is a tight end for the Los Angeles Chargers.
Scouting report
Oronde Gadsden II: the full picture
Oronde Gadsden II at a glance
Oronde Gadsden II is a 23-year-old tight end for the Los Angeles Chargers, listed at 6'5" and 236 pounds. The Los Angeles Chargers drafted Gadsden 165th overall in the fifth round in 2025, out of Syracuse; this is year two in the league.
2026 projection
Our season projection has Gadsden at 107.7 PPR points for 2026, which ranks TE30 at the position and works out to 7.2 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 6 games of 2026, Gadsden has scored 28.5 PPR points, or 4.8 per game. That is 26.5% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Gadsden would finish with about 81 points, behind the 107.7 projected. The best week so far is 9.8 points in Week 2 against LV, the TE15 finish that week. Gadsden has cleared the 7-point mark we count as a usable TE start in 2 of 6 games, a 33% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 34 qualified tight ends of 2026, Gadsden ranks in the 75th percentile in average separation, the 31st percentile in receiving TDs and the 19th percentile in target share. One of the 6 tracked categories sits at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 1st percentile in receiving yards.
Career track record
2025 is the only completed season on record: Gadsden finished as TE15 with 131.4 PPR points in 15 games. The totals so far read 61 receptions, 767 receiving yards and 4 receiving touchdowns.
Oronde Gadsden II by the numbers
Gadsden has been the highest-scoring tight end of the week 1 time, finished in the weekly top five at the position 2 times and finished in the top twelve 5 times. The career high is 29.4 PPR points, set in Week 7 of 2025 against IND, the top TE score of that week. The game log also shows 1 100-yard receiving game. In all, Gadsden has reached 20 points in 1 game, 5% of career appearances.
Contract
Gadsden is playing on a four-year, $4.6 million contract signed with the Los Angeles Chargers in 2025, an average of $1.1 million per year with $374,036 guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2028 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Gadsden carries a GV stock price of 3,835, which ranks 189th overall and TE36 among tight ends out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Gadsden 229th overall. Value has moved up 2.5 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Eli Raridon, Dawson Knox and Darren Waller. See where Gadsden sits on the trade value chart.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 107.7
- PPR / game
- 7.2
Week 3 projection
Oronde Gadsden II is projected for 8.8 PPR points on the road at BUF in week 3, with a likely range of 0.0 to 24.8.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is up 2.5 since the previous model run (stable).
- Redraft
- 31.6
- Dynasty
- 37.2
- Superflex redraft
- 46.8
- Superflex dynasty
- 51.5
- TE premium dynasty
- 35.0
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Car | Rush yds | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | LAC | 6 | 21 | 12 | 103 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 28.5 |
| 2025 | LAC | 15 | 69 | 49 | 664 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 131.4 |
Tight ends ranked near Oronde Gadsden II
- Chig Okonkwo TE27 · 107.7 PPR
- Greg Dulcich TE28 · 107.7 PPR
- Gunnar Helm TE29 · 107.7 PPR
- Colby Parkinson TE31 · 86.7 PPR
- Tommy Tremble TE32 · 86.7 PPR
- Nate Boerkircher TE33 · 85.4 PPR
Los Angeles Chargers fantasy players
- Justin Herbert QB · 304.4 PPR
- Ladd McConkey WR · 215.6 PPR
- Omarion Hampton RB · 212.2 PPR
- Quentin Johnston WR · 177.3 PPR
- Tre Harris WR · 107.5 PPR
- Keaton Mitchell RB · 102.9 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-10-20.