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Sam Roush
Sam Roush is a tight end for the Chicago Bears. Depth chart: TE3.
Scouting report
Sam Roush: the full picture
Sam Roush at a glance
Sam Roush is a 23-year-old tight end for the Chicago Bears, listed at 6'5" and 267 pounds. The Chicago Bears drafted Roush 69th overall in the third round in 2026, out of Stanford, and 2026 is Roush's 1st NFL season.
2026 projection
The Gridiron Value season model projects Roush for 26.8 PPR points in 2026, which ranks TE56 at the position and works out to 1.8 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 5 games of 2026, Roush has scored 6.3 PPR points, or 1.3 per game. That is 23.5% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Roush would finish with about 21 points, behind the 26.8 projected. The best week so far is 2.6 points in Week 3 against PHI, the TE47 finish that week. Roush has cleared the 7-point mark we count as a usable TE start in 0 of 5 games, a 0% consistency rate.
Sam Roush by the numbers
The career high is 2.6 PPR points, set in Week 3 of 2026 against PHI.
Contract
Roush is playing on a four-year, $7.3 million contract signed with the Chicago Bears in 2026, an average of $1.8 million per year with $1.8 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2029 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Roush carries a GV stock price of 2,077, which ranks 481st overall and TE82 among tight ends out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Roush 477th overall. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Oscar Delp, Marlin Klein and Nate Boerkircher. See where Roush sits on the trade value chart.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 26.8
- PPR / game
- 1.8
Week 3 projection
Sam Roush is projected for 1.1 PPR points at home against PHI in week 3, with a likely range of 0.0 to 6.0.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format.
- Redraft
- 16.9
- Dynasty
- 20.1
- Superflex redraft
- 27.3
- Superflex dynasty
- 26.4
- TE premium dynasty
- 18.1
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Car | Rush yds | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CHI | 5 | 5 | 3 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.3 |
Tight ends ranked near Sam Roush
- Marlin Klein TE53 · 28.9 PPR
- Carsen Ryan TE54 · 27.3 PPR
- Jackson Hawes TE55 · 26.9 PPR
- Josh Whyle TE57 · 26.7 PPR
- Jeremy Ruckert TE58 · 26.7 PPR
- Matthew Hibner TE59 · 26.5 PPR
Chicago Bears fantasy players
- Caleb Williams QB · 330.0 PPR
- D'Andre Swift RB · 218.4 PPR
- Luther Burden III WR · 202.8 PPR
- Rome Odunze WR · 192.3 PPR
- Colston Loveland TE · 173.4 PPR
- Kyle Monangai RB · 131.8 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-10-20.