Pat Freiermuth
PITTE25 · overall #160 · tier 5 · age 27
Projected points
99
6.7/gm
Value over replacement
-4
repl 112
Range
50–148
sd 49
Week
6.4
@ CLE
Why this ranking
hand-set 2026-08-22
Cut 22 Aug at Matt's read. HIS RATE IS NOT THE PROBLEM -- 7.12/g against a decay-0.65 weighted 6.80 is +0.32, well inside how the model treats everyone. It is the TARGETS, and it is the incoming-competition defect seen from the incumbent's side rather than the newcomer's. He is projected 4.90 targets a game against 4.59 in 2024 and 3.60 in 2025 -- above BOTH recent seasons -- on a Pittsburgh team that has since added MICHAEL PITTMAN, who takes 6.82 targets a game and 20.9% of the room. A share earned before a new mouth arrived is carried forward untouched. apply_incoming_competition exists for exactly this, is measured at -0.172 against the share ratio, and is NOT called because it failed its held-out test, so an override is the only lever. Third instance today after Wan'Dale Robinson and Jauan Jennings, who are the same fact from the newcomer's end. TE23, against ECR TE24. HE HAS NO ADP AT ALL, which is why nothing caught him: the audit's market check required an ADP rank, and 56 of 230 draftable players do not have one. That gap is fixed in the same commit.
This is a view, not a correction — the model said something different and was overruled. See how it works.
Projected usage
opportunity, before efficiency
- Targets / game
- 4.6
- Carries / game
- 0.0
- Receptions / game
- 3.4
- Rec yards / game
- 35
- Rush yards / game
- 0
- Rush TD / game
- 0.00
- Rec TD / game
- 0.26
- Total TD / game
- 0.26
- Games projected
- 14.7
- Observed pts/gm (history)
- 8.6
- Games of history
- 58
- Age multiplier
- 1.010
- Usage carryover
- 0.90
Team context
what scales this projection
- Neutral sec / play
- 33.5
- Projected plays / game
- 61.4
- Projected pass rate
- 57%
- OL run block
- -0.51
- OL pass protection
- +0.02
- OL continuity
- 65%
- 2TE rate
- 45%
- 3WR rate
- 52%
- 1st-down pass rate
- 45%
- Run friendly
- -0.86
- Scheme creativity
- -0.29
- Play action / motion
- 21% / 51%
Situation
ambiguity widens the projection range
- Label
- new head coach, committee
- Ambiguity score
- 95
- Effective contributors
- 2.97
- Top player's share
- 36%
- New play-caller
- yes
- Variance multiplier
- 2.30
Trade window
schedule-driven buy / sell timing
- Action
- hold
- Window weeks
- 4-6
- Window opponents
- CLE,IND,TB
- Window matchup
- -0.01
- Opponents after
- NO,CLE
- After matchup
- -0.34
- Flip edge
- +0.33
- Buy basis
- recent form
- Bye week
- 9
- Playoff schedule (15-17)
- -0.25
2025 game log
full season · Standard
Games
15
Points
72.6
Per game
4.84
17-gm pace
82
Best / worst
23.1 / 0.6
Pace extrapolates the selected weeks over 17 games. It is what that stretch was worth, not a projection — no availability, matchup or regression adjustment is applied.
| Wk | Pts | Rank | Tgt | Rec | Re Yds | Re TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.8 | TE26 | 3 | 3 | 28 | 0 |
| 2 | 3.1 | TE26 | 4 | 3 | 31 | 0 |
| 3 | 0.6 | TE49 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 6 | 1.1 | TE42 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 0 |
| 7 | 23.1 | TE1 | 6 | 5 | 111 | 2 |
| 8 | 1.3 | TE38 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 0 |
| 9 | 8.7 | TE10 | 4 | 3 | 27 | 1 |
| 10 | 3.3 | TE23 | 3 | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| 11 | 1.9 | TE35 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 0 |
| 12 | 7.9 | TE5 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 1 |
| 14 | 0.9 | TE43 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 15 | 4.5 | TE20 | 5 | 3 | 45 | 0 |
| 16 | 2.0 | TE35 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 0 |
| 17 | 6.3 | TE17 | 5 | 3 | 63 | 0 |
| 18 | 5.1 | TE17 | 5 | 3 | 51 | 0 |