Head to head · July 2026 draft-day read
Harold Fannin or Sam LaPorta?
Harold Fannin and Sam LaPorta are a near-tie on 2025 production (9.4 vs 9.7 half-PPR PPG). At matching July 2026 ADP, the pick came down to your roster build, not a market tiebreak.
This week's projections are in the Week 6 start/sit card below. The July 2026 draft-day read that follows is opinion, framed from the cited 2025 data.
This week's start/sit · Half-PPR
Week 6: start Harold Fannin or Sam LaPorta?
Harold Fannin Jr. by default: Sam LaPorta is on bye in Week 6.
Harold Fannin Jr. projects for 8.5 pts.
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TE · CLE
Harold Fannin Jr.
8.5 pts projected · range 3.8–16.0
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Can't start · Bye
Sam LaPorta
DET is on bye in Week 6 — can't start.
2026 season · the games so far
2026 head-to-head so far
Through Week 5, Sam LaPorta has out-scored Harold Fannin by 5.0 PPR points per game, 15.3 to 10.3 (5 games each).
Through Week 5 · Week 5 in progress — 13 of 15 games final · nflverse stats as of
| Harold Fannin | Metric | Sam LaPorta |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Games | 5 |
| 10.3 | PPR points per game | 15.3 |
| 18% | Target share | 19% |
| 5.4 | Targets per game | 7.4 |
| 86% | Snap share | 88% |
| 12.4 | PPR points per game, last 3 games | 16.5 |
Purple marks the higher figure. Shares are team-relative, averaged per game; snap share counts only games with a published snap count. "Last 3 games" is each player's own last 3 games played. A dash means no 2026 figure. 2026 regular season via nflverse.
Game by game: Harold Fannin · Sam LaPorta
Draft-day record · July 2026
The July 2026 draft-day read
This is the July 2026 pre-draft read, kept as published. Every ADP and market figure on this page comes from the Fantasy Football Calculator snapshot of Jul 15, 2026 and is not updated in-season — 2026 drafts are over and ADP has stopped moving. In-season tools
Metric by metric
The tale of the tape
| Harold Fannin | Metric | Sam LaPorta |
|---|---|---|
| 77.7 (TE6) | Draft ADP (July 2026) | 77.7 (TE7) |
| 78 | Overall ADP rank (July 2026) | 79 |
| 9.4 | Fantasy points / game | 9.7 |
| 21.8% | Target share | — |
| 25.4% | Target share, last 3 games (2025) | — |
| 63 | Sleeper search rank (July 2026) | 79 |
Purple marks the better figure. A dash means the engine did not cite that metric for that player. 2025 regular season via nflverse · ADP via Fantasy Football Calculator, Jul 15, 2026 snapshot.
The consensus read
July 2026 drafts separated them by a hair — Harold Fannin at ADP 77.7, Sam LaPorta at ADP 77.7. On 2025 production it is 9.4 vs 9.7 half-PPR points per game.
What had to be true
This call flipped on beliefs that were checkable at the time. Every belief was tied to a checkpoint: the exact data point that would confirm or deny it, with its value at the time of the July 2026 read.
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Checkpoint · Harold Fannin
Target share, last 3 games vs season (2025)
25.4% last 3 vs 21.8% season (2025) · as of July 2026
Strong move if you believed
Harold Fannin's late-2025 target share is the new baseline, not a blip
Poor move if instead
Harold Fannin's late-2025 target spike is small-sample noise that reverts
Sources: Fantasy Football Calculator · Sleeper · nflverse. Every figure here is a value the analysis engine cited from the underlying data. Stats are 2025 regular season via nflverse (CC-BY 4.0); ADP via Fantasy Football Calculator (Jul 15, 2026 snapshot, not updated in-season).
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