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Position: Tight endM Tier

Gunnar Helm

TE · TEN · Bye 9

Age 246'5"241 lbs1 yr
FFT9963

Elite Profile

Calibrated public rating

RAW 61 · 89% cov

Projection

4.8

Half-PPR / game

Market ADP

189.0

Consensus overall

FFT fair value

194.1

Calibrated pick

Draft delta

-5.1

Market minus FFT

Draft recommendation

Market is aggressive

Risk / reliability

Low Risk

78
Risk: Low

Reliability

78 / 99

Coverage

80%

Live board

Today's Read

NO MARKET DATA

catches 7.5 points more often than his 5.39-yard target depth predicts, and -0.71 yards after catch versus expectation. That is earned production rather than volume, and it tends to persist.

Model rank

Market

Confidence

low

Full analysis

2026 week 2

Weekly Outlook

FFT · BDL · SLEEPER · MARKETS

Our projection

5.2

Weighted weekly consensus

BDL projection

5.9

BALLDONTLIE weekly

Sleeper projection

4.9

Sleeper weekly

Game status

Not reported

No injury description reported

Latest practice

Not reported

Game-day active

Active

Started

Yes

Participation

Played

Game market

Total · Spread

Implied team total · cross-book median

Live draft market

ADP 169.7 · Rostered 4.7%

BDL change +0.1%

BALLDONTLIE data checked 9/20/2026, 5:44:24 PM ET. Sportsbook values are consensus context, not betting advice.

Measured 2026 · Regular season

Season Production

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Actual BALLDONTLIE box scores · FFT-computed fantasy points · Preseason excluded. Missing stats are not zeroes.

2026 / Player Game Center

Every play has a story.

Gunnar Helm · Recorded performance, game context, fantasy takeaways.

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Measured game log

Weekly Performance

Actual BALLDONTLIE box scores · FFT-computed fantasy points. Missing weeks are never filled with zeroes.

No 2026 regular-season stat line recorded for Gunnar Helm yet.

This view will populate automatically when measured games enter the data spine.

FFT Newsroom

Latest news for Gunnar Helm

All reports

Position-relative

FFT99 Pillar Scores

Methodology

Target Command & Offensive Role

65

Average

65

Top 23% at TE

Replacement + Draft Economics

84

Strong

84

Top 16% at TE

TD / High-Value Opportunity

62

Average

62

Top 31% at TE

Receiving Talent

57

Average

57

Top 37% at TE

Offensive Ecosystem

39

Watch

39

Top 65% at TE

Fantasy Playoff Schedule

60

Average

60

Top 26% at TE

Player Profile

Target Command & Offensive Role65
Replacement + Draft Economics84
TD / High-Value Opportunity62
Receiving Talent57
Offensive Ecosystem39
Fantasy Playoff Schedule60

Games

16

Half-PPR

47.7

Total TD

2

Model Component Contributions

The measured inputs doing the most work inside this grade.

Value Over Replacement
12%
Target Share
10%
Targets Per Game
8%
First-Read Share (proxy)
8%
Hierarchy
6%
Routes
6%
YPRR (Efficiency)
5%
RZ Target Share
4%

Draft Economics

Value Over Replacement

-34.5

proj. half-PPR pts

Rank Delta

-8

position spots vs ADP

Value Grade

D

Reach

reachfair valuesteal

Market

189.0

FFT value

194.1

Board Δ

-5.1

Playoff Schedule

Week 15

vs IND

Rank 7th

Elite

Week 16

@ LV

Rank 30th

Tough

Week 17

vs PIT

Rank 3rd

Elite

FFT99 vs ADP

Every dot is a real position peer with a market price.

Gunnar HelmCONSENSUS ADP →FFT99 →

Deep research dossier

Evidence, history and model transparency

The decision dashboard ends above. Open only the research sections you need below—the full evidence remains available without overwhelming the player overview.

The call record

Claims written down before the season, sealed at registration, and graded in public — misses kept.

No pre-registered call was made on Gunnar Helm. The record holds 29 calls in total, selected from the board by signal strength and divergence — most players do not clear that bar, and silence here means we did not stake a claim on him, not that he graded badly.

2025 production

What he actually did last season. Measured, not projected.

Games

16

PPR pts

91.7

Half-PPR pts

47.7

PPR / game

5.7

Receiving

Targets

55

Receptions

44

Rec yards

357

Rec TDs

2

Target share

10.4%

Air yards share

7.5%

WOPR

0.21

Rushing

Carries

0

Rush yards

0

Rush TDs

0

Yards / carry

Passing

Pass yards

0

Pass TDs

0

Interceptions

0

nflverse season totals for 2025, joined on normalised name and position (gsis 00-0040584). These are actuals — nothing here is modelled.

What the market says

Every ADP source we hold, side by side, and where our model sits against them.

Consensus ADP

189.0

Median

189.0

Sources ranking him

2/4

Agreement

High

SourceRank / ADP
Yahoo ADPunranked
Sleeper ADP184.0
RTSports ADP194.0
Fantasy Football Calculator ADP (live)unranked

The sources that ranked him disagree by 10.0 picks between highest and lowest (standard deviation 5.0).

Mean and median are computed across the sources that actually ranked him — an unranked source never enters the average, because a sentinel treated as a pick number would drag a real player hundreds of slots. Spread, deviation and agreement are null under two ranked sources rather than 0, since one source cannot agree with itself. The FFT model rank is our own output and is never folded in as if it were an outside source.

Week-to-week, 2025

Consistency and range — the part a season total hides.

Weeks with a line

16

PPR / game

5.7

Std dev

3.9

Coeff. of variation

0.67

Boom rate

0% (0/16)

Bust rate

50% (8/16)

Best week

14.9 wk 15

Worst week

1.1 wk 17

Recent form — last 4 games with a line

5.2 PPR per game over weeks 14, 15, 16, 17-0.6 against his season average.

Every week (16 lines)
WkOppPPRTgtRecYdsCarRuYdTDRZ
1DEN2.621160000
2LA2.92290000
3IND5.733270000
4HOU2.211120000
5ARI7.454340001
6LV3.532150001
7NE7.654360000
8IND10.332230012
9LAC2.511150000
11HOU6.954290000
12SEA11.176510000
13JAX8.376230002
14CLE1.82180000
15SF14.944490012
16KC2.93290000
17NO1.12110000

The weekly LINES are measured: 2025 game logs, joined on gsis id 00-0040584. Everything derived from them above — per-game, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, boom and bust rates, recent form — is computed by us and carries the FFT model (beta) label. It is not an observed stat.

This whole block is on the PPR scale, including the thresholds — the artifact publishes boom and bust in PPR (TE: boom ≥ 15, bust ≤ 5) and converting only the points would leave the rates measured against a different ruler than the one they were defined on. The hero above is half-PPR because that is what the model ranks on. Two rulers, each labelled, rather than one silently mixed. Rates need at least 4 games to carry weight; recent form is the last 4.

Advanced usage & efficiency

Route concepts, red-zone opportunity, and separation-adjusted catch rate.

Red-zone opportunity

Scoring upside

RZ targets

8

RZ carries

RZ TDs

1

aDOT

5.4

Concept EPA / target

0.070

Classified targets

55

Catch residual

7.520

YAC over expected

-0.71

Most-run concept: FLAT on 30.9% of his classified targets.

Every field is derived by FFT from openly-licensed nflverse play-by-play, or taken from the free public NFL Next Gen Stats endpoint. No licensed trial data (Sportradar, BALLDONTLIE) is included, which is why this file can be committed and shipped with the build. Red zone: Plays snapped inside the opponent 20-yard line. Red-zone usage measures opportunity; this repo’s own backtest shows it adds little on top of plain volume, so it is retained as context and is deliberately not described as an edge.

How the model gets there

The component projection behind the headline number, and what it was built from.

Projected games

14.4

Half-PPR (season)

69.8

PPR (season)

88.1

Confidence

medium

Proj targets

48.7

Proj receptions

36.7

Proj rec yards

347

Proj rec TDs

2.7

Proj carries

0.9

Proj rush yards

2

Proj rush TDs

0.1

Proj pass yards

0

Proj pass TDs

0.0

Proj INTs

0.0

Touchdown regression

He actually scored 2 touchdowns last season. Against his measured opportunity the model expects a change of 0.8. The gap between what a player scored and what his opportunity implies is one of the four signals the edge engine reads.

What this projection was built from

16 g in 2025, 3.4 tgt/g, 53% snaps (regressed to the role, not the position), TE1 on depth chart, age 24

fft-projection-2.3.0-beta. The model reads measured production, opportunity and age, and reads no ADP field at any stage — so it can disagree with the market, which is the only reason a disagreement is worth anything. Draft capital was not resolved for this player, which the model treats as unknown rather than as undrafted.

What this page is standing on

Which sources answered for this player, and which did not.

  • Identity join: Resolved to gsis 00-0040584 via the 2025 nflverse season file. The weekly log and advanced splits are keyed on that id.
  • Market ADP: A bundled snapshot of platform ADP, not a live feed. Shown for comparison and never read by the projection model.
  • Headshot: Resolved from exact-name.
  • Vitals: Height, weight, college and jersey are read from nflverse and keyed on gsis id 00-0040584 — not on name. Name keying matches players to relatives who share one: "Marvin Harrison Jr." also matches his father's 1996 row, and whichever came first in the file would win.
  • Not shown: draft round and pick. The bundled player file carries them on roughly 48% of rows and populates them late, so a blank is equally consistent with a genuine undrafted free agent and with a first-rounder nobody has ingested yet. The model’s own three-state read is used instead, above.

Model run caveats

  • No usable red-zone RECEIVING fit for QB — receiving touchdowns at that position come from the shrunk per-target rate alone.
  • Rookie draft capital on this run: 82 drafted (projected from round/pick), 141 confirmed undrafted, 177 with capital UNKNOWN.
  • 177 of 400 rookie projections (44%) have NO KNOWN DRAFT CAPITAL because this draft class has not been ingested by any source the model can read. For those players the draft-capital path did not run: a first-round pick and a camp arm receive the same number, separated only by depth-chart order. Those projections are flagged `isPositionalFloor` and must be read as a floor for the role, not as a valuation of the player.

How the model works

Inputs, method, and the forbidden-inputs list. It reads no ADP at any stage.

Where it loses

Pre-registered calls, graded in public, misses kept on the page.

Model Rankings

Every player, with the model's BUY / FADE call against consensus ADP built into the board.