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Position: Tight endH Tier

Isaiah Likely

TE · NYG · Bye 8

Age 266'4"245 lbs4 yr
FFT9972

Elite Profile

Calibrated public rating

RAW 60 · 80% cov

Projection

5.1

Half-PPR / game

Market ADP

111.5

Consensus overall

FFT fair value

136.7

Calibrated pick

Draft delta

-25.2

Market minus FFT

Draft recommendation

Market is aggressive

Risk / reliability

Medium Risk

66
Risk: Medium

Reliability

66 / 99

Coverage

80%

Live board

Today's Read

ALIGNED

Measured, and nothing about him departs from what the market is already pricing.

Model rank

14

Market

111.5

Confidence

low

Full analysis

2026 week 2

Weekly Outlook

FFT · BDL · SLEEPER · MARKETS

Our projection

8.0

Weighted weekly consensus

BDL projection

8.8

BALLDONTLIE weekly

Sleeper projection

8.8

Sleeper weekly

Game status

Not reported

No injury description reported

Latest practice

Not reported

Game-day active

Not known

Started

Pending

Participation

Pending

Game market

Total 47.5 · Spread +6.5

Implied team total 20.5 · cross-book median

Live draft market

ADP 108.3 · Rostered 91.4%

BDL change +4.4%

receiving yards 44 (4 books)receptions 4.5 (3 books)receiving yards 1h 19.5 (1 books)receiving yards 1q 4.5 (1 books)longest reception 18.5 (1 books)

BALLDONTLIE data checked 9/20/2026, 6:35:41 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.

Isaiah Likely · 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 Isaiah Likely yet.

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

FFT Newsroom

Latest news for Isaiah Likely

All reports

Position-relative

FFT99 Pillar Scores

Methodology

Target Command & Offensive Role

75

Strong

75

Top 11% at TE

Replacement + Draft Economics

85

Elite

85

Top 14% at TE

TD / High-Value Opportunity

48

Watch

48

Top 54% at TE

Receiving Talent

57

Average

57

Top 37% at TE

Offensive Ecosystem

46

Watch

46

Top 55% at TE

Fantasy Playoff Schedule

43

Watch

43

Top 67% at TE

Player Profile

Target Command & Offensive Role75
Replacement + Draft Economics85
TD / High-Value Opportunity48
Receiving Talent57
Offensive Ecosystem46
Fantasy Playoff Schedule43

Games

12

Half-PPR

34.7

Total TD

1

Model Component Contributions

The measured inputs doing the most work inside this grade.

Value Over Replacement
13%
Target Share
12%
Targets Per Game
9%
Hierarchy
7%
Routes
7%
YPRR (Efficiency)
6%
RZ Target Share
5%
End Zone Share
5%

Draft Economics

Value Over Replacement

-31.1

proj. half-PPR pts

Rank Delta

-21

position spots vs ADP

Value Grade

D

Reach

reachfair valuesteal

Market

111.5

FFT value

136.7

Board Δ

-25.2

Playoff Schedule

Week 15

vs CLE

Rank 23rd

Neutral

Week 16

@ DET

Rank 15th

Great

Week 17

@ DAL

Rank 20th

Neutral

FFT99 vs ADP

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

Isaiah LikelyCONSENSUS 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 Isaiah Likely. 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

12

PPR pts

61.7

Half-PPR pts

34.7

PPR / game

5.1

Receiving

Targets

36

Receptions

27

Rec yards

307

Rec TDs

1

Target share

8.8%

Air yards share

8.4%

WOPR

0.19

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 00-0037838). 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

111.5

Median

115.0

Sources ranking him

4/4

Agreement

Low

SourceRank / ADP
Yahoo ADP108.0
Sleeper ADP122.0
RTSports ADP87.0
Fantasy Football Calculator ADP (live)129.0

The sources that ranked him disagree by 42.0 picks between highest and lowest (standard deviation 16.0).

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

11

PPR / game

5.6

Std dev

3.8

Coeff. of variation

0.67

Boom rate

0% (0/11)

Bust rate

55% (6/11)

Best week

12.5 wk 13

Worst week

2.0 wk 12

Recent form — last 4 games with a line

9.0 PPR per game over weeks 13, 14, 17, 18+3.4 against his season average.

Every week (11 lines)
WkOppPPRTgtRecYdsCarRuYdTDRZ
5HOU2.211120000
6LA2.62260000
8CHI2.82280001
9MIA9.043600001
10MIN3.742170000
11CLE3.532150001
12NYJ2.031100000
13CIN12.565950000
14PIT12.564250013
17GB5.733270000
18PIT5.222320000

The weekly LINES are measured: 2025 game logs, joined on gsis id 00-0037838. 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

6

RZ carries

RZ TDs

1

aDOT

Concept EPA / target

0.150

Classified targets

36

Catch residual

YAC over expected

Most-run concept: QUICK_OUT on 25.0% 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

14.3

Half-PPR (season)

73.2

PPR (season)

91.0

Confidence

medium

Proj targets

48.8

Proj receptions

35.6

Proj rec yards

378

Proj rec TDs

2.9

Proj carries

1.0

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 1 touchdowns last season. Against his measured opportunity the model expects a change of 1.9. 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

12 g in 2025, 3 tgt/g, 56% snaps (regressed to the role, not the position), TE1 on depth chart, age 26, new team NYG, +1.9 TD vs 2025 on red-zone opportunity

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 00-0037838 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 00-0037838 — 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.