Colby Parkinson
Los Angeles RamsColby Parkinson has 14 catches, 103 receiving yards and 1 touchdown in 6 games for the Los Angeles Rams this season through Week 8, 5 PPR points a game (updated November 4, 2026).
Model Score by season
Down 7.7 from last season.
How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →
STM Take
A rising second tight end who finally has a defined role.
The case for
- Five games above 11 PPR in his last eight 2025 weeks, including a Wk 15 24.5 PPR explosion. That is genuine TE2 baseline production.
- Year-over-year STTM improvement (#33, #45, #22) with the Rams contract guaranteeing 2026 reps. Sean McVay's offense rewards the TE role when the Cooper Kupp/Puka Nacua dynamic shifts.
The worry
- Until 2025 he had never produced a top-30 STTM finish; the breakout is a single-year sample that may regress if Tyler Higbee returns to full snaps.
- Pass-protection grades are above-average but the route tree is limited to underneath concepts. The deep-target ceiling caps out at maybe one explosive game per season.
What to watch: Whether Tyler Higbee's 2026 role returns to a 70%+ snap share, which would compress Parkinson back into tier 8 third-TE territory.
Full take and bio
The breakout from tier 8 finishes (#33, #45) to tier 6 #22 in 2025 is the cleanest single-year TE jump on the Rams roster. Five games above 11 PPR in his closing eight-week sample (12.2, 14.1, 24.5, 11.3, 19.6) is genuine TE2 production. At 26 with the contract through 2026 plus Cooper Kupp's Seattle departure, the role is now defined and the trajectory is positive.
Parkinson came out of Stanford as Seattle's 4th-round pick (133rd overall) in 2020. He spent four seasons with the Seahawks primarily as a blocking TE, with limited receiving production. The Los Angeles Rams signed him to a 3-year, $22.5M deal in 2024 specifically to fill the Tyler Higbee-injury gap in their TE room. His 2024 (#45) was a quiet first Rams season; the 2025 tier 6 #22 finish came with Higbee's continued health issues and Cooper Kupp's departure compressing the TE target tree his way.
Comps
The players whose size, testing and production looked most like his at the same point in their careers. The percent is how close.
Plays like: Ed Dickson, Eric Ebron, Johnny Mundt. Built like: Scott Chandler, Quinn Sypniewski, Josh Whyle. Coming out: one of one, no NFL player had a college career this close.
Of his 20 closest coming out: 2 stars, 7 starters, 8 backups, 3 didn't stick.
Colby Parkinson Props This Weekat WAS Sun Nov 8
| Market | Line | Over | Under |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anytime TD | +250 BetOnline |
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Colby Parkinson Injury StatusQuestionable
Colby Parkinson is listed Questionable (Ribs), reported Nov 3. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.
This season · 6 games
5 fantasy points a game, 30 PPR on the season. Every game on the Game Log, every season on Career. Advanced numbers are EPA and Next Gen Stats.
Contract2026 cap
Every year of the deal, the dead money and what a cut or trade saves on the Contract tab.
Fantasy outlookWeek 9
Our rest-of-season board has Colby Parkinson at TE31 (the public consensus says TE29); the model has 55 PPR points left for him this season; this week he visits WAS.
Price a trade for him on the fantasy trade calculator, or see the whole board on the Fantasy hub.
Draft & College
Round 4, pick 133 to the Seattle Seahawks in 2020, out of Stanford (Pac-12). He went earlier than consensus.
In college, 2017-2019, 35 games: 87 rec, 1,171 yds, 12 TD, 13.5 yds/rec. Coming out: 4.77s 40 yd, 18 reps bench, 32.5" vertical, 109" broad, 7.15s 3-cone, 4.46s shuttle.
Recruited
Class of 2017 · Tight end · High school: Oaks Christian, Thousand Oaks, CA
StanfordHis full list of offers is not on our record yet; offers for the 2017 class are still being added.