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Noah Fant

TE·New Orleans Saints·#87·6'4"·249 lb·7th year·Iowa
Round 1, pick 20 in 2019
Updated November 5, 2026
79.3
Model Score
Up from 78.5 last year
Trade value ·a 4th

Noah Fant has 11 catches, 84 receiving yards and 3 touchdowns in 5 games for the New Orleans Saints this season through Week 8, 7.5 PPR points a game (updated November 5, 2026).

Model Score by season

Up 0.8 from last season.

70809010079.320192020202120222023202420252026

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 →

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: Jake Ferguson, Clay Harbor, Harrison Bryant. Built like: Doug Jolley, Visanthe Shiancoe, L.J. Smith. Coming out: David Njoku, Ed Dickson, Maxx Williams.

Of his 20 closest coming out: 1 star, 9 starters, 7 backups, 3 didn't stick.

Noah Fant Props This Weekvs CLE Sun Nov 8

MarketLineOverUnder
Anytime TD+525 Fanatics

Best price across 8 books as of Thu Nov 5. Lines move; check the book before you bet. This week's board · Line Room

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Noah Fant Injury StatusNot listed

Noah Fant is not on the injury report as of Nov 5. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

This season · 5 games

Rec11
Rec Yds84
Rec TD3
Targets16
Yds/Gm16.8
Fantasy PPG7.5
EPA / target0.835
Avg separation3.0 yd
Avg cushion5.4 yd
YAC over exp0.1
Catch %50.0%

7.5 fantasy points a game, 37 PPR on the season. Every game on the Game Log, every season on Career. Advanced numbers are EPA and Next Gen Stats.

Contract2026 cap

2026 Cap Hit
$3.0M
APY
$4.4M/yr
Guaranteed at Signing
$4.5M
Years on Deal
2
Signed
2026
Est. Value
$10.0M/yr
underpaid by $5.6M/yr

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 Noah Fant at TE39 (the public consensus says TE42); the model has 52 PPR points left for him this season; this week he hosts CLE.

Price a trade for him on the fantasy trade calculator, or see the whole board on the Fantasy hub.

Draft & College

Round 1, pick 20 to the Denver Broncos in 2019, out of Iowa (Big Ten). He went earlier than consensus.

Taken#20
Consensus board32nd
Our college model#72 TE

In college, 2016-2018, 32 games: 77 rec, 1,069 yds, 18 TD, 13.9 yds/rec. Coming out: 4.5s 40 yd, 20 reps bench, 39.5" vertical, 127" broad, 6.81s 3-cone, 4.22s shuttle.

Recruited

Class of 2016 · Athlete · High school: Omaha South Magnet, Omaha, NE

Recruiting sites
★★★★★
No. 532 in the nation. Composite 0.8694, the recruiting sites' average
Offer strength, our grade
72 of 100
Better offers than 95% of the 2016 class. How it is made
Offers
13
Schools that offered him a scholarship
Committed to
Iowa

His offer board, and the recruits whose boards look like it now →

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