Harold Fannin

Harold Fannin finished 2025 as the number 6 tight end in total PPR scoring and the number 8 tight end on a per-game basis — a top-tier fantasy finish at one of the thinnest positions in football, delivered on a Browns team that won five games and ranked 31st in offensive expected points added. That's the headline: Fannin smashed his rookie projection while playing for an offense that mostly got muffed. He became Cleveland's verified number one receiver, out-targeting and out-producing the entire wideout room on a roster that cycled through quarterbacks and never solved its pass protection. Sixteen games. Six receiving touchdowns, one on the ground, and a workload that grew into true featured-tight-end territory. For a rookie tight end on a bottom-three passing offense, that's a genuinely loud season.

Now let's dig into the numbers. Fannin caught 72 balls for 731 yards and six scores on 107 targets, averaging 11.7 PPR per game — the line that slotted him eighth at the position per game. The volume is the story: a 22 percent target share and 19 percent air yards share is alpha-receiver usage, not tight-end usage, and this Cleveland passing game finished dead last in the league in passing expected points added at minus 175.1. He piled up 352 yards after the catch, averaging 5.14 per reception with a plus 1.22 mark above expectation — when the ball got to him, he created extra. This was a steady-floor profile with selective spikes: he cleared 10 PPR in nine of sixteen games, ceilinged at 25.4 against the Titans and 19.5 against the Bills, and his worst stretches were quiet rather than zeros. The boom weeks came from touchdowns and explosives. The floor came from sheer looks — a 22 percent target share on a team that threw 611 times is a mountain of volume, even on a bad offense.

The play that captured the whole season came in Week 13 against the 49ers — second and 9, 47 seconds left in the first half, Browns down 7 to nothing, ball at the San Francisco 34. Shedeur Sanders dropped back in shotgun and hit Fannin deep left for a 34-yard touchdown — 25 air yards, 9 yards after the catch, worth more than four expected points on a single snap. That's the season in one play: a rookie tight end deployed as the deep-shot target on a struggling offense, winning down the field, producing the kind of explosive that kept his fantasy line afloat in an 8-to-26 loss. The Browns lost the game. Fannin managers won the week.