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• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Kyle Pitts Camp Update — August 23: A silent week in the target ledger

  A week after the first-team completions ran through him, Pitts drew no charted targets in the joint-practice reporting and sat the thirty-four-to-six win over the Colts. The red-zone touchdowns Tua Tagovailoa threw on Thursday went to unnamed receivers, which is exactly the detail this file wanted.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  Kyle Pitts Camp Update — August 16: Tua's First Completions Found Pitts

  When Atlanta's starters got their two series against Denver, Tua Tagovailoa's completions went mostly to Kyle Pitts. One cameo, but it pointed exactly where the June case said the ball would go.

• 2026 PreviewJun 15, 2026

  Kyle Pitts Sr. 2026 Season Preview — a second-team All-Pro at TE7

  Pitts finished TE2 in 2025 on 118 targets across 17 games, with a 9.8 half-PPR average that held steady week to week rather than spiking on touchdowns. Target volume at that level is the kind of input that tends to carry — opportunity share is among the stickiest measures in the game — and Pitts has been available for 91.8% of games since 2021, making durability a real part of his profile rather than a caveat to it.

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  Kyle Pitts finally had the season everyone waited four years for — second-team All-Pro, the number-two tight end in total points. And he's the seventh tight end off the board, because the market spent four years learning not to trust him. The Muffed 2026 preview.

  The 2025 season was the breakout: 88 catches on a hundred 18 targets for 928 yards and five touchdowns, nine-eight a game, the number-six tight end per game and second in total, all 17 games. The signature was an 11-catch, a hundred 66-yard, three-touchdown eruption against Tampa Bay in Week 15 — a 45 point game, the ceiling everyone always saw. The volume finally matched the talent.

  The arc is four years of frustration and one of arrival: an eight-four-a-game rookie, then three seasons stranded in the sixes as the Falcons' quarterbacks failed him, and now nine-eight. The talent was never the question; the targets were, and in 2025 they came.

  What the data says: a hundred 18 targets is genuine alpha-tight-end volume, the sticky foundation, and his touchdown share — a low 14 percent, just five scores — is a positive-regression candidate, not a fade. He finished TE2 in total on volume that repeats and a touchdown rate that should climb. There's nothing in the numbers arguing the price is right.

  The situation, per the reports, went from tailwind to paid: Atlanta and Pitts agreed to a three-year, 54-million-dollar extension on June 20-third — 36 million fully guaranteed, the largest three-year tight-end contract in league history. The franchise-tag standoff is over; the new coach who lobbied for him, Kevin Stefanski, has a long history of featuring tight ends. The quarterback is still the caveat, and it's now a two-man derby between lefties: Tua Tagovailoa — signed for the league minimum after Miami released him — took all the first-team reps this spring and is the reported favorite to open, while Michael Penix says he'll be full-go when camp starts, five months clear of the ACL. Nobody's been named.

  The price: pick 79, the seventh tight end. Verdict: LEAN — underpriced. He finished TE2 in total on alpha volume with a touchdown rate due to rise, under a tight-end-friendly coach who just got him paid, and he's priced TE7 because of four years of scar tissue. The counter: the quarterback situation is genuinely unsettled, and Pitts has disappointed enough that skepticism is earned. But the volume and the finish say the price is a tier too low.

  September watch: who's at quarterback and the target share under Stefanski — the volume is the thesis; and the touchdown rate, where five has room to climb. He's one of your guys? This show covers your whole roster — every player, every week, all season.

• 2025 ReviewMay 11, 2026

  Kyle Pitts 2025 Season in Review

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  Kyle Pitts finished 2025 as the number 2 tight end in total fantasy points and the number 5 tight end in per-game scoring — and the gap between those ranks tells you almost everything about his year. This was the season Pitts finally cashed in as a full-time, every-week presence in an Atlanta offense that needed him to be exactly that. He played all 17 games as the verified number one receiver on the Falcons and led the team outright in catches and yards. It wasn't a vintage explosive breakout — it was something more useful for fantasy: a workhorse pass-game role on a team whose passing attack ranked just 21st in the league by total expected points added. When the Falcons threw, they threw at Pitts.

  Now let's dig into the numbers. Pitts racked up 88 catches for 928 yards and 5 touchdowns on 118 targets — 210.8 fantasy points, 12.4 per game. The usage was elite: a 23 percent target share and 22 percent of the team's air yards, meaning he was the centerpiece by both volume and downfield intent. But the per-game number masks a genuinely boom-or-bust profile. Pitts cleared 15 fantasy points in just six of 17 games, and dipped under 8 in seven — including a brutal Week 9 through Week 12 stretch of 7.8, 5.8, 3.4, and 4.5. The ceiling was real — a 45.6-point eruption against Tampa Bay in Week 15, 18 against Washington, 18.7 against Arizona. The floor was the problem. Just 5 touchdowns on 118 targets is light for a target hog, and it's the single biggest reason the per-game rank slips to fifth despite finishing second in total scoring.

  The defining beat came in that Week 15 win at Tampa Bay: 11 catches, 166 yards, 3 touchdowns, 45.6 fantasy points in a single afternoon. One score was a 17-yard deep-right strike from Kirk Cousins in the second quarter — the vertical seam shot the Falcons had been hinting at all year and finally connected on. That one game accounts for more than a fifth of his entire season total, which is the boom-or-bust profile in a single data point: when Pitts hit, he hit harder than almost any tight end in football. The challenge was that the other 16 weeks didn't look like that one.