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NFL Tight End Snap Share Leaders 2025

Cade Otton (TE, TB) led tight ends in snap share in 2025 at 93.5%. 97 players with 6+ games qualified.

Snap share is the share of his offense's plays a player was on the field for, averaged across the games he appeared in. It is the cleanest read on whether a coaching staff actually trusts someone, and it usually moves before the box score does.

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The top 50,
ranked.

NFL Tight End Snap Share leaders, 2025 season (6+ games minimum)
Rank	Player	Pos	Team	Snap Share	Snaps	Games	Targets
1	Cade Otton	TE	TB	93.5%	993	15	81
2	Trey McBride	TE	ARI	91.4%	1,033	17	169
3	Sam LaPorta	TE	DET	90.7%	517	9	49
4	Kyle Pitts	TE	ATL	88.0%	961	17	118
5	Theo Johnson	TE	NYG	86.7%	872	15	74
6	Tucker Kraft	TE	GB	86.0%	439	8	44
7	Brock Bowers	TE	LV	85.9%	605	12	86
8	Dallas Goedert	TE	PHI	84.6%	787	15	82
9	Tyler Warren	TE	IND	83.8%	899	17	112
10	Travis Kelce	TE	KC	81.9%	902	17	108
11	George Kittle	TE	SF	81.2%	554	11	69
12	Mason Taylor	TE	NYJ	81.1%	654	13	65
13	Hunter Henry	TE	NE	79.4%	869	17	87
14	T.J. Hockenson	TE	MIN	77.9%	691	15	66
15	AJ Barner	TE	SEA	77.3%	827	17	68
16	Juwan Johnson	TE	NO	75.0%	850	17	102
17	Brenton Strange	TE	JAX	74.8%	591	12	60
18	Cole Kmet	TE	CHI	71.4%	768	16	48
19	Dalton Schultz	TE	HOU	71.1%	827	17	106
20	Jake Ferguson	TE	DAL	66.7%	786	17	102
21	Zach Ertz	TE	WAS	66.5%	551	13	72
22	Colston Loveland	TE	CHI	64.5%	701	16	82
23	David Njoku	TE	CLE	63.9%	514	11	48
24	Oronde Gadsden II	TE	LAC	62.6%	627	15	69
25	Michael Mayer	TE	LV	61.8%	465	13	50
26	Mark Andrews	TE	BAL	61.7%	630	17	70
27	Colby Parkinson	TE	LA	60.4%	621	14	56
28	Tommy Tremble	TE	CAR	60.1%	636	15	37
29	Dawson Knox	TE	BUF	58.3%	653	16	49
30	Brock Wright	TE	DET	57.6%	401	8	22
31	Adam Trautman	TE	DEN	57.3%	651	13	23
32	Darnell Washington	TE	PIT	57.3%	546	13	43
33	Isaiah Likely	TE	BAL	55.9%	487	12	36
34	Tyler Higbee	TE	LA	55.5%	366	10	36
35	Julian Hill	TE	MIA	55.0%	439	11	20
36	Drew Sample	TE	CIN	53.6%	595	12	20
37	Jonnu Smith	TE	PIT	52.7%	536	17	54
38	Gunnar Helm	TE	TEN	52.6%	533	16	55
39	Noah Gray	TE	KC	52.1%	545	14	37
40	John Bates	TE	WAS	51.4%	479	10	16
41	Charlie Woerner	TE	ATL	50.8%	565	7	9
42	Pat Freiermuth	TE	PIT	50.4%	522	15	54
43	Davis Allen	TE	LA	50.3%	585	15	33
44	Austin Hooper	TE	NE	50.0%	512	13	26
45	Daniel Bellinger	TE	NYG	49.9%	555	13	26
46	Ja'Tavion Sanders	TE	CAR	48.3%	393	12	34
47	Jeremy Ruckert	TE	NYJ	47.2%	494	14	29
48	Josh Oliver	TE	MIN	45.8%	400	12	19
49	Darren Waller	TE	MIA	45.0%	232	9	34
50	Cade Stover	TE	HOU	44.0%	263	6	16

Showing the top 50 of 97 qualified players. Narrow it down by position: quarterbacks · running backs · wide receivers · tight ends.

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Who led NFL tight ends in snap share in 2025?

Cade Otton (TE, TB) led tight ends in snap share in 2025 at 93.5%. Trey McBride (TE, ARI) was next at 91.4%.

What is snap share?

How many players qualified for the 2025 snap share leaderboard?

97 players with 6+ games qualified for the 2025 snap share leaderboard among tight ends. The table above lists the top 50.

Data source

Where the numbers
come from.

Stats as of July 28, 2026. Data from nflverse (nflverse-data), licensed CC BY 4.0. Source: nflverse-data. License: CC-BY-4.0.

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