Blake Whiteheart

Weeks 3, 4 and 5 of 2026 all read zero, and the only week he scored came when 8.7 points in week 2 of 2026 landed on a single good moment. Three catches on three targets all season is the whole 2026 file. Harold Fannin Jr. is first among Cleveland's tight ends, and in 2025 Fannin and Jerry Jeudy pulled 42% of the targets between them, leaving Whiteheart a 1.1% share of his own.

The trend is the part that should settle it. He averaged 2.44 points a game in 2024 and 0.27 in 2025, and yards per target went from 5.7 to 0.7. His best week of 2025 was 1.4 points back in week 7 of 2025, and even the 17.1 points he put up over 7 games in 2024 only ranked TE71 among 111 qualifying tight ends. He never cleared the position's weekly median in nine games last year, and the one deep skill that showed, an average depth of target that ranked TE31 among 125 qualifying tight ends, never turned into red-zone production, since he finished 2025 with zero red-zone touches and zero touches inside the ten.

We set him at 32 points before the season with 2.5 a game over 13 expected games, and he is playing every week, healthy since before week 1 of 2026, and still not reaching that pace. Todd Monken taking over the play calling gave him a fair window and it has closed. Our board has him TE93 and 303rd overall, with 4 players in his tier before a 3.1-point gap. The move now is to spend this roster spot on a tight end whose team actually routes him into the plan, because Whiteheart has shown nothing through five weeks that argues for waiting longer.