Hunter Long

Arizona Cardinals TE IR IR since Oct 6

Week 6 at LAR

Wk 6 -- Read as the page opens

Rest of season 12.7 from week 6, TE IR, unranked while on a season-long list

Opp rank -- at LAR

Avg 0.9 a game in 4 games

Last 2.0 week 4 at NYG

Δ Proj --

On injured reserve since October 6. Our rest-of-season figure assumes he plays, so he sits below the available players. Injury status from the hourly capture, read Mon Oct 19, 2:00 am Eastern.

This season 2026, PPR, through week 5

Hunter Long week by week, 2026
Wk	Opp	the week's projection	PPR points	targets	catches	receiving yards	receiving touchdowns	carries	rushing yards	rushing touchdowns	share of snaps
1	at LAC	--	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	35%
2	vs SEA	--	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	30%
3	at SF	--	1.5	1	1	5	0	0	0	0	34%
4	at NYG	--	2.0	1	1	10	0	0	0	0	30%
5	vs DETDid not play	--
Season4 games, 0.9 a game			3.5	2	2	15	0	0	0	0	33%

20259 games, 3.6 a game			32.5	17	12	85	2	0	0	0	41%
202417 games, 0.8 a game			13.0	9	7	60	0	0	0	0	26%
20233 games, 0.0 a game			0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	26%

Still to play

Wk 6 at LAR Sun Oct 18
Wk 7 vs DEN Sun Oct 25
Wk 8 at DAL Sun Nov 1
Wk 9 at SEA Sun Nov 8
Wk 10 vs LAR Sun Nov 15
Wk 11 at KC Sun Nov 22
Wk 12 vs WSH Sun Nov 29
Wk 13 vs PHI Sun Dec 6
Wk 14 Bye
Wk 15 vs NYJ Sun Dec 20
Wk 16 at NO Sun Dec 27
Wk 17 vs LV Sun Jan 3
Wk 18 vs SF Sun Jan 10

Our read

Written Oct 17, from his facts through last season

Four games of 0.9 points a game, then an IR placement before week 5 of 2026. That is the season so far, and it matches the shape of the whole career: 7 games in 2025, 1 in 2023, and never a week above 15 points in any season he has played. We set him at 44 points for 2026 on 12 expected games, about 3.7 a game, and he never got close to that pace before the hip landed him out. Two catches for 15 yards on 2 targets in four weeks tells you how little he was getting even while he was out there.

Rest of season12.7PPR points from week 6

15PPR points in his floor season

Preseason projection44projected PPR points

The team change was supposed to be the argument for him, and it never was. He is listed third among ARI tight ends, behind Trey McBride and Elijah Higgins, and McBride took 27% of the targets here in 2025 with Michael Wilson another 20%, so the leftover work for a third tight end sits around 5% of targets, which is roughly what Long ran at in Jacksonville on a 41% snap share. His best 2025 trait, a red-zone touch rate of 23.5% among his own touches, only matters when the touches exist, and 12 touches in 7 games do not create them. His yards per target also fell from 6.7 in 2024 to 5 in 2025, so even the little volume was producing less. The 1.2 touchdown share has gone with players in his spot losing 0.7 points a game on average from one season to the next, and his 2026 has run well under even that.

So the decision writes itself. While the injury report holds him, he plays nothing, and our board puts him behind every available tight end anyway. Drop him, even in the deepest league, and find a weekly option instead.

Hunter Long in every format
Format	Our rank	Rest of season from week 6	Over replacement	Tier
PPR	IR	12.7	−76.7	IR
Half PPR	IR	11.1	−57.7	IR
Standard	IR	8.9	−42.4	IR

Wk 6, Opp rank and Δ Proj are this week's, read as the page opens.

Stats from the NFL's records, scored in PPR.

Stats from nflverse and charting from FTN Data via nflverse, both under Creative Commons licences, our rates worked out from their counts.