Our read
He is listed third among SF tight ends behind Kittle and Tonges, and nothing in his 2025 usage suggests that changes. He played 9 of 17 weeks with no injury, meaning he was a healthy scratch eight times, and Shanahan kept him to a 36.0% snap share with a 4.7% target share. His snap share slid from 53% in weeks 1 to 4 down to 30% by weeks 15 to 18, so the role was shrinking as the season went. Even when he got on the field near the goal line, his 2.9-yard average depth of target means he was a blocker who caught checkdowns, not a scoring threat.
The scoring case is worse than the usage case. He averaged 3.3 points a game last season, and the 4 red-zone touches he did get still made his red-zone share of his own touches 28.6%, TE18 among 126 qualifying tight ends. His 1.3x touchdown share costs him 0.7 points a game by our number, and he never cleared 15 points in any of his nine games last season. We project him for 45 points, which is TE82 for us and nowhere near a roster. His best week was 9.5 points back in week 2.
He has no ADP on file, and that is the honest read: nobody is taking him. He has never topped 30 points in a season on this sheet, with 18.7 in 2024 and 28.5 in 2023, and his week 8 bye does nothing for you. The books have SF at 9.5 wins, so the team is fine, but this is a blocking tight end on a depth chart with Kittle at the top. I would rather leave the roster spot empty or take a lottery ticket at the position than draft him in any round.