Sam LaPorta fantasy football preview 2025: Stats, season outlook, predictions
Sam LaPorta 2025 Fantasy Football Snapshot
Started slow last season but became a red-zone weapon, scoring seven touchdowns over his final 12 games.
Loses OC Ben Johnson and some target share security, with John Morton's more vertical offense likely to favor Jameson Williams.
LaPorta remains a mid-range TE1, but upside hinges on injuries ahead of him in the target pecking order.
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2024: A panic sell after his 12/147/0 September, Lions OC Ben Johnson managed to find seven touchdowns for LaPorta in the next 12 games of the season. There was more risk in LaPorta's profile with several quiet fantasy football games (3/6, 3/19, 1/25, etc.) but if you needed someone to score a touchdown, LaPorta fit the bill. LaPorta's major problem was that Jameson Williams quickly developed into the team's No. 2 option and cannibalized the 2023 target share that LaPorta had grown.
What's changed: Ben Johnson is gone and John Morton is promising a downfield offense with more lightning. Let us give you one guess if that will benefit Williams or LaPorta more in 2025. You're right, it is not the guy we are currently profiling.
Outlook: LaPorta would probably be a real threat to go back to 120-target seasons if Williams or Amon-Ra St. Brown got hurt, but absent that it's hard to imagine what LaPorta can do on his own to be better than a mid-range TE1. The offense doesn't seem to be breaking in his direction and the team has too many reasons to feed Williams and St. Brown.
**Projections from Spotlight Sports Group
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