TE · Pittsburgh Steelers · week 6 vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers · Sun Oct 18 · 1:00 PM ET
Pat Freiermuth
TYPE Receiving TE
ROLE a starter
CLASS 2021 · R2 P55
EXP 5 seasons
AGE 25-28
DEPTH TE2
As of week 6, Pat Freiermuth was a TE for PIT, age 27.9, 5 seasons of experience, drafted in round 2. In 2026 through week 5 he was listed at depth rank 2 on his club's depth chart; he had played 5 games on 68% of snaps; his line was 33.8 receiving yards a game, 5.2 targets a game and a 14.9% target share (Receiving TE by the published rule). Before 2026 he played 82 games (postseason included) over 5 seasons. His injury history held 11 episodes (concussion 2, hamstring 2, ankle 1), 3 of them reaching OUT, 2 a repeat of an earlier site; the last was a quad injury in 2025 week 9.
The full read
How our call moved this week
100500
his club's word: Questionable62%62%
Sun 2:02 AM ETSun 7:01 AM ET
our call, P(plays)
club report (public)
62% COIN FLIP → 62% COIN FLIP
Every call we wrote for him this week, earliest first, as written.
In short
Pat Freiermuth is a starter at tight end for PIT — 75% of the snaps in his best week of 6. He has a calf injury. His team has listed him Questionable.
2versions this week
9average, every player
29most for one player
How the call moved
COIN FLIP since Sun Oct 18 · 2:16 AM ET · 11 h before kickoff · after the club said it (0 h).
His team's word: Questionable
This is the TEAM'S OWN ANNOUNCEMENT, not a reading of ours. His team filed him on the injury report and we are restating it so the record is complete. There is nothing early about repeating an announcement — what we say ahead of one is on the week's page. Source: his team's published inactive list, on the day.
No dated practice report for him this week
The team has not published one we can date, or the window has not reached it. Not the same as his having practiced.
Head start
His club's word
Kickoff
Stats, with ranges — dot = his average, bar = his game range
Rec yds / game30 range 11–46
wk 1–6 · 6 games
Targets / game4.8 range 3.0–7.0
wk 1–6 · 6 games
Target share13.3% range 7–23
wk 1–6 · 6 games
Snap share69.0% range 60–75
wk 1–6 · 6 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
73%wk 1
66%wk 2
60%wk 3
75%wk 4
68%wk 5
72%wk 6
Missed while on the injury report
Season
Weeks on the report
Missed while listed
2026
1
0
Only the weeks he was on the injury report with a recorded result — not every game of his career.
Medical history
When
Injury
Weeks on a report
Worst status
2026 · wk 6
calf
1
Questionable
2025 · wk 9
quad
1
—
2024 · wk 6
calf
1
—
2023 · wk 16
knee
1
—
2023 · wk 11
hamstring
1
Questionable
2023 · wk 5
hamstring
2
Out
2023 · wk 2
chest
1
—
2022 · wk 17
Not injury related
1
—
2022 · wk 16
foot
1
—
2022 · wk 15
groin
1
—
2022 · wk 8
ankle
1
—
2022 · wk 6
concussion
2
Out
2021 · wk 13
concussion
3
Out
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 13 episodes · 17 weeks on a report · same site more than once: calf ×2
2021
concussion · 3w
2022
Not injury related · 1wfoot · 1wgroin · 1wankle · 1wconcussion · 2w
2023
knee · 1whamstring · 1whamstring · 2wchest · 1w
2024
calf · 1w
2025
quad · 1w
2026
calf · 1w
Weeks 1–18
ruled out
questionable
listed, and played
Each bar is one episode: the week it began and how many weeks he was on a report, coloured by the worst status.
Our past calls vs what happened
Wk 6PLAY 62% ✓ rightafter his team's announcement; played
Season on him: 1 of 1 graded call of ours right. Graded by the record: right or a miss against whether he played. A week we did not call, or his club's own word, is not graded.
The rest of his team's report this week
Player
Pos
Practice
Whose word
Call
Chance he plays
Band
Cameron Heyward
DT
FULL
ours
PLAY
96%
EXPECTED
Jalen Ramsey
CB
LTD
team's word
Questionable
T.J. Watt
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
95%
EXPECTED
DeShon Elliott
S
LTD
team's word
Out
Sean Murphy-Bunting
CB
UNK
team's word
—
DK Metcalf
WR
DNP
ours
PLAY
97%
EXPECTED
Jamel Dean
CB
LTD
team's word
Questionable
Rico Dowdle
RB
FULL
team's word
Questionable
Michael Pittman
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Jack Driscoll
OT
UNK
team's word
—
Ben Skowronek
WR
DNP
team's word
Out
Terell Smith
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Keeanu Benton
DT
FULL
team's word
Questionable
Logan Lee
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Cole Burgess
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Roman Wilson
WR
DNP
team's word
Out
Daequan Hardy
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Will Howard
QB
UNK
team's word
—
Donte Kent
CB
UNK
team's word
—
Derrick Harmon
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Kevin Jobity Jr.
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Gennings Dunker
G
UNK
team's word
—
Eli Heidenreich
RB
UNK
team's word
—
Drew Allar
QB
UNK
team's word
—
The model reads the room: who else is out shifts what his own designation is worth.
The data behind this page — the timeline in words, every call and week on record, about him, and what this page does not show
age 27.9 · 5 seasons' experience · drafted round 2
Where the profile comes from
Built from: honors.db; nflverse injuries_2026.csv; medical.db; nflverse players.csv; profile.db; nflverse roster_2026.csv; nflverse roster_weekly_2026.csv; nflverse snap_counts_2026.csv; nflverse stats_player_week_2026.csv. Every number in it is one those sources hold.
a starter at tight end — 75% of the snaps in his best week of 6
Listed on the depth chart
second at tight end
Snaps played
69% a week on average over 6 weeks, 75% at his highest, 18% on special teams
Build
6 ft 5 in · 258 lb
College
Penn State
Drafted
2021, round 2 pick 55, by PIT
Age
25-28 at the season's start
Experience
5 seasons
When this call was made, and when the world knew
Team reportHis team listed him Questionable.
PublicHis team's word was public as soon as it was filed.
KickoffKickoff.
How our call moved, earliest first
When
Lead
Call
Chance he plays
Band
On what
Sun Oct 18 · 2:16 AM ET
11 h
PLAY
62%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 7:01 AM ET
6 h
PLAY
62%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 11:50 AM ET
1 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's published inactive list, on the day
Sun Oct 18 · 12:02 PM ET
1 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's published inactive list, on the day
2 calls this week, and the call never flipped between PLAY and SIT. Each lead time is the one that call actually had when it was written — never recounted from now. A call that changes is the record working: new evidence arrived and we said so, in public, before the game.
His record this season
Wk
Practice
Chance he plays
Call
Source
Played
6
UNK
62%
PLAY
after his team's announcement
yes
A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.
What this page does not show
the reader's opinion — it has not read him this week.