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Colby Parkinson occupies the top tight end spot on the Los Angeles Rams depth chart and the opening six-game sample backs that up: he started all six games and played 63.4% of the offense's snaps, a figure that actually tops his 59% share across the full 2025 season. The problem is not positioning, it is target volume. Through six games he has drawn 19 targets, a modest number that translates to 14 receptions, 103 yards and one touchdown. That is a far cry from the role that produced 129.8 PPR points across 2025 on 56 targets and 8 touchdowns, 20 of them coming in the red zone. Matthew Stafford remains the triggerman distributing those targets, and the passing offense still runs through Puka Nacua at wide receiver, which caps how often the tight end becomes the first read. On the ground, Kyren Williams continues to anchor the backfield with Blake Corum behind him, meaning the offense has multiple established options before the ball consistently finds the tight end position. Parkinson's role is best described as a early-down, red-zone-leaning tight end who plays extensive snaps but has to compete for a finite number of throws in an offense that feeds its receiver first. The snap share says he is trusted; the target and yardage numbers say he has not yet turned that trust into volume this year.
The case for Colby Parkinson starts with the role itself. A tight end logging north of 63.4% of the snaps while starting every game he has played is not a situational piece — he is on the field on early downs, likely downs, and in short yardage, and that kind of snap share usually produces opportunity over a full season even when a particular six-game window looks thin. The 2025 season is the proof of concept: 56 targets, a strong 76.8% catch rate, and critically 20 red-zone targets that turned into 8 touchdowns. Tight ends who draw that kind of goal-line work have a standing floor in any offense, because touchdowns at that position are often less about target volume and more about where those targets occur. If Matthew Stafford continues to lean on him near the goal line the way the offense did in 2025, touchdown spikes can repair a quiet box score in a single Sunday.```)>?></s)>`enen,nada); The case against is sitting right in the current-season log. Nineteen targets through six games is a low rate for a player playing this many snaps, and the 7.4 yards per reception says the catches he is getting are short, not the kind of intermediate or red-zone work that defined his touchdown total a year ago. Only one touchdown and five red-zone targets through six games is a steep drop from the 20 red-zone looks he saw over the course of 2025, and if that red-zone role has genuinely eroded, there is no alternate path to fantasy relevance — he is not a yardage weapon, with 408 receiving yards across fifteen games in 2025 and only 103 through six games now. Puka Nacua remains the clear top target for Matthew Stafford, and as long as that holds, Parkinson is fighting for a share of targets that was never enormous to begin with. The honest read is that his floor depends entirely on the offense finding him in scoring position; take away the touchdowns and the per-game profile, 8.7 points per game in 2025 and 5.1 so far in 2026, is replacement level. His finish among all players at the position has fallen from seventeen to forty-three, which captures the gap between last year's touchdown-aided production and this year's quieter workload. The variance here is almost entirely a function of how often the ball finds him inside the twenty, not whether he is on the field — he clearly is.
Treat Colby Parkinson as a streaming option rather than a locked weekly starter. His snap share earns him a roster spot in deeper leagues, but the target volume through six games does not support starting him in anything other than touchdown-dependent matchups or bye-week emergencies. He is best used as a flex play when you have reason to believe the offense will lean on him near the goal line — for instance after a week where red-zone usage ticks back up — rather than as a set-and-forget TE1. In shallower leagues, he is a bench stash at best; in leagues with deep rosters, he is a borderline waiver piece. What would change the calculus is a stretch of multiple games with red-zone targets returning to the level seen across the 2025 season, when he drew 20 looks inside the twenty and converted 8 of them into touchdowns. Until the target count climbs back toward that range, treat any single big game as the exception rather than the new baseline. Monitor whether Matthew Stafford starts funneling more short and intermediate throws his way beyond the red zone — an uptick in overall target share, not just touchdown luck, is the real signal that his role is expanding rather than simply varying week to week.
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