TE, Detroit Lions. This page is line history: what he did against the number the books posted, game by game, with the window and the sample size printed beside every figure. Records run through the 2025 season.
Last 14 lined games · bar = what he did, number on the bar = the result, dash = the opening line (median of the books quoting it, each book's earliest capture) · teal over, red under
Counts of what happened against a real posted number, not a projection.
Matchup context
The game Detroit Lions plays next · 2025 regular season · rosters checked September 7
Week 1 · Sunday, September 13 · 1:00 PM ET
New Orleans Saints at Detroit Lions
Ford Field · fieldturf · dome
LaPorta was 4th on the Lions in targets in 2025, with 49 of the 263 they threw in the 9 regular season games he played. He is listed at 6-3 and 249 pounds, shorter than 92 percent of the 189 tight ends on a 2026 roster and lighter than 58 percent of them. The 17 defenses on the Lions' 2026 schedule gave up 217.1 passing yards a game last season; the 17 they met gave up 226.7.
Receiving matchup
What the defense he meets has given up through the air, how much his offense throws, and how much of that goes to him
New Orleans Saints defense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Passing yards allowed per game5th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed196.2yds
Completions allowed per game6th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed18.4
Yards allowed per completion13th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed10.69yds
Passing touchdowns allowed per game14th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed1.47TD
Detroit Lions offense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Pass attempts per game8th of 32 · 1st = most34.2att
Passing yards per game3rd of 32 · 1st = most268.6yds
Pass plays as a share of plays from scrimmage10th of 32 · 1st = most pass-heavy58%
Share of passing yards gained after the catch7th of 32 · 1st = highest share53%
Sam LaPorta
2025 regular season · 9 games
Targets per game5.4
Receptions per game4.4
Receiving yards per game54.3yds
Catch rate82%
Share of his team's targets19%
Offensive snap share91%
Pass attempts plus sacks taken, over those plus rushing attempts. A sack is a called pass that never became an attempt, so it counts on the pass side. Kneel-downs sit inside the rushing attempts and cannot be separated out.His targets over his club's, counted across the games he played. Games he missed are in neither total.These are box score totals, not charted by alignment, so there is no split of what a defense gives up to slot receivers, to backs or to any other role. Nothing here claims one.
Touchdown matchup
Touchdowns the defense he meets has allowed, beside his own offense
New Orleans Saints defense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Offensive touchdowns allowed per game10th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed2.18TD
Points allowed per game16th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed22.5
Detroit Lions offense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Offensive touchdowns per game3rd of 32 · 1st = most3.29TD
Rushing plus receiving touchdowns. Return and defensive scores are not in this figure.
Method: per-game figures over the 2025 regular season, with the games behind each one shown on its panel and every 2026 opponent rated on that same season. Clubs and roles move between seasons. Conditions, not forecasts.
Record against the posted line, by market
Every market our archive priced him in at least eight times · the line is each book's opening number, median across the books quoting it · a market we priced fewer times is left off rather than shown with a sample too small to mean anything
Market
Lined games
Over-Under
Over rate
Avg line
Avg result
Last line seen
Window
Receiving yards
32
19-13
59% of 32
43.9
56.4
45.5 (2025-11-09)
2023-09-17 to 2025-11-09
Receptions
19
13-6
68% of 19
4.34
5.21
4.5 (2025-11-09)
2023-11-23 to 2025-11-09
Anytime touchdown
44
18 of 44
41%
36% implied
18 scored, 16 implied
42% implied (2025-11-09)
2023-09-17 to 2025-11-09
Over rate excludes pushes and prints the decided count it is taken over. Whole-number markets (receptions, interceptions) push often, so overs divided by games would read several points off. The touchdown market posts no number at all, only a price, so it is graded as scored or not against the price implied by the books before their margin.
Where that record came from
Receiving yards · every split carries its own sample size, and a small one is left small rather than rounded into a headline
Split
Over-Under
Rate
Avg line
n
All lined games
19-13
59%
43.9
32
Home
8-7
53%
44.0
15
Away
11-6
65%
43.9
17
2025 season
5-3
62%
43.0
8
2024 season
6-5
55%
44.7
11
2023 season
8-5
62%
43.8
13
Game by game
Receiving yards · last 14 lined games · books = how many had a number up when we captured it
Date
Opp
Line
Result
Graded
Books
2025-11-09
at WAS
45.5
53
over
7
2025-11-02
vs MIN
44.5
97
over
6
2025-10-20
vs TB
45.5
15
under
3
2025-10-12
at KC
42.5
55
over
6
2025-10-05
at CIN
37.5
92
over
4
2025-09-28
vs CLE
40.5
39
under
1
2025-09-22
at BAL
44.5
33
under
5
2025-09-07
at GB
43.5
79
over
1
2025-01-18
vs WAS
51.5
51
under
3
2025-01-05
vs MIN
51.5
63
over
1
2024-12-30
at SF
47.5
64
over
7
2024-12-22
at CHI
43.5
43
under
4
2024-12-15
vs BUF
38.5
111
over
7
2024-11-10
at HOU
34.5
66
over
6
Season totals behind those lines
Our own game logs · totals with the per-game figure beside them · only the quantities the markets above are graded on
Season
Games
Receiving yards
Receptions
Games with a TD
2025
9
489 (54.3/gm)
40 (4.44/gm)
3 of 9
2024
17
777 (45.7/gm)
66 (3.88/gm)
7 of 17
2023
20
1,065 (53.2/gm)
107 (5.35/gm)
8 of 20
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