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Cade Stover

Cade Stover

TEHOUHouston Texans

Other TEs on HOU
Games
3
2026 season
PPR PPG
2.2
TE78 overall
Total pts
6.7

This is how TEs have played against the Giants in the 2026 season.

TE1 = the highest-scoring TE against Giants in each game, not a fixed depth-chart spot.

WkTeamPlayerTgtRecReYdReTDFPts
1DALDALBrevyn Spann-Ford221403.4
2LALATerrance Ferguson9654117.4
3TENTENDaniel Bellinger221603.6
4ARIARITrey McBride12731010.1
5WASWASChig Okonkwo6460010.0
6NONOOscar Delp221003.0
Average5.53.830.80.27.9
Median4.03.023.50.06.8
High12760117.4
Low221003.0

Averages are raw, outliers are never removed.

TE1 avg pts
7.9
PPR per game
Rank
25
of 32 (1 = most allowed)
vs League
-25%
lg avg 10.5
How Cade Stover should do vs the GiantsSeason log, the group you pick, and a projection

Season so far, compared with what the group you pick below has done against the Giants, plus a projection for this game.

What is this table?

Rows at the top are every game Cade Stover has played this season, using the same stat columns as the table above.

Compare against picks which group of Giants opponents to line them up with: the best TE they faced in each game (1), the second best (2), the third best (3), or all of the top three. Nobody knows which slot Cade Stover will land in this week, so this is your call, not a guess.

Giants avg is the average line of that group. Difference is that minus Cade Stover's own average: green means the defense gives that slot more than Cade Stover usually produces.

Projected is Cade Stover's recent-weighted average scaled by how generous the Giants were to the slot you picked. Change the slot and the projected points change, because each slot has a different matchup adjustment. Picking Top 3 uses the usual-role projection.

Compare against
WkOppTgtRecReYdReTDFPts
1BUF11-200.8
4DAL112003.0
7NYG11-102.9
Stover avg1.01.05.70.02.2
Giants TE1 avg5.53.830.80.27.9
Difference+4.5+2.8+25.2+0.2+5.7

Difference is what the defense allows minus what Stover averages (green = defense gives up more). Projected stats scale the player's averages by the matchup adjustment, so they are a rough guide.

Prediction & chance to scoreCade Stover vs the Giants

Prediction for Cade Stover

Nobody knows which slot Cade Stover will land in this week, so pick the one you expect. The projection changes because each slot faces a different average from the Giants.

If Cade Stover plays as
2.2
projected PPR points

I predict about 2.2 points for Cade Stover if playing as a TE1. Cade Stover has averaged 1.9 over 2 games, and the Giants have given up 7.9 to TE1s (-25% vs the league average of 10.5).

How this projection is built

1. The player. Cade Stover scored: Wk 1 0.8, Wk 4 3.0. Average 1.9; weighted toward recent games it is 2.7.

2. The defense. Over 6 games, the Giants allowed 7.9 points to their opponent's TE1. The league average for that slot is 10.5, so that is -25%.

3. Trusting small samples less. With 6 defensive games, only 67% of the gap is applied, capped at +/-30%. That gives a -16% adjustment (x0.84).

4. Result. 2.7 x 0.84 = 2.2. Switching slots only changes step 2 and 3: the player's own numbers stay the same, but each slot faces a different defensive average.

It is a statistical model, not knowledge of injuries, game script or weather.

Chance to score

Type a point total to see how likely Cade Stover is to reach it as a TE1.

49%
chance of 2+ PPR points
Why this percentage?

The projection (2.2) is the middle of the range. Fantasy scores swing a lot from game to game, so the model spreads possible scores around it by about 1.3 points, leaning on Cade Stover's own game-to-game swings once there are several games (and on typical TE swings before that).

Scores are modelled as right-skewed, since a big game is possible but a very negative one is not. The percentage is the share of that spread at or above 2.

With only 2 games of history, treat this as a rough gauge. It gets sharper as the season goes on. It is never lower than 1% or higher than 99%.

InsightsPlain-English takeaways from the table
  • TE1s have averaged 3.8 receptions, 30.8 receiving yards and 0.2 receiving TDs against the Giants across 6 games.
  • The Giants allow 7.9 PPR points to TE1s, -25% versus the league average of 10.5 (ranked 25 of 32, where 1 is most generous). That is a tough matchup.
  • Outlier: Week 2, Terrance Ferguson (17.4 pts) sits far above the other games and pulls the averages up. Average with it vs without it: pts 7.9 vs 6.0. The table above keeps the raw averages.
  • Outlier: Week 4, Trey McBride (7 rec) sits far above the other games and pulls the averages up. Average with it vs without it: rec 3.8 vs 3.2. The table above keeps the raw averages.
  • 3 of 6 games reached 7+ PPR points. Scores range from 3.0 to 17.4 (median 6.8).
  • TE1s scored a touchdown in 1 of 6 games (17%).

Insights are generated by rules from the table above and recalculate every week.