2025 Receiving Stats
REC
2
YDS
23
TD
0
AVG
11.5
TAR
2
Rest-of-Season Projections
Signed a contract with the Texans in September of 2025. Waived by the Texans in October of 2025. Claimed off waivers by the Browns in October of 2025.
Bound for Cleveland
The Browns claimed Bates off waivers from the Texans on Monday.
ANALYSIS
Bates was waived by the Texans on Saturday, but he has found a new home in Cleveland, where he'll provide depth at tight end behind David Njoku, Harold Fannin and Blake Whiteheart. Bates appeared in three regular-season games for Houston prior to being waived and logged two catches on as many targets for 23 yards while splitting his snaps between offense and special teams.
Bates was waived by the Texans on Saturday, but he has found a new home in Cleveland, where he'll provide depth at tight end behind David Njoku, Harold Fannin and Blake Whiteheart. Bates appeared in three regular-season games for Houston prior to being waived and logged two catches on as many targets for 23 yards while splitting his snaps between offense and special teams.
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How do Brenden Bates' 2025 advanced stats compare to other tight ends?
This section compares his advanced stats with players at the same position. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. The longer the bar, the better it is for the player.
Air Yards Per Game
7.3Air Yards Per Snap
1.10% Team Air Yards
1.2%% Team Targets
0.9%Avg Depth of Target
11.0 YdsCatch Rate
100.0%Drop Rate
0.0%Avg Yds After Catch
0.5% Targeted On Route
66.7%Avg Yds Per Route Run
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2025 NFL Game Log
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Snap Distribution / Depth Chart
Snap Counts
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Browns 2025 TE Snap Distribution#% of Team Snaps
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How often does Brenden Bates run a route when on the field for a pass play?
This data will let you see how Brenden Bates and the other tight ends for the Browns are being used. Some tight ends may have a lot of snaps, but they're not that useful for fantasy purposes because they're not actually running routes. This data will help you see when this is the case.
Brenden Bates
3 routes 2 targets
210 routes 51 targets
205 routes 41 targets
30 routes 3 targets
Receiving Alignment Breakdown
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2025 Brenden Bates Split Stats
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More Fantasy News
Jettisoned by Houston
The Texans waived Bates from the 53-man roster Saturday, Aaron Wilson of KPRC 2 Houston reports.
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Practices in full Thursday
Bates (wrist) was a full participant in Thursday's practice.
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Dealing with wrist injury
Bates was limited in Wednesday's practice due to a wrist injury.
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Two grabs in win
Bates caught both of his targets for 23 yards in Sunday's 44-10 win over Baltimore in Week 5.
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Headed to Houston
Bates signed with the Texans on Wednesday.
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