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Buffalo Bills Defense vs Tight Ends (2025)

In 2025, the Buffalo Bills allowed 31.5 receiving yards per game to tight ends — #2 of 32 (1 = stingiest). Our persistence testing says single-season ranks like this mostly do NOT carry over year to year — use with that in mind.

Everything they allowed to tight ends, per game

Metric	Season	Last 4	Last 2
Targets allowed	4.8	5.7	7.0
Receptions allowed	2.9	3.0	4.0
Rec yds allowed	31.5	21.0	11.0
Rec TD allowed	0.2	0.7	1.0
Yards per target	6.6	3.7	1.6
Explosive receptions (20+)	0.4	0.0	0.0

Last 4 = weeks 15–18; last 2 = weeks 17–18. 2025 regular season.

Upcoming: week 1 vs Houston Texans

Tight Ends they'll face first: Dalton Schultz.

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Methodology: computed from nflverse play-by-play; a quarter's yards are the yards gained on plays snapped in that quarter. Averages use each player's games played, not team games. Updated 2026-07-28.

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