Grant Calcaterra

42 career receptions across 3 seasons — all 4 of his biggest games came inside a 9-week window in 2024.

Every game where Calcaterra caught 3+ passes — Wk6 vs CLE (4/67), Wk8 vs CIN (3/58), Wk9 vs JAX (5/30), Wk14 vs CAR (3/16 TD) — happened in a 9-week stretch when Goedert missed 7 of 8 games. Outside that window, his ceiling across 29 career games is 2 receptions and 24 yards in a single outing. The 2024 spike didn't signal a role change; it was a vacancy filled and then vacated.

6 of his 9 best games came in 2024 — 4 of those 6 while Goedert was out.

Goedert missed 7 regular-season games in 2024 (Weeks 7–9, 14–17). Four of Calcaterra's six top-9 games fell inside that window. His best game with Goedert fully active? 4 catches for 67 yards in Week 6 vs Cleveland — but Goedert was on the field and drew a target himself (0 yards). Without that one outlier, the Goedert-healthy ceiling across 26 other career games is 2 receptions and 24 yards.

Waited 33 targets and 20 career games before catching his first NFL touchdown.

Calcaterra's NFL career began in Week 3 of 2022. Through 20 games and 33 targets, he had never found the end zone — until Week 14 of 2024 vs Carolina, a 3-catch, 16-yard TD game in his 21st career appearance.

That gap — 33 targets, zero touchdowns, 2+ seasons — is the fingerprint of a pure blocking TE who leaks out into the flat rather than running red-zone routes. When the TD did arrive, it came in a Goedert-out week (Week 14) on a short route, not a seam shot.

His second career TD (Week 18 of 2025 vs Washington) also came with Goedert sitting — both career touchdowns happened when the TE1 was unavailable.

40 yards on his very first career reception — Week 3 of his rookie year.

Calcaterra's NFL debut line in Week 3 of 2022 vs Washington: 1 target, 1 catch, 40 yards. That single play accounted for 49% of his entire rookie-season receiving total (81 yards over 6 games).

It's the rookie-year microcosm of a TE2 career: when the ball comes, it tends to come on a chunk play down the seam — but the targets themselves come 1.7 per game lifetime (56 targets across 33 games). Most of those games he finishes with 0–1 receptions and contributes almost entirely as a blocker.

Behind one of the league's most reliable TE1s — Goedert had 60 catches in 2025 alone.

Goedert played 15 games in 2025 and went 60-of-82 for 591 yards. Calcaterra's role collapsed back to its 2022–2023 baseline: 9 receptions on 13 targets, 76 yards. The 2024 spike (24 rec) was a function of Goedert missing 7 games — when the starter is healthy and playing 15+ games, the TE2 in Philly is a 1.4-target-per-game blocker with a 9-catch ceiling.

5 games in 2024 with a target share above 10% — only 1 in the other three seasons combined.

In 2024, Calcaterra had five games with target share ≥ 10% (Wks 6, 8, 9, 14, 17 — all during or adjacent to Goedert's absence). Across 2022, 2023, and 2025 combined (24 games), he has just one such game (2022 Wk14 vs NYG, 12.9% — also a game where Goedert was working through a knee issue).

That's the bright-line definition of a TE2: baseline of about 5–6% of team targets, with a hard ceiling that only breaks when the starter is unavailable.