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Branden Carlson

Portland Trail Blazers · C · Age 27 · 7′0″

Rankings Jett Howard MarJon Beauchamp

Rank 2025-26#396C #89 · of 582

Value-0.8529-cat, per game

Games4212 min a game

Fantasy outlook

No. 396 on our board in 2025-26, and not in our current projection. His weakest category is points at 5.8 a game.

Stats over time

Rising: 3.8 in 2024-25, 5.8 last season.

Last season5.8

2-season average4.8

Trend a season+2.0

Up and down: between 3.8 (2024-25) and 5.8 (2025-26).
Per 36 minutes: 17.8 in 2024-25, 18.0 last season, on 7.7 → 11.6 minutes: the change is mostly his playing time.

PTS rank among rotation players

24-25–of 26625-26–of 272

Per game, from ESPN box scores.

Season by season

Season	Rank	Value	GP	MIN	PTS	3PM	REB	AST	STL	BLK	FG%	FGM/FGA	FT%	FTM/FTA	TO
2025-26	396	-0.852	42	12	5.8	0.7	3.0	0.7	0.2	0.6	52.7%	2.3/4.4	57.7%	0.4/0.6	0.4
2024-25	390	-0.818	32	8	3.8	0.7	1.7	0.4	0.2	0.7	44.3%	1.3/3.0	77.8%	0.4/0.6	0.2

Category profile · 2025-26

PTS

5.8-0.95

3PM

0.7-0.26

REB

3.0-0.77

AST

0.7-0.84

STL

0.2-0.91

BLK

0.6-0.19

FG%

52.7%2.3/4.40.01

FT%

57.7%0.4/0.6-0.83

TO

0.40.91

Not a rotation player on this board: no category ranks.

Team role · Portland Trail Blazers

No. 6 at C for the Portland Trail Blazers, behind Donovan Clingan, Robert Williams III, Micah Potter, Sidy Cissoko, and Yang Hansen. 114 minutes a night of the 2025-26 rotation left, most of it Jerami Grant, Kris Murray, and Caleb Love; Ja Morant is the arrival projected for the most minutes (32).

C

Left since 2025-26

Jerami Grant30 min → MEM
Kris Murray24 min → MEM
Caleb LoveSigned by PHI Jul 521 min → PHI
Matisse Thybulle16 min → LAL
Rayan Rupert12 min → PHI
Blake Wesley12 min → LAC
Minutes a night114

Arrived

Ja Morant28 min from MEM
Micah PotterWaived by IND Jul 819 min from IND
Branden CarlsonSigned Jul 112 min from OKC
Jeremy Sochan11 min from NY
John Tonje7 min from BOS
Damian Lillardnew

Depth chart from ESPN. Who left and arrived: last season's box scores against today's roster; how and when: ESPN's transaction feed, where it lists the move. Minutes are last season's, per game. Portland Trail Blazers depth chart

Season	Team	GP	MIN	PTS	3PM	REB	AST	STL	BLK	FG%	FGM/FGA	FT%	FTM/FTA	TO
2025-26	OKC	42	11.6	5.8	0.7	3.0	0.7	0.2	0.6	52.3%	2.3/4.4	66.7%	0.4/0.6	0.4
2024-25	OKC	32	7.7	3.8	0.7	1.7	0.4	0.2	0.7	43.3%	1.3/3.0	66.7%	0.4/0.6	0.2

Box-score averages from ESPN.

Branden Carlson in fantasy basketball

The outlook above is written from our 2025-26 projection and his recent seasons, and changes with every projection run. His Value and ranks are the same numbers Rankings shows.