Fourth & Inches

2026 regular · wk 4 · half ppr · 64 games lined

RB

Ashton Jeanty

LV

RB6 · overall #9 · tier 2 · age 22

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Projected points

224

14.9/gm

Value over replacement

115

repl 116

Range

174–273

sd 50

Week

14.0

vs KC

The take

written by hand

This is a play on the receiving work. The model wanted to regress him to 3.4 targets a game and I held him at the 4.3 he actually ran. That, on top of 20.5 carries, is why he's my RB4 against ADP RB8.

Why this ranking

hand-set 2026-09-16

GAMES RE-PRICED 16 Sep: he is healthy and the old claim is falsified by his own week 1. The row was written 24 Aug, the night he sprained his ankle, and said so in its own words -- 'THE CLAIM IS ABOUT FOUR AND A HALF GAMES' -- pinning him to 12.4 games. He then opened the season with 50 snaps, 23 carries, 102 yards and 6 targets for 29.7 points, and Sleeper lists him Active, depth 1, no designation. That is a bell-cow workload, not a man playing through an ankle. Healthy backs of his profile project 14.9-15.2 games (Gibbs 14.9, Cook 15.0, Bijan 15.2), so 15.0 games. THE RATE IS UNCHANGED at 14.93/g -- it is the CARRY_RATE_MAX-capped line (21.05 car/g against a 22.0 ceiling), a model output rather than a hand figure, so it is re-asserted rather than re-argued: 223.9 = 14.93 x 15.0. Target blanked because this states both factors and promises no rank. Found while pricing a Cook-for-Jeanty trade: the stale games claim was UNDERSTATING a player we were considering buying, which is the opposite of the usual failure and easier to miss for it.

This is a view, not a correction — the model said something different and was overruled. See how it works.

Projected usage

opportunity over the projected season

Targets
65
Carries
295
Receptions
50
Rec yards
338
Rush yards
1113
Rush TD
6.6
Rec TD
2.1
Total TD
8.7
Games projected
15.0
Observed pts/gm (history)
14.4
Games of history
17
Age multiplier
1.067
Usage carryover
0.90

Team context

what scales this projection

Neutral sec / play
33.6
Projected plays / game
60.9
Projected pass rate
58%
OL run block
-1.08
OL pass protection
-0.32
OL continuity
50%
2TE rate
42%
3WR rate
58%
1st-down pass rate
49%
Run friendly
+0.59
Scheme creativity
-0.05
Play action / motion
22% / 53%

Situation

ambiguity widens the projection range

Label
new head coach, clear lead
Ambiguity score
47
Effective contributors
1.32
Top player's share
87%
New play-caller
yes
Variance multiplier
1.53

Trade window

schedule-driven buy / sell timing

Action
hold
Window weeks
4-6
Window opponents
KC,NE,BUF
Window matchup
-0.34
Opponents after
LA,NYJ,SF
After matchup
-0.00
Flip edge
-0.34
Buy basis
recent form
Bye week
13
Playoff schedule (15-17)
+0.00

2025 game log

full season · Standard

Games

17

Points

190.1

Per game

11.18

17-gm pace

190

Best / worst

31.5 / 3.4

Pace extrapolates the selected weeks over 17 games. It is what that stretch was worth, not a projection — no availability, matchup or regression adjustment is applied.

WkPtsRankAttRu YdsRu TDTgtRecRe YdsRe TD
110.0RB22193812220
24.4RB39114304310
36.3RB31176300000
431.5RB121138122172
510.9RB191467075420
614.6RB112375142110
73.4RB41621011130
914.9RB61342055471
1012.3RB14196015330
113.4RB4467086270
1216.8RB81750088581
136.1RB421531086300
143.8RB44103004280
154.2RB4393506470
1630.8RB124128121601
177.3RB251660022130
189.4RB19268705370