Fourth & Inches

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

RB

Josh Jacobs

GB

RB43 · overall #137 · tier 8 · age 28

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Projected points

45

7.5/gm

Value over replacement

1

repl 116

Range

0–102

sd 57

Week

1.1

@ TB

The take

written by hand

I'm a long way ahead of consensus RB20 and I'll defend it. 16.5 carries a game is a bell-cow number, and even with the age curve at 0.92 and a questionable tag, that volume plays.

Why this ranking

hand-set 2026-09-01

HE IS SUSPENDED, NOT HURT, and for an unknown length -- Matt, 1 Sep. Sleeper's injury_body_part says Groin and that is what the first version of this row argued from; it is stale and it was the wrong premise. The right one is that Green Bay has him DEPTH 4 behind Lloyd, Brooks and Johnson while he serves a ban nobody has put a number on. WRITTEN AS A GAMES CLAIM, because that is what a suspension is: 6.0 games, and 7.5/g when he plays, which is a committee back rather than the bell cow he was. The first version spent the whole cut on RATE -- 11.0 games at 6.36/g -- which claims he plays most of the season BELOW replacement, and that is not a suspension, it is a different and false story. Note RB43 is about the floor the board can give a suspended man who returns at all: VOR credits the games he does play and streams the rest, so pricing him lower would require claiming he never comes back.

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
10
Carries
52
Receptions
8
Rec yards
60
Rush yards
210
Rush TD
1.8
Rec TD
0.1
Total TD
1.9
Games projected
6.0
Observed pts/gm (history)
16.4
Games of history
62
Age multiplier
0.915
Usage carryover
1.00

Team context

what scales this projection

Neutral sec / play
35.1
Projected plays / game
60.5
Projected pass rate
55%
OL run block
-0.62
OL pass protection
-0.44
OL continuity
60%
2TE rate
32%
3WR rate
60%
1st-down pass rate
41%
Run friendly
+0.91
Scheme creativity
+0.54
Play action / motion
23% / 59%

Situation

ambiguity widens the projection range

Label
settled
Ambiguity score
35
Effective contributors
2.10
Top player's share
61%
New play-caller
no
Variance multiplier
1.37

Trade window

schedule-driven buy / sell timing

Action
hold
Window weeks
4-6
Window opponents
TB,CHI,DAL
Window matchup
+0.09
Opponents after
DET,CAR,NE
After matchup
-0.05
Flip edge
+0.14
Buy basis
recent form
Bye week
11
Playoff schedule (15-17)
-0.21

2025 game log

full season · Standard

Games

15

Points

201.1

Per game

13.41

17-gm pace

228

Best / worst

27.7 / 0.3

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
113.0RB12196611140
214.4RB13238410000
37.4RB291630095440
427.7RB22286244710
627.0RB41893255570
717.8RB6135521130
810.5RB191333133120
916.0RB51787154130
1014.7RB92174165330
114.0RB4174001000
139.1RB29178301180
1415.2RB11208612260
1521.2RB71273132191
162.8RB571236022120
170.3RB724301100