Fourth & Inches

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

WR

Kayshon Boutte

HOU

WR58 · overall #128 · tier 9 · age 24

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Projected points

98

7.8/gm

Value over replacement

4

repl 119

Range

37–159

sd 61

Week

5.5

vs DAL

Why this ranking

hand-set 2026-09-03

Cut 116.8 -> 98.0 toward ECR WR62 and the Sleeper market at Matt's read. A RATE CLAIM -- fantasy_points only, no games. His 12.6 games carry no designation and are not in dispute; the target rate is. WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THE NATIVE NUMBER. Not the snap share, which is his own realised 2025 (model 0.691 against 0.676, and 0.781 in 2024), and not the vacancy credit, which is the measured flat coefficient applied identically to every Houston receiver with Dell and Higgins on IR. It is the BASE: 4.85 tgt/g BEFORE any vacancy is already above his career best of 4.53 (2024) and well above his 3.29 (2025), so the total of 6.01 is 1.8x his most recent season. Carrying a New England snap share into Houston is deliberate -- apply_incoming_competition was measured and rejected -- but it means nothing in the model discounts a role earned against different team-mates. SIZED BETWEEN THE TWO THINGS THAT DISAGREE WITH US. 98.0 over 12.6 games is 7.78/g and scales targets 6.01 -> about 5.04, which still sits ABOVE his career best and so keeps the credit for a thinned room -- it removes the part of the rise that his own record never supported. It lands under Sleeper's own projection of 104.7 (~WR52 on our scale), conceding that the one market that updates daily has us high, while staying above ADP WR68 and Underdog WR68, which are draft-time and predate the Houston injuries. Lands WR58 against ECR 62 and consensus 61. Note the headline gap that surfaced this was inflated: he was WR35 on VOR but WR48 on points, so the audit's 38 ranks was nearer 20 on production.

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
64
Carries
2
Receptions
40
Rec yards
527
Rush yards
11
Rush TD
0.0
Rec TD
3.1
Total TD
3.1
Games projected
12.6
Observed pts/gm (history)
8.4
Games of history
32
Age multiplier
1.044
Usage carryover
0.89

Team context

what scales this projection

Neutral sec / play
32.9
Projected plays / game
61.9
Projected pass rate
57%
OL run block
-1.37
OL pass protection
-1.19
OL continuity
64%
2TE rate
20%
3WR rate
76%
1st-down pass rate
46%
Run friendly
-0.36
Scheme creativity
-0.30
Play action / motion
23% / 53%

Situation

ambiguity widens the projection range

Label
committee
Ambiguity score
75
Effective contributors
4.55
Top player's share
35%
New play-caller
no
Variance multiplier
1.85

Trade window

schedule-driven buy / sell timing

Action
buy now, flip wk7
Window weeks
4-6
Window opponents
DAL,TEN,JAX
Window matchup
+0.44
Opponents after
NYG,LAC
After matchup
-0.52
Flip edge
+0.96
Buy basis
recent form
Bye week
8
Playoff schedule (15-17)
-0.86

2025 game log

full season · Full PPR

Games

14

Points

124.1

Per game

8.86

17-gm pace

151

Best / worst

26.3 / 0.0

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.

WkPtsRankTgtRecRe YdsRe TDAttRu Yds
116.3WR1786103000
28.6WR581116100
34.8WR723228000
42.8WR893118000
57.3WR553343000
626.3WR45593200
713.5WR232255100
816.5WR125375100
90.0WR98100000
123.5WR692215000
1313.5WR225435100
154.0WR771130000
162.6WR933116000
184.4WR634224000