Fourth & Inches

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

RB

Kyren Williams

LA

RB13 · overall #18 · tier 3 · age 26

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Projected points

190

14.0/gm

Value over replacement

92

repl 116

Range

150–231

sd 40

Week

12.4

@ PHI

The take

written by hand

A rate fade and I'll own it. 20.1 to 16.3 to 14.7 points a game across three seasons — I'm projecting 14.0 and calling that trend real rather than noise.

Why this ranking

hand-set 2026-09-03

Cut to 190.4 = 14.00/g x 13.6g at Matt's direction, replacing the 15 Aug Corum note. A RATE claim, that the decline from 20.08 to 16.32 to 14.66 pts/g continues rather than flattening -- the model had 14.91, just above his 2025. NO GAMES VALUE written, deliberately: this is a downgrade and split_override returns games_ratio 1.0 for any downgrade, so games are already untouched and pinning them would only freeze 13.6 against future rebuilds. Pin games only when the claim needs it, as Henry and Likely did. EVERY OTHER LEVER WAS CHECKED AND IS ALREADY CONSERVATIVE, so the rate was the only honest instrument: his projected 61% backfield share sits below his 64% full-season 2025 and at his settled 59% across the last 13, 6 and 4 weeks -- Corum's share stabilised at 41% by about week 4 and never moved again. LA's rush budget is 26.1 against 27.4 actual, in line with the league-wide -4%, and the room summing to 27.95 above it is the documented per-player summing artifact rather than an LA anomaly. His 13.6 games are the model's most conservative input, not its most aggressive: USAGE_DECAY 0.8 still weights his 2022 rookie year at 8 games and 2023 at 12, against 16 and 17 in the two most recent seasons, giving him the third lowest games figure among the top twelve backs. Correcting that would move him FURTHER from ADP, not closer. Re-read 3 Sep: no sign of falsification. 14.00/g against his own 14.67 half-PPR/g is the continued-decline claim, and the board sits RB14 against ADP RB13 and ECR RB14 -- level with both. BASIS CORRECTED 3 SEP. The comparison above originally quoted `obs_ppr_pg`, which is FULL PPR, against a projection the board computes in HALF PPR. Every such figure in this file has been replaced with the player's own half-PPR rate, measured from nflverse weekly data over his whole career. Receptions are the whole difference, so the error scaled with target volume and was largest for receivers.

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

Projected usage

opportunity, before efficiency

Targets / game
2.6
Carries / game
16.2
Receptions / game
2.0
Rec yards / game
14
Rush yards / game
73
Rush TD / game
0.50
Rec TD / game
0.10
Total TD / game
0.60
Games projected
13.6
Observed pts/gm (history)
16.1
Games of history
53
Age multiplier
0.953
Usage carryover
1.00

Team context

what scales this projection

Neutral sec / play
33.6
Projected plays / game
61.9
Projected pass rate
58%
OL run block
+0.74
OL pass protection
+0.72
OL continuity
82%
2TE rate
31%
3WR rate
69%
1st-down pass rate
49%
Run friendly
-0.61
Scheme creativity
+1.28
Play action / motion
32% / 70%

Situation

ambiguity widens the projection range

Label
clear lead
Ambiguity score
16
Effective contributors
1.93
Top player's share
63%
New play-caller
no
Variance multiplier
1.32

Trade window

schedule-driven buy / sell timing

Action
hold
Window weeks
4-6
Window opponents
PHI,BUF,ARI
Window matchup
+0.44
Opponents after
LV,LAC,WAS
After matchup
+0.65
Flip edge
-0.22
Buy basis
recent form
Bye week
11
Playoff schedule (15-17)
-0.05

2025 game log

full season · Half PPR

Games

17

Points

245.3

Per game

14.43

17-gm pace

245

Best / worst

27.1 / 5.3

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
113.4RB15186612130
29.0RB301766022140
318.2RB92094032181
48.9RB341377043170
527.1RB314650108662
615.7RB111350122370
77.5RB251254032110
917.4RB52511410000
1021.4RB51473232110
1116.1RB13129112150
125.3RB35124601120
1313.2RB20137211000
1416.7RB91384122130
1521.3RB81578211100
1610.0RB282370063150
1714.5RB151392033380
189.6RB211260053210