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 over the projected season

Targets
36
Carries
220
Receptions
27
Rec yards
196
Rush yards
991
Rush TD
6.8
Rec TD
1.4
Total TD
8.1
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 · Standard

Games

17

Points

227.3

Per game

13.37

17-gm pace

227

Best / worst

23.1 / 4.8

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
112.9RB13186612130
28.0RB291766022140
317.2RB82094032181
47.4RB341377043170
523.1RB514650108662
614.7RB101350122370
76.5RB251254032110
917.4RB42511410000
1020.4RB51473232110
1115.6RB12129112150
124.8RB33124601120
1313.2RB17137211000
1415.7RB91384122130
1520.8RB81578211100
168.5RB282370063150
1713.0RB131392033380
188.1RB231260053210