Fourth & Inches

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

RB

Travis Etienne

NO

RB34 · overall #87 · tier 7 · age 27

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Projected points

119

8.9/gm

Value over replacement

22

repl 116

Range

40–198

sd 79

Week

8.9

vs ATL

The take

written by hand

A lead-back call in New Orleans. Big contract, 13.2 carries and 3.7 targets a game, and I've already cut Kamara to 6.4 carries to pay for it.

Why this ranking

hand-set 2026-09-22

RATE RE-PRICED 22 Sep: the promotion premise is FALSIFIED by Kamara's return, and this row named its own dependency. Written 3 Sep to promote Etienne to the New Orleans lead job, its re-read said the claim rests on Kamara's override holding him at 6.70/g -- 'the vacated lead work the promotion argument needs is still vacated'. It is not vacated any more. THE EVIDENCE IS ONE GAME AND IT IS THE ONLY GAME THAT BEARS ON IT. Week 1, no Kamara: 53 snaps, 9 carries, 9 TARGETS, 11.3 points. Week 2, Kamara active for just 20 snaps: 37 snaps (-30%), 8 carries, 2 targets, 6.1 points -- and KAMARA OUT-CARRIED HIM 9 to 8 while taking the passing down 6 targets to 2. The 184.5 total implies 13.45 car/g and 3.60 tgt/g; he has run 9 and 8 and been targeted 9 then 2. SIZED AS A BLEND, not off the single with-Kamara game, because one game is what this file warns about everywhere else. Kamara projects 13.2 of 17 games, so Etienne sits in the reduced role about 78% of the time. 0.78 x 6.5 (with-Kamara, credited a little above the observed 6.1 for one-game touchdown variance) + 0.22 x 11.3 (his own Kamara-less week) = 7.56/g, x 15.7 games = 118.6. That is a committee back, which is what the usage says he now is. GAMES ARE NOT IN DISPUTE and are deliberately blank: he is healthy at 15.7 with essentially no availability damping to undo, so split_override spends this on RATE, which is where the argument lives. Target blanked -- this states a rate claim and promises no rank. READ KAMARA'S ROW WITH THIS ONE. His 83.0 override (RB50, 6.38/g) rests on '21% of the New Orleans backfield' and he took 9 carries and 6 targets on 20 snaps in his first game back. That number is still about right for a ramping 31-year-old, but the premise underneath it moved and the two rows are chained. If Kamara misses time again, THIS row is the one that is too low.

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
135
Receptions
27
Rec yards
206
Rush yards
554
Rush TD
3.7
Rec TD
1.1
Total TD
4.8
Games projected
13.3
Observed pts/gm (history)
13.6
Games of history
66
Age multiplier
0.934
Usage carryover
1.00

Team context

what scales this projection

Neutral sec / play
31.6
Projected plays / game
62.8
Projected pass rate
58%
OL run block
-0.21
OL pass protection
+0.11
OL continuity
76%
2TE rate
25%
3WR rate
69%
1st-down pass rate
47%
Run friendly
-0.26
Scheme creativity
-0.29
Play action / motion
19% / 59%

Situation

ambiguity widens the projection range

Label
committee
Ambiguity score
75
Effective contributors
3.59
Top player's share
44%
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
ATL,MIN,NYG
Window matchup
+0.41
Opponents after
PIT,CLE
After matchup
-0.10
Flip edge
+0.51
Buy basis
recent form
Bye week
8
Playoff schedule (15-17)
+0.57

2025 game log

full season · Full PPR

Games

17

Points

253.9

Per game

14.94

17-gm pace

254

Best / worst

31.5 / 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
118.6RB616143033130
216.9RB141471032181
311.6RB21165612000
419.5RB131912412110
58.8RB30124904390
69.5RB191227054280
76.5RB34844031110
916.5RB122284055310
1015.7RB131658142190
1119.3RB11197322000
1220.6RB71586043301
135.1RB521228011130
1421.2RB5207421180
1531.5RB11232043733
1616.6RB181650054161
1711.2RB201776032160
184.8RB48143201160