Tony Pollard: 2026 Fantasy Football Outlook
Tony Pollard's 10.0 half-PPR points per game in 2025 sit below what a RB28 draft price usually buys — July 2026 drafters were paying for projection, not the previous season's line. His target share slipped over his last three games of 2025.
This week's projection is in the Week 5 card below. The July 2026 draft-day read that follows is opinion, framed from the cited 2025 data.
Tony Pollard
RB · Tennessee Titans
- Week 5 injury reportInjury report — foot, did not practice
This week · Week 5
Projected 11.3 half-PPR points in Week 5, with a likely range of 4.1 to 20.3.
vs HOU · Sun 1:00 PM ET
Forecast 11.3 Half-PPR points: the Vegas line takes away 1.1, the matchup nothing. Show how it is built.
| Step | Points | Running total |
|---|---|---|
| Baseline: His role and efficiency over 4 games, with his preseason RB28 ADP at 33% weight, at his usual line | 12.4 | 12.4 |
| Vegas: TEN implied 15.3 vs 17.1 in his games | −1.1 | 11.3 |
| Matchup: HOU 6th toughest vs RB: already in the Vegas line | 0.0 | 11.3 |
| Availability: No designation, no teammate ruled out | 0.0 | 11.3 |
| Projection | 11.3 | 11.3 |
Each step is the change from switching that factor on, in this order, so the steps add up to the projection. The matchup adds nothing with a line: the model's backtest found the line already prices the defense.
- Hurts: TEN is implied for 15.3 points, 28th-highest of 28 teams with a line this week.
- Hurts: HOU ranks 27th of 32 defenses in fantasy points allowed to RBs, where 1st allows the most (context, not in the projection).
- Context: kickoff-hour forecast WSW 10 mph, under the 15 mph wind line.
Season so far · through Week 4
- Half-PPR/g
- 8.6 half-PPR points a game over 4 games, 34.5 in all.
- PPR rank
- RB32 of 91 RBs with 2 or more games, by PPR points per game.
- Games
- 4 games with a stat line through Week 4.
- car/g
- 13.5 carries per team game this season.
PPR 38.5 (9.6/g) · Std 30.5 (7.6/g)
Game log · half-PPR
Half-PPR points by week, oldest first: Week 1 NYJ 3.9, Week 2 PHI 7.0, Week 3 NYG 11.6, Week 4 BAL 12.0. Bye in Week 9.
This week · TEN vs HOU
Week 5 projection
Week 5 injury report Injury report — foot, did not practice
- Half‑PPR
- 11.3
- PPR
- 12.3
- Standard
- 10.3
Range 4.1–20.3
Floor to ceiling in half-PPR points: the 10th to 90th percentile of how far past weeks landed from a projection like this one. About 4 in 5 landed inside it.
Projected line: 13.6 car · 57 rush yds · 2.01 rec · 12 rec yds · 0.60 TD
Show the math
- Volume
- 57% of TEN's carries × 26.0 a game · 9% of TEN's targets × 31.0 a game
- 14.0 carries · 2.7 targets
- Efficiency
- 77% catch · 4.8 yds/target · 4.2 yds/carry
- 2.1 rec · 71 yds
- Scoring chances
- 5.42 TD per 100 carries, 2.61 per 100 targets, from his red-zone usage
- 0.62 TD
- Vegas
- TEN implied 15.3 vs 17.1 in his games (×0.89)
- −6% volume, −20% TD rate
- Market prior
- Preseason RB28 in FFC ADP → 10.7 PPG, 33% weight at 4 games
- −0.3 half-PPR pts (11.7 → 11.3)
- Context (not in projection)
- HOU allows 0.87× league RB points (rank 27 of 32)
| Opponent | vs HOUTEN at home |
|---|---|
| Kickoff | Sun 1:00 PM ET |
| Implied total | 15.3TEN · consensus line |
| Wind | No wind flagKickoff-hour forecast: WSW 10 mph |
| HOU vs RB | Allows the 27th-most fantasy points to RBs0.87× the league average · context — not in the projection |
| Red zone | 63% of TEN's carries inside the 2017 of 27, through Week 4 · 6 inside the 5 · 1 TD |
| Rest of season | RB18 of 58 · 11.9 PPGHalf-PPR points per game, market prior included · 12 games left through Week 17 · bye in Week 9 |
Trade value 23 of 100
Redraft chart, Weeks 5–17, 12-team Half-PPR: rank 35 of 84 players above replacement.
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Built from stats through Week 4, consensus line as of Thu, Oct 8, 8:25 PM ET, Week 5 injury report. Game-day inactives are not in the model. Market prior: preseason ADP from Fantasy Football Calculator.
2026 season · the games so far
2026 so far
Through Week 4 · nflverse stats as of
- PPR pts / game
- 9.6
- RB rank
- RB32
- of 91 with 2+ games
- Games
- 4
- TEN
| Scoring | Total | Per game |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | 30.5 | 7.6 |
| Half-PPR | 34.5 | 8.6 |
| PPR | 38.5 | 9.6 |
RB rank is by PPR points per game among RBs with 2 or more games.
Game log
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| Wk | Opp | PPR pts | Carries | Rush yds | Rush TD | Targets | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Snap % | Calculator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | BAL | 13.0 | 16 | 48 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 53% | Score this game |
| 3 | NYG | 13.6 | 17 | 74 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 22 | 0 | 53% | Score this game |
| 2 | PHI | 7.5 | 14 | 64 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 55% | Score this game |
| 1 | NYJ | 4.4 | 7 | 35 | 0 | 2 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 52% | Score this game |
PPR pts is nflverse's full-PPR total for the game. "Score this game" opens the fantasy point calculator with that exact line loaded, to re-score it in Standard, Half-PPR or your league's settings. A dash means nflverse has no figure for that game yet.
Usage trend
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| Per game | Last 3 (Wks 2–4) | Season | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snap share | 54% | 53% | 0 |
| Carries per game | 15.7 | 13.5 | +2.2 |
| Targets per game | 3.0 | 2.8 | +0.3 |
| Target share | 10% | 10% | +1 |
| PPR points per game | 11.4 | 9.6 | +1.7 |
Shares are team-relative and averaged per game.
Draft-day record · July 2026
The July 2026 draft-day read
This is the July 2026 pre-draft read, kept as published. Every ADP and market figure on this page comes from the Fantasy Football Calculator snapshot of Jul 15, 2026 and is not updated in-season — 2026 drafts are over and ADP has stopped moving. In-season tools
The numbers behind the read
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| ADP (July 2026) | 71.3 | Fantasy Football Calculator |
| Overall ADP rank (July 2026) | 73 | Fantasy Football Calculator |
| Fantasy points / game | 10.0 | nflverse |
| Points over expected (FPOE) | -0.1 | nflverse |
| Target share | 7.6% | nflverse |
| Target share, last 3 games (2025) | 4.9% | nflverse |
| Sleeper search rank (July 2026) | 63 | Sleeper |
xFP (expected fantasy points) is what a typical player would score with the same targets, carries and field position. FPOE (points over expected) is actual points minus xFP, per game.
The consensus read
Tony Pollard was drafted as the RB28 — ADP 71.3 — in July 2026. His 10.0 half-PPR points per game in 2025 clears the RB starter line, with targets fading late in that year.
- ADP 71.3
- Overall ADP rank 73
- Sleeper search rank 63
- Fantasy points / game 10.0
The edge case — what had to be true
Every belief was tied to a checkpoint: the exact data point that would confirm or deny it, with its value at the time of the July 2026 read. Check them against what has actually happened since.
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Checkpoint
Target share, last 3 games vs season (2025)
4.9% last 3 vs 7.6% season (2025) · as of July 2026
Strong pick if you believed
Tony Pollard's late-2025 target dip was matchup noise, not a role change
Poor pick if instead
Tony Pollard's target share is fading from the season baseline
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Checkpoint
Points over expected (FPOE) per game, season (2025)
-0.1 pts/gm vs expectation (2025) · as of July 2026
Steady: within half a point a game of expectation, so his usage explains his scoring and this checkpoint does not lean either way.
Sources: Fantasy Football Calculator · Sleeper · nflverse. Every figure on this page is a value the analysis engine cited from the underlying data — nothing is hand-entered. Stats are 2025 regular season via nflverse (CC-BY 4.0); ADP via Fantasy Football Calculator (Jul 15, 2026 snapshot, not updated in-season).
FantasyTools analysis is opinion for entertainment purposes only — not betting, financial, or professional advice.
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