Bhayshul Tuten 2025 Season in Review

Bhayshul Tuten closed his 2025 rookie campaign as the number 53 running back in total PPR scoring — and the number 53 running back in PPR per game. Same rank, both columns. That tells you exactly what this year was: a complementary, change-of-pace role behind Travis Etienne on a 13-and-4 Jaguars team that won the AFC South, with Tuten as the short-yardage and goal-line specialist. Etienne was the engine — 260 carries, 1,107 yards. Tuten was the closer they trusted to punch it in. He played 15 games, so this wasn't an injury story. It was a workload story, and the workload simply wasn't there for week-to-week fantasy relevance.

Now let's dig into the numbers. Tuten finished with 83 carries for 307 yards and 5 rushing touchdowns, plus 10 catches on 14 targets for 79 yards and 2 more scores through the air — 7 total touchdowns in a part-time role. His average target share was 3 percent, barely a blip in the passing game, and 80 yards after the catch on those 10 receptions tells you the receiving work was mostly check-downs and screens. He averaged just 5.9 PPR per game on a pure boom-or-bust profile. Tuten cleared 8 PPR in six games — including a 15.4 outing at Cincinnati and a 13.4 against the Chargers — but he also posted six games of 3.2 PPR or less, and finished with a negative score in Week 14 against the Colts on a 2-carry, 5-yard night. When you average under 6 PPR a week and half your games are under 4, you're a touchdown-dependent dart throw. The real-football silver lining: 7 touchdowns on 97 total touches is genuinely efficient finishing for a rookie.

The play that captures Tuten's 2025 came in overtime in Las Vegas, Week 9. Third and 1, ball at the Raiders' 1-yard line, Jaguars down 13-16, season on the line. Tuten up the middle. Touchdown. Game. That's the job description — Etienne moves the ball, Tuten finishes drives — and it's why his touchdown total outran his yardage total. But finishing drives without the volume behind it is exactly how you end up as the number 53 running back.