Tyler Allgeier 2026 Season Preview — what repeats, what doesn't | Muffed

Tyler Allgeier scored eight touchdowns on five hundred fourteen rushing yards last season — and if that ratio reads strange to you, it read strange to our pattern library too. He's pick one-fifty-two now, running back forty-eight, on a new team with a number-three-overall pick in his room. The market has already done most of the math this episode was going to do. Let's show the work anyway.

The season, his last in Atlanta: all seventeen games, a hundred forty-three carries for five hundred fourteen yards — three-point-six a carry — eight rushing touchdowns, and fourteen catches for ninety-six. Six-point-eight Half-PPR points a game, forty-seventh among backs per game, thirty-eighth in total. North of forty percent of his points came from touchdowns alone. And one number underneath it all: he has now played sixty-seven consecutive regular-season games — every game since week two of his rookie year.

The career is a complement's résumé: nine-five a game as a rookie, then seven-six, five-nine, six-eight in the Bijan Robinson years — a thousand-yard season in twenty-twenty-two, then three straight years of two-down relief work behind a superstar.

The pattern read, precisely. His touchdown share, point-three-nine, is far over the line where our running back touchdown-fade cohort begins — but that cohort conditions on top-thirty-six per-game production, and he ranked forty-seventh by the cohort's own measure. Outside the door; no fire; we don't round players in. What does fire is age: this is career year five, and our aging cohort gives back one-point-oh-nine points a game — n of seventy-one, directional, the weakest pattern we carry, and we say that out loud. Run it anyway: six-eight minus one-oh-nine lands at five-seven, which prices out around running back fifty-two. His price is forty-eight. The market has essentially pre-paid the fade.

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The situation is a crowded new room in the desert. Arizona signed him March ninth — the club's first notable move of the cycle, two years, twelve and a quarter million, eight guaranteed, per ESPN and Spotrac. Then April complicated it: the Cardinals spent the third overall pick on Jeremiyah Love — the highest-drafted running back since Barkley in twenty-eighteen, per NFL.com — and the June framing out of Phoenix has Love as the expected lead with Allgeier keeping the downhill and goal-line work, per SI's fantasy coverage. The incumbents are hurt: James Conner played three games last season and was limited this spring rehabbing the foot, and Trey Benson's knee kept him sidelined into June, expected back for camp, per SI. Mike LaFleur — hired off the Rams staff February first — runs the offense and calls the plays, with Nathaniel Hackett assisting, per ESPN and NFL.com, after a three-and-fourteen season cost the old staff its jobs.

The price: RB48 at pick one-fifty-two for the forty-seventh back by rate — with the aging fade landing at fifty-two. Price, production, and pattern all inside five slots of each other. [pause] Our verdict: no call. The market beat us to the regression, and we'll say so. The caveat runs friendly: sixty-seven straight games of availability next to two injured veterans and a rookie is how goal-line jobs get kept — and a back who scored eight times in a part-time role gets a new play-caller and two hurt veterans ahead of only a rookie. If the touchdowns hold, this price was a floor, not a ceiling.

Watch the goal-line package once Love arrives in full — who takes the carry at the two — and Conner's foot in camp, because every missed veteran rep consolidates the committee. Availability has been his one elite stat; it's also the one that never fades on schedule. [[CLOSE]] He's one of your guys? This show covers your whole roster — every player, every week, all season.