Bhayshul Tuten

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• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Bhayshul Tuten Camp Update — August 23: His Best Practice of the Season

  Bhayshul Tuten turned in what John Shipley called his best practice of the season in Wednesday's joint session with Carolina, hitting holes decisively and showing shiftiness at the second level. He took no touches in Friday's game, and the co-starter question next to Chris Rodriguez Jr. rolls on to cut week.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  Bhayshul Tuten Camp Update — August 16: Co-Starter Is Half a Job

  Jacksonville now lists Bhayshul Tuten as a co-starter alongside Chris Rodriguez Jr., and it was Rodriguez who owned the week's practice reports. The June warning that this job still had to be won is aging well.

• 2026 PreviewJun 15, 2026

  Bhayshul Tuten 2026 Season Preview — paying for a job he hasn't won

  Tuten finished as RB51 across 15 games in his rookie season, averaging 5.6 half-PPR points per game — a floor built more on touchdowns than on target share or carry volume, the inputs that tend to carry between years. That touchdown reliance is among the least repeatable drivers in the position.

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  Bhayshul Tuten finished his rookie year as the 50-second running back in fantasy points per game. He's the 20-fifth back off the board. That gap is one of the widest on the board — and it's built entirely on a job he hasn't won yet. The Muffed 2026 preview.

  The rookie season was a deep-reserve role behind Travis Etienne: 83 carries, 307 yards, five touchdowns, 10 catches across 15 games — five-six points a game, RB52 per game. The signature was a modest Week 2 against Cincinnati, 15 points, his rookie high. He flashed the speed that made him a draft pick, but he never had the volume to qualify among the league's tracked runners — 83 carries isn't a workload, it's a rotation.

  The arc is a single low-usage season, so the RB25 price isn't paying for what he did — it's a pure bet on a role increase. And here's the production flag: his touchdown share was 47 percent, the most touchdown-dependent profile of any back we cover. Five of his handful of scoring plays came on the ground in limited work, and that rate does not survive contact with a real sample. Strip it out and the rookie tape is a change-of-pace back, not a starter.

  What the data can and can't say: we don't license year-two leaps for running backs — that pattern failed our testing — so the speculative upside isn't something we'll underwrite. What the price needs is a near-total transformation of his role, and the only evidence for that is off the field.

  The situation, per the reports, is the entire bull case — and this spring fed it: Travis Etienne signed with New Orleans, vacating the lead job, and Tuten took the first-team reps all offseason — but partly by forfeit, because Chris Rodriguez, the veteran Jacksonville signed to a two-year deal to split the work, had foot surgery and missed the whole program. Liam Coen says Rodriguez will be "full go come training camp," and the praise for Tuten is real — Coen likes "how Tuten has run it this spring... as opposed to last year at this time" — with LeQuint Allen holding the passing downs. So the job looks more his than it did in March, but it's still a committee he has to win in August, at a price that already assumes he won it.

  The price: pick 60, the 20-fifth back. Verdict: LEAN — overpriced. His proven production is a deep reserve's, his one fantasy-relevant trait — touchdowns — is the least repeatable thing in the game, and the RB25 tag is paying for a featured role he's competing for, not holding. The counter, and it's legitimate: the lane is genuinely open with Etienne gone, the speed is real, and a spring of first-team reps is worth something. But you're paying for the job before training camp settles it — and the veteran he has to beat hasn't even been on the field yet.

  September watch: the carry split with Chris Rodriguez once he's back — the whole bet; and whether the explosive runs translate to a real per-touch role. He's one of your guys? This show covers your whole roster — every player, every week, all season.

• 2025 ReviewMay 11, 2026

  Bhayshul Tuten 2025 Season in Review

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  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.