Chase Brown

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• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Chase Brown Camp Update — August 23: No News While Brooks Made Some

  Chase Brown went unmentioned in the joint-practice and game coverage for a second straight week while the starters sat Saturday's 27 to 9 win over the Bears. Second-year back Tahj Brooks got the first-half work behind the reserves.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  Chase Brown Camp Update — August 16: The Quiet Camp Is the Good Version

  Chase Brown's loudest moment of camp week was praise for somebody else's unit. For a back whose entire case is a locked, boring, three-down role, a week with nothing to report is exactly the week you wanted.

• 2026 PreviewJun 13, 2026

  Chase Brown 2026 Season Preview — boring is a compliment

  Brown's RB8 finish rested on 17 games of 14.6 half-PPR points, the product of a locked three-down role that held through Cincinnati's quarterback instability. That kind of workload share is the most repeatable input a running back can carry into a new season.

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  Chase Brown was the number nine running back in fantasy last season — on a six-and-11 team, catching passes from a quarterback carousel. He's priced tenth. There is no scandal here, no hidden edge. There's a good back at a fair price who held a backfield together through chaos, and that's the episode. The Muffed 2026 preview.

  The season: top-10, total and per game, which is genuinely impressive given the wreckage around him. 232 carries for 10 19 at 4.4, +69 catches on 88 targets — a 14 percent target share, a real passing-game role for a back. 11 total touchdowns on a team that, despite going six-and-11, converted red-zone trips into touchdowns at the best rate in the league. The signature: Week 16 at Miami, a short walk-in touchdown, one of three scores he was involved in, a 33 point day. And the consistency is the quiet sell — from Week 8 on, he cleared 15 points in nine of his last 10 games while Cincinnati cycled from Joe Burrow to Joe Flacco.

  The arc is short and stable: Brown emerged into a featured, three-down role and held it. No spike season inflating the price, no collapse lurking — just a back who earned the job and kept it.

  What repeats: the receiving role is the anchor — 69 catches is real, sticky, every-down usage, and it's what makes his floor trustworthy. The touchdown share, at 23 percent, is clean — no fade flag fires, no luck to give back. The efficiency, plus 0.34 over expected, is solidly average-plus, neither a red flag nor a selling point. The whole profile is "fine, repeatedly," which at this price is exactly what you want.

  The situation, per the reports, is the bull case nobody's pricing: Joe Burrow was on the field at June's team activities, healthy after the turf-toe injury that wrecked Cincinnati's 2025. Brown just finished RB9 with Flacco and Browning throwing for half the year. Give him a functioning Burrow offense — more red-zone trips, more efficient game scripts — and the touchdown environment improves around a back whose role is already locked. The honest flip: a healthier offense could also mean more pass-game neutral scripts and slightly fewer carries. Net, it's a wash-to-positive that the RB10 price doesn't account for.

  The price: pick 18, RB10, July first snapshot. Verdict: NO CALL — he finished RB9, he's priced RB10, and that's a compliment, not a knock. The counter, briefly: he's never done it with a full season of elite quarterback play, so there's mild role uncertainty if Cincinnati's offense reshapes around a healthy Burrow. But back-to-back productive seasons and a locked three-down role at RB10 is a pick you make without anxiety. Boring wins leagues.

  September watch: the carry count with Burrow back — if it holds near 230 with the Bengals scoring more, RB9 has a little more in it; the receiving role is already bankable. If he's one of your guys, Muffed builds this show for your whole roster — every player, every week, all season.

• 2025 ReviewMay 11, 2026

  Chase Brown 2025 Season in Review

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  Chase Brown finished 2025 as the number 7 running back in total PPR scoring AND number 7 in PPR per game — a top-10 finish in a year the Bengals went 6 and 11 and missed the playoffs entirely. This was a true workhorse breakout. Brown carried the ground game, stayed on the field as a meaningful pass-catcher, and found the end zone in both phases. He did it while the offense around him was a mess — cycling from Joe Burrow to Joe Flacco under center, ranking 19th in total offensive expected points added. That's the headline: a top-seven fantasy season on a losing team. If you've drafted before, you know that's one of the more durable signals you can find.

  Now let's dig into the numbers. Brown ran it 232 times for 1,019 yards and 6 scores at 4.4 a carry — but the receiving line is what pushes this into top-seven territory: 69 catches on 88 targets for 437 yards and 5 more touchdowns. A 14 percent target share is a serious passing-game role for a running back. On efficiency, his rushing yards over expected came in at plus 78.3 on the year, plus 0.34 per attempt — 27th among qualified runners. Translation: the per-carry creation was below average, and the fantasy value was driven by volume and touchdown equity, not breakaway running. The floor, though, was genuinely steady down the stretch. From week 8 on, he cleared 15 PPR in nine of his last 10 games, with two finishes above 29, after a choppier opening that included three single-digit outings in the first six weeks. 11 total touchdowns did a lot of the heavy lifting on a 16.6 PPR weekly average.

  The play that captures the season comes from week 16 in Miami. Third quarter, first and 10 at the Dolphins' 12, Bengals up 24 to 14. Brown takes the handoff through the right guard and walks it in — one of three scores he was involved in that day, on the way to a 32.9 PPR game, his best of the year. That's the Chase Brown 2025 portrait in one snap: not a jaw-dropping run, but a back trusted near the goal line, finishing drives on a team that smashed red-zone trips into touchdowns at the best rate in the league.