D'Andre Swift

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• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  D'Andre Swift Camp Update — August 23: The Burst Traveled to Cincinnati

  A week after his sixty-two-yard scrimmage touchdown, Swift ripped a long run and scored in red-zone work against the Bengals' actual defense in Thursday's joint practice. Behind him, Kyle Monangai's knee is week-to-week, which concentrates the backfield further.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  D'Andre Swift Camp Update — August 16: A Sixty-Two-Yard Answer in Ben Johnson's Scrimmage

  D'Andre Swift ripped a sixty-two-yard touchdown down the right sideline in Tuesday's controlled scrimmage. The June case was that his career year was real and the doubters were reading an old scouting report. Camp agrees.

• 2026 PreviewJun 15, 2026

  D'Andre Swift 2026 Season Preview — a career year the market is ignoring

  Swift finished RB15 across all 16 games, averaging 13.2 half-PPR points per game on a season built around sustained volume and availability. His 89.4% availability rate from 2021–25 is the kind of durable role that tends to carry between seasons, making the foundation of this finish more repeatable than one built on touchdown variance or efficiency spikes.

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  D'Andre Swift just set career highs in rushing yards and touchdowns, finished as a top-16 back, and he's the 20-third running back off the board. The market is pricing the reputation — boom-bust, never a true workhorse — and missing the season he actually had. The Muffed 2026 preview on a quiet value.

  The 2025 line was the best of his career on the ground: 223 carries for a career-high 1087 yards and a career-high nine rushing touchdowns, +34 catches — 13-two a game, RB16 per game, in Ben Johnson's first year in Chicago. The signature was a Week 6 win over Washington: a hundred eight rushing yards, 67 receiving, the dual-threat day that's his ceiling. And it wasn't empty volume — he ran for a hundred 28 yards over expected, twentieth of 49 qualified backs, above the line, not below it.

  The arc is the surprise. Swift's reputation says boom-bust committee back, but his points-per-game has been remarkably stable: 12-eight, 13-seven, 11-nine, 11-two, 11-four, and now 13-two — his best mark since 2021. He's a career-year-six back who just posted his most productive rushing season, not a player in decline.

  What repeats and what doesn't: the touchdown share is the good news here. At 26 percent it sits below our running-back fade line, so the nine scores aren't a regression trap waiting to spring — there's no luck to give back. The carries and the receiving role are the sticky parts, and he held both. The one caveat the patterns flag is age: he's entering year six, the band where our running-back aging rule starts to bite, docking that group a little over a point a game. It's the weakest pattern we have, but it's the honest asterisk.

  The situation, per the reports, is a tailwind with a contract clock on it: Ben Johnson called Swift "a vital part of what we do" at OTAs, and when asked about the passing game he said the Bears "could certainly target him more" — while adding, honestly, that he could say that about a number of guys. The louder signal is what Chicago didn't do: they drafted no running back at all this spring, a quiet vote of confidence in the Swift-and-Monangai pairing. Swift is also in the final year of his deal, telling the Chicago Sun-Times he hopes he "did enough for them to want me back" — a career year in this scheme, playing for the next contract. The watch is still the backfield behind him: Kyle Monangai, now in year two, earned the clear number-two job.

  The price: pick 55, the 20-third back. Verdict: LEAN — underpriced. He finished RB16 per game on real efficiency with a clean touchdown rate, and he's priced RB23, a tier below his own production, because the market trusts the reputation over the tape. The counter, fairly: he's a year-six back in a room where Monangai's share could grow, and his career best came in a brand-new scheme that may regress some. But proven volume plus efficiency plus a coach who wants him more, at RB23, is value.

  September watch: the passing-game usage — if Johnson follows through and the catches climb, the floor rises; and the carry split with Monangai, the one thing that caps him. Your whole roster gets this treatment every week — that's the show.

• 2025 ReviewMay 11, 2026

  D'Andre Swift 2025 Season in Review

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  D'Andre Swift finished 2025 as the number 15 running back in total PPR scoring and the number 17 in PPR per game — a useful season that landed him squarely in the middle of the second-tier running back conversation. He was the unquestioned lead back on a Bears team that won 11 games and the NFC North, out-touching backup Kyle Monangai 223 carries to 169, and he turned that workload into 1,087 rushing yards and 9 rushing touchdowns. This wasn't workhorse usage — it was a clear lead-back share on one of the league's most efficient ground games, a Bears unit that ranked fourth in rushing expected points added and third in yards per carry at 4.8. Swift wasn't asked to carry the load. He was asked to finish drives in a great run-game ecosystem, and he largely did.

  Now let's dig into the numbers, because they explain exactly why Swift landed where he did. Volume tells the first half: 223 carries plus 48 targets gave him 271 touches across 16 games, but his target share averaged just 9 percent, and 34 catches for 299 yards is fine — not the pass-game profile that pushes a back into the top 10. Efficiency tells the second half: 4.9 yards per carry, plus 128.2 rushing yards over expected on the season, and plus 0.58 per attempt, 20th among qualified runners. Swift was a good runner behind a great run-blocking unit, not a great runner inflating a mediocre one. He averaged 14.3 PPR points per game on a genuinely steady floor — double-digit PPR in 11 of 16 games, a ceiling week of 25.5 against Washington, five games above 20, and only one real disaster: the 1.9-point clunker on 8 carries in the Pittsburgh win. Reliable floor with occasional spike, not boom-or-bust.

  The touchdown column is where Swift earned his fantasy keep. Nine rushing scores ranked 14th in the league, and the red-zone work was the engine. Look at his touchdown chart and the pattern is unmistakable: third-and-2 at the 3 against Philadelphia, third-and-2 at the 2 against the 49ers, third-and-2 at the 2 against Baltimore, third-and-1 at the 3 against Detroit. Swift was Chicago's short-yardage and goal-line hammer on a team that converted red-zone trips into touchdowns at a 66 percent clip. That role, on this offense, is what turned a middling efficiency profile into a number 15 finish — and it's exactly the kind of usage to price in when you look back at this season.