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• Week 4Oct 6, 2026

  Javonte Williams — Week 4: Three Touchdown Runs, Sixty-Two Yards

  Williams carried 19 times for 62 yards and three touchdowns against Houston, from 8, 1 and 2 yards, the last putting Dallas ahead 27–23 early in the fourth quarter, and caught all 5 targets for 21 yards, in a 34–30 win over the Texans.

• Week 3Sep 28, 2026

  Javonte Williams — Week 3: Nineteen Carries, Ninety-Eight Yards

  Williams carried 19 times for 98 yards and a 2-yard touchdown with seven first downs, the most carries and yards of his three games, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 5. Six carries on the opening drive gained 44 yards to the Baltimore 1, and a fourth and one at the Dallas 44 in the second quarter was stopped for no gain, in a 34–31 loss to the Ravens in Rio de Janeiro.

• Week 2Sep 21, 2026

  Javonte Williams — Week 2: Twenty-Five Yards Became Two

  Williams carried 12 times for 30 yards with no first downs and no touchdown, and caught 3 of 4 targets for 20 yards. His 25-yard run with 7:23 left was cut to a two-yard gain by a holding penalty, his first-and-goal carry from the three went nowhere, and his three carries inside the twenty gained two yards, in a 37–20 win over the Commanders.

• Week 1Sep 14, 2026

  Javonte Williams — Week 1: Two Touchdowns, One Reversed First

  Williams carried 12 times for 41 yards and caught all five of his targets for 31 yards, and scored twice: a one-yard run on second and one with 0:41 left in the third quarter, and a 17-yard catch on first and ten with 5:26 left in the game. A one-yard touchdown run in the second quarter was reversed on review, in a 28–20 loss to the Giants.

• Camp · Aug 31, 2026Aug 31, 2026

  Javonte Williams Camp Update — August 31: Three Backs Waived Behind Him

  Dallas waived Jaydon Blue, Phil Mafah and Israel Abanikanda at the cutdown, keeping Williams and Malik Davis as the halfbacks per the team's own accounting, then claimed veteran Emari Demercado off waivers from Kansas City. A week ago we called the room behind Williams livelier than a month before; the team read it differently.

• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Javonte Williams Camp Update — August 23: Blue Runs for 75 While He Rests

  Javonte Williams rested through the preseason win in Arizona while Jaydon Blue carried fifteen times for seventy-five yards and Malik Davis caught a touchdown. The backfield behind the starter looks livelier than it did a month ago.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  Javonte Williams Camp Update — August 16: Jaydon Blue Is Crowding the Bell Cow

  Williams still opens the season as the lead back, but the beat says Jaydon Blue is getting harder to keep off the field. The one part of the June read we called safe, the workload, now has a live challenger.

• 2026 PreviewJun 13, 2026

  Javonte Williams 2026 Season Preview — a career year built on touchdowns

  Williams finished as RB11 with 14.1 half-PPR points per game across all 16 games, a season built on a secure Dallas backfield role that held through a full year of availability. The touchdown total that powered that finish reflects scoring-rate efficiency, which historical data consistently shows does not carry reliably from season to season.

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  Javonte Williams just posted by far the best fantasy season of his career — and the way he did it is the reason we'd let someone else pay for it. 11 touchdowns carried an RB12 finish, and 11 touchdowns is the least repeatable thing a back can lean on. The Muffed 2026 preview.

  The season was a real workhorse year: as Dallas's bellcow, 252 carries for 1201 yards, 11 rushing touchdowns, RB12 per game. He outran his blocking — +156 rushing yards over expected, seventeenth among backs — facing a stacked box on nearly a quarter of his runs. The signature was a 30-yard untouched touchdown against the Giants in Week 2. Real volume, real role.

  But the arc is the tell. Nine-seven, seven-eight, and then 14-one. The first two were his Denver years; the third was a career-year spike on a new team. We tested career-year spikes this spring and the pattern failed validation, so we can't project the repeat — and the spike was touchdown-driven, which is the worst kind to bank on.

  What repeats and what doesn't: the volume is real and his Dallas role is secure — he won the bellcow job outright, no committee behind him. That's the floor. But his touchdown share is 32.1 percent, into the top quartile where our RB fade rule lives, and that group declines three points a game the next season. He's also a career-year-five back, where the aging curve starts to bite. Two flags on a touchdown-fueled spike.

  The situation, per the reports, is actually the stable part: Williams re-signed with Dallas in February, ahead of free agency, on a three-year deal — never got near the open market, and there's no real RB2 challenging him on the depth chart. He sat out the live team periods of June's mandatory minicamp while backups Phil Mafah and Jaydon Blue took the first-team reps, which the team framed as managing his workload rather than any new injury. So the volume should hold. What won't hold, historically, is 11 touchdowns on that efficiency — and the volume without the touchdowns is an RB-low-twenties profile, not the RB12 the price assumes.

  The price: pick 34, the sixteenth back. Verdict: LEAN — overpriced. You're paying RB16 for a touchdown-driven career year from a year-five back whose scoring rate the data says regresses. The counter: the volume is genuinely secure — a three-year deal signed before free agency even opened is about as clear a commitment as it gets — and a bellcow with 300 touches has a floor even if the touchdowns dip. We're fading the rate, not the role.

  September watch: the goal-line touchdown rate — 11 scores is the number that has to repeat; and whether the receiving role grows, the thing that would rescue the floor. 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

  Javonte Williams 2025 Season in Review

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  Javonte Williams finished 2025 as the number 12 running back in total PPR scoring and the number 12 running back in PPR per game. A clean, matched ranking — and it tells you everything about the kind of year this was in Dallas. Williams stepped into a true workhorse role behind one of the most efficient passing offenses in football, and he delivered. Not a league-winning ceiling play, not a weekly disaster — a back-end-of-the-first, top-of-the-second return who showed up 16 times and found the end zone again and again. The story of his year: touchdowns and steady touches on a team that could move the ball but couldn't stop anybody.

  Now let's dig into the numbers. Williams carried 252 times for 1,201 yards — 4.8 a pop — and punched in 11 rushing touchdowns, tied for eighth in the league. The efficiency held under the hood: plus 156.5 rushing yards over expected, plus 0.6 per attempt, seventeenth among qualified runners. He did that with a stacked box on roughly 23 percent of his carries — defenses knew he was coming and he still moved the chains. The passing-game role was modest: 35 catches on 51 targets for 137 yards and a 9 percent target share. A rushing-down profile, not a dual-threat. And the consistency was the real fantasy selling point — this was a steady floor, not a boom-or-bust shape. Williams cleared 10 PPR in 13 of his 16 games, hit 17 or more in eight, and his worst weeks — 6.3 against the Chargers, 7.3 against the Cardinals — were bad, not catastrophic. He averaged 15.2 PPR per game. The ceiling weeks were quieter than you'd want from a top-12 back — only one game above 26 — but the floor is what got him to number 12.

  The defining moment wasn't a 70-yard burst — it was a 30-yard touchdown run in Week 2 against the Giants. Third quarter, Dallas down 13-10, Williams takes the handoff right tackle and walks it in untouched. That play captures the season: a back getting volume on an offense that ranked fourth in passing expected points added, finding paint when his number got called, turning a competitive game into a Dallas win. With 11 rushing touchdowns on a team that scored 48 red-zone touchdowns, Williams was the finisher on a top-five scoring offense — and that's how a 4.8-yard-per-carry back without a real receiving role smashed his way to number 12.