Quinshon Judkins

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• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Quinshon Judkins Camp Update — August 23: A Nagging Something Costs Practices

  Quinshon Judkins missed back-to-back practices with what Todd Monken called "a little something nagging" and sat Saturday's game against Buffalo. Nobody is treating it as serious, but the lead back's clean-health summer just picked up its first smudge.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  Quinshon Judkins Camp Update — August 16: Rehab Over, First Full Camp Underway

  Quinshon Judkins is back on the field for his first full training camp since the leg injury ended his rookie year, saying he feels the same if not better. The role was never the question, and the one personal risk is clearing.

• 2026 PreviewJun 15, 2026

  Quinshon Judkins 2026 Season Preview — a real workhorse at a fair price

  Judkins carried a rookie workhorse role in Cleveland across 14 games, averaging 11.2 half-PPR points per game on the way to an RB26 finish. That production was built on volume and opportunity — the kind of inputs that tend to carry forward — rather than touchdown luck or efficiency spikes.

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  Quinshon Judkins ran for 800 yards and seven touchdowns as a rookie workhorse — on one of the worst passing offenses in football — and the market has priced him almost exactly where he finished. No discount to sell you, no overpay to flag: just a real workload and a clear bet on the offense around him. The Muffed 2026 preview.

  The rookie season was a true lead-back load: 230 carries, 827 yards, seven rushing touchdowns, 26 catches — 11-two a game, RB23 per game, over 14 games. The signature was a three-touchdown explosion against Miami in Week 7, a 26 point day. And the efficiency was respectable given the context: 69 yards over expected, 20-ninth of 49 backs, just above the line — at a three-six yards-per-carry average that was more about loaded boxes than missed reads, because nobody respected Cleveland's passing game.

  The arc is one season, so there's nothing to trend yet — and that matters, because the temptation with a productive rookie back is to pencil in the year-two leap. We won't: we tested that pattern and it didn't hold, so the jump isn't something the data licenses. What we can see is a genuine workhorse role and a touchdown share — 25 percent — that sits below our fade line, so the seven scores aren't a regression trap either.

  What the data says: this is a real lead back whose rookie production matches his price. There's no pattern firing in either direction. He's a volume back on a bad offense, and his 2026 hinges almost entirely on whether that offense improves — which is a bet on context, not a read on him.

  The situation, per the reports, is mildly encouraging and more settled at running back than at quarterback: Judkins is the clear lead back with Dylan Sampson in a third-down role — Cleveland lost Jerome Ford in free agency and didn't add competition — in Todd Monken's run-heavy scheme. The quarterback picture is a real competition, not a formality: veteran Deshaun Watson has reportedly had the edge over rookie Shedeur Sanders through the offseason program, getting the lion's share of first-team reps, though the staff says both have earned the right to keep competing into camp. Judkins is reportedly healthy with his explosion back after last year's late-season ankle injury. More respect for the passing game — under whoever wins the job — is the single thing that unlocks his ceiling.

  The price: pick 49, the twentieth back. Verdict: NO CALL — he finished RB23, he's priced RB20, and that's the market fairly paying for a workhorse role with room for the offense to grow. The counter, briefly: if Cleveland's passing game takes a step and the boxes lighten, the same carries get more valuable and the price looks cheap; if the quarterback battle produces more of the same, you've paid a fair price for a grinder. A real role at a fair number — pay it without anxiety, just don't expect a bargain.

  September watch: who wins the quarterback job, and the box counts that follow — Judkins is solved, the offense is the variable; and the goal-line role, where seven touchdowns can grow with volume. Your whole roster gets this treatment every week — that's the show.

• 2025 ReviewMay 11, 2026

  Quinshon Judkins 2025 Season in Review

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  Quinshon Judkins finished his rookie season as the number 26 running back in total PPR scoring and the number 26 running back in PPR per game — a dead-even ranking that tells you exactly what kind of year this was. A true workhorse on a broken offense. The Browns handed him the keys, fed him 230 carries across 14 games, and trusted him at the goal line in heavy personnel — and Judkins delivered seven rushing touchdowns despite playing on a team that finished 5 and 12 and ranked 31st in total offensive expected points added. The problem wasn't the role. The problem was running behind one of the league's worst offenses, with rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders taking 23 sacks across eight starts, meant Judkins spent the year grinding into stacked boxes for short gains.

  Now let's dig into the numbers, because they explain that mid-pack finish cleanly. Judkins averaged 12.1 PPR points per game on a 3.6 yards-per-carry clip, and he saw eight or more defenders in the box on 45 percent of his runs — a brutal workload for a back whose passing game offered almost no relief. His rushing yards over expected came in at plus 68.7 on the season, which works out to plus 0.3 per attempt and ranks 29th among qualified runners — a hair above what an average back would've produced on those same carries, no more. The receiving role never materialized: 26 catches, 171 yards, zero receiving touchdowns on a target share of just 8 percent, with tight end Harold Fannin Junior actually leading the team in receiving. And the consistency profile is the real tell. Judkins cracked 20 PPR points exactly twice all year, posted single digits in six of 14 games, and finished under 11 points eight times — a boom-or-bust floor masquerading as a workhorse role, almost entirely because his fantasy ceiling lived and died with goal-line carries on a team that only converted 55 percent of its red-zone trips into touchdowns.

  The play that captures the season is the Miami game in Week 7 — second quarter, first and 10, ball at the Dolphins' 46, score tied at three. Judkins took the handoff through right guard and went the distance. 46 yards, touchdown, plus 4.0 expected points added on a single snap. That game was his ceiling: 25 carries, three rushing touchdowns, 26.4 PPR points in the Browns' lone blowout win. The rest of the year was the inverse — short fields, stacked boxes, touchdown-dependent scoring. Judkins did his job. The offense around him just didn't give him many more days like that one.