Rhamondre Stevenson

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• Camp · Aug 31, 2026Aug 31, 2026

  Rhamondre Stevenson Camp Update — August 31: Both Third-Back Contenders Are Gone

  The third-back competition our last episode tracked ended with neither contestant winning it: Hassan Haskins was released the day the Patriots traded for Corey Kiner, and Lan Larison was cut with the roster trim on Sunday. Stevenson made the fifty-three as one of three backs and did not play the finale, resting with the starters for a third straight game.

• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Rhamondre Stevenson Camp Update — August 23: Quiet Week While the Room Adds a Body

  Rhamondre Stevenson drew no individual mention in the Eagles joint-practice charting or Saturday's game reporting, a week after his receiving work headlined the backfield story. The room changed underneath him instead: Hassan Haskins signed into the third-back fight, and Lan Larison made his own case in the game.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  Rhamondre Stevenson Camp Update — August 16: The Fifty-Fifty Split Is Holding Because He Earned It

  Rhamondre Stevenson caught a red-zone touchdown from Drake Maye and beat linebackers vertically in the joint practice, and the beat now expects a fifty-fifty backfield. The June read bet his role would shrink, and camp is pushing back on that half of it.

• 2026 PreviewJun 15, 2026

  Rhamondre Stevenson 2026 Season Preview — a touchdown-fueled finish, an aging back, a rising rookie

  Stevenson finished as RB25 across 14 games, averaging 11.6 half-PPR points per game in a season where his role in New England's backfield remained the central question throughout. His 82.4% availability rate from 2021–25 shows he has generally been on the field, but the production here leaned on efficiency rather than the kind of target share or carry volume that tends to carry into the next year.

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  Rhamondre Stevenson finished as a top-25 back last season on the strength of nine touchdowns — and almost everything about that line points down for 2026. The Muffed 2026 preview on a quiet fade.

  The 2025 season looked fine on the surface: a hundred 30 carries for 603 yards, seven rushing scores, 32 catches — 11-six a game, RB21 per game. The signature was a three-touchdown, 35 point explosion against Miami in Week 18. But the shape is the warning: it was a part-time carry count propped up by an unusually high touchdown rate, and he gave way late as the rookie behind him took over.

  The arc is unremarkable: a 12-six-a-game peak back in 2022, then a pair of 10-six seasons, and 11-six. Solid, replaceable RB2 production, with the value increasingly tied to scoring rather than volume.

  Here's the call, and two of our patterns fire on it together. First, his touchdown share is 30 percent — just into the top quartile, where backs that touchdown-dependent fade about three points a game the next season. Seven rushing scores on a hundred 30 carries is a rate that regresses. Second, he's a career-year-five back, the band where our aging rule docks production further. Stack a touchdown fade on an aging curve and the 11-six comes down toward RB3 territory.

  And the situation, per the reports, removes the cushion — though the story is messier than a straight line: New England's backfield is a true 1A-and-1B with TreVeyon Henderson, and the rookie's season actually arced — he seized the lead job around late October, then faded down the stretch, and Stevenson had retaken the number-one role before the playoffs, leading the backfield touches on the run to the AFC title. So Stevenson isn't fading quietly — he holds the early-down and goal-line work on merit. But the efficiency gap is real, Henderson out-carried him across the full season, and the smart money is still on the split tilting younger. He's unlikely to hold the volume that made him an RB21.

  The price: pick 76, the 20-eighth back. Verdict: LEAN — overpriced. The finish was touchdown-fueled, the back is aging in profile if not in years, and the rookie behind him is better per touch — three reasons the RB21 production doesn't repeat, at a price that needs it to. The counter for him: he led the playoff touches, holds the goal-line work, and is only 27, so he's not going away. But you're paying RB28 for the half of a committee the team is incentivized to shrink.

  September watch: the carry split with Henderson — the whole bet; and the touchdown rate, where seven scores is the part most likely to fall. Your whole roster gets this treatment every week — that's the show.

• 2025 ReviewMay 11, 2026

  Rhamondre Stevenson 2025 Season in Review

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  Rhamondre Stevenson finished 2025 as the number 25 running back in total PPR scoring and the number 22 running back in PPR per game. That's the whole story in one sentence: a timeshare year where Stevenson lost the lead role to a rookie and settled into a complementary piece on the best offense in football. The Patriots went 14-3 and rode it to a Super Bowl, but inside that backfield, TreVeyon Henderson took 180 carries and nine rushing scores to Stevenson's 130 and seven. Stevenson missed three regular-season games, and even when active, he was rarely the centerpiece. Here's the frustrating part — isolate his per-touch work and he was fantastic. The volume just never showed up.

  Now let's dig into the numbers, because the efficiency story is wild. Stevenson racked up plus 175.6 rushing yards over expected, the number one mark among qualified running backs — better per attempt than even teammate Henderson, who came in tenth. Per carry, he was plus 1.4 yards over expected and averaged 4.6 a pop on 130 totes. Through the air, he caught 32 of 37 targets for 345 yards and two scores — a 10 percent target share, useful but not featured. The problem was consistency. Stevenson averaged 12.8 PPR per game, but the game logs read like a coin flip: 4.7, then 21.2, then 4.6, then 5.1, single-digit duds at New Orleans and Cincinnati, then a closing kick of 17.8, 27.2, and 35.3 in the final three weeks. Pure boom-or-bust — touchdown-dependent, splash-play dependent, tied entirely to whether the script handed him carries.

  The play that captures the season is the Week 18 closer against Miami: seven carries, 131 yards, two touchdowns, including a 35-yard score up the gut in the third quarter with New England already up 24-10. That's the Stevenson paradox in one box score. When he touched it, almost nobody in the league was more efficient. He just didn't touch it enough.