RJ Harvey — Week 1: Three Carries, Four Catches
2026 NFL Season · Half-PPR Scoring · Tuesday, Sep 15
Harvey carried three times for 18 yards, converting a third and one with 1:54 left in the first quarter, and caught all four of his targets for 23 yards; both third-down targets came with 15 or more to go and neither converted. J.K. Dobbins had eight carries, in a 31–10 loss to the Chiefs.
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Seven to seven, a minute 54 left in the first quarter, third and one at the Denver 17. RJ Harvey went around right end for six yards and the first down. +0.8 expected points added — expected points added is what a play was worth given down, distance and field position — and 2.9 points of win probability, the chance of winning the game after the play against before it. It was one of two third downs Denver converted all night, and the last one.
The line: three carries, 18 yards, one first down, all three successful, +1.2 expected points on the carries; four targets, four catches, 23 yards, no first downs, −0.1 on the targets. The carries were seven yards on first and 10 in the first quarter, the six on third and one, and five on first and 10 with six 54 left in the game. Two before halftime, one after. The catches were one yard on first and 20, 11 on third and 17, four on second and five, and seven on third and 15 — the two third-down catches both came with the offense far behind the sticks, and neither moved the chains. Three targets before halftime, one after. His one snap inside the 20 was the run to the three that a holding penalty wiped out; Denver had four snaps inside the 20 that counted all night.
The split: J.K. Dobbins eight designed runs for 36 yards, Harvey three, Troy Franklin one, and one Bo Nix scramble. 12 designed runs on the night plus an aborted snap, six before halftime and seven after, against 19 13 pass plays. Denver ran for 62 yards on 14 rush plays counting the scramble, tied with Tennessee for the fewest in the league this week. Harvey's four targets were fourth on the team behind Pat Bryant's six and five each for Courtland Sutton and Evan Engram.
Back in June the preview leaned watchlist on Harvey — the 30-first back at pick 81, a fair price on a useful piece whose 35 percent share of Denver's touchdowns would regress hard — and named two things to watch: the touchdown rate, and the three-way split with Dobbins and Jonah Coleman. Monday's split was eight, three and none, with Harvey the only back targeted — which is the shape the preview drew, the receiving role as the protected part and the early downs going to Dobbins. No touchdown, but the offense scored one all night. One game does not set a split, and a game Denver trailed from the first quarter is a strange one to read a run-game split from. The Broncos are home to the Jaguars on Sunday the twentieth.
_Data via nflverse._
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