Tony Pollard

Tony Pollard finished 2025 as the number 23 running back in total PPR scoring and the number 30 running back in PPR per game. That gap tells you most of what you need to know — Pollard played all 17 games and accumulated, but the weekly output rarely moved the needle. He was the lead back on a 3-14 Titans team that ranked thirtieth in offensive expected points added and third-percentile on third down. The workhorse on a unit that couldn't stay on the field — that environment defined his fantasy year more than anything Pollard himself did or didn't do.

Now let's dig into the numbers. Pollard ran it 242 times for 1,082 yards and five rushing touchdowns, adding 33 catches on 41 targets for 206 yards and no scores through the air — 10.9 PPR per game. This was a steady-volume profile with one spike, not a boom-or-bust line. The efficiency story is sharper than the counting line: Pollard finished plus 112.7 in rushing yards over expected, or plus 0.5 per attempt, twenty-fifth among qualified runners, and he did it with 23 percent of his carries facing stacked boxes of eight or more defenders. He was creating yardage the blocking didn't give him on a Titans run game that ranked thirtieth in yards per carry as a team. The problem was ceiling. Pollard cleared 12 PPR just three times all year — weeks three, fourteen, and fifteen — and finished under 10 PPR in nine of seventeen games. An 8 percent average target share kept the receiving floor thin, and with only five rushing scores, zero through the air, and a team that converted just half its scoring drives into touchdowns, the touchdown equity simply wasn't there.

That one spike came in week fourteen at Cleveland, and it's the play that captures the season. First and ten from the Titans' own thirty-five, up 7-3 in the first quarter, Pollard took a handoff right end and ran 65 yards for a touchdown — worth plus 5.3 in expected points and the longest play of his year. He added a 32-yard touchdown run later in the same game and finished with 161 rushing yards, two scores, and 28.1 PPR — by far his best fantasy day. When the blocking gave Pollard a crease, he produced like a top-fifteen back. He just didn't get those creases often enough on a Titans offense that couldn't sustain anything.