Tyler Allgeier

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• 2026 PreviewJul 3, 2026

  Tyler Allgeier 2026 Season Preview — what repeats, what doesn't

  Allgeier played all 17 games and averaged 6.8 half-PPR points per game, finishing as RB38 on the strength of consistent availability across a career that has seen him miss almost nothing since entering the league. Whether that production holds depends on whether his opportunity role — not his efficiency — carries into next season, and the 98.5% availability rate since 2021 suggests the durability piece, at least, is the repeatable kind.

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  Tyler Allgeier scored eight touchdowns on 514 rushing yards last season — and if that ratio reads strange to you, it read strange to our pattern library too. He's pick one-52 now, running back 48, on a new team with a number-three-overall pick in his room. The market has already done most of the math this episode was going to do. Let's show the work anyway.

  The season, his last in Atlanta: all 17 games, a hundred 43 carries for 514 yards — 3.6 a carry — eight rushing touchdowns, and 14 catches for 96. 6.8 Half-PPR points a game, 40-seventh among backs per game, 30-eighth in total. North of 40 percent of his points came from touchdowns alone. And one number underneath it all: he has now played 67 consecutive regular-season games — every game since week two of his rookie year.

  The career is a complement's résumé: nine-five a game as a rookie, then seven-six, five-nine, six-eight in the Bijan Robinson years — a thousand-yard season in 20-22, then three straight years of two-down relief work behind a superstar.

  The pattern read, precisely. His touchdown share, point-three-nine, is far over the line where our running back touchdown-fade cohort begins — but that cohort conditions on top-36 per-game production, and he ranked 40-seventh by the cohort's own measure. Outside the door; no fire; we don't round players in. What does fire is age: this is career year five, and our aging cohort gives back one-point-oh-nine points a game — n of 71, directional, the weakest pattern we carry, and we say that out loud. Run it anyway: six-eight −1-oh-nine lands at five-seven, which prices out around running back 52. His price is 48. The market has essentially pre-paid the fade.

  The situation is a crowded new room in the desert. Arizona signed him March ninth — the club's first notable move of the cycle, two years, 12 and a quarter million, eight guaranteed, per ESPN and Spotrac. Then April complicated it: the Cardinals spent the third overall pick on Jeremiyah Love — the highest-drafted running back since Barkley in 20-18, per NFL.com — and the June framing out of Phoenix has Love as the expected lead with Allgeier keeping the downhill and goal-line work, per SI's fantasy coverage. The incumbents are hurt: James Conner played three games last season and was limited this spring rehabbing the foot, and Trey Benson's knee kept him sidelined into June, expected back for camp, per SI. Mike LaFleur — hired off the Rams staff February first — runs the offense and calls the plays, with Nathaniel Hackett assisting, per ESPN and NFL.com, after a three-and-14 season cost the old staff its jobs.

  The price: RB48 at pick one-52 for the 40-seventh back by rate — with the aging fade landing at 52. Price, production, and pattern all inside five slots of each other. Our verdict: no call. The market beat us to the regression, and we'll say so. The caveat runs friendly: 67 straight games of availability next to two injured veterans and a rookie is how goal-line jobs get kept — and a back who scored eight times in a part-time role gets a new play-caller and two hurt veterans ahead of only a rookie. If the touchdowns hold, this price was a floor, not a ceiling.

  Watch the goal-line package once Love arrives in full — who takes the carry at the two — and Conner's foot in camp, because every missed veteran rep consolidates the committee. Availability has been his one elite stat; it's also the one that never fades on schedule. He's one of your guys? This show covers your whole roster — every player, every week, all season.