Tyler Shough

Tyler Shough finished 2025 as the number 26 quarterback in total PPR scoring and the number 23 in PPR per game — and those ranks tell you the shape of his year. A late-arriving rookie audition that only really got going in the second half. Shough played 11 games for a 6-and-11 Saints team, and once he settled in, he was the guy under center down the stretch while Spencer Rattler took a back seat. The headline: this wasn't a smashing rookie campaign, but it also wasn't a player getting muffed by the moment. It was a competent, sometimes encouraging audition on an offense that ranked 27th in the league in total offensive expected points added — context that matters when you're judging the raw numbers.

Now let's dig into the numbers, because they explain that per-game finish. Shough averaged 14.4 PPR per game on 2,384 passing yards, 10 touchdowns, and 6 interceptions, plus 186 rushing yards and 3 rushing scores on 45 carries. His adjusted net yards per attempt came in at 5.9 — 25th among qualified passers, a direct reflection of 31 sacks in 11 games behind a pass protection unit that finished in the 34th percentile league-wide. The encouraging signal: his completion percentage over expectation, from Next Gen Stats, was plus 0.6, 19th among qualified passers. League-average accuracy on the throws he was asked to make. And here's where fantasy managers should perk up. After a zero in his Week 3 cameo and a rough 4.3 in Week 8, Shough closed on a genuine heater — 9.2, 19.0, 7.9, 17.4, 21.3, 18.1, 17.1, 21.9, and 21.8 PPR across his final eight starts. Six straight games of 17 or more to end the year. That's not boom-or-bust. That's a rising floor. And the rushing mattered: 3 rushing touchdowns with meaningful ground yardage in five of his final six games.

The play that captures the season came Week 17 in Tennessee — third quarter, third and 5 from the Titans 19, Saints trailing 20 to 10. Shough took the shotgun snap and dropped a deep ball down the right sideline to Chris Olave for a 19-yard touchdown. Third-down conversion, red-zone score, and chunk play, all in one throw. New Orleans won 34 to 26, Shough threw for 333 yards and 2 scores, and it was the kind of clean, decisive ball that defined the back half of his year. He didn't crack the top 20 quarterbacks for the season — but that closing stretch was real, and the data backs it up.