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• Week 6Oct 21, 2026

  Tyler Shough — Week 6: Three TD Passes and a TD Run

  Shough completed 16 of 30 passes for 144 yards and 3 touchdowns, with no interception-worthy throws and six drops by his receivers, and ran for a fourth score against the Giants, in a 34-27 road win.

• Week 5Oct 12, 2026

  Tyler Shough — Week 5: 96 Yards, Two Interceptions

  Shough completed 16 of 25 passes for 96 yards with no touchdowns and 2 interceptions, both to Byron Murphy, against the Vikings in a 23-13 loss in New Orleans.

• Week 4Oct 7, 2026

  Tyler Shough — Week 4: 48 Throws, 6.0 a Pass

  Shough completed 30 of 48 passes for 286 yards and a touchdown against the Falcons, with no interceptions and 2 sacks, but the Saints stalled at the Atlanta 8 in the third quarter, in a 45-24 loss.

• Week 3Sep 28, 2026

  Tyler Shough — Week 3: Four Touchdowns, One Interception

  Shough completed 29 of 42 throws for 255 yards, four touchdowns and one interception, and was sacked twice, both times losing a fumble. The Saints led 27–16 in the third quarter and did not score again; the interception, on third and six down 28–27 with 8:03 left, was returned to the New Orleans 8 and cost 29 points of win probability, in a 35–27 loss to the Raiders.

• Week 2Sep 21, 2026

  Tyler Shough — Week 2: Fourth and One, Twice, for the Win

  Shough completed 27 of 34 throws for 252 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions, took three sacks, and scored the winning touchdown on a fourth-and-one sneak from the Baltimore one with 1:32 left, after converting another fourth and one at the Baltimore 44 earlier in the same sixteen-snap drive. He went 12 of 14 for 119 yards in the fourth quarter as the Saints came back from 17–9 down, in a 24–17 win over the Ravens.

• Week 1Sep 14, 2026

  Tyler Shough — Week 1: From Twenty-One Down to One Throw Short

  Shough threw four hundred ten yards on fifty-seven throws, three touchdowns and two interceptions, and brought the Saints back from twenty-one to nothing in the third quarter to a tie at the end of regulation. After Detroit scored in overtime he took New Orleans eighty yards in ten snaps, hit Noah Fant for the touchdown with a minute thirty-eight left, and threw incomplete on the two-point try that would have won it, in a 31–30 overtime loss to the Lions.

• Camp · Aug 31, 2026Aug 31, 2026

  Tyler Shough Camp Update — August 31: The Backup Answer Was Both

  The Saints kept all three quarterbacks, holding on to Spencer Rattler through outside trade interest, so the backup competition our last episode framed as either-or resolved as both. Shough sat the finale by design, and cut day answered the roster half of the interior line question without answering the ankle half.

• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Tyler Shough Camp Update — August 23: Fourteen of Twenty-Two at the Rams

  Tyler Shough went fourteen of twenty-two against the Rams' defense in Thursday's joint practice, his second straight solid outing against another team, with two red-zone touchdowns to rookie Bryce Lance. The pressure in his face, and the injuries around him, are the rest of the story.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  Tyler Shough Camp Update — August 16: 25-of-34 With Four Touchdown Throws

  Tyler Shough went twenty-five of thirty-four with four touchdown throws against Jacksonville's defense in Thursday's joint practice, opening nine of ten. The June read said the building believed but belief wasn't data; the data is arriving.

• 2026 PreviewJul 2, 2026

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

  QB19 for an eleven-game rookie the Saints spent all offseason arming; the building believes, but belief isn't data.

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  New Orleans spent the offseason acting like a team that found its quarterback: a top-10 pick on a new receiver, two starting guards, a veteran tight end, and every single first-team rep handed to Tyler Shough. The market prices the audition, not the conviction — nineteenth quarterback, pick one-20.

  The rookie season: 11 games, a 68 percent completion rate — 221 of 327 — for 2384 yards, 10 touchdowns and six picks, plus a hundred 86 rushing yards and three scores on the ground. 14.4 points a game on quarterback scoring, 20-second per game among qualifiers, 20-sixth in total. The Saints went six and 11, and the club's own coverage counts him five and four in nine late-season starts. His hundred 58 total points ranked 20-sixth — 11 games will do that — and the completion percentage held north of two-thirds through the whole audition.

  There is no career arc yet — one season, 11 games. We won't pretend a sample that size has a shape.

  The pattern beat is short by design: our library has no validated rookie-to-year-two quarterback pattern — the year-two work we've replicated is receiver-only, and we don't borrow patterns across positions. The one licensed observation: nearly a quarter of his fantasy production came on the ground — 23 percent — and rushing production is the mechanism behind the only quarterback pattern we trust, the one where top-six rushing seasons repeat at 61 percent versus 24 for pocket passers. He's nowhere near top-six. The mechanism that builds quarterback floors is in his game anyway. Three of his scores came on the ground, on just 45 carries — short-yardage keepers, mostly, which is the sticky kind of quarterback rushing.

  The conviction, dated: ESPN reported the Saints committed to him as the 20-26 starter early this year, and he took all the first-team work through OTAs and June minicamp, per ESPN and NOLA.com. The investment: receiver Jordyn Tyson at pick eight in April, per NFL.com; Travis Etienne and tight end Noah Fant in free agency; guards David Edwards and Dillon Radunz, per Yahoo, in an offseason where New Orleans spent among the most in football on offense. Noah Fant gives him a veteran outlet and Travis Etienne a checkdown with juice, both March signings. Chris Olave wants an extension by camp, per NFL.com in June. Kellen Moore's first year ended six and 11, and the front office answered by spending on offense rather than changing anything upstairs — continuity as a bet on the rookie. Kellen Moore enters year two calling the plays. And the culture item beat writers loved: Shough is flying about 18 teammates to a San Diego throwing retreat this summer, on his dime, after seeking Drew Brees' advice, per ESPN.

  The price: QB19 at pick one-20 for the QB22-by-rate rookie tape, with the entire offseason of team conviction thrown in unpriced. QB19 assumes a streamer you're happy to start twice a month; the rookie rate stats already clear that bar. Our verdict: no call. 11 games is a sliver, year-two quarterbacks swing violently in both directions, and no base rate we trust narrows the range — the honest position is that nobody knows, including the market, including us. The caveat: the investment says the building believes. Belief isn't data.

  Watch the September stat that travels: his rushing usage — the three goal-line scores were not an accident — and Tyson's share of the targets. The goal-line keepers are the sticky piece of his fantasy profile — if they survive the new-toy phase of the offense, the floor is real. If he's on your roster, this show covers all of it — every player, every week, all season.

• 2025 ReviewMay 11, 2026

  Tyler Shough 2025 Season in Review

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  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.