Bhayshul Tuten

Tuten enters the season as Jacksonville's presumptive lead back after a rookie campaign that produced 7 touchdowns and earned him a real relationship with coach Liam Coen from their college days together. He's not viewed as a between-the-tackles grinder, which is the crux of the goal-line concern hovering over his profile, but the shows still see him as the back who took over Etienne's red-zone work. As an asset he's priced like a breakout — ADP has climbed into the 4th round in FFPC/NFFC formats — meaning the value argument has shifted from 'buy low' to 'does he justify this.'

The two-week arc is a split between ceiling believers and role skeptics, with almost everyone agreeing on the same fault line: Chris Rodriguez and the goal line. FantasyPros and Yahoo's Matt Harmon camp frame Tuten as the clear breakout over Rodriguez, and Fantasy Life went furthest, comping his trajectory to Chase Brown's 2024 breakout and projecting him to fully take over the backfield. But Fantasy Football Today, The Audible, and RotoWire's Theo Gremminger keep sounding the same alarm — carries to the 10-yard line, then work vanishing to Rodriguez on the goal line and to LaQuan/Quinn Allen on passing downs, with FFT explicitly comping him to touchdown-starved 'trap backs' like Ken Walker and Tony Pollard. RotoWire's biggest shift is on price: he's no longer a value now that he's a 4th-round pick, which raises the stakes of the role debate.

The line: Talented enough to lead the backfield, but he's priced like a breakout while the goal-line role remains genuinely contested — draft with eyes open. · updated Aug 12