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Measured, and nothing about him departs from what the market is already pricing.
Model rank
Market
—
Confidence
low
RB · Free agent · Bye 8
Elite Profile
Calibrated public rating
Projection
6.9
Half-PPR / game
Market ADP
181.0
Consensus overall
FFT fair value
175.6
Calibrated pick
Draft delta
+5.4
Market minus FFT
Draft recommendation
Target ahead of market
Risk / reliability
High Risk
Reliability
36 / 99
Coverage
80%
Live board
Measured, and nothing about him departs from what the market is already pricing.
Model rank
Market
—
Confidence
low
2026 week 2
Our projection
6.9
Weighted weekly consensus
BDL projection
—
BALLDONTLIE weekly
Sleeper projection
—
Sleeper weekly
Game status
Not reported
No injury description reported
Game market
Total — · Spread —
Implied team total — · cross-book median
Live draft market
ADP 170.0 · Rostered 0.0%
BDL change 0.0%
BALLDONTLIE data checked 9/20/2026, 5:44:19 PM ET. Sportsbook values are consensus context, not betting advice.
Measured 2026 · Regular season
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Actual BALLDONTLIE box scores · FFT-computed fantasy points · Preseason excluded. Missing stats are not zeroes.
2026 / Player Game Center
Austin Ekeler · Recorded performance, game context, fantasy takeaways.
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Measured game log
Actual BALLDONTLIE box scores · FFT-computed fantasy points. Missing weeks are never filled with zeroes.
No 2026 regular-season stat line recorded for Austin Ekeler yet.
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Position-relative
Opportunity / Workload
64
Average
Top 25% at RB
Talent / Efficiency
39
Watch
Top 67% at RB
Offensive Environment
48
Watch
Top 64% at RB
OL / Run Environment
58
Average
Top 47% at RB
QB / Game-Script Fit
36
Watch
Top 92% at RB
Fantasy Playoff Schedule
24
Watch
Top 98% at RB
Games
2
Half-PPR
8.1
Total TD
0
The measured inputs doing the most work inside this grade.
Value Over Replacement
-66.0
proj. half-PPR pts
Rank Delta
-4
position spots vs ADP
Value Grade
C
Slight Reach
Market
181.0
FFT value
175.6
Board Δ
+5.4
Week 15
vs ATL
Rank 16th
GreatWeek 16
@ MIN
Rank 24th
NeutralWeek 17
@ JAX
Rank 31st
ToughEvery dot is a real position peer with a market price.
Deep research dossier
The decision dashboard ends above. Open only the research sections you need below—the full evidence remains available without overwhelming the player overview.
Claims written down before the season, sealed at registration, and graded in public — misses kept.
No pre-registered call was made on Austin Ekeler. The record holds 29 calls in total, selected from the board by signal strength and divergence — most players do not clear that bar, and silence here means we did not stake a claim on him, not that he graded badly.
What he actually did last season. Measured, not projected.
Games
2
PPR pts
13.1
Half-PPR pts
8.1
PPR / game
6.5
Receiving
Targets
7
Receptions
5
Rec yards
38
Rec TDs
0
Target share
1.6%
Air yards share
0.3%
WOPR
0.03
Rushing
Carries
14
Rush yards
43
Rush TDs
0
Yards / carry
3.07
Passing
Pass yards
0
Pass TDs
0
Interceptions
0
nflverse season totals for 2025, joined on normalised name and position (gsis 00-0033699). These are actuals — nothing here is modelled.
Every ADP source we hold, side by side, and where our model sits against them.
Consensus ADP
181.0
Median
181.0
Sources ranking him
1/4
Agreement
—
| Source | Rank / ADP |
|---|---|
| Yahoo ADP | unranked |
| Sleeper ADP | unranked |
| RTSports ADP | 181.0 |
| Fantasy Football Calculator ADP (live) | unranked |
Mean and median are computed across the sources that actually ranked him — an unranked source never enters the average, because a sentinel treated as a pick number would drag a real player hundreds of slots. Spread, deviation and agreement are null under two ranked sources rather than 0, since one source cannot agree with itself. The FFT model rank is our own output and is never folded in as if it were an outside source.
Consistency and range — the part a season total hides.
Only 2 games with a recorded line — below the 4-game minimum these rates need to mean anything. They are shown for completeness, not to be leaned on.
Weeks with a line
2
PPR / game
6.5
Std dev
2.1
Coeff. of variation
0.33
Boom rate
0% (0/2)
Bust rate
50% (1/2)
Best week
8.7 wk 1
Worst week
4.4 wk 2
Recent form — last 2 games with a line
6.5 PPR per game over weeks 1, 2 — +0.0 against his season average.
| Wk | Opp | PPR | Tgt | Rec | Yds | Car | RuYd | TD | RZ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NYG | 8.7 | 3 | 3 | 31 | 6 | 26 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | GB | 4.4 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
The weekly LINES are measured: 2025 game logs, joined on gsis id 00-0033699. Everything derived from them above — per-game, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, boom and bust rates, recent form — is computed by us and carries the FFT model (beta) label. It is not an observed stat.
This whole block is on the PPR scale, including the thresholds — the artifact publishes boom and bust in PPR (RB: boom ≥ 20, bust ≤ 8) and converting only the points would leave the rates measured against a different ruler than the one they were defined on. The hero above is half-PPR because that is what the model ranks on. Two rulers, each labelled, rather than one silently mixed. Rates need at least 4 games to carry weight; recent form is the last 4.
Route concepts, red-zone opportunity, and separation-adjusted catch rate.
RZ targets
0
RZ carries
2
RZ TDs
0
aDOT
—
Concept EPA / target
—
Classified targets
—
Catch residual
—
YAC over expected
—
Every field is derived by FFT from openly-licensed nflverse play-by-play, or taken from the free public NFL Next Gen Stats endpoint. No licensed trial data (Sportradar, BALLDONTLIE) is included, which is why this file can be committed and shipped with the build. Red zone: Plays snapped inside the opponent 20-yard line. Red-zone usage measures opportunity; this repo’s own backtest shows it adds little on top of plain volume, so it is retained as context and is deliberately not described as an edge.
The component projection behind the headline number, and what it was built from.
Projected games
10.5
Half-PPR (season)
72.0
PPR (season)
81.1
Confidence
low
Proj targets
23.2
Proj receptions
18.2
Proj rec yards
153
Proj rec TDs
0.8
Proj carries
66.0
Proj rush yards
288
Proj rush TDs
2.4
Proj pass yards
0
Proj pass TDs
0.0
Proj INTs
0.0
Touchdown regression
He actually scored 0 touchdowns last season. Against his measured opportunity the model expects a change of 3.2. The gap between what a player scored and what his opportunity implies is one of the four signals the edge engine reads.
What this projection was built from
2 g in 2025, 7 car/g, 3.5 tgt/g, 50% snaps (regressed to the role, not the position), age 31, +3.2 TD vs 2025 on red-zone opportunity
fft-projection-2.3.0-beta. The model reads measured production, opportunity and age, and reads no ADP field at any stage — so it can disagree with the market, which is the only reason a disagreement is worth anything. Draft capital was not resolved for this player, which the model treats as unknown rather than as undrafted.
Which sources answered for this player, and which did not.
Model run caveats
How the model works
Inputs, method, and the forbidden-inputs list. It reads no ADP at any stage.
Where it loses
Pre-registered calls, graded in public, misses kept on the page.
Model Rankings
Every player, with the model's BUY / FADE call against consensus ADP built into the board.