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Puka Nacua

WR · LAR · Bye 11

Age 256'2"216 lbs3 yr
FFT9995

Elite Profile

Calibrated public rating

RAW 82 · 100% cov

Projection

13.9

Half-PPR / game

Market ADP

4.0

Consensus overall

FFT fair value

4.2

Calibrated pick

Draft delta

-0.2

Market minus FFT

Draft recommendation

Fairly priced

Risk / reliability

Low Risk

78
Risk: Low

Reliability

78 / 99

Coverage

80%

Live board

Today's Read

NO MARKET DATA

Scored 11 TDs on 17 red-zone opportunities — opportunity implies only about 7.13. Touchdown rates that far above expectation rarely repeat, and the market is paying for them.

Model rank

Market

Confidence

high

Full analysis

2026 week 2

Weekly Outlook

FFT · BDL · SLEEPER · MARKETS

Our projection

15.5

Weighted weekly consensus

BDL projection

BALLDONTLIE weekly

Sleeper projection

16.6

Sleeper weekly

Game status

Questionable

No injury description reported

Game market

Total · Spread

Implied team total · cross-book median

Live draft market

ADP 6.2 · Rostered 99.9%

BDL change -0.2%

BALLDONTLIE data checked 9/20/2026, 5:46:56 PM ET. Sportsbook values are consensus context, not betting advice.

Measured 2026 · Regular season

Season Production

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Actual BALLDONTLIE box scores · FFT-computed fantasy points · Preseason excluded. Missing stats are not zeroes.

2026 / Player Game Center

Every play has a story.

Puka Nacua · Recorded performance, game context, fantasy takeaways.

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Measured game log

Weekly Performance

Actual BALLDONTLIE box scores · FFT-computed fantasy points. Missing weeks are never filled with zeroes.

No 2026 regular-season stat line recorded for Puka Nacua yet.

This view will populate automatically when measured games enter the data spine.

FFT Newsroom

Latest news for Puka Nacua

All reports

Position-relative

FFT99 Pillar Scores

Methodology

Opportunity

85

Elite

85

Top 7% at WR

Talent

88

Elite

88

Top 2% at WR

Offensive Environment

85

Elite

85

Top 1% at WR

QB Play

74

Strong

74

Top 10% at WR

Fantasy Playoff Schedule

51

Watch

51

Top 45% at WR

Player Profile

Opportunity85
Talent88
Offensive Environment85
QB Play74
Fantasy Playoff Schedule51

Games

16

Half-PPR

246

Total TD

11

Model Component Contributions

The measured inputs doing the most work inside this grade.

Target Share
11%
YPRR (Efficiency)
9%
Targets Per Game
7%
First-Read Share (proxy)
7%
Vegas
7%
TPRR
7%
Play Caller
6%
Age Prod
5%

Draft Economics

Value Over Replacement

+75.8

proj. half-PPR pts

Rank Delta

-1

position spots vs ADP

Value Grade

B

Fair Value

reachfair valuesteal

Market

4.0

FFT value

4.2

Board Δ

-0.2

Playoff Schedule

Week 15

vs DAL

Rank 1st

Elite

Week 16

@ SEA

Rank 29th

Tough

Week 17

@ TB

Rank 14th

Great

FFT99 vs ADP

Every dot is a real position peer with a market price.

Puka NacuaCONSENSUS ADP →FFT99 →

Deep research dossier

Evidence, history and model transparency

The decision dashboard ends above. Open only the research sections you need below—the full evidence remains available without overwhelming the player overview.

The call record

Claims written down before the season, sealed at registration, and graded in public — misses kept.

No pre-registered call was made on Puka Nacua. 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.

2025 production

What he actually did last season. Measured, not projected.

Games

16

PPR pts

375.0

Half-PPR pts

246.0

PPR / game

23.4

Receiving

Targets

166

Receptions

129

Rec yards

1715

Rec TDs

10

Target share

28.6%

Air yards share

28.9%

WOPR

0.63

Rushing

Carries

10

Rush yards

105

Rush TDs

1

Yards / carry

10.50

Passing

Pass yards

0

Pass TDs

0

Interceptions

0

nflverse season totals for 2025, joined on normalised name and position (gsis 00-0039075). These are actuals — nothing here is modelled.

What the market says

Every ADP source we hold, side by side, and where our model sits against them.

Consensus ADP

4.0

Median

4.0

Sources ranking him

3/4

Agreement

High

SourceRank / ADP
Yahoo ADP4.0
Sleeper ADP4.0
RTSports ADP4.0
Fantasy Football Calculator ADP (live)unranked

The sources that ranked him disagree by 0.0 picks between highest and lowest (standard deviation 0.0).

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.

Week-to-week, 2025

Consistency and range — the part a season total hides.

Weeks with a line

16

PPR / game

23.4

Std dev

9.9

Coeff. of variation

0.42

Boom rate

63% (10/16)

Bust rate

6% (1/16)

Best week

46.5 wk 16

Worst week

4.8 wk 6

Recent form — last 4 games with a line

29.0 PPR per game over weeks 15, 16, 17, 18+5.6 against his season average.

Every week (16 lines)
WkOppPPRTgtRecYdsCarRuYdTDRZ
1HOU23.111101301100
2TEN27.6989114511
3PHI22.815111121600
4IND36.015131700012
5SF24.51210850012
6BAL4.832280001
9NO22.887951313
10SF17.465640010
11SEA14.3877521800
12TB16.7117970001
13CAR13.296720002
14ARI35.71171670020
15DET27.91191812800
16SEA46.516122250022
17ATL15.7105470011
18ARI26.011107622413

The weekly LINES are measured: 2025 game logs, joined on gsis id 00-0039075. 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 (WR: 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.

Advanced usage & efficiency

Route concepts, red-zone opportunity, and separation-adjusted catch rate.

Red-zone opportunity

Scoring upside

RZ targets

21

RZ carries

4

RZ TDs

7

aDOT

8.9

Concept EPA / target

0.624

Classified targets

208

Catch residual

11.077

YAC over expected

1.32

Most-run concept: QUICK_OUT on 24.0% of his classified targets.

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.

How the model gets there

The component projection behind the headline number, and what it was built from.

Projected games

14.1

Half-PPR (season)

196.1

PPR (season)

241.2

Confidence

high

Proj targets

124.0

Proj receptions

90.1

Proj rec yards

1106

Proj rec TDs

6.1

Proj carries

5.7

Proj rush yards

31

Proj rush TDs

0.2

Proj pass yards

0

Proj pass TDs

0.0

Proj INTs

0.0

Touchdown regression

He actually scored 11 touchdowns last season. Against his measured opportunity the model expects a change of -4.7. 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

16 g in 2025, 10.4 tgt/g, 68% snaps (regressed to the role, not the position), RWR1 on depth chart, age 25, -4.7 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.

What this page is standing on

Which sources answered for this player, and which did not.

  • Identity join: Resolved to gsis 00-0039075 via the 2025 nflverse season file. The weekly log and advanced splits are keyed on that id.
  • Market ADP: A bundled snapshot of platform ADP, not a live feed. Shown for comparison and never read by the projection model.
  • Headshot: Resolved from exact-name.
  • Vitals: Height, weight, college and jersey are read from nflverse and keyed on gsis id 00-0039075 — not on name. Name keying matches players to relatives who share one: "Marvin Harrison Jr." also matches his father's 1996 row, and whichever came first in the file would win.
  • Not shown: draft round and pick. The bundled player file carries them on roughly 48% of rows and populates them late, so a blank is equally consistent with a genuine undrafted free agent and with a first-rounder nobody has ingested yet. The model’s own three-state read is used instead, above.

Model run caveats

  • No usable red-zone RECEIVING fit for QB — receiving touchdowns at that position come from the shrunk per-target rate alone.
  • Rookie draft capital on this run: 82 drafted (projected from round/pick), 141 confirmed undrafted, 177 with capital UNKNOWN.
  • 177 of 400 rookie projections (44%) have NO KNOWN DRAFT CAPITAL because this draft class has not been ingested by any source the model can read. For those players the draft-capital path did not run: a first-round pick and a camp arm receive the same number, separated only by depth-chart order. Those projections are flagged `isPositionalFloor` and must be read as a floor for the role, not as a valuation of the player.

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.