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Kyren Williams
Kyren Williams is a running back for the Los Angeles Rams. Depth chart: RB1.
Scouting report
Kyren Williams: the full picture
Kyren Williams at a glance
Kyren Williams is a 26-year-old running back for the Los Angeles Rams, listed at 5'9" and 207 pounds. The Los Angeles Rams drafted Williams 164th overall in the fifth round in 2022, out of Notre Dame; this is year five in the league.
2026 projection
Our season projection has Williams at 277.6 PPR points for 2026, which ranks RB7 at the position and works out to 19.1 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 6 games of 2026, Williams has scored 119.0 PPR points, or 19.8 per game. That is 42.9% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Williams would finish with about 337 points, ahead of the 277.6 projected. The best week so far is 36.7 points in Week 4 against PHI, the RB1 finish that week. Williams has cleared the 12-point mark we count as a usable RB start in 5 of 6 games, a 83% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 54 qualified running backs of 2026, Williams ranks in the 99th percentile in receptions, the 94th percentile in receiving yards and the 84th percentile in yards per carry. Every one of the 6 tracked categories sit at or above the 75th percentile.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Williams has finished as RB89 in 2022, RB7 in 2023, RB7 in 2024 and RB9 in 2025. Three of those 4 seasons ended inside the top twelve. The high-water mark is 272.1 PPR points in 2024. Across 59 regular-season games on record, the totals read 4,227 rushing yards, 40 rushing touchdowns, 141 receptions and 962 receiving yards.
Kyren Williams by the numbers
Williams has been the highest-scoring running back of the week 3 times, finished in the weekly top five at the position 11 times and finished in the top twelve 26 times. The career high is 38.4 PPR points, set in Week 12 of 2023 against ARI, the top RB score of that week. The game log also shows 5 games of 30 or more PPR points, 11 100-yard rushing games and 2 games with three or more touchdowns. In all, Williams has reached 20 points in 16 games, 27% of career appearances.
How the production happens
In 2026, Williams handled 14.0 carries per game, including 17 red-zone carries and 6 carries from inside the five. 6 runs gained ten yards or more. In the passing game Williams drew 6.6 targets per game.
Contract
Williams is playing on a three-year, $33 million contract signed with the Los Angeles Rams in 2025, an average of $11 million per year with $15.1 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2027 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Williams carries a GV stock price of 6,250, which ranks 75th overall and RB12 among running backs out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Williams 50th overall. Value has moved up 0.3 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Chuba Hubbard, James Cook and Kyle Monangai. See where Williams sits on the trade value chart.
Latest news
3 news items linked to Williams in the past two weeks, the most recent on October 19, 2026. Read the latest Kyren Williams news.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 277.6
- PPR / game
- 19.1
Kyren Williams fantasy outlook
Kyren Williams enters the 2026 season with LAR and ranks RB7 and #25 overall in the current Gridiron Value projection. The model projects 277.6 PPR points across 14.5 games, or 19.1 points per game, placing the expected outcome in an elite fantasy tier. The preseason depth chart lists Kyren Williams as RB1, so the opportunity forecast is tied to that current role rather than name value alone. In 2025, Kyren Williams produced 263.3 PPR points in 17 games (15.5 per game), giving the projection a recent performance baseline. Projection confidence is 63%, with a 90% modeled chance of a Top-24 positional finish. The main variables are role stability, team scoring volume, and normal efficiency variance.
Week 2 projection
Kyren Williams is projected for 16.1 PPR points at home against NYG in week 2, with a likely range of 4.7 to 31.3.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is up 0.3 since the previous model run (stable).
- Redraft
- 72.2
- Dynasty
- 60.6
- Superflex redraft
- 74.3
- Superflex dynasty
- 69.5
- TE premium dynasty
- 36.5
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Car | Rush yds | Rush TD | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | LA | 6 | 80 | 393 | 4 | 39 | 30 | 217 | 1 | 119.0 |
| 2025 | LA | 17 | 259 | 1,252 | 10 | 50 | 36 | 281 | 3 | 263.3 |
| 2024 | LA | 16 | 316 | 1,299 | 14 | 40 | 34 | 182 | 2 | 272.1 |
| 2023 | LA | 12 | 228 | 1,144 | 12 | 48 | 32 | 206 | 3 | 255.0 |
| 2022 | LA | 8 | 35 | 139 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 76 | 0 | 30.5 |
Running backs ranked near Kyren Williams
- De'Von Achane RB4 · 318.6 PPR
- Jonathan Taylor RB5 · 307.0 PPR
- James Cook RB6 · 294.6 PPR
- Chase Brown RB8 · 260.7 PPR
- Jaylen Warren RB9 · 260.7 PPR
- Derrick Henry RB10 · 257.6 PPR
Los Angeles Rams fantasy players
- Puka Nacua WR · 256.9 PPR
- Matthew Stafford QB · 176.1 PPR
- Davante Adams WR · 144.0 PPR
- Blake Corum RB · 131.8 PPR
- Colby Parkinson TE · 86.7 PPR
- Terrance Ferguson TE · 50.1 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-10-20.