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Chase Brown

Chase Brown is a running back for the Cincinnati Bengals. Depth chart: RB1.

Scouting report

Chase Brown: the full picture

Written automatically from Gridiron Value model data · updated October 20, 2026

Chase Brown at a glance

Chase Brown is a 26-year-old running back for the Cincinnati Bengals, listed at 5'10" and 211 pounds. The Cincinnati Bengals drafted Brown 163rd overall in the fifth round in 2023, out of Illinois; this is year four in the league.

2026 projection

Our season projection has Brown at 260.7 PPR points for 2026, which ranks RB8 at the position and works out to 18.0 points per game over 17.0 projected games.

2026 season so far

Through 5 games of 2026, Brown has scored 65.0 PPR points, or 13.0 per game. That is 24.9% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Brown would finish with about 221 points, behind the 260.7 projected. The best week so far is 19.1 points in Week 4 against JAX, the RB13 finish that week. Brown has cleared the 12-point mark we count as a usable RB start in 2 of 5 games, a 40% consistency rate.

Percentile profile

Measured against the 54 qualified running backs of 2026, Brown ranks in the 92nd percentile in receptions, the 82nd percentile in receiving yards and the 55th percentile in rush yards. Two of the 6 tracked categories sit at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 19th percentile in rush yards over expected per attempt.

Career track record

By season-long PPR scoring, Brown has finished as RB63 in 2023, RB10 in 2024 and RB7 in 2025. Two of those 3 seasons ended inside the top twelve. The high-water mark is 282.6 PPR points in 2025. Across 50 regular-season games on record, the totals read 2,434 rushing yards, 14 rushing touchdowns, 161 receptions and 1,077 receiving yards.

Chase Brown by the numbers

Brown has been the highest-scoring running back of the week 1 time, finished in the weekly top five at the position 7 times and finished in the top twelve 17 times. The career high is 32.9 PPR points, set in Week 16 of 2025 against MIA, the top RB score of that week. The game log also shows 1 game of 30 or more PPR points, 4 100-yard rushing games and 1 game with three or more touchdowns. In all, Brown has reached 20 points in 8 games, 16% of career appearances.

How the production happens

In 2026, Brown handled 14.2 carries per game, including 11 red-zone carries and 4 carries from inside the five. 6 runs gained ten yards or more. In the passing game Brown drew 5.6 targets per game.

Contract

Brown is playing on a four-year, $4.1 million contract signed with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2023, an average of $1.0 million per year with $286,156 guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2026 season.

2026 projected stat line

Projected PPR
260.7
PPR / game
18.0

Chase Brown fantasy outlook

Chase Brown enters the 2026 season with CIN and ranks RB8 and #30 overall in the current Gridiron Value projection. The model projects 260.7 PPR points across 14.5 games, or 18.0 points per game, placing the expected outcome in an elite fantasy tier. The preseason depth chart lists Chase Brown as RB1, so the opportunity forecast is tied to that current role rather than name value alone. In 2025, Chase Brown produced 282.6 PPR points in 17 games (16.6 per game), giving the projection a recent performance baseline. Projection confidence is 59%, with a 85% modeled chance of a Top-24 positional finish. The main variables are role stability, team scoring volume, and normal efficiency variance.

Week 1 projection

Chase Brown is projected for 16.9 PPR points at home against TB in week 1, with a likely range of 4.5 to 32.7.

Trade value

Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is down 2.8 since the previous model run (stable).

Redraft
76.9
Dynasty
65.5
Superflex redraft
76.8
Superflex dynasty
72.6
TE premium dynasty
39.4

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Career stats

SeasonTeamGCarRush ydsRush TDTgtRecRec ydsRec TDPPR
2026CIN57124612824124065.0
2025CIN172321,019688694375282.6
2024CIN16229990765543604255.0
2023CIN124417901514156153.5

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