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Tyjae Spears

Tyjae Spears is a running back for the Tennessee Titans. Injury status: Questionable. Depth chart: RB2.

Scouting report

Tyjae Spears: the full picture

Written automatically from Gridiron Value model data · updated September 24, 2026

Tyjae Spears at a glance

Tyjae Spears is a 25-year-old running back for the Tennessee Titans, listed at 5'11" and 200 pounds. The Tennessee Titans drafted Spears 81st overall in the third round in 2023, out of Tulane, and 2026 is Spears's 4th NFL season.

2026 projection

The Gridiron Value season model projects Spears for 102.9 PPR points in 2026, which ranks RB48 at the position and works out to 7.5 points per game over 17.0 projected games.

2026 season so far

Through 2 games of 2026, Spears has scored 13.4 PPR points, or 6.7 per game. That is 13.0% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Spears would finish with about 114 points, ahead of the 102.9 projected. It is a small sample, so expect that pace to settle. The best week so far is 9.0 points in Week 2 against PHI, the RB28 finish that week. Spears has cleared the 12-point mark we count as a usable RB start in 0 of 2 games, a 0% consistency rate.

Percentile profile

Measured against the 59 qualified running backs of 2026, Spears ranks in the 88th percentile in yards per carry, the 80th percentile in rush yards over expected per attempt and the 69th percentile in receiving yards. Two of the 6 tracked categories sit at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 27th percentile in rush TDs.

Career track record

By season-long PPR scoring, Spears has finished as RB34 in 2023, RB42 in 2024 and RB44 in 2025. The high-water mark is 153.8 PPR points in 2023. Across 44 regular-season games on record, the totals read 1,101 rushing yards, 8 rushing touchdowns, 131 receptions and 914 receiving yards.

Tyjae Spears by the numbers

Spears has finished in the weekly top five at the position 1 time and finished in the top twelve 7 times. The career high is 27.2 PPR points, set in Week 15 of 2024 against CIN. In all, Spears has reached 20 points in 4 games, 9% of career appearances.

Contract

Spears is playing on a four-year, $5.5 million contract signed with the Tennessee Titans in 2023, an average of $1.4 million per year with $993,164 guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2026 season.

2026 projected stat line

Projected PPR
102.9
PPR / game
7.5

Tyjae Spears fantasy outlook

Tyjae Spears enters the 2026 season with TEN and ranks RB51 and #192 overall in the current Gridiron Value projection. The model projects 102.9 PPR points across 13.8 games, or 7.4 points per game, placing the expected outcome in a depth and watch-list tier. The preseason depth chart lists Tyjae Spears as RB2, so the opportunity forecast is tied to that current role rather than name value alone. In 2025, Tyjae Spears produced 111.7 PPR points in 13 games (8.6 per game), giving the projection a recent performance baseline. Projection confidence is 38%, with a 0% modeled chance of a Top-24 positional finish. The main variables are role stability, team scoring volume, and normal efficiency variance.

Week 1 projection

Tyjae Spears is projected for 11.4 PPR points at home against NYJ in week 1, with a likely range of 0.0 to 24.2.

Trade value

Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is up 1.6 since the previous model run (stable).

Redraft
19.5
Dynasty
25.9
Superflex redraft
32.1
Superflex dynasty
36.8
TE premium dynasty
15.6

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Career stats

SeasonTeamGCarRush ydsRush TDTgtRecRec ydsRec TDPPR
2026TEN2105306441013.4
2025TEN1372283250452640111.7
2024TEN1284312435302241113.6
2023TEN17100453270523851153.8

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Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-09-24.