Jameis Winston

Run of Oct 19

Jameis Winston

Wk 6 -- Read as the page opens
Rest of season 54.0 from week 6, QB36 in our order
Opp rank -- vs NO
Avg 13.1 a game in 4 games
Last 25.7 week 5 at WSH
Δ Proj --

This season 2026, PPR, through week 5

Jameis Winston week by week, 2026
WkOppthe week's projectionPPR pointscompletions of attemptspassing yardspassing touchdownsinterceptionscarriesrushing yardsrushing touchdownsfumbles lost
1vs DALDid not play--
2at LAR--2.511/27111012100
3vs TEN--6.114/221180021400
4vs ARI--18.018/29250320000
5at WSH--25.733/543263052701
Season4 games, 13.1 a game52.376/1328056394201

Still to play

  1. Wk 6 vs NO Sun Oct 18
  2. Wk 7 at HOU Sun Oct 25
  3. Wk 8 Bye
  4. Wk 9 at PHI Sun Nov 8
  5. Wk 10 vs WSH Thu Nov 12
  6. Wk 11 vs JAX Sun Nov 22
  7. Wk 12 at IND Sun Nov 29
  8. Wk 13 vs SF Sun Dec 6
  9. Wk 14 at SEA Sun Dec 13
  10. Wk 15 vs CLE Sun Dec 20
  11. Wk 16 at DET Mon Dec 28
  12. Wk 17 at DAL Sun Jan 3
  13. Wk 18 vs PHI Sun Jan 10

Our read

Written Oct 17, from his facts through last season

The points arrived in order, week by week, and that order is the whole reason Jameis Winston is on your radar. He sat out week 1 of 2026, then scored 2.54 in week 2 of 2026, 6.12 in week 3 of 2026, 18 in week 4 of 2026 and 25.74 in week 5 of 2026. Four games, 13.1 points a game, 805 pass yards and 6 touchdowns. Our preseason pace had him at 7.4 points a game over the 5 games we expected, so the last two weeks of 2026 ran well past anything we saw coming, with the bye in week 8 of 2026 still ahead.

Rest of season54.0PPR points from week 6
Preseason projection37projected PPR points

The job itself was never promised. The latest depth chart still lists him second among NYG quarterbacks behind Jaxson Dart, and our board put him QB50 overall for 37 points on the season. This run is riding on playing time nobody handed him before the year. What says he can hold a job is 2024, when he scored 123.1 points over 11 games and finished QB28 among 69. Last season was the bad one, 43 points over 3 games, QB46 among 81.

The accuracy is what keeps this from being a clean start call. He is 3.9 percentage points under expectation over 132 tracked attempts, which ranks 33rd of 35 quarterbacks with 50 or more tracked attempts. Pressure came on 22% of his 148 charted dropbacks, and he was blitzed on 34% of all 148 charted dropbacks. Accuracy that far off costs him weeks like week 2 of 2026 and week 3 of 2026. We would hold him through the bye and start him only while the touchdowns keep coming, because if Dart takes the job back, this ends fast.

Jameis Winston in every format
FormatOur rankRest of season from week 6Over replacementTier
PPR56954.0−103.29
Half PPR56954.0−103.29
Standard56954.0−103.29

Wk 6, Opp rank and Δ Proj are this week's, read as the page opens.

Stats from the NFL's records, scored in PPR.

Stats from nflverse and charting from FTN Data via nflverse, both under Creative Commons licences, our rates worked out from their counts.