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Kyle Monangai — fantasy football 2026

Every game, every stat category, and what the board says. 8.63 points per game in 2025, an ADP of 107, usage worth 9.4.

24 years old · 1 season of experience · 2025 draft class

Updated 2026-08-16 · free, no account, no paywall
Every figure below comes from our database. Where a stat is not held, the row is absent rather than zero.
ADP 107
Consensus across 4 books, standard deviation 17.9, 38.8 picks between cheapest and priciest. Cheapest on espn, priciest on sleeper.
SLEEPER94.6
ESPN133.4
YAHOO97.9
UNDERDOG98.3
CBS102.2
FFA86

Draft-room facts

Goes aroundRound 9, pick 11 in a 12-team draft
Positional rankRB34
Bye week10
ADP standard deviation17.9 picks

What we project for 2026

Our board has him at 157.3 points, 9.8 per game — 777 rushing yards, 5.9 rushing TDs, 19.2 catches. That is RB4, 87 overall.

The range runs from a floor of 5.9 points per game to a ceiling of 18.7, with the median at 9.8. Boom rate 91%, bust rate 39%. The spread is the actual bet, not the middle number.

He goes at 107 on consensus and our board has him 87. We rank him 20 picks better than the room drafts him, so the market is underpricing him — that is the disagreement worth acting on.

Our written view

Cheap round-8 Bears exposure with a possible Montgomery-light goal-line role; ~11 touches/game as a rookie. Big contingent upside if Swift gets hurt. The tough Bears schedule is a real drag on RB game scripts.

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The offense he plays in, 2026

Chicago Bears returns 5 of 6 continuity slots, replacing oc. Caleb Williams at quarterback, Ben Johnson as head coach, Press Taylor calling it. The offense projects to 33.6 pass attempts a game at medium confidence and 28.4 rushes.

In: Kalif Raymond (wr3), Zavion Thomas (wr5), JP Richardson (wr6), Alexander Maurice (wr7), Sam Roush (te2). Out: DJ Moore (wr2), Luther Burden (wr3), Olamide Zaccheaus (wr4), Travis Homer (rb3), Cole Kmet (te2).

The projected carry split across the offense:

D'Andre Swift55.6%
Kyle Monangai 32.9%
Brittain Brown6.7%
Roschon Johnson4.9%

Our written view on this offense in 2026

What the offense looks like: Whoever emerges as Caleb Williams primary target will be an ELITE fantasy asset to own. We still do not know with 100% certainy who that will be. You may think it would be Rome Odunze, but Luther Burden III has shown a TON of promise. There is room for both of these young WR to eat, but Colston Loveland may be the real beneficiary of the additional targets. he looks like a true star. RB room is likely a 1A/1B for the foreseable future. Both Swift and Monangai see their value skyrocket if the other gets hurt.

Key additions: Bears added WR Kalif Raymond from Lions (expected to operate as WR3 because Ben Johnson loves him). Drafted Rookie WR Zavion Thomas 3rd round. Drafted TE Sam Roush RD 3.

Key departures: Biggest 2 losses C Drew Dalman retired unexpectedly & LT Ozzy Trapilo suffered serious knee injury sidelining him the entire 2026 season. WR DJ Moore traded to Bills for a 2nd round pick. WR Olamide Zaccheaus also left Chicago this offseason. Opening up a massive target opportunity for Bears pass catchers.

Notes: Strong disagreement who the WR1 will be in 2026. Odunze looked fantastic early in 2025, but Burden stole the show in the back half of the season. Loveland has emerged as Williams favorite target. Caleb Williams is set to have an excellent season again. RB room looks to remain the same with Swift 1A & Monangai 1B. Bears drafted TE Sam Roush in the 3rd round. Cole Kmet may be traded. Highly relevant fantasty offense.

How the volume number was reached: Same QB Caleb Williams returning — anchor to 2025 actuals (33.7 att/g); Regressed 42% toward league mean 33.5, floored at 30 → 33.6 att/g; New OC Press Taylor — pass rate and tempo may shift.

How the carry projection was built

Projected carry share32.9%
Projected carries per game7.6
Projected carries, full season130
Last season, carries per game10

That is a reduction of 2.4 carries a game against last season, inside a team projection of 28.4 rushing attempts a game.

Basis: prior usage blend. Carry share is the strongest forward predictor we have measured at the position, so this number carries more weight than any efficiency figure on this page.

Offensive environment: CHI rates 24.9 against a league average of 23, 1.9 points above it on opponent-adjusted least squares (multi-capture merge).

2026 schedule

Opponent-adjusted run defense faced, against 2025 ratings. Positive is an easier slate.

Full season-1.9 · harder
Weeks 1–6+4.3 · easier
Weeks 12–17-3.4 · harder
Fantasy playoffs (15–17)-1.7 · harder

Read this narrowly. Our own testing found that season-long strength of schedule does not survive as a draft input — defensive quality is among the least stable team properties year to year, and a preseason slate is built on last year's identities. The playoff-weeks column is the only one we would let break a tie, and even then it is a tiebreaker rather than a reason. The finding.

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Dynasty context not redraft

Everything in this section is about his dynasty trade value — what he is worth as a long-term asset in the trade market. It is not a forecast of his 2026 fantasy scoring. A player can be a fine redraft pick while his dynasty value falls, and the reverse. The redraft read is above; this is a different question with a different answer.

Where he sits in the dynasty value cycle

His dynasty value has moved +62.2% over the last twelve months. The market cycle classifies him as post-spike. The base rate that applies: after a +30% spike, RBs crash the following year 59% of the time (hold 41%). That puts the measured risk of his dynasty value falling sharply over the next year at 59% — a probability drawn from comparable historical seasons, not a prediction, and not a statement about his 2026 scoring.

For context on how long this lasts at the position: the average career at his position produces 1.7 elite seasons and 2.4 startable seasons.

The five most similar seasons, and what their dynasty value did next

Matched on production profile — blended production + pedigree. The last column is how that player’s dynasty value moved the following year — a market outcome, not a scoring one.

PlayerSeasonTheir PPGSimilarityNext year
Isiah Pacheco20227.969%+48.7%
Khalil Herbert20229.167%+4%
Eno Benjamin20226.958%-34.4%
Khalil Herbert20214.955%+47.5%
Khalil Herbert20239.454%-24.4%

Of the 5 with a following season on record, 3 gained value, 2 lost it and 0 held roughly flat.

Four years of dynasty value

02,0004,0002026
Monthly superflex value, 2025-05 to 2026-07. Up 150% across the series, peaking at 4,445.

The player

Draft capital and athletic profile

Drafted2025, round 7, pick 233 by CHI
CollegeRutgers
Age at draft23
Height5′8″
Weight211 lb
40-yard dash4.6s
Vertical34.5″
Broad jump117″

The record, season by season

2025 · CHI · 17 games

His best game was Week 9 against CIN — 22.8 PPR on 31 touches and a 14.7% target share, in a game that finished 47-42. His worst was Week 4 against LV at 1.8, on 4 touches, final score 25-24. Across 17 games he cleared 20 points 1 time and came in under 8 points 9 times. In the 11 games decided by 8 points or fewer he averaged 8.8; in the 6 decided by more, 8.3. He scored more when the game was live.

Earned against scored

His usage that season was worth 9.4 points per game. He scored 8.63, 8.2% below it. The engine classified the season as neutral.

WkOppScorePPRRecTgtYdsCarRushTDTgt%Snap%
1MIN24-272.111110002.9%13%
2DET21-524.613872809.1%41%
3DAL31-14311461603.6%29%
4LV25-241.800041800%28%
6WAS25-245.4112551903.4%34%
7NO26-1417.423131381112%45%
8BAL16-302.400072400%46%
9CIN47-4222.8352226176014.7%74%
10NYG24-208.801072812.8%38%
11MIN19-1710.71114122313.6%37%
12PIT31-2810.8000124810%54%
13PHI24-15190102213013.1%45%
14GB21-288.7120145707.1%41%
15CLE31-33.3020113307.4%42%
16GB22-1612.33443950013.8%45%
17SF38-427.7349838010.3%41%
18DET16-195.9111561403.4%42%

Production

Receptions18
Targets30
Receiving yards164
Carries169
Rushing yards783
Touchdowns5
Points per game8.63
Yards per target5.47
Catch rate60%
Yards per carry4.63

Role

Snap share40.88%
Target share5.72%
Air-yards share-0.01%
WOPR0.085
RACR0.074

Efficiency

Average depth of target-0.3
Yards after catch per reception9
Yards before catch per reception0.1
Total YAC162
Broken tackles3
Drop rate0.2%
Passer rating when targeted61
Rushing yards over expected0
Receiving EPA per game-0.43
Rushing EPA per game0.22

Scoring position

Red-zone targets4
Red-zone target share5%
End-zone target share0%
Red-zone carry share36.8%
Goal-line carry share34.5%
Expected receiving TDs0.88
Actual receiving TDs0
Receiving TD luck-0.88
Expected rushing TDs6.25

Where that ranked

Against everyone in the 100+ carries pool that season:

Points per game37 of 49
Yards per target33 of 49
Target share35 of 49
Air-yards share20 of 49

Who else ate

The offense threw it 574 times. 3 team-mates cleared the competing-target threshold.

Rome Odunze16.98%
D.J. Moore16.04%
Colston Loveland15.47%
Olamide Zaccheaus12.26%
Luther Burden III11.32%
D'Andre Swift9.06%

Blowouts against close games

3 of his 17 games were blowouts, 7.4% of his snaps coming in them. He averaged 3.63 in those and 8.82 in close games — his scoring did not depend on garbage time.

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