Draft D’Andre Swift and let the room talk itself out of him. PFN’s Kyle Soppe put a name to the thing Swift’s price ignores, the “environmental upside” of a versatile back leading Ben Johnson’s offense, and I’m not going to pretend I see it any differently. Swift is too cheap.
Soppe’s point is that we normally move mountains for backs with a featured role and a creative play-caller, then turn around and discount the one who just delivered on both. He’s right. I have Swift as my RB19, and the market is letting him fall further than that.
Why D’Andre Swift’s Price Is Too Low for 2026
The efficiency jump is the tell. Swift averaged 3.8 yards per carry in his first Bears season, then 4.9 the moment Johnson arrived, better than a full yard of improvement on real volume. He turned it into career highs of 1,087 rushing yards and nine rushing touchdowns and finished as the overall RB15 in PPR.
None of that reads like a fluke when you see how Johnson built around it. The Bears leaned hard into play-action once he took over, with Soppe noting the rate of attempts via play-action more than doubling from 16.9% in 2024 to 33.3% in 2025. A run game that keeps a young quarterback comfortable is a run game that keeps getting fed.
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Caleb Williams enters his second year in the system, and offenses like this one tend to take their bigger step in year two rather than year one. Swift is the back positioned to benefit most from that curve.
Then there is the floor, which is where Swift quietly earns his keep. He has finished RB23 or better in all six of his NFL seasons and cleared 1,250 scrimmage yards in each of the last three. You are drafting a known quantity with a live ceiling at a price that assumes only the downside.
The Kyle Monangai Worry Is Already Baked Into the Price
The pushback is obvious, and it has a name: Kyle Monangai. The rookie seventh-rounder carved out real work down the stretch, splitting snaps almost evenly with Swift from Week 12 on and matching him nearly carry for carry in the red zone.
That is the reason Swift is cheap. It is not a reason to pass. Even with Monangai eating in, Swift stayed the preferred passing-down back, running a route on 43% of the Bears’ dropbacks over the second half while Monangai sat under 29%, per Fantasy Points Data. In PPR, that passing role is the line between a committee back and a startable one.
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Johnson has done this before. In Detroit, he made both Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery pay off out of the same backfield, so a timeshare in his offense is not as much of a problem for both of their fantasy values as it might be on other teams. Swift is the more accomplished half of this one, and he is going a multiple RB spots below what that should cost.
So take the discount. Swift is a stable RB2 with weekly RB1 spike equity in a rising offense, and every draft that nudges him toward the fifth round is doing you a favor. Let someone else overthink the backfield and click the name.
