Tyjae Spears Week 16 Outlook - Titans at Colts

By Derek Brown (FantasyPros), Fri, Dec 20th 2024, 9:05pm EST

With Pollard projected to play through an ankle injury this week, Spears should be projected to help share the workload this week. Pollard aggravated this injury in last week's game. I think the backfield will be split similarly to how it was in Week 10 when Spears played 47% of the snaps overall, 44% of the rushing play snaps, 49% of the passing down snaps, and split the red zone snaps 50/50 with Pollard. He finished with ten touches and 51 total yards. This season, Spears hasn't been anywhere close to as efficient as he was last year, with an 11% missed tackle rate and 2.31 yards after contact per attempt. He can still be a good flex play this week with some upside if Pollard is more limited than I'm projecting. Since Week 10, Indy has allowed the tenth-most rushing yards per game, the highest explosive run rate, and the tenth-highest missed tackle rate.