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Tyler Huntley sits as the second quarterback on the Baltimore depth chart behind Lamar Jackson, which is the single fact that defines everything about his role. In 2025 he appeared in five games but started only two, and his offensive snap share for the season landed at 26.4%, a number that reflects spot duty rather than a sustained job. The sample includes 67 pass attempts, 52 completions for a completion percentage of 77.61%, 426 passing yards, two passing touchdowns, and a rushing contribution of 24 attempts for 151 yards — production that came almost entirely in the stretches where Jackson was unavailable to play. Through one game in 2026, his snap share has fallen further to 12.2%, with nine attempts, eight completions for 88.89%, 63 passing yards, and four rushing attempts for 16 yards. That shrinking snap share tells the real story: as the backup, his week-to-week workload is dictated entirely by what happens to the starter in front of him, not by any offensive plan built around him. When Jackson is active, Huntley's route to touches is largely limited to mop-up situations or specific short-yardage packages, and the Baltimore offense's identity — the run-pass balance, the tempo, the deep shots to Zay Flowers, the work for Mark Andrews over the middle — is constructed around the starter's skill set, not his. His own passing efficiency numbers look sharp in small samples because small samples do that; the structural reality is that he is one snap-share swing away from relevance and one return to full strength away from irrelevance.
The case for Tyler Huntley starts with what already happened: he produced 40.14 PPR fantasy points across five games in 2025, with two of those games as a starter, and his rushing floor is real — 24 attempts for 151 yards in limited count. That rushing ability is the backbone of any bullish argument. A backup quarterback who can pick up yards on the ground has a built-in fantasy floor that a traditional pocket backup lacks, and if Lamar Jackson were to miss time again, Huntley's history shows he can keep a competent offense moving, support a run game, and get the ball to Zay Flowers and Mark Andrews without major disruption. His efficiency marks — completion percentages of 77.61% and 88.89% across his two most recent samples — suggest he does not turn the ball over or force plays beyond his equity, which matters in a short-week spot start.```thinking wait I need to finish without stray text```The case against him is simply volume. His snap share dropped from 26.4% in 2025 to 12.2% through the start of 2026, and his per-game output cratered correspondingly, from 8 points per game across the season to 4.1 points per game in the most recent outing. He finished as the forty-seventh quarterback in PPR scoring for 2025 and sits forty-second so far in 2026 — numbers that place him outside any realistic fantasy consideration in a league that starts one quarterback, and usually outside two-quarterback or superflex relevance as well unless Jackson's playing time changes. The honest reading of the evidence is that Huntley's fantasy value is entirely conditional. He is not competing for passing-game touches in the same offense as Jackson; he is waiting for an opportunity that depends on circumstances outside his control. Mark Andrews remains a target priority at tight end regardless of who is throwing him the ball, and Zay Flowers' route tree does not change whether Huntley or Jackson is under center — what changes is the volume and accuracy with which those players get the ball, and recent history shows Huntley operating on a fraction of the snaps Jackson commands. Anyone building a case for him has to be building it entirely on a hypothetical change in playing time at the top of the depth chart, not on anything his own role currently supports.
Leave Tyler Huntley on the wire in all standard formats. He is not a streaming option, not a flex-adjacent play at his position, and not a stash candidate in anything shallower than a deep two-quarterback or superflex league, because his value is entirely dependent on playing time he does not currently have. His snap share has moved in the wrong direction from 26.4% to 12.2%, and his per-game scoring has followed it down to 4.1 points. In superflex or deep dynasty-style formats, he can be rostered purely as weekly injury-adjacent insurance behind Lamar Jackson, since his rushing numbers — 151 yards on 24 attempts in 2025 — give him a workable scramble package floor if he were forced into extended duty. The trigger that changes anything is simple: an extended run as the starter. If Huntley were to take over the offense for multiple consecutive games, his history of 40.14 PPR points across five games, buoyed by rushing production, would make him a streamable option purely on volume grounds, since his accuracy marks in small samples have been strong. Until that volume materializes, treat him as unrostered noise. Monitor the depth chart, not the box score, because his own per-game output is not revealing anything except how little of the offense he is operating.
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