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Tyson Bagent sits on the depth chart as the backup behind Caleb Williams in Chicago, and the numbers from this season confirm exactly that placement. Through one game he has played 13.5% of the offense's snaps, attempted nine passes, completed five for 54 yards, and produced 2.16 PPR points, which slots him at 35th among quarterbacks in scoring for that stretch. Last season told the same story at greater length: three games played, only 1.4% of offensive snaps, four attempts, three completions, 47 yards, 2.58 total PPR points across the year, an average of 0.9 points per game, and a final position finish of 67th. That is not a rotational role or a package player getting spot snaps — it is the profile of a pure backup who appears when the starter is off the field for reasons unrelated to performance. The offense around him is built for someone else. Rome Odunze holds the WR1 spot on the depth chart, Luther Burden III works as the WR2, D'Andre Swift is the top running back with Kyle Monangai behind him, and rookie tight end Colston Loveland has emerged as a legitimate receiving option at TE3 leaguewide. None of that infrastructure has been built with Bagent in mind; it exists for whoever is taking the majority of snaps, which this season and last season has been Caleb Williams. Bagent's touches, on the rare occasions he gets them, come attached to minimal opportunity by design, not by accident.
The case for Tyson Bagent has to start from a fairly narrow place: efficiency in an extremely small sample. His completion percentage this season is 55.56%, and last season it was 75%, both figures built on attempt totals so small — four attempts in 2025, nine in 2026 through one game — that they carry almost no predictive weight. A manager could point to the 75% completion rate from a season ago and argue accuracy is real, but three pass attempts on 47 yards, spread over three separate games with 1.4% of the offense's snaps, is not usage that tells you anything about what he would do with a full workload. It only tells you he did not turn the ball over on the few throws he was asked to make. That is the entire bull case, and it is thin because it never has to confront how the offense is actually built. The case against him is straightforward and grounded in exactly the numbers above. He finished 67th among fantasy quarterbacks last season on 2.58 total points, and through one game this year he sits at 35th with 2.16 points, both firmly outside any range a manager should care about in a redraft league. His snap share has moved from 1.4% to 13.5%, which looks like growth in isolation, but even the higher figure means he is on the field for a small fraction of Chicago's offensive plays. Caleb Williams is the clear answer at quarterback here, and the receiving weapons — Rome Odunze, Luther Burden III, and a tight end in Colston Loveland who is already producing at a top-three level among all tight ends leaguewide — represent an offense with real weekly juice attached to a different passer. Bagent has no path to touching that volume unless Williams is off the field, and this page is explicitly not the place to speculate about why that might happen. Weigh the honest version of the bull case against that reality: three career appearances worth of tiny sample accuracy against a depth chart, a full season of usage data, and a receiving corps clearly built around someone else. The accuracy numbers are real but they describe four and nine pass attempts, not a body of work. There is no scenario in a normal, healthy week where Bagent sees enough of the field to turn those percentages into fantasy production. The offense's shape — Swift as the primary back, Odunze and Burden as the outside targets, Loveland working as a featured receiving tight end — was constructed around a starter who is not him.
Leave Tyson Bagent on the waiver wire in every format. There is no flex, streaming, or bye-week argument for him under the current structure, because his opportunity is capped by his standing behind Caleb Williams on the depth chart, and that has not changed across either season represented in his numbers. His career-high point total in a single game situation, 2.58 PPR points for an entire season and 2.16 through one game this year, is below replacement level even in the deepest superflex leagues. Do not roster him as a stash, either — a stash is justified when a backup sits one snap away from a real workload behind a stagnant offense, but here the offense in front of him features Rome Odunze, Luther Burden III, D'Andre Swift, and Colston Loveland, all players who make the starting job valuable enough that any change at quarterback would likely be filled by someone the team trusts more than a career long-tenured backup. The only scenario that would change this evaluation is a sustained run of extended playing time with real volume — sustained meaning multiple games, not a handful of mop-up snaps — and even then a manager would want to see attempt totals climb well past the nine attempts logged so far in 2026 before trusting him in any lineup. Until that happens, he is not worth a roster spot even in deep two-quarterback leagues. Waiver Wizard's roster grades will keep flagging any addition of a bare backup like this as a wasted spot; trust that signal here.
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Bagent is also in the concussion protocol and did not practice, which further points to Chicago being without its normal quarterback options. Case Keenum is now the likely starter.
Sep 24, 7:45 PM ET
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He has a concussion and is in the NFL concussion protocol. That puts Chicago in a position to possibly turn to a different starter if Caleb Williams cannot go.
Sep 23, 9:50 AM ET
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Bagent is in the NFL concussion protocol, which creates immediate uncertainty at quarterback for Chicago. With Caleb Williams also likely out, Case Keenum is now the likely starter if Bagent cannot clear in time.