Rhamondre Stevenson

Stevenson has struggled with fumbles for most of his career and is probably lucky he didn't land on the bench after dropping the ball twice in Week 3 and a third time in Week 5, which at the time gave him 10 fumbles in a 20-game span. Luckily and to Stevenson's credit, he wouldn't fumble again the rest of the 2025 season and by the end of the year had largely reestablished himself as a viable NFL starter. It would have been easy for Stevenson to stay down on the mat, especially with competition as talented as TreVeyon Henderson closing in, yet going into 2026 Stevenson is technically the incumbent starter over Henderson. The issue is that Stevenson's depth chart advantage over Henderson might be tenuous -- a prospect of Henderson's caliber won't be a backup forever, and at the very least Stevenson will need to continue to outplay Henderson to maintain the workload share Stevenson earned in 2025. Despite his big build and strong power-back skill set, Stevenson also faces a workload concern for the fact of his accumulating injury history after missing some time in each of the past three years with toe, foot and ankle issues at various points. There exists a possible scenario where the Patriots run often and well enough for Stevenson and Henderson to coexist as fantasy starters, but that path is probably narrow and the more likely one is a workload split where at least one of the two risks getting marginalized in the week in question. Read Past Outlooks