2024 Rush/Rec Stats
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83
YDS
310
TD
1
YDS
79
TD
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2025 Projections
2025 Fantasy Outlook
Pacheco is an explosive running back when healthy, but that acknowledgment has always been made with some amount of trepidation given his cartoonishly violent running style. His motor always visibly runs at 110 percent, which is helpful in some situations but not others. It's sometimes useful and always entertaining when Pacheco simply berserks his way through a collision, but it would be more efficient to do a better job setting up blocks and eluding tacklers, rather than purely relying on his unusual combination of power and straight-line speed. The fibula fracture Pacheco suffered Week 2 basically ended his 2024 season, because he was a shell of his former self when he returned after an 11-week absence, averaging 3.4 YPC on 62 carries in eight games between the end of the regular season and the playoffs. Kareem Hunt is not particularly close to Pacheco's level when both are at full strength, but even the largely expired journeyman was better than Pacheco down the stretch last season. A return to full strength this offseason could allow for the breakout that fantasy investors had hoped for in 2024, but it's also possible Pacheco missed out on his chance to be deployed as a workhorse and/or fails to regain his pre-injury explosiveness. Read Past Outlooks
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Adds weight, looking healthy
Chiefs head coach Andy Reid said Thursday that Pacheco "looks tremendous" at OTAs and has "put on some good weight," Charles Goldman of AtoZSports.com reports.
ANALYSIS
Pacheco missed Week 3 through Week 12 last season due to a broken fibula and looked like a shadow of his usual self when back in action, averaging just 3.4 YPC across Kansas City's five remaining regular season games and three playoff contests. When healthy Pacheco is an explosive, physical ball carrier capable of overrunning would-be tacklers, as demonstrated by his 4.9 YPC and 4.6 YPC averages in 2022 and 2023. An offseason to return to full form should securely position Pacheco atop the Chiefs' running back depth chart, especially in the wake of the team's decision to forego early-round additions to the position in the 2025 NFL Draft. The Chiefs re-signed Kareem Hunt and added Elijah Mitchell in free agency, both to one-year deals, and added Brashard Smith in the seventh-round of April's draft, but all three backs seem more likely to push for complementary snaps than an actual committee if Pacheco can indeed return to 100 percent strength.
Pacheco missed Week 3 through Week 12 last season due to a broken fibula and looked like a shadow of his usual self when back in action, averaging just 3.4 YPC across Kansas City's five remaining regular season games and three playoff contests. When healthy Pacheco is an explosive, physical ball carrier capable of overrunning would-be tacklers, as demonstrated by his 4.9 YPC and 4.6 YPC averages in 2022 and 2023. An offseason to return to full form should securely position Pacheco atop the Chiefs' running back depth chart, especially in the wake of the team's decision to forego early-round additions to the position in the 2025 NFL Draft. The Chiefs re-signed Kareem Hunt and added Elijah Mitchell in free agency, both to one-year deals, and added Brashard Smith in the seventh-round of April's draft, but all three backs seem more likely to push for complementary snaps than an actual committee if Pacheco can indeed return to 100 percent strength.
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Broken Tackle %
4.8%Positive Run %
85.5%% Yds After Contact
64.5%Avg Yds After Contact
2.4Rushing TD %
1.2%Touches Per Game
13.6% Snaps w/Touch
46.3%Air Yards Per Game
-3.7Air Yards Per Snap
-0.13% Team Air Yards
-0.7%% Team Targets
2.8%Avg Depth of Target
-1.6 YdsCatch Rate
75.0%Drop Rate
6.3%Avg Yds After Catch
10.1% Targeted On Route
16.5%Avg Yds Per Route Run
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5' 10"Weight
216 lbs40-Yard Dash
4.37 secVertical Jump
33.0 inBroad Jump
118 inHand Length
9.25 inArm Length
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
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The Chiefs are careful to consistently invest in their offensive line, allowing them to provide consistently good blocking and a favorable setup for whoever is playing running back. Even so, Pacheco has proven a uniquely good fit for the Chiefs offense since they stole him out of Rutgers in the seventh round of the 2022 Draft. His 4.37 speed makes him a home-run threat, and his violent, high-motor running presents a challenging power component to defenses that are already spread thin by QB Patrick Mahomes. Pacheco's violent running does come with long-term durability concerns, especially wear-and-tear ailments like the shoulder trouble he played through in 2023, though injuries have cost him only two games through two seasons. He can handle every running back task and improved his passing-down work last year, eventually taking at least 70 percent of snaps in each of Kansas City's four playoff contests. His workloads typically haven't been that large during the regular season, but it's not out of the question for 2024 after the Chiefs settled for bringing back Clyde Edwards-Helaire in free agency and then added Samaje Perine shortly before the start of the season.
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Starts, but produces little Sunday
Pacheco took three carries for seven yards and brought in one of two targets for five yards in Sunday's 40-22 loss to the Eagles.
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Outplayed by Hunt again
Pacheco carried the ball five times for 12 yards and secured both of his targets for 12 yards during Sunday's 32-29 AFC Championship Game win over the Bills.
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Struggles with six touches
Pacheco ran the ball five times for 18 yards and caught his only target for no gain in Saturday's 23-14 playoff win over the Texans.
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Good to go for divisional round
Pacheco (rib) was a full participant in Tuesday's practice.
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Present for practice Friday
Pacheco (ribs) participated in practice Friday, Matt McMullen of the Chiefs' official site reports.
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Rejoined by Hunt in backfield
Pacheco is slated to be joined by Kareem Hunt in the Chiefs' backfield again in 2025 after the latter re-signed with Kansas City on Friday, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.com reports.
ANALYSIS
Pacheco entered the 2024 campaign as the unquestioned lead back. However, a fibula fracture sustained in a Week 2 game against the Bengals sidelined him until Week 13, opening the door for Hunt to make his return to the Chiefs' active roster for the first time since the 2018 season. The veteran back impressed while at times filling a true lead-back role during Pacheco's absence, and Hunt continued to outpace his younger backfield mate in snaps frequently down the stretch and in the postseason.
Pacheco entered the 2024 campaign as the unquestioned lead back. However, a fibula fracture sustained in a Week 2 game against the Bengals sidelined him until Week 13, opening the door for Hunt to make his return to the Chiefs' active roster for the first time since the 2018 season. The veteran back impressed while at times filling a true lead-back role during Pacheco's absence, and Hunt continued to outpace his younger backfield mate in snaps frequently down the stretch and in the postseason.