Kyle Monangai

RB·

Chicago Bears·#25·5'8"·209 lb·Rookie·Rutgers

Tier 2Round 7, pick 233 in 2025

Updated November 4, 2026

76.4

Model Score

Down from 79.9 last year

Trade value ·a late 2nd

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Kyle Monangai has 60 carries for 324 yards, 3 rushing touchdowns and 5 catches for 39 yards in 4 games for the Chicago Bears this season through Week 8, 14.8 PPR points a game (updated November 4, 2026).

Model Score by season

Down 3.5 from last season.

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

STM Take

A late-round backup runner with real efficiency and a thin touch share.

The case for

783 rushing yards on 4.6 YPC as a 7th-round rookie playing all 17 games; the efficiency baseline is real.
18 career catches for 164 yards already; the receiving role is being developed early.

The worry

Touch share behind D'Andre Swift caps the workload ceiling; 5 rookie rushing TDs reflects the role.
Multiple sub-6 PPR weeks in the second half of 2025; the floor games come often.

What to watch: Whether Caleb Williams's year-three offense expands the run-game share enough to give Monangai a real RB2 role.

Full take and bio

Monangai's rookie season at STTM #31 tier 8 from a seventh-round draft slot produced 783 rushing yards on 4.6 YPC across all 17 games. The peak week (19 PPR Wk 13) confirms the talent; the multiple sub-6 PPR weeks confirm the touch-share volatility behind D'Andre Swift's lead-back role.

Monangai was born in Roseland, New Jersey to Cameroonian parents, attended Don Bosco Prep, and spent five years at Rutgers where he was first-team All-Big Ten in 2024 with 1,279 rushing yards. Chicago took him 233rd overall in the 2025 NFL Draft.

Comps

The players whose size, testing and production looked most like his at the same point in their careers. The percent is how close.

Chris Carson ’1867%Charlie Garner ’9560%

Thomas Rawls ’1558%BenJarvus Green-Ellis ’1056%

J.K. Dobbins ’2250%

Plays like: Mark Ingram, James Brooks, Nick Chubb. Built like: Emani Bailey, Cody Schrader, Verron Haynes. Coming out: Mike Davis, Stepfan Taylor, Dan Herron.

Of his 20 closest coming out: 2 stars, 0 starters, 14 backups, 4 didn't stick.

Kyle Monangai Injury StatusQuestionable

Kyle Monangai is listed Questionable (Toe), reported Nov 3. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

This season · 4 games

Rush Yds32426th

Rush TD316th

Rec543rd

Rec Yds3940th

Total TD320th

Fantasy PPG14.816th

EPA / rush0.0974th

Rush yds over exp6611th

Efficiency3.35

Time to line2.54s

14.8 fantasy points a game, 59 PPR on the season. Every game on the Game Log, every season on Career. Advanced numbers are EPA and Next Gen Stats.

Contract2026 cap

2026 Cap Hit

$1.0M

APY

$1.1M/yr

Guaranteed at Signing

$128K

Years on Deal

Signed

2025

Est. Value

$4.7M/yr

underpaid by $3.6M/yr

Every year of the deal, the dead money and what a cut or trade saves on the Contract tab.

Fantasy outlookWeek 9

Our rest-of-season board has Kyle Monangai at RB27 (the public consensus says RB28); the model has 94 PPR points left for him this season; this week he visits SEA.

Price a trade for him on the fantasy trade calculator, or see the whole board on the Fantasy hub.