2025-2026 NFL Week 9: Data Summary

Hello everyone!

We are officially halfway through the 2025-26 NFL regular season and there are so many teams still in the mix. Top teams still have holes and bottom teams have shown some incredible flashes – it really is the year for league parity. If Week 8 was blowouts – Week 9 saw a ton of close games. Patriots/Falcons and Jaguars/Raiders both came down to a single point – Broncos/Texans, Panthers/Packers, and Vikings/Lions were all decided by a field goal. 4 other games were within 1 touchdown scores. A ton of great games and close games!

Here is the Week 9 data including the most picked players by position, the most played cards, and the most popular combos. These are not in terms of points but in terms of popularity of picks. Without further ado, here are the stats for the players by position.

Players by Position

QB	RB	WR	TE	K	DEF
Josh Allen	Jonathan Taylor	Puka Nacua	Jack Ferguson	Brandon Aubrey	GB D/ST
Matthew Stafford	Josh Jacobs	Emeka Egbuka	Tucker Kraft	Matt Prater	PHI D/ST
Jayden Daniels	Christian McCaffrey	George Pickens	Tyler Warren	Chase McLaughlin	CLE D/ST
Jalen Hurts	Bijan Robinson	Rome Odunze	Darren Waller	Cameron Dicker	PIT D/ST
Dak Prescott	Javonte Williams	Jaxon Smith-Njigba	Travis Kelce	Michael Badgley	IND D/ST

Looking at SmashCards, here are the top 10 played cards last week.

Top 10 SmashCards

SmashCard
Golden Arm
12th Man
A Seabird’s Confidence
Extra Credit
Starting RB
Chess Piece
Hellacious Halfbacks
Divided Loyalties
Starting WR
Run CMC

Let’s take a look at the top played combos.

Top Played Combos

Player	Card	Points
Christian McCaffrey	Chess Piece	14pts
Chimere Dike	Special Teams Ace	13.2pts
Josh Allen	Golden Arm	8pts
Puka Nacua	Book Club	3pts
Brandon Aubrey	Extra Credit	6pts
Jonathan Taylor	Starting RB	9.8pts
Puka Nacua	Starting WR	1.4pts
Matthew Stafford	Golden Arm	4pts
Matt Prater	Extra Credit	4pts
Jonathan Taylor	Bruising Bellcow	21pts

And now, we’re on to Week 10! Set your lineups before games start and good luck!