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Garbage Time Heroes: Week 5
Trey McBride led Week 5 with 11.1 garbage-time PPR points. See who added the most late production and who relied on it most.
Week 5 Recap
Trey McBride produced the most garbage-time PPR points on the Week 5 board: 11.1 of 21.6 total production (51.4%). Jahmyr Gibbs followed with 10.1 garbage-time points; Dylan Laube followed with 9.4 garbage-time points.
Carnell Tate had the highest garbage-time share at 100.0%, with 1.6 of 1.6 PPR production coming in qualifying situations. Share measures reliance on garbage time; the point leaders show how much production it actually added.
Garbage time requires all three: the final 15 regulation minutes, a margin of at least 17 points, and at least a 95% win probability for one team. These are weekly PPR production splits.
Garbage-Time Point Leaders
The most points added in qualifying garbage time, regardless of their share of the player's total.
#1 in garbage-time points
Trey McBride
ARI · TE
11.1 PPR points
51.4% of 21.6 total PPR production
#2 in garbage-time points
Jahmyr Gibbs
DET · RB
10.1 PPR points
26.8% of 37.7 total PPR production
#3 in garbage-time points
Dylan Laube
LV · RB
9.4 PPR points
81.7% of 11.5 total PPR production
Most Reliant on Garbage Time
Ordered by garbage-time share. Read the point totals alongside the percentage: a 100% share can come from a small amount of production.
#1 in garbage-time share
Carnell Tate
TEN · WR
100.0%Garbage-time share
- Garbage Time
- 1.6
- Other Plays
- 0.0
- Total Production
- 1.6
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Where the Production Came From
PPR production on classified plays. Other plays are all situations outside the garbage-time rule. - Garbage-time opportunities
- 2
- All classified opportunities
- 5
1.6 of 1.6 PPR production came in qualifying garbage time. At least half of the production came in garbage time.
#1 in garbage-time share
Case Keenum
CHI · QB
100.0%Garbage-time share
- Garbage Time
- 4.7
- Other Plays
- 0.0
- Total Production
- 4.7
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Where the Production Came From
PPR production on classified plays. Other plays are all situations outside the garbage-time rule. - Garbage-time opportunities
- 20
- All classified opportunities
- 20
4.7 of 4.7 PPR production came in qualifying garbage time. At least half of the production came in garbage time.
#1 in garbage-time share
Fernando Mendoza
LV · QB
100.0%Garbage-time share
- Garbage Time
- 2.2
- Other Plays
- 0.0
- Total Production
- 2.2
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Where the Production Came From
PPR production on classified plays. Other plays are all situations outside the garbage-time rule. - Garbage-time opportunities
- 9
- All classified opportunities
- 9
2.2 of 2.2 PPR production came in qualifying garbage time. At least half of the production came in garbage time.
#1 in garbage-time share
Jalen Brooks
ARI · WR
100.0%Garbage-time share
- Garbage Time
- 3.6
- Other Plays
- 0.0
- Total Production
- 3.6
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Where the Production Came From
PPR production on classified plays. Other plays are all situations outside the garbage-time rule. - Garbage-time opportunities
- 3
- All classified opportunities
- 7
3.6 of 3.6 PPR production came in qualifying garbage time. At least half of the production came in garbage time.
#1 in garbage-time share
Kaleb Johnson
GB · RB
100.0%Garbage-time share
- Garbage Time
- 2.6
- Other Plays
- 0.0
- Total Production
- 2.6
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Where the Production Came From
PPR production on classified plays. Other plays are all situations outside the garbage-time rule. - Garbage-time opportunities
- 7
- All classified opportunities
- 7
2.6 of 2.6 PPR production came in qualifying garbage time. At least half of the production came in garbage time.
#1 in garbage-time share
Reggie Virgil
ARI · WR
100.0%Garbage-time share
- Garbage Time
- 4.9
- Other Plays
- 0.0
- Total Production
- 4.9
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Where the Production Came From
PPR production on classified plays. Other plays are all situations outside the garbage-time rule. - Garbage-time opportunities
- 4
- All classified opportunities
- 5
4.9 of 4.9 PPR production came in qualifying garbage time. At least half of the production came in garbage time.
Behind the Points
How the biggest late-production totals were built from this week's classified opportunities.
Trey McBride
Trey McBride's 21.6 PPR production included 11.1 in garbage time and 10.5 on other classified plays. 3 of 10 classified opportunities qualified as garbage time. That late production supplied 51.4% of his weekly total. Garbage time supplied at least half of his production.
Jahmyr Gibbs
Jahmyr Gibbs's 37.7 PPR production included 10.1 in garbage time and 27.6 on other classified plays. 7 of 31 classified opportunities qualified as garbage time. That late production supplied 26.8% of his weekly total. Most of his production still came on other plays.
Dylan Laube
Dylan Laube's 11.5 PPR production included 9.4 in garbage time and 2.1 on other classified plays. 4 of 7 classified opportunities qualified as garbage time. That late production supplied 81.7% of his weekly total. Garbage time supplied at least half of his production.
Production includes passing, rushing and receiving PPR points on classified plays. Turnover and return scoring are outside this split, so these totals can differ from an official fantasy score. A dash means that stat is unavailable.
How this ranking works
How to read Garbage Time Heroes
- Garbage time is counted in the final 15 minutes of a game when the margin is at least 17 points and one team's win probability is at least 95%.
- Opportunities without win probability from the data provider are not included in this dataset.
- Garbage-time share = garbage-time PPR production divided by total PPR production on classified plays.
- At least five classified opportunities and positive total production are required for the board.
- Other plays means all classified situations outside the garbage-time rule, not only close games.
- Production includes passing, rushing and receiving PPR points; turnover and return scoring are outside this split.
Data as of October 13, 2026. Source: nflverse play-by-play.
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