Bottom Line
UDFA running back with 96th-percentile athleticism but a 41st-percentile overall model lands behind Kenneth Walker in Kansas City — the profile is intriguing but the path is closed. Pure deep-stash flier; don't spend more than a late 4th.
Team Fit & Opportunity
Kansas City offers only 15 vacated carries and 30 vacated targets, and the backfield is already three-deep with Kenneth Walker, Emari Demercado, and rookie returner Brashard Smith. Stewart enters as the fourth body fighting for a practice squad spot. Andy Reid's scheme rewards pass-pro competence and receiving chops — exactly where Stewart's 0th-percentile receiving score works against him. Realistic year-1 role: practice squad with emergency-only activations if Walker misses time.
Talent Profile
Stewart is a physical tools outlier wrapped around a thin production résumé. The 96th-percentile athleticism score at 5'9"/222 explains the broken-tackle profile — 1.38 BWOE/att and 1.52 YACoE/att say he creates after contact at a starter-caliber rate. But the 0.05 EXPOE/att (no home-run gear in games), 16th-percentile WAA, and zero receiving production drag the composite to RB5 in a weak 2026 class at the 41st percentile. Workout warrior whose tape didn't fully cash the athletic checks against 25th-percentile competition.
Strengths
- Contact balance for the weight class: 1.38 BWOE/att and 222-pound frame translate to short-yardage and goal-line viability if a path opens.
- Athletic ceiling: 96th-percentile athleticism score is genuinely rare and gives him a special-teams floor that UDFAs need to stick.
- YAC creation: 1.52 YACoE/att shows he doesn't need clean blocking to produce — useful behind any line.
Concerns
- Receiving game is a non-starter: 0th-percentile receiving score in a Reid offense that demands backs catch — this alone caps the third-down role.
- No explosive gear: 0.05 EXPOE/att means the 96th-percentile workout doesn't show up as breakaway runs, which is the exact disconnect that sinks athletic-comp RBs.
- Roster math: UDFA behind Walker, Demercado, and Smith in a room with no vacated workload to chase.
Historical Comp Read
Bhayshul Tuten (74%) and Elijah Mitchell (74%) are the headline comps — both bigger-bodied athletic profiles. Mitchell flashed early in Shanahan's system before injuries erased him; Tuten is still unproven. The Kenneth Walker III comp at 68% is statistical noise given Walker's 82% model versus Stewart's 41%. The honest read: this comp cluster produces occasional spot starters, not difference-makers, and none of them landed buried on a contender's depth chart.
Outlook
Year 1 is practice squad or RB4 with zero standalone fantasy value. The three-year arc requires either a Walker injury opening 2026 backup reps or a trade to a thinner room — without one of those, he washes out by 2027. Catalyst: Walker injury plus Demercado underperforming in pass-pro. Floor outcome is the likeliest one. Dynasty target: rosterable in 30+ team superflex deep leagues only, otherwise watchlist.