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Ben Sheppard

Indiana Pacers · SG/SF · Age 25 · 6′6″

Rankings Bogdan Bogdanovic Julian Strawther

Rank 2025-26#353SG #200 · of 582

Value-0.7669-cat, per game

Games6521 min a game

Fantasy outlook

No. 353 on our board in 2025-26, and not in our current projection. He is top 25 in turnovers among rotation players; the cost is points at 7.1 a game.

Stats over time

Rising: up 2 seasons in a row.

Last season7.1

3-season average5.6

Trend a season+1.3

Up and down: between 4.4 (2023-24) and 7.1 (2025-26).
Per 36 minutes: 11.1 in 2023-24, 11.9 last season, on 14.3 → 21.4 minutes: the change is mostly his playing time.

PTS rank among rotation players

23-24–of 24724-25#263of 26625-26#247of 272

Per game, from ESPN box scores.

Season by season

Season	Rank	Value	GP	MIN	PTS	3PM	REB	AST	STL	BLK	FG%	FGM/FGA	FT%	FTM/FTA	TO
2025-26	353	-0.766	65	21	7.1	1.3	3.0	1.8	0.6	0.1	43.4%	2.6/6.0	76.5%	0.6/0.8	0.6
2024-25	332	-0.644	63	20	5.3	1.1	2.8	1.3	0.6	0.2	41.8%	1.9/4.6	88.9%	0.4/0.4	0.3
2023-24	329	-0.810	57	14	4.4	0.9	1.6	0.9	0.6	0.0	39.3%	1.6/4.0	88.5%	0.4/0.5	0.3

Category profile · 2025-26

PTS

7.1#247 of 272-0.82

3PM

1.3#174 of 272-0.14

REB

3.0#214 of 272-0.54

AST

1.8#213 of 272-0.56

STL

0.6#237 of 272-0.51

BLK

0.1#265 of 272-0.72

FG%

43.4%2.6/6.0#158 of 272-0.17

FT%

76.5%0.6/0.8#179 of 272-0.77

TO

0.6#13 of 2720.79

Rank among rotation players (20+ minutes, 20+ games). Colour is the value in the category, as in Rankings.

Team role · Indiana Pacers

No. 5 at PG for the Indiana Pacers, behind Tyrese Haliburton, T.J. McConnell, Quenton Jackson, and Braden Smith. 173 minutes a night of the 2025-26 rotation left, most of it Bennedict Mathurin, Ethan Thompson, and Micah Potter; Tyrese Haliburton is the arrival projected for the most minutes (32).

PG

1Tyrese HaliburtonNew
2T.J. McConnell
3Quenton Jackson
4Braden SmithNew
5Ben Sheppard

SG

SF

Left since 2025-26

Bennedict MathurinSigned by NO Sep 1032 min → NO
Ethan ThompsonWaived Aug 1321 min
Micah PotterWaived Jul 819 min → POR
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl18 min
Isaiah Jackson17 min → LAC
Kam JonesSigned by MIL Jul 617 min → MIL
Garrison Mathews13 min
Taelon PeterWaived Jul 2013 min
RayJ Dennis13 min → ATL
Tony Bradley11 min
Minutes a night173

Arrived

Kelly Oubre Jr.32 min from PHI
Larry Nance Jr.Signed Jul 913 min from CLE
Tyrese Haliburtonnew
Braden SmithSigned Aug 17new

Depth chart from ESPN. Who left and arrived: last season's box scores against today's roster; how and when: ESPN's transaction feed, where it lists the move. Minutes are last season's, per game. Indiana Pacers depth chart

Season	Team	GP	MIN	PTS	3PM	REB	AST	STL	BLK	FG%	FGM/FGA	FT%	FTM/FTA	TO
2025-26	IND	65	21.4	7.1	1.3	3.0	1.8	0.6	0.1	43.3%	2.6/6.0	75.0%	0.6/0.8	0.6
2024-25	IND	63	19.5	5.3	1.1	2.8	1.3	0.6	0.2	41.3%	1.9/4.6	100.0%	0.4/0.4	0.3
2023-24	IND	57	14.3	4.4	0.9	1.6	0.9	0.6	0.0	40.0%	1.6/4.0	80.0%	0.4/0.5	0.3

Box-score averages from ESPN.

Ben Sheppard in fantasy basketball

The outlook above is written from our 2025-26 projection and his recent seasons, and changes with every projection run. His Value and ranks are the same numbers Rankings shows.