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Ranking 2025 Fantasy Football's Top 36 Running Backs (August Update) · BDGE Fantasy Football

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good morning friends and enemies.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It is August first and we are doing an update for y'all.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The top thirty six running by rankings for fantasy football.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This video in particular is going to be the half PPR scoring setting.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to be going through my rankings in the draft guide here for y'all.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So BDE.co.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let us start off at the top of the list.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we have Mr. Sakewell and Barclay up there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing has changed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I will say in our draft crowd, of course, we have PPR settings and we have half PPR and all that kind of stuff for you guys.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Depending on what league scoring that you have.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But in half PPR, Sakewell is going to be my one-on-one still him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Be John and Jimmy are Gibbs are in that fat tier of players together, where if you have them as you're running back one,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: you're going to feel phenomenal about it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to return, eighteen to twenty to twenty to twenty to fantasy points per game for you and you won't have to blink an eye at their involvement about their team's success about anything that's really going on in their current fantasy situation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All three of these guys are first round picks for the majority.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They are kind of in that tier of the top five or six picks right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You have Jamar Chase, you have CD Lamb, maybe Justin Jefferson depending on his injury status and whether or not you feel good about JJ McCarthy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These three are kind of in that mix for top five, whatever
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  [SPEAKER_00]: order that you want to throw them for every player in the draft guide every fantasy rebel player.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I legit did like a hundred and sixty fucking player blurs over the last like two weeks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we've been out here working, but we have a little right up for each player.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And one thing for Sake One, like I know Sake One is almost not the popular RB one anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: People like B. John people like Gibbs ahead of him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't really have a problem with that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I would say for Sake One, for the same reason that people are a little bit higher again on AJ Brown and they're like he's going to have a bounce back year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If they pass a little bit more, I do think Sake One's involvement in the passing game couldn't really spike.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We saw last year he had forty six catches.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This does I believe we need to update this include playoff games, the last couple games of the season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You could see there he had six catches in the
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Super Bowl for in the wild car round, but whatever, he had around thirty five catches in the regular season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So he wasn't overly involved in the passing game for Philly, Kenneth Gainwell has gone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Kenneth Gainwell played on forty percent of their two-minute drill snaps as well as forty percent of their long down in distance snaps.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If they get more and pass heavy situations with the harder schedule, Sakewan could see a little bit of a boost in terms of his passing involvement.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I know you guys have loved the videos where I've looked at their projections in Vegas.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have those numbers in here as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Eleven and a half for rushing touchdowns, fifteen hundred yards on the ground.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We also have a bunch of other cool stats in here for you guys.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're offensive line rank.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: is first in the NFL, of course, Philly's got a dominant front to run behind.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I just don't want you guys overthinking the Sake Juan Barclay pick.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, Sake Juan is my one, but he's in the tier with Beijon Robinson and Jamir Gibbs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: After that, you've got Derek Henry, Devon H. And Ash and Jente, they're kind of in a tier together.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we have all these tags that you can filter by.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like you'll see, CMAC is there at the seven.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I know a lot of people want to take him in the first round because of the upside that he's had, you know,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: in twenty twenty thirty and twenty nineteen he's like a league changing type of player one of the tags I added in this year was just the risky tag like I think there's a conglomerate of players that I would consider risky and christian cafe is one of them so I'm hesitant to put him in that tier but I can understand why people want to shoot for his upside which we obviously have him tagged there as well divine hn is like my must draft player in this tier derrick Henry feels great like you know he's probably gonna end up having
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  [SPEAKER_00]: fourteen rushing touchdowns right now his projection in Vegas is thirteen and a half they have a really good offensive line seventh in the NFL and their team total is eleven and a half wins this year as I've already said a lot this summer like rushing touchdowns in particular are a team stat there a team offensive success stat not necessarily
• 4:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just a running back talent set, which is what makes Derek Henry's floor so high, and it's why even at the age of thirty years old, thirty one years old, like I feel great about Derek Henry in this dominant Baltimore offense, but Devon H and he is he is my guy if I'm at the one to turn if I'm picking at the one ten one eleven.
• 4:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: I am making sure I'm walking away from that turn with Devon Hn.
• 4:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm hopefully able to grab like a Nico or Apuka at the one eleven and then get Devon Hn after that.
• 4:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: He is my guy this year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I just think there's a chance he catches eighty passes and you see a bump in efficiency in the ground game.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The interior of their offensive line is going to be a lot better this year than it was last year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Their tackles are still very, very much a problem for Tua and the passing offense, which does I think make their offense a little bit risky, but Devon H and his involvement in the passing game with Johnny Smith no longer there is going to be unbelievably high.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we have a marked as the goal line back most likely, and I know that seems weird, but he's played on the majority of goal line snaps last year, right?
• 5:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not worried about Jalen Wright, Alexander Madison is obviously dusty.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he could end up taking more snaps and Jalen Wright to be honest with you by the years end, but I feel like Devonne H. And he's going to be the weapon that they use inside the ten yard line, and inside the five yard line, and that showed last year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we've got Gentie at six.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, I just feel better about him staying upright than Christian McAfrey.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But I get it if you want to take the risk for the high upside on CMAC.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He is my RB seven.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I've Josh Jacobs at RB eight.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Marshall on Lloyd is now missing more time again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think they wanted to utilize some other back a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But like at the end of the day, Josh Jacobs is going to be a workhorse again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they're going to ride him into the ground like they did last year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the Green Bay Packers offense will be good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that will in turn allow Josh Jacobs to be on the goal line pretty much every single week.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He might not score every single week, but he was damn close at the end of last year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: when he was scoring basically every single game.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you look at Jacob's numbers going into the playoffs, this row right here, rushing touchdowns, starting week eleven, touchdown three, touchdown three, touchdown touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, like this is once the packers offense started to get a little bit healthy and started clicking a bit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That was it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was Josh Jacobs, only a touchdown every single week, and then giving him twenty touches every single week.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we are very much in on Mr. Josh Jacobs.
• 6:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've chased Brown at nine.
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: I love Chase Brown.
• 6:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: I love his setup this year.
• 6:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Cincinnati, they just let go of Zach Moss, which means Chase Brown should see a boost in his opportunity share.
• 6:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Once again, they do have Taj Brooks, the six round rookie.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They did bring back some Ajay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Pureine, I think those guys will be complimentary pieces, but Chase Brown should play almost every early down snap.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He should be the guy on the goal line.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He should be the guy in all passing down situations that allow them to disguise against the defense.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think Chase Brown was the blue chip type of, you know, late round pick last year that helped you win a league.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think he's going to do that again this year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're still able to get him in the third round.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: People are skeptical if he's get a big workload again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But like, I'm really not.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's the guy there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, they did not go out and make an impact.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: in that backfield.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Taj Books is a sixth round pick.
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Samage, a P-Rine is Samage, a fucking P-Rine, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we got Chase Brown at nine.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We got Jonathan Taylor at ten.
• 7:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: We've got Bucky Irving at eleven.
• 7:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you'll actually see I have Bucky Irving tagged as an overvalued player.
• 7:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's not that I don't think I'll be drafting much of Bucky Irving.
• 7:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's not a full fade for me.
• 7:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I do think the fact that Rashad White is still there.
• 7:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he's clearly going to be a part of this offense in a passing down role.
• 7:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Does make me a little bit nervous.
• 7:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you also have the fact that they are changing over their offensive coordinator for multiple years in a row now, and maybe that dictates the split a little bit differently.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You also have Tristan Worst missing at least the first four games of the season, so maybe a downgrade in their offensive line.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So overall with Bucky, I don't think he's overvalued in running back rankings.
• 8:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like I clearly have him eleven overall, but I think in if you do like best ball dressed right now, you pretty much have to grab Bucky
• 8:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: at like the two o' eight two o' nine.
• 8:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: That feels a little bit early when you have workhorse running backs around him like a Jonathan Taylor type and I'm aren't in half and right behind them that's going you know eight nine ten pixelator.
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think in the overall scheme of the rankings which you know we have obviously like flex super flex and all those types of rankings where you could see every player laid out together.
• 8:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Bucky Irving feels a little bit risky if you have to take him in the mid to late second round.
• 8:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Amarin Hampton was probably my biggest riser in these ranking updates from when we did them in the early July portion and a lot of that obviously has to do with Najiharis's eye injury.
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: He has not returned to practice.
• 8:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: We have no idea what's going on with him.
• 8:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: The longer that Amarin Hampton has to take these first team snaps the more likely he is to have a longer leash heading into the season like
• 8:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think there was a decent chance that Najiharis just simply got veteran preference in training camp.
• 9:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: And like started the year as the quote unquote starter, which was obviously Cap Amarian Hampton's upside.
• 9:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: It'll still have a nice floor.
• 9:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: But to be honest with you, Amarian Hampton has been on the move in terms of his Vegas projection.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's all the way up at eight, fifty.
• 9:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: I remember when I first started making those videos in the beginning of the summer, he started out like seven hundred, seven twenty five.
• 9:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we've seen a massive increase in what his Vegas projection is over the last few weeks.
• 9:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: You have to remember that this offensive scheme, a Greg Roman, is a very complicated run scheme.
• 9:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Naji Harris, while he's a veteran in the NFL, Amari Hampton is a rookie.
• 9:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're both brand new to this scheme, right?
• 9:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: So Hampton taking all of the snaps and practice with the ones is to me looking like he's gonna run away with this starting job.
• 9:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: And like in an offensive system and an environment that wants to run like that, that has tons of touchdown upside that has Herbert leading the team.
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: I feel super comfortable ranking Hampton is a back end RB one at this point.
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right behind him, we have Kyron Williams at thirteen.
• 9:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: We've got Kamara at fourteen.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: We've got Kenneth Walker at fifteen.
• 9:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: James Connor at sixteen.
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: James Cook at seventeen and Breeze Hall at eighteen.
• 10:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've moved down Breeze Hall pretty significantly.
• 10:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've kind of been off of him all summer if you guys been watching my video.
• 10:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's mainly just a fade on the Jets offense, which I still feel phenomenal about right now.
• 10:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you look at Breeze Hall's profile in here, I mean, their Vegas projection, you can see on the bottom here is five and a half wins.
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just in fields, I'm not worried about the toe injury realistically, but I do think he has a little bit of an elevated injury risk heading into the year, just his style of play.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would say one of the very, very steady pieces of hype that we've been hearing out of training camp has been Braille on Allen, Braille on Allen, Braille on Allen,
• 10:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Zach Rosenblant probably the most respected beach reporter out of New York has pretty much been saying he thinks this is going to be a one A one B not a starter versus a backup.
• 10:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's not necessarily a knock-on breeze haul, but it's because Braille and Allen has been so good and has looked so good in training camp that they're going to have no choice but to play a significant amount.
• 10:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I do think that means Braille and Allen will take the majority of all goal line work in this offense.
• 10:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not a high level, most likely they only have eight rushing touchdowns last year.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I still think Bree's haul, he'll get a boost in my PPR rankings because the way that apparently Aaron Glenn is looking at this backfield is like Braylon Allen is like the David Montgomery thumper roll with Bree's haul is more of a jemier Gibbs type.
• 11:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: And obviously we've seen that play out where like you can not be great on the ground and still catch a ton of passes and be really good for PPR.
• 11:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just look at like Alvin Camaro last year.
• 11:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: However, Alvin Camaro also was monopolizing all carries on the ground, all goal line touches.
• 11:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not confident we get that from Bree's haul.
• 11:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: So
• 11:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Breeze Hall is likely like a borderline top ten talent at the running back position or maybe even on underrating him there.
• 11:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: The offensive situation is something I'm just completely out on above him though.
• 11:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do love James Connor.
• 11:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do love Kenneth Walker, you know, out of Seattle and Arizona all we're hearing at is that those two are going to be work horses.
• 11:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: James Connor and the Arizona offensive line is very, very underrated.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: They have a top twelve offensive line heading into the season.
• 11:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, it's just the James Connor show until he, you know, until he passes away out there.
• 11:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think a lot of you guys will probably, you know, kind of point to his injury status concern, which I agree, but give me, you know, give me workhorse play for twelve weeks and then I'll figure it out after that.
• 12:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not like you're putting zeros in your lineup.
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: You could always grab tray Benson with the hundred and forty eighth pick in your draft as well.
• 12:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: After James Conner, like I said, we got James Cook, we got Breeze Hall, we got Chuba, we got David Montgomery, and we've got this kind of tier of veteran running backs that I'm not in love with, but I'm like, okay, with if they're my, you know, my flex, my back end RB II.
• 12:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's Chuba who I feel good about, and then you hit David Montgomery where his Vegas line, I think, is nine and a half or ten and a half rushing touchdowns.
• 12:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: His Vegas projection is like nine and a half, ten and a half rushing touchdowns.
• 12:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: but his yardage is like seven seventy five.
• 12:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: They don't expect a ton of involvement and what we're hearing out of camp so far is that where this was not the case the last couple years Gibbs is typically the first running back on the field with the starting team.
• 12:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's looking like we might finally see the switch where it's like Gibbs is kind of taking over as the key role in Dave Montgomery will take it back seat rather than it being a clear one A one B
• 13:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Andre Swift, he's in such a good situation and like they added nothing to the backfield, but there's still that twinge of like, yeah, but it's the Andre Swift and it's Chicago and it's like, I don't know what to mean.
• 13:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: They completely revamped their interior.
• 13:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're offensive line adding tuning and Dalman and Jonah Jackson.
• 13:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: So like, there should be a lot more running room in Ben Johnson's systems, obviously phenomenal, but
• 13:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: One way or another, I just feel like Swift won't be the workhorse all year.
• 13:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think Rochon Johnson's that good, but he can still have the goal line roll.
• 13:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Kyle Monne guy, they drafted out of Rutgers, seventh round pick.
• 13:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's getting a little bit of hype out of camp.
• 13:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: I like his college tape actually, so I don't know.
• 13:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: One way or another, he's in a great spot, but I'm a little bit hesitant to feel great about drafting him.
• 13:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Aaron Jones, I really liked, but the reports I had to camp with him and Jordan Mason being a pretty clear, fifty, fifty split has me spooked a little bit.
• 13:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jones is coming off of a fifteen hundred yards season.
• 13:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: They also upgraded their offensive line massively, showing up the interior.
• 13:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: They have a great offense in terms of personnel.
• 13:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think Jones has a really nice floor and he will catch the majority of passes.
• 14:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I think Jordan Mason's going to get a lot of carries.
• 14:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to get a lot of goal line work there and use as the short yardage back.
• 14:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: So there's a little bit of risk with Aaron Jones.
• 14:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: As we move further down, we have a ton of rookies here.
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we've got RJ Harvey, we've got Caleb Johnson, we've got Traveon Henderson, kind of mixed in between Tony Pollard, B-Rob, Isaiah Pacheco, and those guys, you know, I think you guys have probably heard my thoughts on a lot of the players in this range throughout the off season.
• 14:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Caleb Johnson, you know, he's below RJ Harvey, which I think is probably new in my rankings for you guys, but I still have him as a top twenty four running back.
• 14:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've moved Trayvon Henderson down a little bit as you could see.
• 14:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's a little bit of a break between the other rookies here.
• 14:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: And the reason I did that is I just genuinely believe that we're overlooking how many committees, Josh McDaniels has used for his running backs.
• 14:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: He has always, always, always historically used a running back by committee kind of duo backfield.
• 14:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Also in the draft guide, we have articles that go more in depth on how I feel about players.
• 14:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've traded about hundreds and on the all-fade list.
• 15:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I must say we're doing the all-fade list a little bit differently this year.
• 15:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: We have like a player fade list, which I'm like really, really spooked about the specific player, his talent, his situation.
• 15:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then Trayvon Henderson is on here for his price.
• 15:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's like a price fade for me.
• 15:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like I won't be taking him at the top twenty running back or top twenty two running back.
• 15:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if you just look at this paragraph right here, the biggest issue here is one people seem to be completely overlooking.
• 15:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Josh McDaniels is back as the Patriots is offensive coordinator.
• 15:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if there's one thing McDonald's has been consistent with across his entire career, it's using a running back by committee.
• 15:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you date all the way back to his early years as the OC in New England from O six to O eight, it was guys like Corridile and Lawrence Moroni working together Kevin Falk in the passing game.
• 15:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then you guys remember all those New England teams with him in New England.
• 15:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Throughout the years, it was a mix of Stephen Ridley and Danny Woodhead and Shane Green and Brandon Bolden and the Lageria Blunt and Dion Lewis and James White and Rex Burkett and Sonny Michelle and David Harris.
• 15:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: There is just always, always been a committee.
• 15:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: And there were a couple of times where he used the workhorse like Josh Jacobs in Las Vegas or no Sean Moreno, but look at those guys, compare him to Trayvon Henderson.
• 16:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: different style of backs.
• 16:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: He likes to use a one-two punch.
• 16:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Those guys are big bruiseers that could handle three down workload in the same vein as Remandre Stevenson.
• 16:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I have some friends that are beat reporters for the New England Patriots, and they're kind of echoing the same sentiment where it's like Remandre Stevenson is very clearly the short yardage and the early down back there.
• 16:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Where Trayvon Henderson is being used in a clear pass catching and like weaponry role.
• 16:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sure he'll have a roll on the ground for sure.
• 16:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's a good runner of the football, but if it's not a full PPR league where he gets a boost in our rankings for that, then I think you do need to be cautious with just how high you drift.
• 16:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: And again, he's a price fade for me, not a player fade.
• 16:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if he drops around or two in ADP and he's sitting there and you're like, okay, this is a good value.
• 16:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm fine with that, but he's not going to be like a top twenty back for me.
• 16:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: After that, we have Brian Robinson and Pacheco, a very similar situation where you're just likely to go line back in a very high scoring offense.
• 16:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: So like you get back your way into ten to twelve rushing touchdowns just because you're right place right time.
• 17:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: There is some risk of like jacquiri cross team.
• 17:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right eating into carries or some risk of for shards myth taking all the passing down roll and cream hunt being a short yardage guy there.
• 17:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: So you know, take that with what you want.
• 17:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: After them, I have Joe Nixon.
• 17:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was a massive loser over the last week or so with this foot injury news.
• 17:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: We don't know if he's going to be ready for the start of the season.
• 17:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: We don't know what his status is and it seems like there is some real concern out of Houston's camp right now.
• 17:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: So Nixon has dropped significantly in the rankings.
• 17:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was a top borderline top fifteen guy probably three weeks ago and now he's barely a top thirty running back for me.
• 17:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're going by our rankings, you're not going to get them.
• 17:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you could do that in your drafts as you could see.
• 17:36
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• 17:38
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• 17:46
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• 17:48
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• 17:51
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• 17:54
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• 17:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: We won't do it right now because we're sticking to the rankings, but you'll be able to see like their Vegas projection side by side.
• 18:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're offensive line ranks side by side, all that kind of stuff.
• 18:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: So like I was saying, if you're using our rankings in your draft, you're likely not going to get Joe Nixon.
• 18:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: After mixing, we have Tyrell and Tracy who I think starting to be underrated because the hype for Camp Scatobo was like really high even though as you could see, I do like Camp Scatobo as a sleeper slash breakout candidate.
• 18:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's going to be a split backfield, but I think people are forgetting just how good Tyrell and Tracy actually was as a runner last year.
• 18:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Remandre, I think is undervalued as you could see there.
• 18:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: If this Patriots offenses, as improved as we think it's going to be, there are an eight and a half wind team this year with, you know, major improvements to the offensive line.
• 18:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like that should also raise Ramanjari Stevenson's, you know, ceiling and floor combo.
• 18:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Judgins is kind of just like a stay away guy for right now.
• 18:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously very talented running back, but until we hear about his legal situation, he's still unsigned by the Cleveland Browns right now.
• 18:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know if that man is going to step on the field this year.
• 18:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, I'm okay drafting him if he drops outside like the top hundred, top hundred, ten, fifteen, twenty picks and you're just like,
• 18:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: throwing him on the bench and like hopefully he comes back in week six seven or eight or something like that like definitely fine with that but for right now you know if you're drafting early you're not taking him in the top like five six seven eight rounds camps get about really like him as a player don't know if he takes Tyrone Tracy over completely but I like the the upside kind of breakout chances they are for him Jordan Mason is another guy where if
• 19:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Minnesota Vikings are really really really high scoring team, which they have great personnel to do so and Mason becomes the goal line back.
• 19:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: He could score a bunch of touchdowns.
• 19:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've got Jalen Warren at thirty five and I've got Tank Biggsby at thirty six.
• 19:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I want to rank Biggsby higher.
• 19:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: He is getting a ton of hype at a camp as like the clear early down and featured runner of this offense, but he doesn't catch any passes.
• 19:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: So he gets a little bit of a doink in half and full PPR.
• 19:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: The other thing with Tank Biggs is like, do we actually project Jacksonville to be any good?
• 19:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because right now Vegas does not.
• 19:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: They are a seven and a half win team.
• 19:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: They do not have a great offensive line.
• 19:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: And they only got one prime time game.
• 20:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Any fun drafting players?
• 20:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: You got one time prime time game?
• 20:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: You get to watch them once throughout the year?
• 20:06
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• 20:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: We just threw that one in there for fun.
• 20:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, there you have it.
• 20:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Those are my top thirty six running back rankings.
• 20:11
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The name of the twenty-five players that have between six thousand and seventy-five hundred combined receiving yards.
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