0:00If you wanted to tell me that Jir Gibbs belongs in his own tier rest of season away from Walker Bejon, I wouldn't argue
0:08against it because Gibbs is averaging over 30 fantasy points per game right now. Publicly stated that he's going for LT's touchdown record. The dude looks
0:18insane as a receiver, as a rusher. This is a phenomenal offense. They use him in garbage time. They use him in every
0:25scenario. So, Gibbs could be in his own tier if you wanted to make the argument.
0:29The reason I'm going to put Kenneth Walker ahead of Bejian Robinson is I would expect their fantasy points per game numbers in the future to be
0:37relatively close, but the gap that is there for me is going to be that Kenneth Walker has already gone through his
0:45by-week. So, you're going to get one extra game played from Kenneth Walker in comparison to Bejon. Now, the reason I make these lists every week is try to
0:54help you with trade value. And typically if I'm going through and evaluating trades, I would care if I'm going to get
1:01another 10 games out of one player versus another nine when we're using it as tie breakers inside these tiers. But obviously all three of these running
1:10backs can't go wrong with any one of them. They're all incredible in their own right. Now moving over to the A
1:16tier, we are going to have Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan Taylor is the running back one for my own fantasy team.
1:23Disappointing week this past week. Not the end of the world. Toughest matchup.
1:27And ultimately, if we just look at the underlying volume, it's still there. The big plays haven't been, but realistically, this man has had 23, 28,
1:3626, 24, 19 opportunities. So, he's averaging about 23 24 opportunities per game. Obviously, he is an absolute stud as well. Going to Christian McCaffrey,
1:47the volume's been down both as a rusher and a receiver. Like, if we look at this season, he's averaging 12.2 2 carries
1:54per game, which is the fewest mark that we have seen since his rookie year. And he's also averaging five targets per
2:01game, which is the fewest mark that we have ever seen from McAffrey. So, he's clearly no longer an S tier level
2:07running back, which he was early um last year and really throughout all of last season. But this is still a great
2:16offense. He's still a capable receiving back, so he can't touch the top guys, but he's pretty damn close. Derrick Henry looks incredible. I I have no idea how
2:27he is still doing this. 33 years old, every other one of these older running backs, like Ezekiel Elliott, right? Zeke was drafted in the same draft class as
2:38Dererick Henry was. Ezekiel Elliott was an elite NFL running back. And Zeke fell off, let me pull this up. How many years
2:48ago the man last had a thousand yard rushing season in 2021? And Dererick Henry 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026. Five
2:59years later, is still one of the best running backs in the league. This Baltimore Ravens offense looks great.
3:04There's a damn good chance you get Lamar Jackson back this week as well. Um, definitely the best running back that I
3:10have ever seen play, at least career-wise. Now, going to Kiran Williams. Kairen is going to be playing in tonight's game. I mean, we can throw
3:20James Cook here at the very end as well.
3:22I will be live after tonight's game going through and talking about everything that happened, updating the rankings. Right now, expectations are
3:30this going to be an incredibly high-scoring contest. We pull up Poly Market US, you have a 62% chance that the Los Angeles Rams are going to be
3:39winning this game. Going over to the player props, 59% chance that Kairen scores a touchdown. only a 50% chance that you get that from James Cook. And
3:48then if we look at the PPR markets, Kairen has a 43% chance of scoring 19 or more points. James Cook 44% chance of
3:56scoring 16 or more. Now, if y'all follow the Flockley, you know I need Daltton Concaid to perform well so we can send
4:02that 5,000 to the animal shelter in Austin. But obviously, if you want to check out any of these markets, um you
4:08can find the link to Poly Market US in the description comment section live chat. Sign up promo code flock. can get
4:14$25 added to your account after you deposit your first 10. Available in every state outside of Nevada. Now, going to the B tier, we will have
4:23Javvante Williams locked and loaded. Is he the most talented running back in the world? Um, no, he is not. But with
4:32Javvante, the volume is consistent. Even in a game in which the Dallas Cowboys look horrific this past week, he still scores
4:4014 fantasy points. I mean, if we go through and look at this, he is averaging about 19 opportunities a game.
4:48So, he's just a must-start running back.
4:51Expecting that this Dallas Cowboys offense is still an above average offense in general. Going to Ashton Genty. Genty is probably the toughest
4:58player to rank right now. Genty this past week, you can't take anything from it because obviously probably shouldn't have played. I thought he wasn't playing
5:05after missing practice on Friday. Game time decision. He ends up suiting up. He only plays 53% of the snaps in an
5:11absolute blowout. He is yet to crack 20 fantasy points since week one and he's very clearly hindered by this ankle/foot injury. So, if we were to go through and
5:22try to rank him right now, it is just incredibly difficult without knowing the injury status. It's almost better off if you were to have Genty like miss a week
5:30or two and then get to be fully healthy going into the future. And then Chase Brown will be our last running back. I
5:38know everybody wants to sit here and say Chase Brown is absolute garbage. Chase Brown averaging only three and a half yards per attempt so far this season.
5:48The man has scored a total of what? One touchdown over the past five weeks.
5:54That's like a 100 opportunities for one TD. Here's my thing. This dude's still averaging close to 20 opportunities a game. I still expect that the Cincinnati
6:04Bengals have a very good offense. So, I would almost view Chase Brown and Javvante in a similar light at this point where I can go, yeah, I mean,
6:15yeah, Samaji P Ryan looks better. Maybe Chase Brown has his problems, but it's a good offense. Guaranteed touches and I think the touchdowns will be here in the
6:24future. So, if anything, interesting by low opportunity on Chase Brown, but I know I've said that over the past few weeks. Moving to the C tier. This is
6:32where things begin to flatten out a bit.
6:34These top 11 running backs are absolute jams. The Ctier Chuba Hubard. Huard looks incredible. The one question that I'm going to have is will he have this
6:45workload all season? Like is there any world and there's probably not one, but is there any world in which Jonathan Brooks gets healthy and then Jonathan
6:55Brooks comes out and has 30% of this Carolina backfield? If that doesn't exist, then Chuba Hubard is just a locked and loaded top 12 running back.
7:05Belongs in the B tier. He's averaging almost 20 fantasy points per game. While at the same time, this is a very good
7:12Carolina Panthers offense. Now, Jaylen Warren here, again, he would be up in the B tier as a set it and forget it at
7:19top 10 running back, which is what he has been over the past month in our weekly rankings. He's been a set it and
7:25forget it top 10 name, but that's been in the instance in which Rico Dattle was missing and Jaylen Warren went from
7:32playing 37% of the snaps week one to 90% 97% 87% over the past three weeks. Now, he I think he has proven himself
7:43talentwise to be by far and away the better running back between him and Dowel. But what I'd be worried is the
7:5090% snap rate that Warren's had with no Rico Dattle goes down closer to a 70% snap rate and this isn't an incredible
7:58offense. So I think Warren comes down to earth just a bit, but obviously he has cemented himself as the starting running
8:06back in Pittsburgh. Bucky Irving looked incredible this past week. Legitimately did. He had 24 total opportunities, multiple touchdowns,
8:16165 rushing yards. And after failing to crack eight fantasy points in back-to-back weeks, he dropped 31 on Thursday night with everybody watching.
8:25My hesitation here with Bucky is he's still operating in a committee. Like he only played 54% of the snaps this past
8:32week. He has not cracked 60% of the snaps for three weeks straight. And this still projects to be a pretty bad
8:38offense. So, while he looks great, I think you should be really happy if you have him, especially knowing that he had
8:44the 30-point bomb against a garbage defense like the Dallas Cowboys. I don't know if I can lock and load Bucky to be
8:49a top 10 running back rest of the way.
8:52DeAndre Swift would be much higher in these rankings if we had Kyle Manungai out for this season. Now, it seems like
9:00we're not going to get Kyle Manungai back for a few weeks, but DeAndre Swift hasn't cracked 20 fantasy points since week one. While Kyle Manungai is
9:07healthy, looks like it is going to be a running back by committee. Swift should have the receiving role between the two
9:12backs though. Then going to Breezall.
9:16Breezall still banged up. Damn good chance that Breezall is back this week or next week though. Keep in mind he's missed two weeks. If they thought he was
9:24going to miss four plus, there's a good chance that they would have just gone ahead and they would have thrown him on
9:28the IR but they didn't. Then going to Jeremiah Love. Jeremiah Love has probably been the most disappointing running back and he's definitely been
9:38the biggest follower over the past two weeks for me cuz like we go back against the NerS when Jeremiah Love had 22
9:45fantasy points and the man had 26 total opportunities. I thought this dude was here. I thought he had fully broken out.
9:54But that has gotten scaled back where now he plays fewer than 50% of the snaps in back-to-back weeks. Now, we only have
10:02one game so far from this season where he's played 50% or more of the snaps, and that was that San Francisco game.
10:09So, in our weekly rankings, they'll continue to be lower than this. But, of course, he's a rookie running back that was selected at number three overall.
10:16So, I'm going to assume that based on his talent profile, as the year goes on, he does take more and more away from
10:22Tyler Algier.
10:24Now, the last running back in this tier is going to be Bashel Tutin. Bashel Tutin is a talented running back that is
10:30the lead running back for a very good Jacksonville Jaguars football team. So I would like to have him a little bit
10:36higher here. But the problem that we would have with that is one he is getting squeezed for the receiving work from Laquent Allen and two Chris
10:44Rodriguez is going in there when they get to the goal line. Like Rodriguez had two total touches I believe this past
10:51week and both of them came inside the five yard line. So, um, Bashel Tudin, incredibly talented running back. I would like to have him a lot higher than
10:59this. And again, you could move him all the way up to 12 if you really wanted to. I just don't think you could take
11:03him over like Chase Brown, Genty, or Javvante. Now, moving down to our D tier, we are going to be looking at
11:09Readadre Stevenson. So, it does sound like Trevian Henderson's going to be missing a little bit of time with this ankle injury. And Ramad is probably
11:17going to be a mustart running back while you have no Trevian. Now once Trevian comes back in then at that point this is
11:24going to go back to being a running back by committee where I don't think Radre is that explosive of a player that
11:29efficient that talented of a player. So Raandre will fall back down to earth quite a bit but over the next few weeks
11:35with no Trevy on Henderson especially if this offense is better with Drake May playing wellre is probably going to be a
11:42mustard RB. Now Cam Scataboo is a very difficult ranking because there are two things working against his favor. one, he doesn't exactly have the volume you
11:52would like to see overall where we can go through and point this out, but he has only had one game this season with
11:5920 or more opportunities. The other thing with this is he just hasn't been scoring fantasy points. Cam Scataboo has had a total of zero games this year with
12:0815 or more points scored. So, it is a concern. I don't think the fumble at the end of the game is going to impact his
12:15workload much at all to be honest. But again, I would primarily be worried about just the overall volumes he's had coming into this. Now, going to Saquon
12:24Barkley, I wish I could be higher on him than I am here, but he's averaging five and a half fantasy points per game.
12:32While on top of this, he's dealing with the hamstring injury and the Philadelphia Eagles offense looks horrific with all the offensive line um
12:40injury trades, retirement that they've had. So, this is a decimated Eagles O line. This Eagles team looks much much worse at this point than they have been
12:49over the past few years. Saquon Barkley is injured. The benefit that you get with Barkley though is you have the injuries to Will Shipley and Tank Bsby
12:59really thinning out any competition you could possibly see from him. Now moving to Quinn Sean Judkins. got official word today that it sounds like Quinn Shan
13:10Judkins is daytoday with this foot ankle injury that he has. So, there's a chance that Judkins plays this week. Um, I'm
13:19going to move him down the rankings again as you can already see down at RB22 just because of the injury uncertainty because even best case
13:27scenario, he's a healthy running back that's probably not going to have a ton of receiving work for the Cleveland Browns offense. Now, moving to the E
13:34tier, these are the running backs that I would begin to like to bench if you can afford it in the right circumstance.
13:40Travis ETN is a riser in our rankings.
13:43Um, just very similar to AG Brown. When these guys get injured, I'm going to nuke them down significantly in our ranks. And every week that goes by,
13:53they're going to climb up slowly. ETN's missed two of the four games that he should. Um, so we're going to get him
13:59back in week nine. He's going to miss the next two weeks. then this team has the week eight buy and once he is fully
14:05healthy I think honestly I'd probably rather have ETN over some of these names like Judkins scat and Madre you would be
14:13lower on him if you did not have an IR slot Kyle Manungai here as well um he may miss the same amount of time that
14:20you're going to have with Travis ETN missing um Kyle Manungai is going to be on a better offense between the two Kyle
14:26Manungi is also most likely a much better running back as well, but not going to be used as a receiver. DeAndre
14:35Swift is very serious competition. And of course, this is the other injured running back. Aaron Jones typically would be way, way, way higher than this
14:43in our weekly rankings. But the problem is there's a damn good chance that we are going to be seeing the by-week this week for the Vikings
14:53and then Jordan Mason coming back in week seven. So, if that happens, if we do get those bullish reports about Jordan Mason, there's a damn good chance
15:02that Aaron Jones just no longer is startable. And then the last running back in this tier is going to be Josh
15:08Jacobs. We have no idea if Josh Jacobs is going to be back, but um if Jacobs is announced that he is having to serve a
15:16six-game suspension and the time on the comm commissioner's exempt list does count towards that, Jacobs could be back in like two weeks. So, um, if that
15:26happens, he's probably a mid-r running back, too, in my rankings. The offensive line here in Green Bay is horrific, though, so I wouldn't expect him to be
15:34like some big-time league winner. I know it seems like maybe we're a little too high on all these running backs that are
15:39ranked like 23 through 26. The fact of the matter is there are like 18 good running backs in fantasy football. These
15:47guys that are 18 and above, I would classify them as good RBs. 19 through 22 are okay running backs. And then outside
15:54of the top 22 running backs, none of these guys are good. Like Trevian Henderson at 27 is a committee handcuffed style running back that's
16:03currently injured. I'm not excited about him. RJ Harvey is legit even with Jonah Coleman being injured, seeing no work.
16:10He's had one game this year with more than three carries. He's only a receiving back. Olly Gordon is a touchdown or bust running back with no
16:17receiving usage in one of the worst offenses in the NFL. So, like the ceiling is just going to be capped for
16:23Gordon even if he'll give you usable weeks. Amari and Hampton just isn't playing. Amari and Hampton's playing for one of the worst offenses in
16:32the NFL. Played 30% of the snaps this past week, 35% of the snaps the week prior. Like, realistically, hindsight being 2020, Amari Hampton was probably
16:43the worst fantasy football pick in drafts this year. If we exclude injuries, then going to Zack Sherbanet.
16:51Um, Zack Sherbanet is going to consistently rise up these rankings every week that goes by. I don't expect him to be back um this week, next week.
17:00I think it's going to take a couple weeks here for him to return in maybe a month or six weeks for him to maybe be
17:06startable in fantasy. But I do think at this point he's probably the long-term running back one for the Seattle Seahawks. Then Jaka Kroski Merritt. He's
17:16averaging a target and a half per game and less than 50 rushing yards per game.
17:20He's averaging nine fantasy points per game. And we had Rashad White injured for a decent little stretch here. So there's just no world in which I'd ever
17:27want to start him. Jordan Mason, he's probably going to come in be a running back in a committee with Aaron Jones
17:35where Aaron Jones can have the receiving work, Jordan Mason won't. So I will almost view it very similar to like Jakori Krosky Merritt. And we don't know
17:42for sure the health of Jordan Mason.
17:45Blake Cororum as our next RB. Let me move myself over here so y'all can see this. Blake Cororm just a premium
17:51handcuff. Woody Marks a premium handcuff that actually probably does need a rise at this point because obviously looks like David McGomery is going to be
18:00missing the next few weeks. But the Houston Texans have a by-week in week eight. So my expectations will be probably Montgomery sits out week six,
18:09week seven. Woody Marx is playable over the next two and then goes back to being like a Jakori Crossra type where he's a
18:16committee running back in an offense you don't want anything to do with. David McGomery is the injured running back in that committee. Again, no world in which
18:22I want to start. McGomery is averaging 27 rushing yards per game. And then Emanuel Wilson is our last name here.
18:28I'm with Emanuel Wilson. He's going to be much higher in my weekly rankings this next week, but I'm worried that we
18:33get Zack Char coming in soon to turn this into a running back by committee.
18:37And then our last tier, Jadarian Price.
18:39It may be over by the time he comes back. Sharpet maybe has taken the back field. Tony Pard, I know this is
18:45incredibly low to rank him, but like this dude sees 15 opportunities a week and he's averaging eight and a half fantasy points per game. I would rather
18:52roll the dice than somebody like Zack Charbanet and just go, what if he can put it together? What if he can come
18:59back? Because you know what you get with Pard and it's nothing. Um, Brilan Allen maybe startable for another week or two
19:04until Bree is back. Then he goes to being nothing. Kalin Black is nothing unless CMC gets injured. Then he could be a league winner. JK Dobbins, yeah,
19:12he's the lead rusher for Denver. He's averaging seven fantasy points per game.
19:16There's nothing that could happen for me to put this dude in my lineup. Rico Dattle just looks like the handcuffed running back at this point to Jaylen
19:23Warren. Rashad White just looks like the handcuffed running back to JCM. Um, Brian Robinson handcuffed running back to Bejon. Tyler Algier handcuffed
19:32running back to Jeremiah Love. Katon Mitchell handcuffed running back to Amari Hampton. But obviously, you can reorder really any of these guys from 27
19:40to 47. They're all bad and I'm not excited about any of them. But I think that's all I got for you. I really
19:45appreciate you. I hope I was able to help you out in some way with this video. I really hope that your team is
19:50performing. You have a winning record.
19:52Your players are playing well.
19:53Hopefully, you don't have Amari and Hampton. But yeah, much love ladies and gentlemen. I really appreciate you. I'll be live during the game tonight on the
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