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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast fantasy football takes on Jadarian Price
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All The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast insights about Jadarian Price
NegativeRoleJul 7, 2026
JJ Zachariason groups Jadarian Price with backs who lack balanced workload capacity and don't have the range of outcomes to handle both carries and targets. Price is a fade candidate because he cannot replicate the emerging balanced-role archetype that defines the modern RB2 landscape; he lacks the dual-threat profile needed to be relevant.NegativeProjectionJul 2, 2026
JJ Zachariason cautions against comparing Jadarian Price to first-round running backs like B.J. Robinson or Jameer Gibbs; Price is more comparable to second-round backs like Ramondre Stevenson or Jalen Warren. Market score likes him in the Stevenson/Warren tier rather than the year-two tier (Judkins, Tootin). His DraftKings ADP is around pick 61 (end of fifth round), roughly a full round and a half below where he's being drafted in some circles. However, Zachariason expresses concern about justifying Price's draft value based on teammate competition rather than his own talent; Price has never been a lead back in his career, and reports of committee involvement with George Helani and Emmanuel Wilson create volatility. Zachariason cautions against using the 'who else is going to get the volume' argument repeatedly, as it's a hallmark of running back busts. Market score for Price is 24.3 (compared to Caleb Johnson's 20.4), which is bad for where he's being drafted. Zachariason doesn't expect the Caleb Johnson outcome because Price has better draft capital and the Steelers have shown they can use multiple backs effectively (Jalen Warren, Kenny Gainwell), but cautions against assuming lack of competition means safety. Despite these concerns, Zachariason will target Price when he falls into the Ramondre Stevenson/Jalen Warren tier; in a recent DraftKings draft, Price fell to pick 70 (seventh round), and Zachariason built a strong zero-RB team around him with Jackson Smith-Njigba, creating a Seattle stack. At that price point, he views Price as a value play.NegativeProjectionJul 2, 2026
JJ Zachariason cautions against clustering Jadarian Price with front-half first-round running backs; Price was drafted at the end of the first round and historically back-half first-round RBs significantly underperform front-half picks. Zachariason ranks Price closer to second-round RB archetypes like Ramondre Stevenson and Jalen Warren than to year-two backs like Bijan Robinson or Trey Judkins. Price has never demonstrated lead-back production at any level, and reports of other running backs being involved in Seattle's backfield make sense given his profile; Zachariason cautions against using teammate competition as the primary justification for drafting Price rather than his own talent, citing this as a pattern that leads to busts. He describes Price as 'a highly volatile prospect' with a wide range of outcomes and expects his ADP to continue slipping from the end of the fifth round (around pick 61 on DraftKings) into the sixth-round range as reports of backfield competition circulate. Price's scary comp is Caleb Johnson from 2025; both are rookies with similar market scores (Price 24.3 vs. Johnson 20.4), and while a market score of 24 isn't inherently horrible within the top-120 context, it is bad for where Price is being drafted.