FantasyPros - 13 Running Back Draft Decisions That Will Define Your 2026 Fantasy Football Season (Ep. 2081)
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What's up, friends, and welcome to Fantasy Pros, the fantasy football podcast with tough decisions, specifically for running backs. 13 big, tough decisions in your drafts you're dealing with. You're trying to make between the first round and the end what running back to take. Well, we have got Tara Roberts and Jake Seeley here that are going to be answering those questions because there's some difficult ones. Maybe, you know, the very tippy top isn't that. But whether it's a two running back decision, three RBs, who to take, we've got the answers for you with the toughest of tough questions. Mr. Jake Seeley, are running backs really that tough for you this year? Or do you feel just clarity across the board and wherever you're going to take them, even if it's going to be in the later rounds?
I think there's a clarity in the fact that I feel more set about my tiers than I ever have over. So if you look at the athletic too, with like projections, everything, there's like more clear cutoffs and it's not just, Oh, the next drop off running back is 20 points behind. It's like the next running back starts this collection of messy backfields or the next collection starts a rookie with competition alongside of them. Like it's just, it's, there's a very segmented group. So I don't think we necessarily have to, to get a running back around one or two of those like that's not the be all end all but i think coming out of the first three rounds with at least one so when you get to the fourth fifth sixth round we've called the dead zone whatever it might be you can kind of say you know what i don't have to force myself for a running back i can take the value at wide receiver and have four wide receivers or take one of the early tight ends because you're not chasing at that point where i think a lot of teams are going to be coming out of drafts with two running backs in the fourth to sixth round and kind of be feeling frustrated in the end anyway
Yeah, Tara, this experiment that we're going to get into where, you know, it's literally going to be we're going to look at the variation of around the running backs that exist in there. And then we are going to have a who would you rather? That's what this is going to look like in doing this experiment. Did you find any that surprised you or any surprise revelations that came from having these discussions of running backs?
Yeah, I did have one. I always love doing this stuff because it really allows you to, you know, bump players up together and really think about and say, hey, wait, maybe I should adjust my rankings on this. So yeah, I'm with Jake. This is a this is fun format. Running backs are they're fun and a little bit more clear this season, a lot more clear than last season. I'll say that.
Well, if you guys want to check out whether it's ranks or ADP, make sure you go to Fantasy Pro. You can go to fantasypros.com slash ADP, fantasypros.com slash NFL slash rankings. You can check out that. You can switch between the tabs. You can kind of see the guys that we're talking about. Obviously, we're using the overall ranks and the ADPs over on Fantasy Pros to kind of dictate where these players are. So, of course... there can be a variation to their values or what sites are going on, but just follow us. So let's just dive right into this, the tough running back decisions that you have got to make this year.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–13:20
2
Who should I pick first overall: Bijan Robinson or Jahmyr Gibbs?
13:20–24:51
3
Which mid‑first round RB is the safest: Christian McCaffrey, Jonathan Taylor, or James Cook?
24:51–49:21
4
Should I draft Ashton Jeanty or DeʼVon Achane at the 1‑2 turn?
49:21–1:01:41
Speakers
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