FantasyPros Articles on Jonathon Brooks

Healthy Brooks has superior talent to Hubbard; sneaky upside if he wins the starting job.

Brooks was drafted 46th overall in 2024 as the first RB in his class and drew comparisons to young Aaron Jones at Texas before suffering two ACL tears (one in senior season, one in late 2024). After missing all of 2025 rehabbing, he is now deemed fully healthy and competing for the starting role opposite Chuba Hubbard, who lost his job last year to Rico Dowdle after his YPC cratered. The source views Brooks as the superior talent who could usurp the job in short order and affords him sneaky upside for managers willing to risk his injury history, with the Panthers sure to give him plenty of touches in 2026.

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