0:00I have to admit Jir Gibbs is the only running back that rest of season can be put inside the S tier. Nobody comes
0:06close. He's averaging 28 fantasy points per game. The usage is sitting with 22 carries a game and six and a half
0:14targets. This man's averaging almost 29 opportunities per contest. He just went insane in the toughest matchup possible against the Minnesota Vikings. He's the
0:25best player in fantasy. Nobody sniffs him. And yeah, let's move over to the A tier where things begin to flatten out a
0:31bit. Now, we've moved Kenneth Walker up to our running back to a while ago.
0:35Obviously, over the past two weeks, he has been disappointing. He scored nine points at Seattle. He scored 12 and a half against the Denver Broncos. Now,
0:45I'd love to say, oh, I I made the good call in trading away Kenneth Walker for Justin Jefferson before the season
0:51started. Obviously, I didn't. Obviously, it was the worst trade that's ever been made. But regardless, um I think that there are some reasons to be concerned
1:00that he may not hit the same ceiling that we've had with Gibbs now that you are seeing Emit Johnson get used in
1:06obvious passing down scenarios. The Walker usage is still incredible though.
1:10He's still averaging like 25 opportunities a game in a really good Kansas City Chiefs offense. Now moving to Bejian Robinson. Bean has scaled back
1:20as well. You look over the past four weeks, he has yet to score more than 17 fantasy points in those four weeks. But
1:28if anything, this is just a massive boow opportunity on the season. He's still averaging about 19 carries a game and four targets per contest. It's just been
1:37the touchdowns haven't been there. This past week was obviously the weirdest game environment ever where you're playing in a freaking hurricane. So, I
1:45think that Bejon's going to be a-ok.
1:46Okay. Going into the future. Christian McCaffrey coming out of the bye-week. It will be very important to monitor the practice reports. Now, I know y'all
1:55clowned on me for the trade I made last week where what I did is I took TJ Hawinson and Kalon Black and traded for
2:04Jadarian Price and $100 FAB. I essentially profited like $80 FAB, picking up Hawinson and trading him away immediately and then flipped from the
2:13backup in San Fran to the backup in Seattle. Now, the concern that I had with that trade is Christian McCaffrey did hurt his hamstring before the
2:23by-week, but he was saying that he was going to be fine coming out. And if you believe him, obviously, you should be
2:29fine ranking him as a top five running back. The usage stays great. Now, Jonathan Taylor is a running back that is on my own fantasy team. And I will be
2:38honest, if Jonathan Taylor remains an Indianapolis Colt, this is a horrible ranking. If Jonathan Taylor remains an Indianapolis Colt, he is a C-tier
2:50running back because he is stuck in the worst offense in the NFL. But if I just pull up a prediction market right now
2:56that has almost $1.4 million in volume at about 4:15 p.m. Central time on Monday, we can see that it's being priced in that Jonathan Taylor is out of
3:08Indianapolis for sure. The favorites to land JT are the Broncos at a 33% chance.
3:15the Vikings at a 19% chance. There's a 15% chance he stays in Indie. 13% chance he goes to the Giants, 12% chance he
3:24goes to the Seahawks, 6% he goes to the Packers, 4% the Cincinnati Bengals, and 2% the New England Patriots. But essentially, Jonathan Taylor will either
3:34be a Seahawk, a Giant, a Viking, a Bronco, or an Indianapolis Colt. Again, he stays with the Colts. He has to
3:41plummet. Now, James Cook will be the last running back in this tier. The receiving usage is worse for James Cook than any other running back that we have
3:48talked about so far, averaging only two and a half targets per game, but this is a phenomenal phenomenal offense. Now,
3:57going over to our Btier running backs, I'm going to be led off with Kairen Williams. Now, if you look at the Kairen
4:04usage, what is weird is over the past two weeks, the receiving marks have come down dramatically. like he had a four-game stretch where he was averaging
4:13over eight targets per game and now over the past two weeks he's had three total targets but this is still a very good
4:21Los Angeles Rams offense and you still have Kairen averaging almost 20 opportunities a game clearly Blake Corb is getting some work and clearly the
4:30Rams aren't as good as they were last season though so I don't think Kairen can be an A tier running back now Juba
4:36Hubard is working himself into being that A tier back But I will pull this up briefly. At this point, I think it's
4:44safe to say that Jonathan Brooks is most likely going to be nothing, and I mean nothing at all. But the quote that we
4:53had regarding Jonathan Brooks that came out today was um he quote unquote has some things to clear recovery-wise, but could
5:03potentially have his practice window open this week. Now, I think at this point, again, Jonathan Brooks has proven to be nothing at all in the NFL. Chuba
5:12Hubard is a threedown workhorse that is averaging 80% of the snaps for the Carolina Panthers so far this season and is the running back five in points per
5:23game. So, he's absolutely incredible. I have less faith in the Panthers offense rest of season in comparison to some of these other offenses like the Rams, the
5:32Bills, the NerS. So that's why I'm gonna have Chuba Hover a little bit lower than some of these other guys, but he looks
5:38good. Then Javvante Williams here is in a good offense, very similar to what we talked about with Ky. I don't know why
5:45if this continues to track with Javvante that the receiving volume's going down.
5:50That will be a massive concern because over the past three weeks, Javvante's had three total receptions.
5:56So obviously that's hurting in a full PPR format. It's led to Javvante not being as strong of a fantasy options recently as he has been. But regardless,
6:08this is somebody that is getting 20 plus touches a game in a good offense. Now, moving to our next guy with Bashel
6:14Tuton. Beel Tutin um continues to look like he is just getting better and better coming out of the buy. Don't look
6:21at the usage at all with his snap data against the Indianapolis Colts. This game was a blowout. Yeah, you had some
6:28other running backs like Chris Rodriguez getting here at the end. Um, what we have seen is Bashel Tutton is the lead
6:34running back in a very, very good offense and he's getting used more as a receiver later in the season in comparison to what we saw at the
6:41beginning of the year. So, I think Bashel Tuten is somebody that you should be very excited for. And then Bucky Irving you should be very excited for as
6:48well. Back-to-back games with 20 plus carries, the target volume is much lower for Bucky than I would have expected.
6:55like Bucky Irving right now is averaging fewer than 10 receiving yards per game, but I actually think that's going to be
7:01something that could get better for Bucky Irving going into the future. So, yeah, he is definitely a running back one rest of season, especially if this
7:08Tampa Bay Buccaneers offense is able to run the ball consistently with how good their defense has performed. Now, moving to our C tier, we are going to be led
7:17off with Derrick Henry. I know I talked about this previously and I showed this previously when we talked about Zay Flowers. You just have to dramatically
7:26adjust how you are viewing this Baltimore Ravens offense going into the future. Essentially, Lamar Jackson is out for the rest of the fantasy season.
7:35Plus, at the same time, Tyler Huntley is going to miss extended time. Now, I don't expect the third string Joe Schmo
7:42quarterback that they had as their emergency option this past week is the quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens over the next month. Most likely, this
7:49team's making a play to go out there and get like Jacobe Brassette. But regardless, again, you have to lower your expectations dramatically.
7:58Like if we go back and look at the odds that we had for this Ravens offense against Jacksonville before the Lamar
8:05injury, um Baltimore was at like a 58% chance of winning on Thursday. After Lamar went down, the Ravens now have like a 21% chance. If you just look at
8:15the early lines, the Baltimore Ravens on the Poly Market app are higher lowers 16 and a half total points scored. This is
8:24an offense that's going projected from a top five offense every week to now looks like a bottom five offense. If they
8:31bring in Jacobe or they bring in another quarterback like that, it will help some, but it's still going to be bad
8:36regardless. And obviously if you want to check out any of those markets, you can find the link to the Poly Market app in
8:42the description as well as the comment section. If you sign up with promo code Flock, you'll get $25 added to your
8:47account after you deposit your first 10.
8:50Now going to DeAndre Swift. DeAndre Swift I am rooting for heavily tonight.
8:55We'll see what happens. I'm going to be live right after the game recapping everything that just happened. But what I'm expecting is DeAndre Swift to get a
9:05ton of volume because you have no Kyle Manung guy this week. So no Kyle Manung guy, DeAndre Swift's going to smash.
9:11Jaylen Warren obviously was smashing early in the season with no Rico Dattle.
9:15Like if you look at the involvement of Warren in this offense, he peaked up at 90% 97% 87% of the snaps, but he has
9:26declined for four straight weeks from 87% 75% 63% 58%. Rico Dattle is definitely now getting involved. Now Jaylen Warren straight up looks like one
9:38of the best running backs in the NFL. So he is able to stay afloat, but it is a concern seeing the Rico Dattle usage to
9:45say the least. Now with Ashton Genty, it is almost impossible to rank him.
9:52This man this past week just saw a career low two carries in a game. He was used exclusively as the receiving back
10:01here for the Las Vegas Raiders. Do I expect this to be the case rest of season? I probably don't. I think that
10:08realistically Genty is going to be able to work himself back up. I do think that he is a better player than Mike
10:14Washington. If you drafted him in round one, you should be very, very concerned.
10:19Again, I think at best you're ranking him as a running back, too, right now, just because even in a game in which he
10:25only has two carries and at the same time, like he doesn't score a touchdown, he's still getting to double digit fantasy points because he's such a good
10:34receiver out of the backfield. And if he somehow someway does get this ankle right and all of a sudden looks better,
10:41you could see him, of course, just expand his points per game in the future. Josh Jacobs does not look good from a real life perspective, but it may
10:50not matter because the volume is really strong. Now, additional legal stuff and additional accusations dropped with Josh Jacobs this past week. They're making it
11:00sound like, hey, they knew about this all along. They're not going to care.
11:04They're going to let Josh Jacobs continue to go out there and be their guy. But Jacobs, through the first two games that he has played, he has
11:12expanded his role. He went from 52% of the snaps against Detroit to 71% of the snaps against Carolina. He's had seven
11:21and six targets in both those games. And he's dropped 20 plus fantasy points in both of them as well. So the offensive
11:27line very bad here for the Green Bay Packers. Josh Jacobs doesn't look that good himself, but frankly he is just going to be an absolute jam regardless.
11:37Now Chase Brown, the last running back in this tier. I know we have talked about Chase Brown being a by low
11:43candidate every single week pretty much this season. Every single week what happens with Chase Brown is the Cincinnati Bengals prove that they are a
11:51great offense. They give Chase Brown a ton of work especially as a receiver.
11:56Like so far this season he's averaging six targets a game, 13 and a half carries per game. And every single week
12:02he fails to score a touchdown and he disappoints us. He's eventually going to score though. Now it is a concern obviously I have him ranked
12:13lower than where you drafted him that you are getting Sam perin on the field.
12:17It does suck but I still have faith rest of season here that Chase Brown is going to get better. He's a three down running
12:26back in a very good offense with the receiving role. There are very few of those players in the NFL nowadays. Now
12:33your Ctier running backs and above are the guys that you know you're starting every week. You don't overthink it. the Dtier running backs and below. This is
12:41where it gets a little interesting. So, the reports regarding Bree Hall are that he is going to be playing this week,
12:48they are saying that he is good to go.
12:51Don't worry about it. He's going to be out there.
12:54But with that in mind regarding Breeze, if he stays in New York Jet, I think we have seen enough from Brilen Allen where
13:03there is no way in hell they just send Brillan Allen to the sideline. Like Bree Hall is going to get everything as a
13:09receiver, which I definitely thinks him makes him the more interesting player between the two, but you can't put the cat back in the hat when it comes to
13:18Brillin Allen at this point. Brilen Allen is going to be involved regardless. Now, moving to Jonah Coleman. Again, I'm going to be a little
13:28hesitant on this Jonah Coleman ranking, primarily due to what we have surrounding the Jonathan Taylor trade rumors. Again, at the time of this
13:38recording, um it is a possibility that Jonathan Taylor goes to the Denver Broncos and that makes Jonah Coleman completely irrelevant. It is unlikely
13:49that that happens. So, if you have Jonah Coleman, I think you should be very excited for the time being where it
13:54looks like you have a straightup league winner, but again, I don't necessarily know if you can write that in stone and
14:00say that it's for sure happening. Then with Saquon Barkley, Barkley came out this past week. He only played 32% of the snaps. Um, this offense is clearly
14:10very bad. They're going to have a game against the Giants, then they get a buy, then maybe afterwards, Saquon Barkley is
14:16fully healthy. I am ranking Barkley here with the expectations that I know they're saying he's not going to get traded, but is there a chance that he
14:25gets dealt to a different team? And if that does happen, obviously I think you should be more excited about him. Now,
14:32moving to our E tier, we'll be let off with Jeremiah Love. Jeremiah Love has another ankle injury. I have no idea
14:40what the update's going to be in terms of the timeline here, but there is a very real possibility that you have to
14:46prepare yourself for Jeremiah Love missing another month. And this may or may not be a wasted season for him, which just absolutely sucks for a player
14:55that was selected inside the top three picks of the NFL draft. The saving grace is after the week 14 buy for the Arizona
15:02Cardinals. They have a very good schedule with the Jets, the Saints, the Raiders, like three games in which the Cardinals could potentially go out there
15:10and win, which obviously would be good for the running back. Raandre Stevenson so far this season has had the best run
15:18out possible. He's gotten to play half the year with Trevon Henderson injured and with no other pass catchers. So, they have to give him these gimmicky
15:26screens coming out of the back field.
15:28So, in the best setup you could possibly have for Raadre Stevenson, what has he done? He has been the running back 21 in
15:37fantasy points per game. So, in games in which you have no Trevian, I'm going to continue to rank her Madre probably as a
15:43must-art running back based off volume and volume alone. But once we get Trevian back, I'm afraid Trevian Henderson maybe takes 20 to 30% of this
15:52backfield. And then at that point, obviously, we could be a little worried.
15:56Now, Quinn Sean Judkins is a very difficult ranking because he's just up and down, up and down, up and down, right? You go back week four, he drops
16:0621 points. Then immediately after he scores eight, then the next game he scores 23. The game after he scores seven. Here's the setup with Judkins,
16:16Scataboo, and Olly Gordon. Judkins and Olly Gordon are running backs and bad offenses that are not going to catch the ball. So they are touchdown or bust
16:25players. The setup that you have with Cam Scoutaboo is they are not using him out of out of the backfield as a
16:34receiver. He is averaging only 1.9 targets per game. And there is a nonzero% chance that this team goes out there and they trade for Jonathan
16:42Taylor. Again, not the most likely outcome, but it is a possibility here when you're valuing these guys in trade.
16:49Now moving to Tony Pard.
16:52Pard's looked phenomenal for three weeks straight in terms of his usage. He's had 20 plus opportunities in every single game, back-to-back um games with a top
17:03three running back finish. But what did that take? That took Taji Spears being removed from this offense, which obviously allowed Pard to consolidate
17:13his volume. Now, I'm going to be honest.
17:16I don't know if Tony Pard has all of a sudden turned the corner and Tony Pard is a leaguewinning running back because
17:22he's had two very solid weeks because we have seen Tony Pard for years now in Tennessee be disappointing and my base
17:32expectation with him would still be this is a running back that you can be excited to start when you're dealing with by-weeks and when you have no Taji
17:40Spears, but when Spears comes back, he is just a desperation guy that you know is going to get cheap volume. Now, for
17:48Travis ETN, I personally have Travis ETN on my own fantasy team. He actually kind of looked like he was piecing it
17:54together against the Raiders in week three, then he goes down with the hamstring and then we are told he's going to be out for a couple weeks. Then
18:02what ends up happening, of course, is Travis CTN ends up landing on the IR.
18:08So, he missed weeks four, five, six, seven, right? Those were the games he missed on the IR. He's eligible to return now. Week eight, he had a buy. So
18:20Travis Etien with this hamstring injury just sat out five weeks. The report we got from Kell Moore on Monday was that
18:28they are going to evaluate Travis ETN, Jordan Tyson in um the locker room on Monday to determine if they are going to
18:36be able to practice on Wednesday. So hopefully we get the practice window open for Travis ETN. I need him for my
18:44own team. I would absolutely love to have him back. Um, but we'll see if it happens. As it stands today, he wasn't
18:53great before he went down with an injury. And if he does come back, he's probably splitting with Alvin Kamar to a
18:58certain extent. Now, moving over to Kyle Manungai as our last running back. I think when he is good to go, he is going
19:06to be the secondary player here running alongside DeAndre Swift. DeAndre Swift's going to be the running back that gets the receiving work. Kyle Manungai is
19:14going to be more so a first and second down grinder. But obviously if you were to get an injury to DeAndre Swift, Kyle
19:21Manungai turns into a league winner. Now moving over to our F tier, we'll have Rashad White. I personally have Rashad White on my own team. I think it's going
19:30to be very important to see what the Jeremy McNichols stuff is because if Jeremy McNichols is going to end up um
19:37missing some time and we obviously already have Jakori Cross on the IR then at that point it will just be Rashad
19:44White and Austin Eckler and I'd be more excited about White. I started him this past week. I feel grateful that we got
19:50the touchdown. Um, but realistically, I don't know if we can be excited if McNichols is playing and he's in a three-man running back by committee.
20:00Like going over to Amarian Hampton, I'm not excited about Amarian Hampton, who's also in a threeman running back by committee in the worst offense in the
20:08NFL. Blake Cororm, honestly, you could make an argument should be higher than this. Very similar to what you have with Kyle Manungi, right? where he is
20:19startable when you need need somebody, but obviously you're never that excited to put him in your lineup. However, if you were to get an injury to Kairen
20:29Williams, Blake Cororm does turn into a league winner. Then Zack Sharbanet and Jerian Price were going to rank here at 32 33. My base expectations for these
20:39running backs coming back from injury will be that Zack Charbanet is slowly ramped up. Charbanet is probably the running back one in this backfield. But
20:50also, there is no certainty because Zack Charbanet is coming back from his torn ACL faster than any running back since 2012 with Adrien Peterson. So, there is
21:02still very much concern regarding this Charbanet recovery. And Jarian Price did not look good at the beginning of the season. There's a nonzero% chance that
21:10this is also a threeman running back by committee where nobody's interesting.
21:14Okay. Now, Rico Dattle, also very similar to Blake Corbin, right? If you're desperate, you can put him in your lineup. If you get an injury to
21:23Jaylen Warren, it looks like he turns into a league winner. And then Brilen Allen, um, looks unbelievable. You can make a strong argument that Brilen Allen
21:32needs to be higher than this. My holdup is going to be that I would expect once Breece is back that Breece is going to
21:39be the running back that gets absolutely everything as a receiver. and Brilland Allen's kind of second fiddle in a committee for the New York Jets. So,
21:47that's going to be my hesitation with Brilan. But, if we got Bree Hall traded, which the reports are saying right now
21:55that's not going to happen. My expectations as of today are going to be that Jonathan Taylor's traded, Saquon Barkley, and Bree Hall both stay with
22:03their own teams. Um, but Bree was traded. Brilen Allen jumps up to being probably like RB 11, RB1 12 in that
22:11range. So, he probably should be higher in these ranks. And then the guys I wouldn't be that excited about, Jordan Mason just got absolutely
22:20mogged with his snaps this past week by DJ freaking Dallas. Jordan Mason had 28% of the snaps. David McGomery, we don't
22:28even have an update on if he's going to be good to come back this week. Seth McGawan, I obviously picked up off the
22:34waiverwire this past week just in case Jonathan Taylor gets traded, which I expect to be the case. Then at that point, Seth McGawan's the starter for
22:41the Colts, unless the Colts get a running back in return. But the problem I'm going to have, like whenever I'm deciding to start Seth McGowan or not
22:48after JT's traded is realistically, if we're not excited about Jonathan Taylor in the worst offense in the NFL, how can we be excited about Seth McGowan? Tyler
22:58Algier is super super interesting this week if you have both Bam Knight and Jeremiah Love missing. But if we end up
23:06getting Bam Knight back and Tyler Algier's right back to being in a running back by committee in Arizona, it won't be that exciting. But if both
23:14those running backs miss, Algier may be a top 12 running back in my rankings this week. Now, Mike Washington um isn't
23:22getting anything as a receiver. He's had one game with more than 10 fantasy points and he had 11 in that one.
23:26Obviously expanded his role greatly here this past week, though. Then Woody Marks at 41.
23:34We'll see what the update is with David McGomery. I personally do expect McGomery to most likely be back this week. Trevian Henderson looks like at
23:42this point he is just going to be a premium handcuff running back if you were to get an injury to Raadre. And
23:49then Aaron Jones as our last running back. Um maybe at this point, honestly, we need to flip Aaron Jones and Jordan
23:56Mason based on the usage we saw this past week. So we're going to flip Aaron Jones and Jordan Mason with these ranks.
24:01And then let me see if we have to make any other adjustments. Kayn Black just a premium handcuff. If Christian McCaffrey
24:07is not practicing this week, Kale Black will be a massive, massive riser. Then going to Emit Johnson, premium handcuff.
24:13If you would have a Kenneth Walker injury, IT Johnson wins leagues. RJ Harvey on the injured reserve. Brian Robinson an injured handcuff. I mean, we
24:22did see the 25point game earlier in the season. Kenneth Gainwell handcuff if Bucky goes down. JK Dobbins is a turd and then Alvin Kamara is a handcuff if
24:34Travis CTN's still hurt that has a cap ceiling. But I think that's all I got for you. I really appreciate you. Hope I
24:40was able to help you out in some way with this. So damn excited to see the game tonight. I'll be live on the Flock
24:44League channel watching the game with all of y'all. I'll be live um right after the game talking about what happened. So, please, if you haven't
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