RB Fantasy Football Draft Rankings & Tiers | Must-Have Targets & Busts To Avoid (Ep. 2016)
5/9/202641 min
Select your ball carriers with confidence! Join Chris Welsh, Pat Fitzmaurice and Tera Roberts as they break down their RB fantasy football draft rankings and tiers for the 2026 NFL season.
Is Atlanta Falcons RB Bijan Robinson about to break his own personal bests? What's the ceiling for Arizona Cardinals RB Jeremiyah Love as a rookie? Plus, does Green Bay Packers RB Josh Jacobs deserve more respect?
The Pros share their favorite running back must-have targets and busts to avoid!
Timestamps: (May be off due to ads)
Intro - 0:00:00
FantasyPros ECR Rankings - 0:00:26
Running Backs 1-12 - 0:03:01
FantasyPros Discord - 0:16:11
Running Backs 13-24 - 0:16:58
Running Backs 25-38 - 0:29:11
Outro - 0:39:23
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First 90 secondsHarry Styles· Soundbite0:00
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Chris Welsh· Host0:34
[upbeat music] What's up, friends? And welcome back to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Football Podcast. It's the Early Rank series. We did wide receivers. Today, we've got running back. Top 36 running backs we're gonna be talking all through. I'm Chris Welsh. I've got Pat Fitzmaurice and Tara Roberts with me. We are gonna be going and looking at the tiers. We're gonna be looking at targets, what are the values, and really what does the consensus ranks look like? Those consensus ranks you can find at fantasypros.com/rankings where it is our team, it is people around the industry. They're putting all these bad boys down. It creates a fun consensus ranks, and throughout the next couple months, it's gonna continue to change. So this conversation continues to go, and maybe it'll even be driven, some of the change might be driven by some of the conversations we are gonna have here today. Tara Roberts, running backs. Always a great conversation around do I take wide receivers at the top and they're more chalky?