Aug
31
2010
Preseason Running Back Rankings 2.0: CJ Stays On Top
POSTED BY Big Jim | 1 Comment »
- Chris Johnson
- Adrian Peterson
- Maurice Jones-Drew
- Frank Gore
- Ray Rice
- Michael Turner
- Steven Jackson
- DeAngelo Williams
- Rashard Mendenhall
- Shonn Greene
- Jamaal Charles
- Ryan Grant
- Cedric Benson
- Ryan Mathews
- Pierre Thomas
- LeSean McCoy
- Beanie Wells
- Jahvid Best
- Jonathan Stewart
- Joseph Addai
- Knowshon Moreno
- Ronnie Brown
- Matt Forte
- Arian Foster
- Felix Jones
- Ahmad Bradshaw
- Fred Jackson
- Justin Forsett
- CJ Spiller
- Jerome Harrison
- Ricky Williams
- Clinton Portis
- Reggie Bush
- Marion Barber
- Michael Bush
- Brandon Jacobs
- Carnell Williams
- LaDainian Tomlinson
- Donald Brown
- Thomas Jones
- Chester Taylor
- Montario Hardesty
- Darren Sproles
- Tim Hightower
- Darren McFadden
- Steve Slaton
- Laurence Maroney
- Fred Taylor
- Kareem Huggins
- Marshawn Lynch
[...] This year certainly looks to continue an unfortunate trend. Year in and year out, the running back position was by far the most important for your fantasy team’s trip to the playoffs. Their importance to us has not changed; but the reliability of the average running back to productive has gone way down. When you look at the top of your draft boards you will almost always see the same 5 or 6 names going first and they are all running backs. The problem is that since offenses are becoming pass-first and the popularity of splitting carries between two or three backs is still increasing, the consistency of the 7th through 15th ranked RB’s is lowered. Ten years ago during the 2000 season there were 16 different RBs that got at least 275 carries, but last year only had 7. You can get my updated RB rankings here. [...]