You want to win your fantasy league, right?

Now, one way to do that is by identifying breakout players, but it's easier said than done.

But lucky for you, I've already done the heavy lifting.

Here are the top 10 breakout running backs for 2023.

And we begin with the number 10 player, a rookie from the Detroit Lions, Jamir Gibbs.

Now, Gibbs has the ability to be the next Kamara or CMC, meaning a rookie who

finishes as a top 10 back. Gibbs currently goes as the 36th overall player, the running back 15.

He's often taken around three or four. This is a nice spot for him, because this dude is

electric. As you can see right here in his final year at Alabama, Gibbs between his rushing yards

over 900, receiving yards over 400,

had nearly 1,400 total yards. But more importantly, what I want to look at is this. Despite

playing at two different schools, Georgia Tech and Alabama, Gibbs every single year, his target

share was above 10% reaching 14 and 13% in his final two years, well above the running back average.

Gibbs actually earned 15% of his team's

targets in college, ranking top 10% of all time. So his most impressive skill set is his receiving

ability, and let's dive a little deeper. Because in 2022, Gibbs last year was top five in running

back usage, how often he was running routes and seeing targets and efficiency. And just a year

before that,

at Georgia Tech before transferring to Alabama in 2021, he led every single running back in

efficiency and usage. Now there's more good news because the Lions drafted Gibbs in the first

round, but not just the first round, a top 12 pick. And this is important because as Alex

Crusoe points out on Twitter, rookies drafted this early are seeing a 77% finish rate in the top 24 backs and over 60% of the time finishes a top 12 back.

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