If you want to win your fantasy league this year, there's a decent chance you're going to have to hit on some breakout rookie running backs.

But not the obvious ones that everyone's talking about like Amarion Hampton or Ashton Genti.

Instead, we're going to dive into five running backs today that you should be drafting.

And these are the types of guys that your league mates probably aren't going to prioritize as much.

And let's get into it with the San Francisco 49ers fifth round running back pick

and Jordan James out of Oregon. And here's what I'll say, right? Every single time and every year we see

the 49ers in Kyle Shanahan, they can't help themselves. Whether it's the third, fourth, or fifth

round, they're taking a guy. And specifically with Jordan James, they traded up to take him in the

fifth round. Yeah, they traded up, meaning up that they gave some sort of value in draft capital to go up and get Jordan James.

And you might be saying like, okay, it was the fifth round.

That's not that much.

Who cares?

There's a specific reason why this matters for the 49ers.

Because their former legend running back and Frank Gore was on their scouting team for the running backs, and he said that Jordan James was a guy he loved a top five running back in this class. All right, so a little bit about James before we get

into how he fits into this offense. In his final year at Oregon, I mean, the dude looked good. This

was his first year not having to battle with Bucky Irving. He puts up over 1,200 rushing yards,

right? The year before that, he was splitting a backfield with Bucky Irving for some time, 15 touchdowns, over 200 receiving yards. So this guy is going for nearly 1,800 total yards and 15 touchdown.

So there's a lot of questions.

Why did he fall so far in the draft?

I mean, there are some flaws to the game, but overall was a loaded running back draft class.

And most years, he's probably going as a third or a fourth round pick because this guy,

last year when he finally got the workhorse usage, He showed top-tier vision and contact balance, kind of like Bucky Irving, and he didn't fumble the ball once. And he even showed up and produced in the big

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