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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

7 RBs Who Could Disappoint in Week 1

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Week 1 is finally here, and that means it’s time to talk running backs who could leave fantasy managers frustrated right out of the gate. In this episode, Jeff breaks down seven backs who might disappoint in their openers: Kaleb Johnson, Jacory Croskey-Merritt, Trey Benson, Braelon Allen, Zach Charbonnet, Cam Skattebo, and Jordan Mason. More importantly, he explains why Week 1 letdowns don’t mean full-season doom and how to manage expectations without overreacting to one Sunday.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Rock back where you at?

0:13.9

Yo, what's up?

0:16.3

It's Wednesday, September 3rd.

0:17.6

I'm Jeff.

0:18.1

This is the rant.

0:20.5

Week one's about to kick off tomorrow night, man.

0:23.6

I know. It's exciting. It's very exciting. But I do think the last podcast, if you didn't listen to that episode, it's a really, really important episode as we head into the season.

0:33.6

And in some ways, it deals with today's topic as well, because as you can see, we're going to

0:37.7

talk about some running backs who could disappoint in week one. Now, just because you disappoint

0:43.5

in week one doesn't mean you're going to be a disappointing player. I'll give you two players

0:46.7

who disappointed in week one last year who were not disappointing players when it was all

0:50.3

said and done, Chase Brown and Bucking Irving. Last year, they ended up pretty good.

0:55.7

The weight was very long for Bucky Irving.

0:58.0

It wasn't as long for Chase Brown,

1:00.0

but you wouldn't have thought they would have blown up

1:02.6

if you took Week 1 as your entire sample size.

1:06.5

But it's a small sample.

1:08.2

Week 1 doesn't really tell us a whole heck of a lot of anything.

1:11.3

Week 1, these players are out there for the first time for a full game since the previous season.

1:18.4

Some of these guys for the first time ever as professionals, you know, they're coming from the college level.

1:24.5

So they're shaking the rust off. They're, you know, kind of getting their

1:30.4

legs back underneath of them. And a lot of things that happened at week one really aren't going to

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