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Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros.

This is the Fantasy Football Podcast.

It is me Joey P.

Joe P. Zipia.

And we are here for another series of our early ranks.

We're going to look ahead to the expert consensus of 2026.

Yeah, we know it's early, but it's never too early to have some debates and some conversations and to say what might be right and what might be wrong about some of the rankings and to help me do that. Andrew Erickson and Jake Seeley from the Athletic are back again to have it out with the rankings and see who's right and who's wrong. Well, that's for you to decide at the end of day because you're going to be drafting these teams. Don't forget to follow us here on Fantasy Pros on our YouTube channel and subscribe wherever you get your podcast as well. Gentlemen, we've done the wide receivers. If you missed that show, you can go back and watch it here on a YouTube channel or just listen to the show as well. So now it's time to break down the running backs because it was a running back Renaissance in 2025. Will it continue in 2026? Ah, that's the question. So let's jump into the pool with two feet here. And let's start at the very top of Tier 1, number one. Bejohn Robinson, no doubt about that. Nobody's really concerned about that one. Jamir Gibbs at number two, no surprise there. And then at number three, 30-year-old Christian McAfrey coming off 4,000 touches in 2025. Now, I could be exaggering that slightly. I might not be, I'll let you guys decide. Number four in tier two, Jonathan Taylor, start off with a great season that unfortunately Daniel Jones got hurt and the Colts went south, way, way south in the AFC South.

Devon A. Chan at number five, we'll see what a new head coach wants to do with Devon A. Chan.

James Cook at number six, the forgotten man who drafts last year, except on all of my rosters,

because he scored too many touchdowns in 2024, so he couldn't possibly be any good in 2025.

If you listen to the noise sometimes, you go deaf.

Instead, just draft James Cook at number six.

That's right, exactly.

Ashth Gendi at number seven, maybe he'll get an offensive line this year for Christmas.

O'Marian Hampton at number eight.

And then Tier 3, you got Sequan Barkley coming off a year where he was being drafted as a very highly rated running back.

And as I told everyone, anyone who has 400 carries in a season and never finishes as an RB1

the next year.

Nobody wanted to listen to me.

Unfortunately, he didn't finish as an RB1 last year.

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