Ranking Every Backfield in the NFL - Which S-Tier RBs Are Fast-Twitch Freaks?

Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast with Kyle Long & Mike Renner

CBS Sports, Football, NFL

Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Mike Renner and Kyle Long rank EVERY BACKFIELD in the NFL into tiers. Which ball carrier balls out the hardest? Find out. Intro (0:00) U Tier (3:17) F Tier (13:09) D Tier (19:07) C Tier (25:47) B Tier (34:25) A Tier (42:23) S Tier (48:30) Pushing the Pile is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@NFLonCBS Download and Follow Pushing the Pile on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2RFkEgdbFxbPBDU5F5xEjJ?si=1062d40c04e24fd5 Follow our PTP team on Twitter: @mikerenner_, @Ky1eLong, @pushingthepile Sign up for the Pick Six Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters For more NFL coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Visit the betting arena on CBSSports.com for all the latest sportsbook reviews and sportsbook promos. You can listen to Pushing the Pile on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Pushing the Pile podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Pushing the Pile podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.5	What's up everybody?
0:30.7	Welcome in to pushing the pile.
0:32.1	I'm Mike Renner.
0:32.8	He's Kyle Long.
0:33.6	Last week, we went through, we ranked, not ranked, we tiered every quarterback in the NFL.
0:40.0	Now we're switching our attention to the running back position.
0:43.0	We're doing backfields.
0:44.6	And I want to lay out a little bit how I thought about this.
0:48.2	I did running ability, like not running ability, but like your runners in the backfield, running backs,
0:55.8	not the quarterbacks. I could have taken them into account, but I think we already did that
0:59.3	with the quarterback position. Obviously, if you have Jane Daniels, if you have Lamar Jackson,
1:04.1	those guys are going to play heavily into your running game. They're going to make things a lot
1:08.1	easier for your running backs, but I want to just focus on the guys who are your running backs, not fullbacks because they
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