Good morning, friends and enemies.

Welcome in to the second to last ever running back rankings video for 2025 fantasy football.

We're in the semifinals of our playoffs and we're going to be going through every single fantasy relevant running back.

Every single game and whether each of these players are starts, sits, or flexes for your lineup.

We're going to start off with Thursday night football.

We've got the Los Angeles Rams traveling to Seattle.

This is a 43.5 point total.

The Rams are one and a half point favorites here.

I think weather is something to keep an eye on for this game.

I think they're supposed to be a little bit of rain.

Seattle's obviously an open stadium there.

So something to just keep an eye on as Thursday approaches. If we look at practice reports, it doesn't look like Devante Adams is going to suit up. Though, though, I will say, I felt a little bit more of a positive vibe around someone that has this hamstring injury than I would assume, like not ruled out right away, especially on a short week, but, you know, not here to predict that. Charles Cross, the offensive tackle for the Seattle Seahawks would be a big loss, started the week off with the DMP there. So it could be down a man on the offensive line for Seattle. That being said, we've got Kyron, we've got Kenneth, we got Blake, we got Zach. We got a bunch of guys doing a bunch of things in committees here. Blake Horms obviously come off

a back-to-back good games. Kiron Williams has still been a stud in that time. Now, these two teams did play not too long ago in that game. Kairn had a good game. This is obviously a very, very good stout run defense for both sides of the ball, though the top two players, Kyrn Williams, Kenneth Walker both had really strong games in this one. When I think about Kyron Williams playing in Seattle, it's like, yes, I like the Rams. I do think without Devante, they're going to have to play a lot of 12, 13 personnel. They're going to go heavy on the ground game. That being said, you know, Vegas even has both of these guys. I'm surprised Kenneth is that close to Kairn Williams. Maybe we just don't want to overreact to a bad game from Kiron last week. But they have

Kiron Williams' line only at 65 total yards. So 55 and a half rushing yards, nine and a half

receiving yards. Though I could see a world where the running backs get a little bit more involved

in the passing game with Devante Adams out of the

picture. So with that being said, Kyron, because of how effective he's been this year, and it really hasn't been like, oh, this is a bad matchup. He's played poorly. The Rams are just such a good offense. For me, he's teetering somewhere between, like, he's not a must star for me, given the matchup. I don't want to take a one game sample size that he had a good game last time against Seattle

because Blake Quorum had an awful game. I think he rushed eight times for like 10 yards or something like that. This is a great Seattle run defense. So I'm going to throw Kyron somewhere between the Feels Good and the Dubflex category. I think he's deserved to be in that feels good category more so often than not. I'm going to be honest. The rest of the guys I don't want them in my lineup for the semifinals of the playoffs. Now, I know Kenneth Walker's line is pretty good, 61 yards. Last time they played the Rams who went over 100 total yards from scrimmage, was pretty involved in the passing game or at least had a high production total there. I think you had like 45 receiving yards in that one. Overall, though, just based on how Seattle's offensive line is playing, based on Seattle's run game, based on the Rams defense here. One thing to keep an eye on, Braden Fisk, DnP with an ankle injury on Monday as well, which would be a big downgrade to the defensive line. But right now, if I'm really just being honest here, if we are opening up and being vulnerable, the next three guys are going straight into the shaky flex category. Blake quorum, Zach Charbonnet, Kenneth Walker. I don't look at any of them as guys that I think are strong flexes in your semi-final matchup for week 16. So we're going to move into Saturdays matchups. We have Philadelphia at Washington. Yes, I said Saturday's matchup. So make sure you are primed, you are ready. Always put these dudes if they're playing in the early games in the actual position slot because if something happens to them and you have them in the flex spot, then you have less options to maneuver around those, you know, Saturday, Sunday injuries that could happen pregame or whatever. We saw a couple of them last week. So just be conscious of that. Philadelphia at Washington, I actually think is pretty clear cut. We have Sequin in the must start category. You know, the ground game has not been great, but he's been coming through and Washington is just such an easy matchup for Philadelphia. Six and a half point favorites here, 44.5 point total. On the flip side, this is another grouping where it's like, it's obviously a muddled backfield, but to me it's easy. You don't want any of these guys in your lineup because jacori cross Kimaret had sort of a breakout game last week

not involved in the passing game whatsoever but with chris rodriguez randomly kind of

sidelined last week he took over as the main back however chris rodriguez returned to a full

practice on tuesday so very much expecting him to be ready for Thursday, which makes this entire running back group one to avoid, in my opinion. Yes, one of them can end up having, you know, 40, 50 yards and a touchdown. And you could look back and be like, I wish I had the 11 points in my lineup. But right now, JCM coming off the good game, we have no idea how they're going to split carriers between him and Rodriguez and with the Philadelphia Eagles defense, which is not like terrifying anymore, but still above average. I just don't want to

play any of them. Green Bay at Chicago, huge matchup for both of these teams. You got the Packers as

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