RB Sleepers, Tiers, and Fears 2025

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

The Ringer

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

The guys discuss their running back tier list rankings for this upcoming fantasy season, and also welcome The Ringer’s Sean Fennessey to talk about the Jets, Aaron Rodgers, the upcoming Ringer Fantasy Football League, and 'Happy Gilmore 2.' 2:05 - Micah Parsons and Terry McLaurin's trade requests 9:28 - Rams extend Kyren Williams 12:25 - Matthew Stafford's back injury 16:35 - Tier 1: Saquon Barkley, Bijan Robinson, Jahmyr Gibbs, Derrick Henry 21:07 - Tier 2: Christian McCaffrey, De'Von Achane, Ashton Jeanty 35:19 - Tier 3: Jonathan Taylor, Josh Jacobs, Bucky Irving, Kyren Williams, Chase Brown, Omarion Hampton 51:34 - Tier 4: Kenneth Walker III, Breece Hall, Alvin Kamara, James Cook, James Conner, Chuba Hubbard, David Montgomery, Tony Pollard, Aaron Jones Sr., Isiah Pacheco, D'Andre Swift, RJ Harvey, TreVeyon Henderson, Kaleb Johnson 01:05:13 - Tier 5: Jaylen Warren, Brian Robinson Jr., Rhamondre Stevenson, Travis Etienne Jr., Tank Bigsby, Jordan Mason, Zach Charbonnet 01:11:18 - Sean Fennessey talks Jets, last-place fantasy punishments, 'Happy Gilmore 2,' and more Sponsored by YahooFantasy #YahooPartner. Play Now at yahoofantasy.com/promo Getaway sales event. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Guest: Sean Fennessey Producers: Ronak Nair, Kai Grady, and Carlos Chiriboga Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the rear fantasy football show.
0:14.7	I'm joined by Danny Kiley and Craig Kroil back there.
0:17.1	Today we are going over our running back sleepers, fears, tears, going over all the important running backs is the most important position in fantasy football and we're going to go through who we like, who we don't like, who we would be happy getting and who would be kind of sad to end up on our team. We're also going to have Sean Fantasy, always like our boss's boss's boss on this show and he's going to make fun of Craig to his face for talking
0:37.6	himself into Aaron Rogers which was absolutely delightful and also while Sean's here we
0:42.5	litigate Happy Gilmore 2 where Craig and I honestly kind of got a little vicious
0:47.8	disagreeing and happy to yeah I'm sure you can see where this is going on how I was on the
0:53.4	big picture you can hear me there talking about the movie.
0:55.6	D.K. and Hyvitz did watch the movie.
0:58.0	And Sean is the smartest guy I know to talk movies.
1:01.8	So we kind of rehashed the disaster that was Happy Gilmore 2.
1:07.4	Debatable.
1:08.1	Running backs, interview with Sean Jets, Happy Gilmore 2 more two a couple news all that's coming up
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