RB Tiers: Where do Josh Jacobs, Saquon Barkley Fall (07/18 Fantasy Football podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
The top of the RB position is pretty clear, but there's some disagreements after that. Chris Towers and Heath Cummings look at the top-20 RBs in tier formats.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk about running back tiers for 2023. |
| 0:06.5 | Next on fantasy football today in five. |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to FFTN5. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm Chris Towers. |
| 0:13.3 | I'm here with Heath Cummings. |
| 0:14.2 | And before we start, |
| 0:15.9 | I want to make sure you guys know about the fantasy football today draftathon. |
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| 0:54.7 | going to talk about RB tiers. And Heath, I noticed something interesting in your running back rankings today. |
| 0:59.6 | You've got Christian McCaffrey number one. Well, everybody does. You've got Josh Jacobs number two. |
| 1:04.7 | Does that mean, we'll start with this question, does that mean Christian McCaffrey is in a tier of his own at the running back position in your eyes? |
| 1:11.8 | It does not. |
| 1:13.0 | If I was going strictly based on projections, Echler would be at the top. |
| 1:18.4 | Okay. |
| 1:18.6 | And Jacobs is younger with less injury history and less, I think, sharing concerns. |
| 1:25.6 | There's some weird stuff in the time that Christian McCaffrey was with San Francisco last year and Elijah Mitchell was healthy. |
| 1:32.1 | And so I would actually, my first tier would be McCaffrey, in full PPR, McCaffrey, Jacobs, and Echler. |
| 1:38.4 | Interesting. |
| 1:38.9 | Okay. |
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