Sophomore RBs! Will This Class Bounce Back? Could Ashton Jeanty be a Bust? (02/25 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
We start with some Sophomore running back trivia (2:10)! Who led this class in Fantasy Points per game? Who led in rushing touchdowns? Then we've got your news and notes (5:45) with a lot of notes from NFL general managers speaking at the Combine ... Let's talk more about this RB class starting with our Top 3 for 2026 (14:45). It's Ashton Jeanty, Omarion Hampton and Cam Skattebo in some order. Who's #1 in this group? Are we overlooking the severity of Skattebo's injury? After that discussion, we debate which sophomore RBs could be overdrafted (26:00) ... Will any of the RBs drafted in the first two rounds of the 2025 NFL Draft be complete busts (29:05)? We make bust cases for Jeanty, RJ Harvey, TreVeyon Henderson and more. Then, we give you some sleepers (38:30) and go through more names (42:15) including Kaleb Johnson, Trevor Etienne, Devin Neal and Jacory Croskey-Merritt ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is fantasy football today from CBS Sports. |
| 0:03.6 | What a play! |
| 0:04.8 | Can you believe this? |
| 0:06.3 | It's a no idea. |
| 0:08.0 | It's time to dominate your fantasy league. |
| 0:10.6 | Off to the races, and he stays on his feet. |
| 0:13.4 | It's just going to go the distance. |
| 0:15.2 | Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. |
| 0:21.3 | Ashton, Jank, Jchen, Janky, Omarian, Hampton, Quinn John Judkins, |
| 0:24.6 | Cam Scataboo, and more. |
| 0:26.2 | We're talking about the sophomore running back class. |
| 0:28.8 | We had very high expectations for this class as rookies, |
| 0:31.8 | and I think you'd have to say they really disappointed us. |
| 0:35.1 | So they have to make it up. They have to make the episodes this year by being awesome. Welcome everybody to fantasy football today. Thank you for bearing with me. I know I don't sound great. But I'm happy to be back on. Sorry, I missed the show on Monday. And I'm here with Dave, Heath, and Jamie. I've already made one big mistake. I'm going to start with some trivia, but Heath, you're not allowed to play. |
| 0:55.7 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:56.8 | It's okay. |
| 0:57.4 | I mean, somebody else should get to win sometimes. |
| 1:00.4 | Because I set the notes to everybody with the answers to the trivia questions. |
| 1:04.3 | Heath looked at the notes, which he was supposed to do, but he's been eliminated. So, okay, let's go. Sophomore running back trivia. Which rookie running back from last year led the class in fantasy points per game? Camp's got to boo. Oh, come on. That was easy one, though. He was, he's right. Did you guys know that? Yeah. Yes. Okay. All right, fine. Where did he finish per game? |
| 1:45.0 | Wasn't it like 19 points per game? Or that might have been just like in the games where he was like, you know, not a backup. Like you take out the. He was like 15 or something. Yeah, I'm 10. It's literally on my laptop in my lap right now. 16 on the dot is what I have. Yeah, but I didn't say how many did he average? |
| 1:46.0 | I said, where did he finish? |
| 1:47.7 | And he finished his RB10 per game. So hold on one second thing. Oh, now he's got to get his sound effect. Yeah, there it is. Okay. What? Nothing. It took you 45 minutes to hit the X sound effect. |
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