The top names, the intriguing sleepers and the guys that need good landing spots from the

2024 running back class.

That's the subject of today's episode of stealing banana shorts.

I'm Ben Gretch. You can find my stealing signals newsletter at banggretsch.com with me, as always,

is Sean Siegel. He can find all of his great work over at Rodeviz. And let's jump into today's topic.

But I wanted to talk to a little bit about these rookies and about whether, you know,

which ones we should be most excited about as they

explode. The two that I've heard at the very top that you referenced at the top of the show

that I feel like from my vantage point, I'm a little bit more detached on the rookie stuff.

So I feel like in these conversations I can speak for the sort of the common man a little bit, I guess, or common woman.

The common fan are Jonathan Brooks and Trey Benson.

And Trey Benson is one who I continue to see some positive stuff about some of his receiving.

He has an intriguing profile.

Brooks, though, is the one that I heard described multiple times as this guy that would probably

be the clear RB1, if not for the fact that he himself, much like the conversation we're

just having around Keith Mitchell, is coming back from an ACL tear.

And that happened late in his college season.

And so he probably won't be a heavy workload guy from week one of his rookie season in the

NFL.

And that isn't a minor thing.

We've talked before, Sean, when these guys get hurt that we really like these

young running backs about how their windows are so small and their prime seasons really are those first couple seasons at running back. And so if you miss one of those years, how it's, you know, it's not just, oh, okay, this guy's a developmental player. He's got a lot of time in his career. It feels a little bit like we're missing. And then, you know, often the year coming back, they're not 100%.

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