There are five running backs in this year's NFL draft that, in my opinion, are going completely overlooked. Everybody's talking about how elite Jeremiah Love is and he is, but they're forgetting about these five guys in this video. And let's start with a guy that a lot of you watching this might not and probably don't even know who he is. Eli Heidenreich, this is a guy who I don't see being talked about all that much. He's out in Navy, and that's a big reason why. 5 foot 11, 197 pounds is where he weighed in at the NFL Combine. And if you look at this, first of all, workout metrics were way better than I thought. This was a guy who did go to the NFL Combine. He did get the invite, which shows that there is a pretty good chance he gets drafted. Hopefully it's closer to the middle rounds and not late or undrafted. But he runs a 4-4-440 time, which is fantastic, way better than expected, above average at 71st percentile. But the biggest thing here, the jumps, the bursts were fine. The biggest thing was the agility testing. 98th percentile when it comes to what he was doing in the three cone drill. This is a drill that nobody at all. If you look at the amount of players at the NFL combine at like the running back position that actually did agility testing, wide receiver position, you could usually count them on like one hand. Nobody is doing agility testing anymore and he just tested as one of the best agility running backs we've seen in probably the past decade. So this is a player who is highly athletic, but it doesn't stop there. Also highly productive. Now, he's sort of like this versatile running back wide receiver hybrid, but not in the ways that guys like Tyron Tracy were in the past or even Bershard Smith, who was a seventh rounder to the Chiefs, didn't really play a lot last year. Like he's not a wide receiver who turned into a running back. No, he's like a running back through and through who also plays wide receiver really well. And you can see this based on his production, all three years, especially the last two years in college where he got more rush attempt, 65 and 77. He's averaging six and a half for more yards per carry, but then the receiving is where it really pays off for him. Eli Hydenreich was an absolute monster as a receiver.

Last year, 51 catches 941 overall receiving yards in an insane 44% target share.

The year before that, he catches 39 balls, 6171 yards, an insane 34% target share.

First off, a 44% target share on 51 catches. I mean, this stuff's unheard of. Obviously, it's Navy. It's skewed because Navy is a run heavy team. When they're passing the ball, they're checking it down, mostly to their running backs or tight ends. But man, it is hard to ignore a 44% target share. For those of you that no target share numbers that care about metrics like this, play fantasy football, whatever it might% would like lead the NFL right number one overall 44% i've never even seen so that's

insane that he was targeted on almost half of his team's dropbacks again it's navy so it's a

little bit skewed but just to show you how crazy of a producer he is check this out again a running

back playing receiver in his rival game against army he went out there and had zero carries in this game. Instead, they said, we're just going to use you mostly as a receiver. Eight catches, 243 yards, three touchdowns. The dude literally averaged 30 yards per catch, again, as a running back who can also go out there, line up in the slot, work out of the backfield, be an absolute mism nightmare i don't want to say christian mcalfrey just because these are both white running backs right but when you watch him both from a size standpoint from a versatility from the way that he runs his routes it does remind me a lot of christian mcalfrey nowhere near is good otherwise like a mcalfrey he would be talked about as this first round pick right he's nowhere near the skill level but the play style is similar they called his role and we'll watch some of the film here it's not the greatest because this is navy this is a courtesy of bengal's bruise over on twitter this is a guy who's running legit downfield routes on the outside comeback routes against top tier cornerbacks at least on the other teams maybe not top tier over Again, right here, working on the outside, getting by a cornerback on the outside. This is a running back lining up and just absolutely torching guys at the wide receiver position, downfield ability, comes back to the ball, yards after the catchability as well. 4-4 speed is showing up right there as he outruns multiple defensive backs. This is a guy that played a snipe position at Navy, they called it. It was a versatile hybrid back, right? Those are the situations where he seemed lining up as a receiver. Also, a lot of successes are running back. The biggest strengths of Eli Heidenwright's profile are the fact that he has versatility. He's obviously a great pass catcher who has explosiveness to his game, good hands he's a willing blocker as well and he consistently falls forward as a runner he also had a lot of success at the east west shrine bowl which is kind of like an all-star game similar to the senior bowl where he got to face tougher competition at the cornerback position linebackers all that now in terms of his weaknesses like like, I mean, I guess you can say that he's older.

He's going to be 25 years old as a rookie, which isn't great. Usually the prime of running backs in the NFL is somewhere between 23 and 27 years old, so he's already smack dab in the middle of that. He's not a pure wide receiver. He's not a pure running back. He was sort of this hybrid role, which some people might think he's not like a serious player because of that.

And he does need some development.

There's no doubt about it.

And the biggest thing is that he's coming from Navy's like wingtie offense and now is to go to an NFL offense, which is nowhere near the same thing. So obviously there's pros to this guy's profile. That's why he's not going to be an early round pay. Right now mock draft database is projecting him as a sixth round pick. honestly i would love that he got in the sixth round, because I think that there's a chance he just goes undrafted.

And if that's the case, it's not ideal, maybe even in the seventh round. So if he can get a fifth or six round capital, like a fifth round Tyron Tracy did and became a leadback for the Giants for a year and a half or so, that could be pretty interesting for Eli Hayden. Next up, let's go to a guy who's getting a little bit more buzz in steam in terms of going higher, but still a little bit of negativity around this guy's name in the draft process. Nicholas Singleton out of Penn State, 6 foot, 219 pounds. So he's just like your perfect size running back. He's not too tall where it's just hard for him to get low into his blocks. He has the perfect overall weight.

I think this is a solid running back.

Now the problem is he was supposed to be a freak athlete at the NFL combine.

He went to the Senior Bowl.

He put on a nice display there with some other Penn Staters as well,

his backfield running mate, K-Tron Allen,

but he unfortunately broke his foot and he had to miss the Combine. Because of this injury that he had after the senior bro practices, well, he just wasn't able to show off what probably could have potentially been like four-three speed, maybe high four-threes, mid-four-threes at 219 pounds. He would have been one of the most athletic running backs probably in this draft, and that would have helped his case because he didn't have the greatest season last year. Last year at Penn

State, he probably shouldn't have come back. They came back to try and win a national championship.

Everything went to shit. The coach got fired. The quarterback got hurt, right? But 2025, 123 carries

was a career low. Just 400 or 549 yards, by far the worst of his career. And then you factor in

the receptions. all this went down.

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