Part two of our discussion on the of the 204 league-wide trends, what they mean for 2025, what they mean for fantasy football in general.

That's what we're talking about today on stealing bananas.

I'm Ben Gretsch.

You can find the newsletter at Ben Gresh.com with me as always is Sean Siegel. You find out of his great work over at Rodeviz. Let's jump back into the discussion. But I go back to that running back versus receiver conversation where we were talking about the response to the running back scoring this year has been from a lot of people. We're going to see running backs in the first two rounds. That's just not the way to think through it. The wide receivers are still very valuable. Are you telling me that Justin Jefferson and C.D. Lamb and Jamar Chase and Nico Collins, when he comes back and inevitably smashes because Stefan Diggs is out and Malik neighbors and maybe even more than Harrison, depending on how the rest of his season goes,

but probably Marvin Harrison. Tell me those guys aren't going to be in the first round discussion

and in the high end of the second round. Of course they're all going to be in the first and second

rounds. Just because a bunch of wide receivers got injured this year doesn't change what wide

receiver value is and how it's played in the market now

and how people understand that position a little bit better.

I do think running backs are probably going to creep back up in ADP next year as a result

of this season.

We talked to this offseason that was probably inevitable anyway because we're in kind of a

transition period at running back.

One group is aging

out and then the young guys hadn't necessarily hit in the last couple draft classes and there was

that middle group that 2020 to 2022 draft range where there was a lot of injuries in busts at the

running back position so the guys that should have been in their prime years weren't in the player

pool necessarily you know like the camakers isn't't, and JK Dobbins has gotten injured.

And that whole, those clouded towards Aller and Najee Harris were first round picks that

didn't really hit.

There's that group of years where we didn't get any dominant running back profiles

necessarily.

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