The Ultimate Running Back Guide for 2026
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🗓️ 7 July 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
0:00 - it's rude to skip intros
1:25 - jahmyr gibbs, RB, DET
2:09 - bijan robinson, RB, ATL
2:47 - christian mccaffrey, RB, SF
4:03 - james cook, RB, BUF
5:20 - jonathan taylor, RB, IND
5:48 - saquon barkley, RB, PHI
6:30 - ashton jeanty, RB, LV
7:33 - chase brown, RB, CIN
8:39 - derrick henry, RB, BAL
10:01 - kenneth walker, RB, KC
11:30 - omarion hampton, RB, LAC
12:40 - devon achane, RB, MIA
14:06 - jeremiyah love, RB, ARI
15:40 - josh jacobs, RB, GB
16:51 - javonte williams, RB, DAL
17:43 - cam skattebo, RB, NYG
19:07 - kyren williams, RB, LAR
22:05 - breece hall, RB, NYJ
24:47 - quinshon judkins, RB, CLE
25:18 - travis ettiene, RB, NO
26:28 - bucky irving, RB, TB
27:29 - d'andre swift, RB, CHI
28:53 - david montgomery, RB, HOU
30:11 - bhayshul tuten, RB, JAX
30:41 - tony pollard, RB, TEN
31:07 - treveyon henderson, RB, NE
31:52 - rhamondre stevenson, RB, NE
32:29 - jaylen warren, RB, PIT
33:06 - jadarian price, RB, SEA
34:50 - RB30 thru RB34
35:02 - BDGE NFL Trivia
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, friends and enemies and welcome into Rankings Week. Each day this week, I will be going |
| 0:05.8 | through a different position starting today with the top 30 running back rankings for 2026 |
| 0:11.3 | Fantasy Football. These are for PPR League so you can adjust accordingly. Each player will be thrown |
| 0:16.2 | into their own tier as well. Because we'll be talking about nearly 30 individual players, I'm going to |
| 0:22.6 | give a quick elevator pitch, the upside and the downside for every player and move along quickly. |
| 0:27.4 | As always, timestamps are down below. But if you stay tuned to the end of the video, |
| 0:31.7 | we will be ripping off some NFL trivia at the end. It will be fun. So for the ball, |
| 0:35.9 | knowers that want to stick around, again, timestamps are down below for each player in every section of the video. If you are new here, we will be doing the exact same thing for wide receivers and then quarterback's tight ends together in a video later this week. So subscribe here if you want to see those. So starting at the very top, the elite RB-1s here, these are guys that I think should be just relatively going in the first round. And as we go down these players, what you'll see on the screen, similar to a lot of the weekly rankings that I was doing last year throughout the season, it has their Vegas odds, their season-long props going into the year. So Jemir Gibbs's rushing lines at 1,200.5 yards, rushing touchdowns, receiving yards, total touchdowns, |
| 1:12.0 | et cetera, as well as their strength of schedule, which we can click on and kind of just jump into at any points. So strength of schedule on the left side is for their entire season long, for running backs, and then the right number is their playoff strength of schedule. So just weeks 15, 16, and 17. So tier number one, the elite RB1. |
| 1:27.3 | You have Jemir Gibbs as my RB1, Bejohn Robinson and Christian McCaffrey. For Jemir Gibbs, there's very, very little downside case here. They get rid of David Montgomery. He's a guy who goes for nearly 2,000 yards, 20 touchdowns. Year in and year out, I would say the biggest downside to Gibbs is like their offensive line does not play. as well They don't have the pieces that they had over the last half decade to consider them an elite offensive line, but he's such a good playmaker, not worried whatsoever. I just think the small sample we've seen with him on the field without David Montgomery has been so league breaking that don't really want to pass that up. He has a great strength of schedule as well in the |
| 2:01.5 | playoffs. Minnesota's tough, but they get the Giants and they get Chicago Bears in your semis |
| 2:05.1 | and your championship. So we love a little Jemir Gibbs here. Bejohn Robinson, the RB2, |
| 2:10.9 | coming off of a 2,300 yard from scrimmage season, only 11 touchdown. So I think he's got a lot of |
| 2:16.2 | room to grow there. Offensive lines still pretty good. Biggest question mark here is a quarterback situation. I think Tua probably goes into the years of starter. And we saw what Tua did with Devon A-chan in terms of checking down and seeing those PPR numbers just absolutely destroy the league. So I think we could see a similar situation with Bijon Robinson, maybe a thousand season. Realistically, they just got Bejohn Robinson and Drake London there as pass catching weapons. End of story, period. Nobody else catches passes in that offense. So both of those guys are worthy of the 101, if you wanted to go in either direction, have no problem with it. Christian McCaffrey, my RB3 here in the elite RB-1s. |
| 2:51.2 | I mean, we just saw him have a top 10 fantasy season of all time for fantasy running backs |
| 2:55.6 | in just this previous season. |
| 2:57.0 | When I look at the weapons around there, like even if his efficiency has dipped a little bit |
| 3:00.6 | in terms of rushing and like yards per carry and the breakaway plays, the receiving floor |
| 3:06.1 | is just so insanely high that I imagine he's going to |
| 3:09.0 | catch four, five, six, seven passes per game. George Kittle coming back from the Achilles, |
| 3:13.9 | Juan Jennings no longer there. Ricky P is always a liability to get hurt. They just don't have |
| 3:17.9 | many proven weapons that are healthy in that offense right now. So I think CMAC probably starts |
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