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Welcome to NFL Daily, where running backs have always mattered to us.

I'm Greg Rosenthal, and I'm here with Nick Shook, where you are taping this show, Nick.

June 23rd, it is officially the dead zone of the NFL season. Spoiler alert. Football's not back for the next

couple weeks. And yet we're going to be cranking out some fun NFL daily content. No one I'd rather

do it with than you, Nick. You know, judging by your tone in the way that you made that claim about

running backs, I don't know if I believe you, but I definitely believe you that we're in the dead zone. Surprisingly, we are operating in a world now in which the NFL dominates, I'd say, about 50 weeks out of the year. So to have two off, not bad. Good job. Well, people will still want to come up with it. It is a weird thing. Yeah, it's for people who aren't as familiar.

This is the one time of year. Not only a lot of media goes away and we'll get into our schedule coming up in the next few weeks, but the teams are just literally out of the building until at least

after July 4th. So even though we're getting closer to training camp when NFL Daily is truly back to daily again, it is the one time of year, even though we're close, that teams are off.

And yet, Nick, running backs have always mattered to me.

I don't know why you're coming at me.

I mean, it's like the coolest, the most fun position to watch.

And so we're going to talk about them today.

We're going to draft the best 20 running backs in the league back and forth who we would want to be our running back in our backfield this year, kind of a snapshot of where the position is at. And it's better than it's been in a long time.

You know, since we last taped a show that was kind of taped that day, it was Patrick and

Omar.

Great job by them.

They did the Jair Alexander News.

Not a lot of news has popped up since some updates.

Injury-wise, Anthony Richardson fully expected to be back for training camp.

I personally thought it was interesting that the chiefs confirmed their first round pick. Josh Simmons fully ready for training camp, including contact.

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