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FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

Week 16 Fantasy Football Running Back Rankings & Tiers: Studs, Sleepers, and Must-Starts (Ep. 1905)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

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Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.810.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Chris Welsh, Pat Fitzmaurice, and Andrew Erickson are breaking down Week 16’s biggest running back ranking differences, engaging in debates, and highlighting the expert consensus for Week 16 Don't miss our deep-dive into this week's rankings, must-start options, and value plays to dominate your fantasy matchup!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.9

Hello, friends, and welcome into Fantasy Pros, the Fantasy Football Podcast.

0:08.3

This is the week 16, your semifinals matchup RB ranks.

0:12.4

I'm Chris Welsh.

0:13.1

We got Pat Fitzmores and Andrew Erickson here, as we are going to be going to the top 36 at the position.

0:19.1

What are the big plays?

0:20.6

What are the big questions? What are the big questions?

0:21.6

Hopefully we've got you guys covered.

0:23.9

If you guys want to follow along,

0:25.1

go to fantasy pros.com slash rankings as it adjusts throughout the week.

0:29.1

Game schedules a little bit different this week.

0:32.5

Erickson, how many big running back decisions do you have in your playoff matchups this week?

0:36.4

How many playoff matchups do you have? are there any big questionable rbs not on the rb front uh i think i'm in a

0:45.2

pretty good spot in most case actually there is one league where my rb one all year has been

0:50.7

brees hall and somehow we ended up getting to the semi-inals. This was the same league I mentioned on the wide receiver show. I started Jacoy-Crossi-Carrant over Brees Hall. And now that I'm being a good decision. So this one I'm kind of scraping by. And if the chips fall in my favor, I might be starting object estimate in that league so I'll see the thing yeah

1:12.6

it's bad to say we we got to see how that shakes out injury wise estimate definitely might be the

1:16.9

bill crossy of this week as like a late jump in rb that you're going to deal with my main takeaway

1:22.6

for doing that little bit fits he was kind of like doesn't it feel good to just not have questions

1:27.2

around running back just think about that during the draft season next year where it's like wide receiver, wide receiver, but it does sure feel nice when you can nail the RB position and you've got depth and you just don't have big major questions. It feels to me, it's actually like a little bit more comforting than wide receiver because there's just so much depth and so many players you could have picked off of the wire that now have like startability.

1:49.0

Yeah. And there are some really interesting potential recent acquisitions who are startable this week like Michael Carter, for instance, who I know we're going to talk about, who I'm considering starting over O'Marion Hampton in one of my playoff leagues.

2:04.7

And, yeah, I've got some interesting choices this week,

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