Week 2 Fantasy Football Running Back Rankings & Tiers: Studs, Sleepers, and Must-Starts (Ep. 1699)
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:38.1 | What's up, friends, and welcome in to Fantasy Pros. |
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| 0:42.2 | I'm Chris Welsh, and these are your running back ranks for week two. |
| 0:46.1 | We are tackling the top 36 running backs. |
| 0:49.3 | We're kind of tearing them out where the biggest questions are. |
| 0:52.3 | Hopefully we are getting into your minds, and we are going to bring out all the big questions are. Hopefully we are getting into your minds and we are |
| 0:55.4 | going to bring out all the big questions that you have and doing it is going to be Pat Fitzmoreson. |
| 1:00.4 | Andrew Erickson is always with me. Guys killed the ranks this week. Running backs were about the |
| 1:05.6 | only thing that I really ranked super well last week. I was better than Erickson, but the only |
| 1:09.5 | thing I was better than Erickson at because Erickson was 13 on the ranks list. Fitsy was nine. We're ready to tackle. There's a bunch of these questions, Fitsy. Do you feel more confident about your running back ranks this week or the wide receivers that we already did on that show? What level positionally do you feel a little bit more comfortable with, like, you have a good, good grasp of what the value is? Maybe I feel a little bit better about the running backs this week than the wide receivers. Just, you know, especially after seeing so many of the top wide receivers kind of go belly up in week one. Oh, that's a good. What do you think about that, Erickson? Like, if you just had to, like, blanket positionally, only the top 36. Do you feel more comfortable with this position or the wide outs? I feel like I like a lot of the top running backs, but then we get to a certain running back tier where there's just, it's like a conglomerate of a bunch of committees where Zach Charbonnet, Cam Walker, who do you want to start this week? I'm like, hmm. We're going to talk about it. Do I feel confident because you're like trying to take into consideration what happened in week one, well, Jack Sarbanon was better. So like, you should start Zach Chabberna in week two. But what if they decide, well, we were easing Walker back in. Like, we're going to start him in week one, or in week two. So just trying to capture that type of ambiguity in linear rankings is something that I've been trying to do successfully. So I'm glad that we're going to talk about it on the show. What's interesting about what you're just saying, too, is it's actually like wide receivers this week kind of have this like all these values that were pushed down because like maybe they were a little bit of a failure. And it looks like if as long as they just bounce back and get to that talent, like Jameson Williams is a prime example. We talked about in the wide receiver show. Like that's a guy that's just like rank low, put him back up where the running backs, I think there's a lot more questions, kind of like you were saying Erickson, a little bit later on, there's not all this great value. That lower in running backs is spattered with just committees and just you're closing your eyes and crossing your fingers and just hoping somebody performs. But hopefully we will be able to get through all this. If you guys want to follow along or just throughout the week, you want to know where the ranks are at, you can do that at fantasy pros.com slash rankings. And we've got tiers in there. You can see where all the experts have it, expert consensus rankings, people across the industry, creating one big standard. You can click on the player's names, though, which is really great. And you can go and see how people individually rank them you could do that with Erickson you could do that with Fits I can get into a bunch more stuff on the amazing tools we have because there's dissenting tools where you could put Erickson versus Fits however you want to do it go and play around with all of our tools but fantasy pros dot com slash. That is the big dog for this episode. So let's get into RB1s, the big board. Christian McCaffrey comes in at number one this week, followed by Derek Henry, Bajon Robinson, Jemir Gibbs, Sequan Barkley. I mean, that's as chalk as it gets as it should be. Number six is Chase Brown. Seven, Josh Jacobs, |
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