RB tiers

[HaroldSeattle]

According to a site called FantasyLife, thought it was a decent look at the landscape of RBs for FF purposes. Interesting article.

Fantasy Football RB Tiers for 2024: King Henry Joins a High-End Rushing Attack

Ian Hartitz breaks down his RB tiers for 2024, highlighting some of the biggest questions facing fantasy football's top running backs.

www.fantasylife.com

Tier 1
Christian McCaffery
Bjan Robinson
Breece Hall

Tier 2 High end but with a small problem
Saquon Barkley
Jonathan Taylor
Jahmyr Gibbs
De'Von Achane

Tier 3 Discounted Bell-Cows
Derrick Henry
Kyren Williams
Travis Etienne
Isiah Pacheco

Tier 4 Walmart discounted Bell-Cows
Joe Mixon
Josh Jacobs
Rachaad White
James Cook
David Montgomery

Tier 5 Don't see it

Kenneth Walker
Alvin Kamara
Aaron Jones

Tier 6 There's a chance

James Connor
Rhamondre Stevenson
Jaylen Warren
Najee Harris
Jonathon Brooks
Raheem Mostert
Zach Moss
D'Andre Swift

Tier 7 Kind of saying there's a chance

Zahir White
Tony Pollard
David Singletary
Ezckiel Elliott
Brian Robinson
Austin Ekler
Tyjae Spears
Gus Edwards
Javonte William

Tier 8 Get the handcuffs out

Trey Benson
Chase Brown
Blake Corum
Zach Charbonnet
Nick Chubb
Jerome Ford
Ty Chandler
MarShawn Lloyd
Ray Davis
Antonio Gibbs
KenDre Miller
Chubba Hubbard
Tyler Allgeier
Jaleel McLaughlin
Rico Dowle
Braelon Allen
Elijah Mitchell
Clyde Edwards-Helaire

Tier 9 If you squint hard enough

Jaylen Wright
J.K. Dobbins
D'Onta Foreman
Kimani Videl
Tyrone Tracy
Eudric Estime
Bucky Irving
Will Shipley
Khalil Herbert
Roshon Johnson

Tier 10 Theoretically could be next man up

Dameon Pierce
Tank Bigsby
Alexander Mattison
Trey Sermon
Jamaal Williams
Mike Sanders
D'Ernest Johnson
Samaje Perine
Deuce Vaughn
Corarrelle Patterson


Course it's impossible to agree with any list of rankings 100% thought they did a decent job of it though. To high DeVon Achane, to low Kyren Williams, Travis Etienne,Josh Jacobs and especially Kenneth Walker. This list certainly makes me think grab quantity as cheap as possible at RB.

 

[TREFF]

Course it's impossible to agree with any list of rankings 100% thought they did a decent job of it though. To high DeVon Achange, to low Kyren Williams, Travis Etienne,Josh Jacobs and especially Kenneth Walker. This list certainly makes me think grab quantity as cheap as possible at RB.

Fer sure, can dissect it all day long, but overall, minus a couple glaring exception that you pointed out, not bad

 

[averagejoe]

As a Pacheco owner, sure, he's a "discounted bell cow" especially if you like seeing all the TD go to Kelce or revolving door of WR.

Pacheco is a RB that is largely "yardage" dependant. And he isnt consistent enough for me.

 

[eaglesnut]

One guy's strong opinions.

I used to rank my RBs in tiers, but not like this with a cute little title for each.

Why does he hate Walker? Did he originally forget about Etienne?

My top 15 are in a wildly different order.

 

[TREFF]

For a redraft, I know I have a 2 man top tier, begins with CMAC and ends with Derrick Henry. no else is even remotely close.

 

[eaglesnut]

For a redraft, I know I have a 2 man top tier, begins with CMAC and ends with Derrick Henry. no else is even remotely close.

Barkley

 

[averagejoe]

If 20 touches per game is still the benchmark of a bell cow, only 4 RB had 20 or more:

21.7 Kyren
21.2 CMC
20.8 Josh Jacobs
20.6 Saquon

19.8 Henry
19.6 Kamara
19.1 Etienne

19 or less = everyone else

 

[TREFF]

If 20 touches per game is still the benchmark of a bell cow

I've always looked at it more of 'ratio' of the teams RB touches. The pure quantity is obviously a great thing, in fantasy terms, but if we're simply looking at wether a back is a 'bell cow' or not, that's nothing more than a back who gets the vast majority of his teams touches. Personally I put that number at about a 2 to 1 minimum.

Not every team is going to run the ball 25+ times a game to give one back 20 touches a game on average, but if they manage 20-ish, and one guy gets 17 of them, than obviously, he is their bell cow

 

[TREFF]

just 'cuz I have the time and nothing better to do yet this morning, just for S's and G's
Let's take the Patriots and Rhamondre Stevenson and Zeke in 2023 for example-

in the 11 games Stevenson was active (not counting the 12th where he was injured), and Zeke, who was just coming off leading the Cowboys in RB touches, was also around..AND lets not forget that supposed BB RBBC stuff that so many subscribe to-

Stevenson out-touched Zeke 184-136 over all. Not quite a 2:1 ratio, nearly a perfect 60/40 (57.5/42.5 to be exact) split, so a true lead with a lesser committee

Stevenson had 5 games of those 11 where he out-touched Zeke at a 2:1 ratio or better

Zeke never out touched Stevenson until that 12th game that Stevenson exited early

After Stevenson went down, Zeke had approximately 85% of the Rb's touches the final 5 games.

So in 10 of 17 games, there was a true 'bell cow' RB

Patriots certainly used a true lead back, who, more often than not, could be considered a bell cow , at least by my personal definition of it.

If we go back to 2022, Stevenson had 279 touches. Collectively, all the Patriots RB's combined had 379 touches. Giving Stevenson a 73.6% share of the backfield touches- most definitively a 'bell cow', even though his average touches per game was only 16.5

 

[averagejoe]

Thats good data on Stephenson.
I own him too in another dynasty. Yet 1 more RB that grinds my gears. Doesnt help that he plays on a terrible offense and misses time with injury.

 

[Chef99]

James Cook and Zamir White will kick ass this year.

Book it, Dano!