Week 17 Fantasy Football RB Rankings (Top 30)

Fantasy Football RB Rankings Week 17

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The top two running backs for Fantasy Football Championship weekend you know who they are many of you love them if you’re on the roster Christian mcaffrey at number one at the Washington commanders and kyen Williams at the New York Giants Hayden we have about 28 other ball carriers to rank after this

For the people to win their titles how you feel if you are facing Christian mcaffrey this week I wish you all of the luck cuz you will certainly need it uh CMC obviously the Niners projected for the most points 31 you don’t see very many team totals get up into the 30s

Like this but the commanders are certainly earning it without Montes sweat Chase young and jamine Davis their linebacker they have no chance Bree hall went absolutely nuts against them last week and Christian mcaffry is on another level the commanders have allowed R bandre Stevenson to be the running back

Too Kenneth Walker running back seven saquin Barkley running back one Tony po running back six aan the running back three Ty running back five breea running back one this might be the highest projected fantasy uh point total of any week going into any season this is crazy

Kyen Williams at the Giants at number two not too far behind Hayden since returning to the lineup in week 12 after that injury he leads all running backs with about 26 touches per game and that’s helpful when you’re facing a New York Giants defense that is allowing 4.5

Yards per carry and uh 16.6 rushing points per game third most rushing yards allowed over the entire season and then yeah this month he’s averaging four more expected points than any other running back so these two are by far the top two just to get a feel 121 total yards in the pick

And Lobby for CMC Kiren Williams 115 total yards everyone else is in the 90s and 80s so these are the best two fasy assets right now and I’m sure a lot of you guys have them because you’re tuning into a final show I don’t my best

Running back is jonath the Taylor on my one finals team in Dynasty this season uh my second back is Gus Edwards we will rank all those names including Clyde Edwards Air and I don’t typically do this just a disclaimer just to get it out there um Hayden has Clyde Edward

Ranked very highly today and we’re gonna have a great conversation about it and again 28 other names for all of you to put into your lineups here we go hay this kicks off with the third running back that is actually Rashad White against the New Orleans Saints talk to

Me just so consistent rb4 and rb5 usage this month he had 15 carries three receptions against the Saints back in week five team total is Rock Solid because the Bucks offense is very good uh just it’s the best combination of floor and ceiling the receiving ability

Gives him the upside the total volume uh gives him a floor 91 and a half total yards in the underdog fantasy pickham Lobby so this is just like the easiest rb3 you can come come up with there’s a lot of NFL teams that have played each

Other like in the last two weeks or three weeks that are also playing each other this week the Bucks and the Saints did not play each other until all the way back in week four of this season I’ll have some Alvin CRA discussion points that was a game yeah that that

That led us to calling PPR the devil’s game yes um for Rashad white though hay you remember when we talked about in the first six weeks of the Season it was very different usage from him he was not being involved in the passing game at

All um he only had three catches in that contest I will add though that the Saints are allowing a leag low six receiving points per contest to running backs which I think Rashad white Dave Canales and Baker Mayfield are certainly going to challenge that number so far

This season definitely and this is a game for the division more or less if the Bucks win this one they are the Champs so everything on the line here next sequin Barkley all the way up at running back four is this a Tyrod Taylor change it really is the Giants project

For 20 points this week typically we talked about them in that kind of 14 15 16 range so we’re adding basically another touchdown to their projection saquin Barkley’s coming off Monster usage again last week 18.4 expected points he’s not giving up certainly the Giants still are fighting for a lot

Right now this is just a shootout game we’re going to talk about the Rams already with Kiren Williams they’re expected to go crazy I think that saquon Barkley in catchup mode is which is exactly what we saw last week he’s going to get his carries he’s for sure the

Goal line back he’s definitely going to get some Targets in garbage time here I just didn’t want to give a shout out though the Rams defense they are number one against fantasy running backs this year which is crazy to think about all the turnover they’ve had shout out to

The coaching staff obviously Aaron Donald Les sneed’s hit on defensive lineman as well so the Rams are a good defense but their offense is so good right now that I think that saquon Barkley’s volume is going to get there Underdog fantasy pickham Lobby loves him at 85 and a half total

Yards this is a confident ranking by you I mean because he’s been either great or really bad MH in fantasy football the last few weeks I think we always can talk about how that’s attached to an environment how that’s attached to certain players uh running back 38 they

Running back one running back 45 then running back four running back 45 then running back nine so you’re hoping for one of those top 10 weeks I trust Tyra Taylor more than Tommy cutlets sadly I hate to admit it but so Brian D so and so do the betting markets yes okay bejan

Robinson you’re running back five hopefully the people tuned into the show last week and understood the dynamic that was very different in that Carolina Panthers game with weather facing base Personnel defense about 52% of the time we knew last week against the Indianapolis Colts they run base

Personnel about 19% of the time Hayden that also included this past weekend season highs of seven receptions and 10 targets and I will add the figure 22 is percent of the time is how often the Chicago Bears play base defense right now the Falcons are just running the

Ball like crazy and when they do pass the ball it’s going to bejn Robinson so it was a season high in usage last week at 22.4 points that’s a lot of them I don’t expect that to really go away uh right now the Bears defense where they’re weakest is actually allowing

Running backs to catch the ball their second worst uh or that they’re by far the allowing the most 196 more yards than the second worst Fantasy Defense uh to running backs so he’s going to get out in space he still isn’t the allaround player that the Falcons were

Probably hoping for why Tyler Alger mixes in enough but Arthur Smith’s coaching for his job how do you please the owner you give the guy you just spent a top 10 pick on the ball 20 times I love that we are coming off a season high in receiving usage going

Straight into the game where the matchup dictates the running backs getting the ball as pass catchers because they are actually third in rushing points allowed this season and as you said worst in terms of backfields catching passes yep okay running back six John Jonathan Taylor need you in a big way sir this

Against the Las Vegas Raiders and actually since week nine the Raiders are allowing just 3.6 yards per carry to running backs that is sixth in the league just 18% of those runs have resulted in a first down or touchdown that is third best in the league Antonio Pierce character environment Creator

Yeah Antonio Pierce one of one of the coaches that could scream at his defensive line of linebackers with authority and have have the guts to to pull that one off yeah I love this spot for Jonathan Taylor still even though the the Raiders have been better uh this

A must-win game for the Colts Jonathan Taylor was effective last week 18 of 21 running back carries that led to 16 expected points I’m expecting even bigger numbers in this one assuming that this game will be close as it’s expected to be Zach Moss limited with that forearm injury in practice still early

To too early to tell if he’s going to be effective but I think that they want to use Jonathan Taylor not Zach Moss you know sit it out okay next up one of the two Detroit Lions running backs out there uh your running back seven this

Week is jir Gibbs we talked about a little bit in stats versus film but in the first half Dave Montgomery out snapped out touched jir Gibbs 21- 17 then 13-5 then towards the end of the second quarter Dave Montgomery has a head injury gets examined for it and barely

Plays the rest of the way and that’s really where jir Gibbs took off and he did exceptional work in that environment too Hayden this is at the Dallas Cowboys who two weeks ago misdirection could not stop a nose bed against the Buffalo Bills actually efficiency standpoint did quite well against the Miami Dolphins

This past week um we know that the Lions and their running game and how diverse it is and how multiple it can be I’m going to lead more towards what we saw in the Buffalo Bills game than I am this past week against the Dolphins for this Cowboys defense the Dolphins running

Style is more to the perimeter and way more misdirection and all that stuff the Lions go north south and that’s where the Cowboys are worst at and Jamir Gibbs has earned more trust running more north south um so yeah this is just a good spot for Jamir Gibbs I lean Gibbs way

Over David Montgomery just in case this game script gets away from the Lions they are six-point underdogs in those type of games we have seen jir Gibbs play more but he’s looked really good the offensive line is amazing I don’t think that Jonathan henkins the defens a

Tackle is going to play and since he’s been out the Cowboys are 31st and rushing success rate allowed so I don’t I’m not expecting the the usage split to be as wide as it was or as close as it was last week I do think David montgomer

Is gonna get his carries but I like jir Gibbs chances um of staying on the field no matter what I’m not surprised that jir Gibbs is ranked this High I am shocked at the disparity in the two rankings that you have between him and Dave Montgomery because just for

Reference again Jamir Gibbs here is running back seven you have Dave montgomer around running back 19 um that’s pretty low it’s it’s Jess if the lions are losing by two touchdowns which hey you’re playing the Dallas Cowboys Anything could happen then we can see David Montgomery kind of get schemed out

Of things I just don’t see that exactly happening with jir Gibbs okay interesting all right we will keep it moving next up is James Cook James Cook good player however this past week Hayden did not see that same receiving work that has been so pivotal for him uh three

Catches excuse me I’m trying to find it here oh all they were all of them were runs that’s why I couldn’t find them all of them were runs I mean he didn’t get a Target I think for the first time since like week six on the season and so what

We need to happen is against the Patriots who also are very good at stopping the run is to get reinol in the receiving G he needs it because the Patriots run defense is the best in the league number one in success rate number two in EPA allowed what we saw last week

Which was new was big dude Leonard forette he was out there and it wasn’t just in garbage time nothing like that he was playing in the two-minute drill and then he also saw the only inside the 5 yard line five yard line opportunity so we’ll see if James Cook can inherit a

Couple more of those touches hopefully we can get that receiving game usage back just because uh the Patriots run defense is extremely real all that said Bill Still project for the fourth most points on the week back uh earlier in the season against Bill Bel he had 56

Rushing yards 46 receiving yards and a touchdown in that one so uh this is basically as low as I can rank him because his role and the team total um but this is not a good match up for James Cook certainly they play back in week seven and yes they sted him for

Just 56 yards on 13 carries um but he did catch three passes for four 46 yards in a score so let’s just Spam that a little bit more okay you’re running back nine he’s all the way up here it’s Deon single ter not the uh not the best week

This past weekend but Hayden we did see a couple weeks ago one of these teams that played twice in a condensed schedule the Tennessee Titans um dein s had 30 Touches for 170 yards not bad not bad at all uh without Jeffrey Simmons the the Titans are 27th in success rate

Allowed things are going to hit a lot cleaner for Deon single ter with CJ Stout instead of Case Keenum and Davis Mills so also want to just like reiterate how banged up the Titans defense is right now it’s Jeffrey Simmons we have defensive tackles on IR they’re releasing linebackers they’re

Releasing uh defensive tackles we are waving players I mean the in the safeties are getting traded away this is their week one lineup look at all the red everyone’s out of there this this Titans defense is all back backups right now and that’s why I think that the the

Texans team total is all the way up to 24 points and Devon sleary last week I know everything went completely sideways that was against the Browns they were getting blown out so bad in the fourth quarter that they actually just took them off the field but before uh that

Happened it was Devin Singletary in this bcow roll two-minute drill early down he’s going to be the goal line back as well so high team total great matchup for him uh it’s time to party yeah 10 of his 12 touches were in the first half that’s exactly what you said they just

Took him out when they didn’t have a chance of winning the game okay close out your top 10 it is Alvin chra Alvin chra at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers we mentioned it earlier at the start um this is the game that he returned to the lineups in 2023 and he caught 13

Freaking passes for 33 yards it tilted me to death oh my God it’ll force me to never never nominate a league to be fullo PPR ever again because it was bogus um Hayden we’re going to get receiving work against this bill this Buccaneers defense um but we’re also

Getting some rushing work out of there and as we have talked about Alvin CRA other than what we’ve seen this past week he can do everything in this backfield he can he’s been the running back 14 on running back 12 usage this month they’re getting Jamal Williams

Mixed in there they’re passing the ball in the red zone to all these tight ends that they have the Bucks are fifth best against fantasy running backs that includes that PPR scamming day from Alvin chra uh the Bucks also have vitaa that begins a tackle he’s in the lineup

Devin white after all the drama he played like 90% of the snaps yeah exactly so we don’t have to worry about that this front seven that we have been fearful of in the past is still mostly there so it’s not a great match up individually for Alvin chimra and I

Think that game when he came back that was like a very scared Derek Carr they were trying to figure out exactly what they wanted to do on offense and by by the way even though you caught all those FES it didn’t work so that game plan

They cannot go back to that so um 81 and a half total yards into the pick them Lobby that seems appropriate this like team total is like League average so uh fine play Derek Carr hears you say that we can’t throw to our running backs 13

Times in one game and he’s just like watch me I hope it’s to freaking Chris okay next up your running back 11 on the week is Bree Hall talk about receiving usage it was insane this past week um Trevor Simeon barely threw Beyond five yards that is going to hit differently

And won’t work as successfully against this Cleveland Browns defense who we talking about running games Hayden and Rees pointed this out in the worksheet they’ve allowed 0.1 yards before contact to backfields when playing at home that is obviously by far the lowest rate in the league The League average is

Actually 1.25 Yard Man miles Garrett pretty good pretty good yeah that’s what my notes were is you cannot overstate the difference between this version of the commander defense and what the Browns are trotting out there right now so Bree Hall was the second best expected points game second best usage

Of any player any week this entire year last week and still I can’t get him in the top 10 because of how bad the Jets offensive line is versus this defensive line pick and Lobby has at 81 and a half total yards he’s going to have to catch

A lot of passes to get there because I think like you said the per touch stuff is going to get pretty pretty gross and it’s Thursday Night Football on top of it did you know well tonight tonight Night Football yeah how we’re doing it um he’s now second in the NFL among

Running backs and receiving yards my theory with like this would turn to Aaron Jones stuff attached to Aaron Rogers I cannot wait I cannot wait for breea next season IID like I think like six overall in my current rankings some people might be shocked by your running back 12 this week that is

DeAndre Swift uh you should not be because this is against the Arizona Cardinals a passive defense that is not even being called by Jonathan ginon let’s put it that way um Hayden it’s always I’m not gonna say a difficult ranking for DeAndre Swift but attached to starting DeAndre Swift in your lineup

I thought again Richie bar on the worksheet put it extremely eloquently he has no or little receiving work he’s very dependent on hitting the end zone in an offense that when he get down to the one yard line is not going to allow him to score touchdowns and in fact this

Past week it was the sixth time this season that he had a run that fell down at the one yard line and he did not score on any of those six carries subsequently on that same Drive he’s not the best player in my very mediocre in

My opinion but this matchup is just the stone cold nuts so this is totally ruption spot for deand Swift you and I have ranked deand Swift as running back 25 we’ve ranked him around here at times to me it’s just spased off the matchup if it’s a difficult matchup I don’t

Think that he’s going to maximize it I do think that with this offensive line he can certainly maximize it uh in this one I actually have him a spot ahead of Bree Hall at this point in the last two outings uh we are looking at 17.8 14.7

Expected half PPR points those are 20 touch games and then they’re the Cardinals right now are the only team to allow 400 carries to running backs this season and we’re looking at 10 and a half Point favorites huge team total so everything is for the taking for DeAndre

Swift except the tush push backfields have scored 22 touchdowns against the Arizona Cardinals this season speaking of EO Elliott’s up next so it was a massive projection in terms of yardage totals for ISU Elliot heading into last week it was ridiculous this week it’s not gonna be close but

What we have seen is him be very very involved in the receiving game because Bailey’s happy has actually thrown for some yardage and he will quickly go down to his running back in the checkdown a hurdle that we got from EO OT last week and Hayden one of these teams played in

Week seven Patriots running backs carried the ball 20 times for just 65 yards but did catch six passes for 51 yards and as we just saw rre Stevenson has been placed on injured reserve we’re going to copy that stat line here right here it’s going to be six receptions

We’re going to get 70 80 yards here and that’s that’s all we need he’s been the rb4 usage this month ARB 133 in production I have ranked as my running back 13 all this seems appropriate it doesn’t even matter that the team total is so low because he’s been getting it

Done when the Patriots haven’t really been scoring so yeah this is just the the best volume and quite frankly Zeke is just a much better player this year than what he was last year last year he was very clearly injured he looks a little bit more explosive Derrik Henry

At the Houston Texans is your running back 14 I believe so the th the the thesis behind drafting Derk Henry for many people was that he played the Houston Texans in two of the final three weeks in phy football well Derrick Henry has been fantastic in four of the last

Five games this season the fifth game was against the Houston Texans where yeah he was just totally denied I mean he had 20 Touches for 10 total yards okay I mean unbelievable stuff now we have seen this Texans defense be a bit injured in recent weeks and Will

Anderson and Jonathan grenard they can’t duplicate what they did this that week Hayden but will it go from being that awful extreme to what we have seen in actually a top 12 running back basically in the other four games of his last five play I think we have a good chance at

That because it’s not just the two Edge rushers that you named it’s also Sheldon rankins and Malik Collins those are the defensive tackles they are also not practicing early in the week uh there was a chance that the Titans were going to go to Tai Spears a bunch in the last

Game but it was the big dog eating at the goal line late in the game so uh if they can establish uh a lead or keep this thing close I do think that Derrick Henry is gonna get fed here this he just been like a running back too with some

Upside uh with Will Levis out there and even with them eliminated from the playoffs they’re going to keep riding the face of the franchise so um much cleaner match up this time around we’re talking about four to five starters in the front seven that could not be

Playing in the one okay the time has come Clyde Edward is your running back 15 against the Cincinnati Bengals explain yourself uh well I I didn’t want this to happen except I kind of did remember in that that round 18 this is what we’re talking about um yeah Isaiah PCO concussion

Protocol he has one fewer day to return than usual Jerick McKinnon’s on injured reserve so this is assuming that’s going to be CH and I believe it’s l Michel perine as the number two Andy has gone out of his way to complement CH this entire season uh if you’re just looking

At the rb1 for the Chiefs throughout this entire season they’re averaging 13 half PPR points on 13.4 expected PPR points the Chiefs have the fifth highest team total of the week here the Bengals defense is awful it’s even worse without defensive tackle DJ reader so the volume’s going to be there they have

Nobody else to go to the matchup is clean and momes doesn’t trust his wide receiver so I do wonder if they’re going to lean on the someone that he can trust in C even if he’s not very explosive it just really hard to get away from the

Touches uh and the team tot right here I can’t do this with you that’s fine I don’t want you so many other running backs behind him that I understand maybe they’re pick on projections or they’re not playing the Cincinnati Bengals defense but I can just hopefully rely on them to score a

Touchdown or they’re attached to just better offense offes at this point than what chiefs no what is the chief’s offense right now uh they only project for the fifth most points if you if you would like to go there is no there is no team that has failed to reach their

Projected total more often than the Kansas City Chiefs this season I hope you go make some money off that then it’s this year it’s wor it’s worked more of in this season than it hasn’t keep going yeah keep going and also but even if it’s just the projected total are we

Sure that’s being funneled to a running back that they really don’t care about I mean I’m ranking him as the running back 15 like I have Bree Hall and C ranked ahead of him and their team total is literally half of it I’m I’m I’m I’m

With you on that exactly yeah no no no but but after him it’s names like and I understand he’s being wholly inefficient this season but it’s Tony Pard it’s guys like Kenneth Walker it’s guys like David Montgomery rahee moer who’s injured like Tony Pard is worse than ch right now

Give me a break Tony Pard he is really bad right now okay I think handshake deal Tony Pard C who scores more points this week I’ve ranked C head for a reason I think let’s all right let’s agree to that one okay there we go okay next is Tony Pard um not all

The way up there he’s right there uh this against the Detroit Lions defense Hayden and as we have seen without Al mcneel a Detroit Lions defense if you understand and have blocking schemes against Aiden you can have some success against them Ty Chandler didn’t have the

Success though uh last week so yeah I think this is a totally fine matchup that are projected for a ton of points here uh if Rico dowle is out and he didn’t practice he left with an ankle injury that will certainly change some things for Tony Pard but he’s been

Bottom three in success rate I don’t know how he didn’t score that touchdown last time and what happened after that is they went to fullbacks uh in the red area they went to just passes in other short yard situations just went sh and just ran the ball or uh uh passed the

Ball out to the flats at times and then in pass protection they brought in that same fullback that was fumbling the ball in there because they didn’t trust Tony Pard in that so uh it’s just been really bad for Tony Pard he’s running back 27 a

Running back 14 usage this month this is as low as I can rank somebody on a team projected to score what are what a 30 points they’re projected to score 30 points this week and I still can’t give give him full confidence as an rb1 right now because he’s been playing so poorly

And last week he was losing snaps uh critical snaps uh at that as well okay next Rim moer does this come down to some questions of an injury that he sustained last week that and the Dolphins team total is more League average we’ve seen like the Dolphins

Kind of up in this tier so we have injury concerns uh he was cleared to play but didn’t go back into the game the second half a little knee sprain for him but just even even without that uh the Dolphins team total is just like a touchdown less than what it typically is

So um moved both aan and Raheem moster down like a full tier or two because of that okay James Connor this is at the Philadelphia Eagles um I mean James Conor this past week Hayden showed us something that we hadn’t seen at all this season in terms of his receiving

Usage five receptions 67 yards he had according to rebs 39 receiving yards on the season prior to last week so I don’t know if we can take what we saw last week and put it into this game well they were trailing and they should be trailing again here a lot yeah but James

Conor it doesn’t really matter over the last three games James Conor’s fa the Steelers the 49ers and the bears with Montes sweat three very good defenses he’s had 22.5 16.4 and 19.7 and half PBR points he’s been an rb1 over this really crazy stretch obviously the Eagles is extremely hard matchup The Trenches

Mismatch here is very very hard to overcome but James Conor is number one in yards after contact per car in the entire NFL number one this dude still is running over people he still has explosiveness nobody covers the Cardinals nobody cares about James Connor for some reason super fun player

He’s just been really underappreciated so even in a bad matchup we do need to start treating as an rb2 because he has been producing like more than that in equally as difficult matchups okay question with all that said and including that this Eagles defense has allowed 135 total yards to running backs

Per game over their last six which was after their buy after just 82 prior to the buy um why is he listed behind CH well I mean we’re looking at totally different team titles here C CH is going to be playing a lot unless you think L

Michael perun is GNA get a bunch of snaps I think C is going to play a ton okay just asking questions okay um have we gotten 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 one more name and that is Kenneth Walker here as your running back 19 um Kenneth

Walker has not been 100% healthy as of late but I still see Kenneth Walker uh posting some unreal highlights every single week and now he faced the Pittsburgh Steelers defense Steelers been definitely solid on defense up front and definitely compared to what their secondary has been the last three

Games um 9.9 11 and 11 expected points so that’s kind of like in this like rb3 discussion he’s better than that on tape for the metrics anything that you need here so I’m just hoping that he can break off a long run here the Seahawks do project for 22 points which is above

Kind of average um at home here this game they need to win so everything’s on the line for Kenneth Walker here he just like has not had the exact volume that other backs have had just because like Zack sharan is playing in the two-minute drill for example okay we will move on

To running back 20 we talked about him earlier it’s Dave Montgomery anything you want to add here again I I think that the drastically different rankings in these is a bit too large yeah just they’re projected to lose this game and that’s always a little bit fearful for David Montgomery who’s definitely better

In uh with with leads uh but I would not be surprised at all if the first 12 plays of the game are under Center David Montgomery runs right up the middle hopefully he can score a touchdown on them he’s not going to have the same receiving profile as a lot of the backs

Ahead of him he’s still very good um right before the show went live I had a comment like rb7 to RB 21 very flat to me like you can kind of these guys are all going to be projected for 60 70 80 yards in the pick and Lobby who’s

Scoring the touchdowns um David mcgomery is a little bit more game script dependent than the other backs will be but great matchup for him individually I really wanted to rank him higher but um CH okay Aaron Jones up next um one of my favorite players when he has played this

Season which has been very rare uh this is at the Minnesota Vikings the Vikings defense as we have talked about just tricky to run against uh I think is the best way of saying it however in the receiving game when you are able to catch passes and not just pass protect

They have been able to give up yardage in week eight green backs caught nine passer 58 yards and Hayden as we talked about Aaron Jones since he has returned has been heavily utilized Des spite not you know a 80% snap player right 17.7 and 20 expected points he’s the rb2

Overall in usage I think things will kind of go down a little bit from there though because it seems like Jaden Reed is gonna practice here AJ Dylan uh was mixing in last week so I think that AJ Dylan will have a role here and just the

Matchup uh I I still think it is a pretty bad one against uh Minnesota in general so pick and Lobby only has us at 55 and a half rushing yards um we’ll see if Christian Watson and Jaden Reed and donaven Wicks the final injury report will kind of Tinker this ranking a

Little bit um yeah that’s where I’m at Dylan did play last week he had like he came in for one goal on carry and that was basically it I I felt like this team trusts and believes in Aaron Jones the most I mean he’s clearly the best back

On that team next up is chuba hubard um this against the Jacksonville Jaguars defense a defense that tries to stop the run but a team that is on a three- game skid at the moment to say the least the yeah this Jacksonville is not very good

Right now um and even if they are a pass funnel I think the Panthers know where their bread is buttered right now and that is trying to run the ball when they can and then get Bryce to create at times uh like he did last week he was

Coming off by far the best Bryce game of his career uh chuba hubard profil is better than this um but this is I will still say a below average matchup for him and the Panthers still can’t get above that 16p point uh Team total uh again so just not not the same exact

Receiving profile some of these other backs as well he needs that like 80 yards and a touchdown and this is a tougher matchup to kind of get that done Tai Chandler against the Green Bay Packers a Packers defense that is 26th in rushing points allowed per game just

Over 15 um we saw Tai Chandler struggle last week because he was asked to pass protect and that is not his game it’s a reason why he hasn’t been playing as often this season as someone like me has called for um but I don’t know if that

Will be as big of a factor this week as it was last week I completely agree they were actually getting their fullback CJ ham in there to pass protect uh Alexander Madison barely played I’m expecting Madison to play more in this one um but there is is still a ton of

Upside here the Vikings project for 24 points they’re missing Kurt Cousins TG hackinson and probably Jordan Addison with the ankle injury I mean Kevin oconnell has this team fired up ready to go and projecting for a lot of points obviously the Packers just clown show defense at this point I me what happened

At the coin toss was like the latest thing for for the Packers um so I think Tai CH has a ton of upside from this spot I just can’t rely on him as much as some of the backs around him next Gus Edwards this is against the Miami

Dolphins and what we are counting on with Gus Edwards is a short yardage touchdown and if he doesn’t get that then you’re probably GNA get five or six points yes luckily he plays for the Ravens and they have lots of goal line opportunities last week he had three of

Them on three different drives it’s just him and Justice Hill I think they’ve maximized what they could do with Justice Hill they they used Justice Hill a lot this past week they definitely they definitely want to use him but this is certainly Gus bus at the goal line

This I think it’s going to be a highs scoring game against against the Dolphins I know they have both good defenses but these offenses are too good just in general um back call it week four when he was kind of the clear starter after the JK Dobbins injury he’s

Averaged 12 half PPR points that’s kind of right in this like rb23 range okay after that zamir white um you know Josh Jacobs could pop in here zamir white whoever’s going to be the starter by the time that they play uh we know that Antonio Pierce is going to give them a

Ton of carries he has talked about in his press conferences that I know that you know that I know that you know blah blah blah that we’re gonna run the football and that’s real football and uh so whoever is the backend there is going to get 18 plus carries yeah I had the

Same exact notes Josh Jacobs did not practice again with the quad injury so I don’t know what exactly is going on he is a pending free agent so I wonder if that has something to do with it next Joe Mixon has not been great as of late

Um it’s interesting a guy who was like never scoring touchdowns went on a streak of scoring some touchdowns and now that he’s not doing it again it’s felt like um he’s kind of back in this range and obviously Jake Browning uh is what we saw this past week that if he

Doesn’t hit that special play or two have a ton of yards after for catch opportunities plus Chase Brown being in the ball game um then the Bengals kind of crumble down to earth let’s put it that way right I think Jake Browning just a sign of regression this last week

After getting away with some things and the weeks prior um in the last two games mixon’s been at 13 a half and 12.6 expected points they want to get Chase Brown involved and then yeah the Chiefs their fourth best and success rate defense right now as well so just

Worried about kind of the game Flow and how Joe Mixon has gotten home with Jake Browning I’m not sure exactly how sticky uh that type of production is but like the fact that Joe Mixon is ranked this low is just a sign that like all the teams are healthy like trying to

Distinguish between Mixon at 27 and then C at 15 stuff this tier is still very very flat I do want to add because in week 13 against the Jaguars he was a running back one overall week 14 he was a running back seven overall week 15 he

Was a running back 14 and then obviously against this Pittsburgh Steelers defense that we just saw it was running back 34 so we are kind of leaning towards what we saw in week 16 to be this actual offense against the Kansas City Chiefs defense which lets say probably uh needs

To turn things around versus what we saw last week against the Las Vegas Raiders and they certainly have the talent and the coaching to do that that we are almost not disregarding but not believing that the three weeks that we saw with Jake Browning or who Joe Mixon

Can really be in fantasy football in the in the Championships yeah I don’t think that Jake Browning would like he was like top five in all these numbers he’s he’s not top five quarterback so I think what we saw last week is probably a fair projection in general okay what if I

Told you Hayden that Travis etn in consensus rankings for week 17 is a running back five overall I mean am I missing something when has he been that good I this is something that we talk about every single week the chat has been going crazy this entire time I have

Him ranked higher than this for the record okay where do you have him uh ahead of Gus bus in Tai Chandler yeah right next to chuba right there okay so but that is the running back 24 so let’s still have this conversation um in the last few weeks the Jacksonville

Running game is like 30th in the league this is EPA this is this is everything and this is these are the notes that we brought out last week prior to week 16 when everyone was trying to rake Travis ET in high and he goes out there and go

And becomes the running back 47 in week 16 um since the week nine by etn has carried the ball 78 times for 254 yards he’s averaging .47 yards before contact that is 33rd out of 36 as Richie bar has noted what if the last time that Travis etn rushed for 56 yards

Was week five like it and it’s true like this is who Travis eten is now and has been for the last few weeks yet chat consensus rankings wants him to be a top five running back this week I mean look just look at the match up now the

Jacksonville is dead last in rushing EPA or bottom five in then they’re facing the number one unit so like this is just it’s a really bad match up for Travis etn uh also Trevor Lawrence is Highly Questionable to play we’re talking about a shoulder injury it seems like today

Right but I mean Trevor Lawrence is now Head Shoulders Knees and Toes for him so we’re not seeing the same exact Trevor Lawrence if you guys haven’t watch the Jacksonville offense right now it’s not good in fact simp you can call it bad it’s it has not been clicking right now

So yeah Travis etn certainly has the talent to rip off a big play so does other players like Aaron Jones around them I’ve seen Gus bus do it at times Joe Mixon has done it but this is the tier because Jacksonville’s offense is just not what people want it to be we

Have we have to make some adjustments yeah for sure and the bye has been a tail of two halves really for Travis etn season I just want to run through these real quick and in fact how about I just share this tab just to quickly show everyone okay

Prior to the buy the opening parts of the Season he was a running back six the running back nine the running back one running back three running back four running back five in seven of the opening nine games fantastic stuff take that with what you want right or six of

The opening eight whatever it is since 39 26 19 12 15 30 47 how does any of that and Jacksonville struggling nothing improving lead us to a top five or heck even top 10 week like it is possible but what you are banking on is short yardage

Rushing touchdowns for a team that has struggled to get into that area because it hasn’t really been explosive or receiving aspects to Travis et’s game as of like over the last month he’s a running back 23 in usage so it’s not like that he’s like some huge positive regression candidate like they’re not

Moving the ball enough they’re not throwing them the ball enough to Warrant what we saw earlier on the season and I do think it’s offensive line injuries it’s no Christian Curry it’s nose Jones it’s Trevor Lawrence not looking like himself like there’s reasons why this offense is just not clicking right now

And the Panthers by the way are super slow paced you don’t run a lot of plays against Carolina and their defense has actually been uh quite respectable for most most of the season on top of it yeah I said he had only he had not rushed for 56 yards since week five he’s

Done it one time excuse me one time that was back in week eight which was before the buy so okay it’s always a fun conversation when you you know players change drastically right from earlier parts of the year when they’re banked in locked in top five top 10 names until

Now because injuries happen teams change things aren’t as successful so and so forth and we have to adjust along with them that’s for sure okay Devon Anan rounds out your top 28 um talk about adjusting like this was a player who we thought could win you your

Season at one point and it just hasn’t hit quite the same and obviously the number of touches has not been as equal as we saw in certain games of season to this month uh since returning from injury running back 26 usage he’s been the running back 19 because he’s a good

Player uh performing better than what the usage would expect but what we saw last week was a little bit worrisome even with Raheem moer missing they just went to Jeff Wilson in the short yard of situations we haven’t really seen like the Devon aan kind of uh like graduation

Into a different type type of role it’s still more or less the same type of touches he’s uh been relying on and now he gets the Ravens and the Ravens have the linebackers and the speed at linebackers in particular and Marlin Humphrey to tackle these kind of outside

Runs so it’s a really bad matchup for Devon hhan of course he still has explosive ability and if Raheem moer is actually out this game I’ll move him higher than this but this is kind of in line where his usage has been and this

Is about as bad of a match up for Devon aan in in particular okay 29 30 31 are javante Williams Austin Eckler and Antonio Gibson because he is the only running back left on the Commander’s roster so yeah let’s start with Antonio Gibson Brian Robinson’s Limited in practice right now with the hamstring

Injury Chris Rodriguez was sent to injured reserve so it’s too early in the week to tell they want Brian Robinson to be the guy he’s actually on a rookie contract Antonio Gibson he’s an expiring contract so too early in the week to give a final rank ringg on Gibson

Gavonte Williams he’s been the running back 31 on running back 21 usage has just not hit as hard Jared stum is a couple points worse than uh Russell Wilson is in general so I think the Broncos uh offense takes a slight hit with the quarterback change and then for

Austin Eckler uh the last two games 6.7 12.4 expected points without Justin Herbert um he keeps winning these hotand battles with Joshua Kelly and Isaiah Spiller um the Broncos are really bad uh second worst against fantasy running backs but you do have to worry at some

Point are they just going to like pull it out from Austin Eckler um and give some of the the younger guys an opportunity like for example like Keenan Allen is still not practicing still not playing out there so uh we’re in just a completely lost cause for the Chargers

Okay we’ll close this out with both Steelers running backs na Harris Jaylen Warren and then also uh Jerome Ford at the end to close out these week 17 rankings yeah Naji Harris Jaylen Warren we we know what we’re getting with these two guys and then Jerome Ford keeps losing

Goal line touchdowns to Kareem hunt uh and then with the Bears guys um deont Foreman’s back at practice he’s been the lead back when he is out there KH Herbert had a good game we’ve seen Roshan Johnson have a good game I’m not sure if the Bears know exactly who they

Want to give the ball to so I certainly don’t have a clue there as well okay that does it um I love when we disagree with the each other I love when we disagree with the comments and the chat um I’m not going to go as to follow call

It a a a guessing game in playing fantasy football but you use the information that you think is valuable in the hopes of predicting the future which guess what predicting the future is quite difficult um so that’s what we try to do thank you all for tuning in um

We’ll have actually the quarterbacks and tight in rankings right around kickoff maybe just a little bit beforehand so be on the lookout for that and then tomorrow it is wide receivers on top of that for real quick this is the perfect perfect comment everyone in the chat

Thinks that they’re running backs in the top 10 until you actually sit here and have to do the rankings there’s only 10 guys in the top 10 everyone else gets moved further than you would want to Great point that does it for us for week

17 um we will also just to get this on the record have a show on Sunday morning because there are 14 games to be played on Sunday there’s no Mone most of them in the morning yeah most of them are the early slate there’s 14 so we’ll be here

To help all of you all right up the Villa talk to youall soon see You