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2026 Fantasy Football RB Rankings & Tiers with Scott Pianowski | Best of the Fest (Ep. 2159)

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Chris Welsh and Pat Fitzmaurice were joined by special guest Scott Pianowski to break down the FantasyPros Expert Consensus Rankings (ECR) for the top 36 fantasy football running backs, identifying the biggest values, potential busts and breakout candidates at RB.

Is Omarion Hampton being drafted too high? Can Kyren Williams deliver another RB1 season? Should fantasy managers fade Quinshon Judkins at his current price? And is TreVeyon Henderson becoming one of the best values in fantasy drafts as his ADP falls?

Use these RB rankings, tiers and draft-day debates to find value and avoid costly mistakes before your 2026 fantasy football drafts!

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Intro - 0:00:00

RB1s - 0:02:29

Omarion Hampton - 0:03:22

RB2s - 0:07:27

Kyren Williams - 0:08:12

Quinshon Judkins - 0:09:55

FantasyPros Draft Intel - 0:14:12

RB3s - 0:14:48

TreVeyon Henderson - 0:15:33

Jonah Coleman - 0:19:31

FantasyPros Draft Simulator - 0:20:41

Chat Q&A - 0:21:21

Outro - 0:26:55

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2026 Fantasy Football RB Rankings & Tiers with Scott Pianowski | Best of the Fest (Ep. 2159)

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This is an I Heart Podcast. Guaranteed Human. At Edward Jones, we believe Rich is about taking care of what gives your life meaning. That's why your financial advisor personalizes your plan to help you preserve your progress and create something that lasts. Let's find your Rich. Edward Jones, member SIPC. Welcome back to the Fantasy Fest. It is ranks time. Ladies and gentlemen, R.B. wide receiver coming up in a little bit. We are tackling the ranks. And would you know it? This is a ranks crew I've worked with before. I've got Pat Fitzmore, who is my ranks buddy. We've been doing this for years. And we even were doing shows with Scott Keanowski a couple years ago. We were talking ranks. We're talking R.B.'s. Scott, it is great to see you, my friend. How are you? Doing great. Doing great. But I'm very excited to see that the draft system comes with free shipping and handling. It's a nice touch. It could also be traffic crew just crushing it on that segment. But anytime I can talk football with two of my good friends and running backs, right? The position that matters. If you had the Genie that gave you the answers at one position, you would ask for the running

back answers. So let's try to be the Genie in the bottle today. Yeah. And by the way, I felt like I sounded like I did go through puberty. I lost my voice earlier. Like, I sounded so young. I did do that video. I think like the voiceover a couple years ago. I was like, hi, sounds so young. By the way, in the middle of the last segment, Fitzsy messages me going, I now can't unsee the John Lackie thing. I'm so glad I said that. It's like literally one of the like every person I've ever been said you look like they're all just offensive. And I'm just like, okay, but the John Lackie one does follow me. So Fitzsy, thank you for now being unable to say. Well, you breathe out of your nose. John Lackie breathed out of his mouth. This is a big mistake. That's true. But I had John Lackie on a long running, American League only fantasy baseball team. When he was at the absolute height of his powers with the angels, he's probably like my all time franchise leader and career wins. Got two championships with him in a four year run. So like seeing you in it. Well, it's going to bring back good memories now. Great. Well, I hope I can bring back the thank him for the 4.46 year already had with the Red Sox out there for good times.

All the football people are like, what are we talking about? It's baseball, but we've got football for you. So we are talking about our RB ranks and we are going to be digging in on the fantasy pros, ECR. We're actually going to be looking at the top 36 running backs and how this is going to go is we're going to looking at RB ones, twos and threes. And we've got Fitsy who is kind of picked out a player. We got a couple different categories of maybe a guy miss ranked, a guy too high. And then we're going to have both of you guys break these down, but I would encourage everybody in the chat. It's RB time. So if you want to get your questions started, let's talk about some running backs. Put them in there. Set this going to be picking them out. And then the last 10 minutes or so, depending where we are in time, we're going to bring up and talk about some RB questions. So let's take a look at the big board and let's take a look at the top 12 running backs according to ECR right now. The crew and the names that you know, Jameer Gibbs at one, B. John Robinson at two, Christian McCaffrey at three, Jonathan Taylor, James Cook. There's your top five, Chase Brown at six, Sequan Barkley at seven, Devane, Janet eight, O'Marion Hampton at nine, Derek Henry at 10 with Ken Walker and the falling Ashton

Gentie. Gentie, obviously with the injury scare. We've seen some adjustment. I think I've even seen him in some spots go as low as 15. If you guys want the latest as far as 80 P goes, check out real ADP on fantasy pros, but this is where the expert, the expert consensus rank has it. And first up here, in looking at these running backs, a running back that is ranked too high in the top 12. Can they really be ranked too high? Fitsy, you picked out a name for us. So you give us the running back in the top 12. That is too high. And then we are going to see what Scott P. Nalsky thinks. I really don't have that much of a beef with O'Marion Hampton's ADP become two spots lower. And Hampton was a pretty exciting prospect. Big back with good speed, who caught a bunch of passes in college. Now he's in seemingly a really good spot with Mike McDaniel running that offense. The charger's offense line should be much better than it was last year with improved health, although they've already lost center. Tyler Beattage to a season ending injury. Everything is, McDaniel's been pretty forthcoming about wanting to use all of Hampton, Keaton,

Mitchell and Cmoney Vidal. And Mitchell and Vidal are pretty good for backups. And honestly, we don't know what Hampton is yet. McQueen only got nine games out of him as a rookie. And he broke his ankle in week five. Didn't come back until week 14. He did give us five touchdowns in nine games and had 32 catches in those nine games with five or more catches in four of them. So that was encouraging. 129 yards from Scrimmage and a touchdown against Denver in week three. That's a defense that eats glass. So that was good. 165 yards from Scrimmage and a TD against a much worse, giants defense the following week. That was his only 100 yard rushing game. I just, I don't think we can look at what Devon H.N. did with Mike McDaniel in Miami and project that onto a Mary and Hampton in LA. These are just two really different backs, wildly different body types. And by the way, H.N. topped out at 14.9 carries a game last season. That was a career high. And I'm sure Hampton investors, especially if they're drafting an RB nine are hoping

for more rushing volume than that. So like basically just it comes down to this like we know what the other RB ones are other than not knowing exactly how Andy Reed and Eric the enemy are going to use Kenneth Walker in Kansas City. But still we know what Kenneth Walker is. There's proof of concept with all the RB ones. Hampton is in this Mike McDaniel offense with two pretty talented running backs. It's just hard to project what sort of number that situation is going to produce. Interesting note. When you look and we can look on ECR, we can look at individual rankers. We have multiple people that have them as the third highest running back. I say we, it's industry. It's all the industry people that are submitting. There are a couple people that have him in the top three. And there are six that have as a top five running back. That is more people than that have them as a 16 or worse. So there are more people ranking as a top five overall back than there are being 16 or behind is RB nine to high.

Scott P. Nowski, what do you think? You know, Pat gave such a complete answer. I'm not sure what there is left for me to say. I have a bunch of points and I was just checking them off. The offensive line, McDaniel, the loss of the center. I was even going to use the term proof of concept and Pat took that off the board too. I do think the top 12 running backs. The listing is pretty tight. And I don't have major quibbles with it. I have a lot of teams I've started with running back running back starts. And I think those are teams that I really like because the receiver is deep enough to start hitting in the third, fourth, fifth round, sixth round. So some of the teams I've built the fantasy index mock draft. I started with two running back five receivers. And that's my favorite team I've drafted all season in part because it's been injury-free for the summer. But I'm a half step behind on Hampton for the reasons Pat outlined. And I'd also like to have somebody a little bit more solidified that proof of concept. Derek Henry is going to fall into the end zone 14 times. Did you know in the last four seasons by the way, Lamar Jackson has two rushing touchdowns from the five yard line and in compared to Jalen Hertz has 39 and Josh Allen has 33.

I mean, Derek Henry scored twice since we started this segment. Hampton's not a bad pick for me, but I can't say he's a proactive pick either. Hampton comes in at 13 in our projections as far as running back goes. 13th overall. And then real ADP he's 11. So it kind of speaks to this with an ECR of nine ADP is going lower. Projections have even a little bit lower. But I know he is a popular pick. All right. Let's now move to the RB2s. We're looking at half, half PPR, ECR. These are going to be 13 through 24 looking at the big board. As you guys can see, we've got Kyron Williams coming in at 13, Javante Williams at 14, Breeze Hall, Josh Jacobs, Jeremiah Levitt, 17, Travis H.in at 18 with Deandre Swift, Cam Skataboo, Bucky Irving, Quinchon, Juttkins, David Montgomery, and Bayshell Tutan rounding out that becomes our 24. So in this segment, we are going to be talking about mistiered running backs. So Pat, you're going to give us the positive and negative mistiered running back from

this tier. And then we're going to see if Scott's going to agree with you. So what is your positive and negative from this tier two RB? All right. Positive. Ever since Kyron Williams became the Rams lead running back, it seems like fantasy people been predicting his demise. Kyron has scored 15, 16 and 13 touchdowns over the last three years, getting that sort of TD production from one of your lineups, FOTs. Basically, a touchdown per game that's so valuable. The Rams were one of the best teams in the NFL last season, and they have since added Miles Garrett and the two starting cornerbacks from the chiefs. The Rams should pretty constantly have run friendly game scripts. This year, you would think as loaded as they are. Plus, Sean McVay is one of the best run game designers in the league. And no team is going to stack the box against the Rams when Pukiniku and Devante Adams are on the field. Now I do think Blake Kaurim is a really good player who could eat into Kyron's workload even more than he did last year. I like Kaurim at his price more than Kyron at his.

But Kyron Williams has finished RB2, RB8 and RB11 and a half point PPR fantasy points per game over the last three years. So it's not exactly a bold prediction to say, I think Kyron Williams could finish an RB1 range for a fourth straight season. And by the way, it's Kyron Williams' birthday today. You turn 26, so happy birthday Kyron. Oh, he's almost, he's got a retire. It's get his ARP card from the NFL at 26. He's got two more to think good here. Did you guys see that staff by the way that it was like it showed when Nick Chubb retired, it was like Sony Michelle, Nick Chubb Todd Gurley and it's like all three are retired and they're all under 33 years old. And you're just like, what? Crazy. What are you talking about? They should be 50 based on my brain with that. So I love that happy birthday to Kyron Williams. What's your negative? That was too low. So then what is your too high? Yeah, Quinch on Judkins. And I get that he has sort of a workhorse profile, although it does seem like he's probably going to come off the field for Dylan Samson on passing downs. Maybe not though, because I know they felt they couldn't use him on passing downs last

year because he missed all of training camp. So maybe he does play more on third downs this year. But the issue is that the Browns offense could very well be the worst in the league. Their quarterback situation is bleak to put it mildly. They've added talent to their offensive line in the offseason, but now the offensive line is a bunch of guys who've never played together before. And Judkins is coming off a pretty major leg injury dislocated as right ankle and fractured as fibula in week 16. I know he's looked good in camp videos, but it wouldn't be that shocking if he got off to a slow start due to lingering effects of that injury. Hopefully it's about just not wanting to hitch my wagon at all to the Cleveland Browns offense. At Edward Jones, we believe Rich is about taking care of what gives your life meaning. That's why your financial advisor personalizes your plan to help you preserve your progress and create something that lasts. Let's find your Rich. Edward Jones, member SIPC. To honor our country on its 250th birthday, this can't a Copenhagen goes out to those

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who other people are talking about. And we were looking for the term bus. And Bogman put this together, no running back had more aggregation of being a bus this year than Quinch on Jackins. He was the number, and he was like the number one player of all the positions of the amount of different articles from around the fantasy landscape that have tabbed him as a bus this year. So it's really, really interesting. So Scott, we're going to throw this to you then. Kyron Williams is ranked too low. Quinch on Jackins is too high. Do you agree? And even if not, is there a player that qualifies for you in this list that you would like to throw up? But I'd love to get your Kyron Williams and Jackins thoughts. Yeah, strong agreement on Jackins. It takes a village to prop up a fantasy running back. And what does he have? A team projected for five and a half wins. A team with the worst quarterback clown car in the league. And a team when I last looked at the consensus offensive line, rankings including fantasy throws ranking with a bunch of other sites I respect. The Cleveland Browns were ranked 30 second. And last I checked, there were 32 teams in the NFL. So I know part of jugkins on my team.

I respect Williams. I agree with Pat's assessment that he's generally been underrated. And maybe we've been going him a little bit too much when he's been a solid player, but he's not going to catch the ball because the ramps throw to their running backs less than anybody else. And I can't unsee what Korm did. Maybe the second half of the last eight or ten games last year where he produced about a 900 yard pace with seven or eight touchdowns in a full season. I think it's a 60-40 in that backfield. I think it could be a hot hand situation or got forbid anybody fumbles or blows the puts assignment. Maybe somebody gets moved ahead of somebody else. There will be games where I think Korm is the more productive back or he just gets into a rhythm and maybe they ride with that. So they're both good players. They're both going to play. Of course, it's the Rams. It's McVeigh. It's a team with positive game script. It's probably the best and most complete team in the NFL. So I don't mind drafting Williams. I'd rather take Korm at ADP so that lines up with Pat as well. And anytime we agree, I feel better. I will say the guy I'm really targeting in this tier and a lot of my teams are going to start with running backs.

So maybe I wouldn't draft somebody in this second tier. You have the 13 to 24's. But on some leagues, I will get a third running back if I need that second one. I think the injury swift with Monongai dinged up and offence, I trust. I just think he's been a good player and an overlooked player because he got kind of run out of town Detroit. He landed on his feet in Chicago. I think he's just one of those boring middle of career veterans that sometimes tend to be overpriced. I find myself with a lot of swift shares as we head into late August. And by the way, not only is today somebody's birthday, today's also national dog day. So shout out to my pit bull Jimmy. He's just a lovely yellow dog. He's having a great day today. August 26, NDD. Why we plan Jake to have his dogs on camera clearly. We knew that. We just didn't have a graphic made for it. Yes, shout out to shout out to all the dogs. I will say an interesting thing on the bears thing and that same thing kind of talking about the aggregation that I mentioned. Common on guy was the second most league winner running back that was written about across the land. Cory Croskey Merritt was number one offensive line.

Very, very interesting list here. We're going to be talking about the tier three of running back and someone outside of the top 36. And we might be looking at, but how would you like to know what your legmates are going to do? I'm going to be a little look over and you could see their cue. Well, we can't give you their cue, but we can give you a secret weapon for your fantasy draft this year and it's draft intel. Sync your league for free to uncover how your league inmates draft. Then you can use those tendencies in our mock draft simulator. Prepare with a mock draft that feels like the real thing. Get started. Get the intel at fantasy pros dot com slash intel. That's fantasy pros dot com slash intel. Expose your leagues draft tendencies and get ahead of the game. All right, we are going to the RB three territory here and that list from 25 to 36 on the big board. We've got Travy on Henderson in tier three at 25, Gidere and price of 26, Remondere Stevenson, Jalen Warren, Tony Pollard, Rico Dotto comes in at 30 Jonathan Brooks at 31,

JK Dobbins, Chubahubber Blake, Corham, J. Cory Croskey Merritt and RJ Harvey. That is the list. So now which running back do you believe can jump into the RB two or RB one territory if you could pick one from this group Pat? Who is the biggest potential riser and there? I think just like clearly names were probably would never account for this, but there's at least a handful of guys that there are some huge big feelings on and people are making some big bets on who's the guy that you think can make that jump. I cannot wait to see what my golf buddy Scott Pinozki says about this because he is a new England native and I really like the idea of betting on Travy on Henderson this year. And it's funny over the last week or two it seems like there's been a noticeable shift of opinion on the new England backfield all off season, everyone considered it ambiguous and now it seems like most people are leaning into the idea that Remondere is going to be the lead guy. And I'm not saying that opinion is wrong, but I do question the level of scrutiny in that opinion. I mean, nothing ever changes in the NFL, right?

Everything stays static. Remondere was the Patriots lead back in the playoffs. So he's just automatically going to be the lead back again. Situation is completely calcified. No, I'm not trying to be a smart ally. And I do realize that Mike Vrayball has kind of an old school approach and is going to make Travy on earnest stripes. But when Stevenson missed three games last year, Henderson had 330 scrimmage yards and five touchdowns in those three games. He was RB three and fantasy scoring over that stretch. And Henderson also had two other two touchdown games when Ramandroid was playing. Henderson had four runs of 40 or more yards last year. I think they might have all gone over 50 yards. Stevenson has three runs of 40 or more yards over his five year NFL career. So I think we know with the more explosive guys and people don't really talk about it anymore, but Ramandroid Stevenson has fumbled on two percent of his carries over his career, which is not the sort of fumble rate that endears you to coaches. The fantasy pros real time ADP tool and shout out to our developers for coming up with

the best ADP tracker in the business. Real time ADP shows that Travy on Henderson's ADP has dropped 3.7 spots in the last seven days. His ADP now sits in the early sixth round rather than the late fifth round. I hope that ADP keeps sliding because it's like I want to have Travy on Henderson on at least a couple of the teams I'm going to be drafting over the next 10 days. By the way, David, I just like it's actually 5.4. He continues to drop like it. And that is definitely why you want to check out that tool seven days, 24 hours real time gives you a really good look. So Mr. P. Nalsky, buy or sell Travy on Henderson has the highest boom potential if you will of any of these running backs in tier three. Yeah, I'll sign off on that. Obviously excited about Henderson's ceiling. We know last year he had a great camp and became a buzz player, became a healing player and didn't pay it off. But I want to approach this backfield kind of in the same in general sense. The same way we used to look at the Lions backfield when they had Gibbs and they had Montgomery

where everybody knew Gibbs was the home run hitter and Montgomery was the more grinder back. They were both going to play. They were both probably going to be productive in fantasy staples. Stevenson is 25 pounds thicker give a take pound than Henderson. So it makes sense that maybe Stevenson would be the go-line guy although Pat Mejansson fumbles in every coachates fumbling and you always wonder if somebody coughs it up a couple of times if the roles could be flipped a little bit. But I've been generally taking Stevenson just because he's the boring veteran value who goes a little bit later. Henderson, they didn't hand him anything last year. They made him work for it. And I think even at their best, you're hoping to get 13 to 15 touches from these guys. I think the idea that either one of them will be a bell cow is probably not going to happen. The Wingo also has a mobile quarterback and Drake May, he'll take some of the production off the table. I see the case for Henderson. I'm okay with Henderson at cost. I'm not going to reach for him, but my draft profile and maybe my draft strategy has led me to more Stevenson's share so far. All right. The final thing in here would do a little lightning round on us.

So we can get to a few of these RB questions. But outside the top 36. So not on this tier that we've talked about. If Fitsy, you could pick one running back that you want to lock into that's got the potential to outproduce their ECR. By the way, I love this name because I got screamed about by doing this name as well. On a short. So I already know who it is. So why don't you let everybody else know this outside the top 36 running back who can beat their ECR. Jonah Coleman, Broncos, rookie, not fast, but I think pure speed is really is only short coming. Like he's decisive, good contact balance, hard to tackle. Good is both past capture and past blocker. Sean Payton took Coleman out of the Broncos first preseason game early on and was asked after the game. Why Coleman came out so early and his answer was I didn't need to see additional evidence of what I've been seeing for the last three weeks. We know Dobbins is a worrisome injury history. RJ Harvey wasn't good after Dobbins got hurt last season. Sean Payton routinely deployed like two and three man backfields in New Orleans.

Coleman is going to play and he might wind up playing a lot. Scott, what do you think about Jonah Coleman? I agree that the biggest takeaway for me is that Harvey really dropped his opportunity. Last year Dobbins got hurt and Harvey was a great disappointment. I realized the touchdown deodorant made everything kind of smell good at the end. But if they were in love with Harvey, they wouldn't have drafted Coleman as proactively as in he's a perfect prototype NFL body. I think RJ Harvey might be a player. People are cutting in the middle of the season. Well, let's see what the people want with their running backs and their questions. But before we do it, let's talk about the draft simulator because you can practice. Your drafts. You can practice them at an elite level and you can practice making the playoffs because you're going to be there. Get ready for your fantasy football draft with our mock draft simulator complete fast realistic mock drafts in minutes, test different strategies and practice from any draft position. Everything we've talked about in the show, you can kind of put to the test. You could do all of it in minutes or you can get an ad in whether it's friends or you're jumping into doing public lobbies.

However you want to do it, we got you covered. Start prepping now and enter your real draft with confidence at fantasy pros.com slash mock or you can do it on the fantasy pros app realistic mocks in minutes, my friends. All right, let's see what are the questions we have got here. Let's see, let's do this one. Gentie and Smith or King Henry and flowers. So the classic which RB with which wide receiver would you want early RB early wide receiver? Fitty, which grouping? The only problem is I don't want both Henry and flowers together. So I guess Gentie and Devonte Smith, although I do now post injury, I have Henry ranked ahead of Gentie. Okay. What do you think Scott? I definitely agree with the Baltimore guys other than the fact I don't want the two Ravens who can't score in concert together, but they're kind of risking a fall in the Enzo 14 times and man, they cannot cover flowers downfield. The guy moves like a slinky. I can't wait to see what Declan Doyle does with that offense. So I prefer not to double up on an offense, but I think you get more value from the two

Baltimore picks. A lot of barkly questions I see. And a standard lead. Would you take Henry or Barkley? Scott. Yeah, I'm going to go Henry again there, although they're in the same bucket for me. And I think they're both excellent second round picks. It's, in fact, if I had that choice 10 times in 10 leagues, I'd probably set 64, 7, 3, but Henry to me feels a little bit safer. Fitty. I've got Barkley ranked higher. I just, my actual real tables tell me to avoid the 33 year old running back. Absolutely no side of Declan. Maybe it's coming. That's true. I know. You can see like the decline coming because his efficiency went down last year with Henry, the idea that he's getting at all worse that it's caught up to him. It's all on spec because he none of it has shown up on the field or in the sets. He isn't actually human, so we can't hold him to human standard. Well, I made the comp pad about a week or two ago. I said, I think the real comp for him, it isn't any football player. It's no one running. Yeah. That's a good point. A lot of baseball in this segment. I like it from guys that like some baseball.

Breeze Hall or Jeremiah Love, Fitty? Still Jeremiah Love for me. Yeah. I hate to ever pick a jet, but Jeremiah Love's hurt right now and there's decent players behind him. Give me Breeze Hall. It's a funny video going around. Error, because I live in Arizona. People showing Breeze Hall was like delivering pizza. He's running up the stairs. He's got a bunch of pizza and everyone's like, he's healthy. Week one, lock it in. And it's like that's fantasy football season. There you go. Just delivering some pizzas. That means he's healthy. Don't deliver it to Roy Williams because he was famous for not tipping the pizza guy. Well, I think he actually came around on that. He said, I thank you for coming, but no, I don't leave a tip. That's awful. Gidaring price, rank too low. Scott. It's going to be a slow on board. They have multiple guys. I even think Barnor might be a short yardage specialist like he was last year. I've had a hard time signing up for price. No, we've done this a couple times. Are you higher low on price? Fade for me. Not only a slow on board, Scott, but like just as the most important weeks of the fantasy

season come up, back comes Act Charbonne to to mess with prices role. Plus the prospect profiles a little iffy. Never got to see him do workhorse duty. Didn't catch a lot of passes. Fumbled quite a bit. So I'm just I'm not there with price. I'm looking to draft cook over Taylor. Thoughts, Fitsy. I'm okay with it. I've kind of got knack and forth on those two, but yeah, just cooks in the better offensive environment. I'm on board. We know Debra would be with that. What do you think about that, Scott? Yeah, I talked about that fantasy index draft I did. I started with Taylor and Cook. So I like both of those guys. But to me, Cook is an early second round pick, but you take him in the first round in case of emergency. You break the glass. If you're nervous about Indianapolis, all the receivers are hurt. I think you'll Jones coming off a major injury. I think sighting with Cook would be perfectly reasonable. James Cook, I want on rosters this year. A lot of James Cook stuff here. We'll do two more. Keep Scott in the 13th round or I'm hearing Hampton in the fifth round. We'll go to you, Scott. I'm not even a scatting guy, but that value is so screaming.

I think you have to take scatting. Yeah, Fitsy. Same. It's that good. I think so. Okay. I mean, you know, I'm a little bit dicey on just like what they think of scatting. But it is like a huge round value there. I will say this. To some degree, when you're getting a good value on either player, some people would say, just take the player you prefer and don't get caught up in the extra value because if Hampton is up being better than scatting, you're just going to be mad you didn't keep the better player. I do see some school of thought with that, but the gap in rounds is so significant that unless you hate scatting, I think you have to keep them. And shout out to people don't know, we've got a brand new dynasty channel. It's its own channel here on fantasy pro. So make sure you go and check that out. All these things are discussed. It's, I mean, Fitsy lives on there. It's warm. It's bogman. So make sure if you got any dynasty questions, not that you can't answer or ask them here, but we got you covered and it's got its own channel. Find a one. What will Bill Croskey-Marit's role in the back field? What's that share going to look like to you, Fitz? Messy plurality of the work, but not a majority of the work.

Like 40% of the back field touches 45%. What do you think, Scott? Do you agree with that? I like Bill more than I like the situation. He's a two down guy. The offensive lines terrible. The obviously brought Rashad White in first specific thing to catch passes. And Jaden Daniels just took 725 and 7 off the table. So married and the, you know, JCM in the right situation. Croskey and Mary, I'd be in on. I just think Washington looks like the wrong situation right now. He's one of those guys. You're just like, look at this opportunity. And he's priced low, but you're just like, oh, like the offense. I'm just so worried about it. And it's like if they cannot move and can't run the ball, it's like this is built for Rashad White, but they'll see if they give up every opportunity. And I don't know what you guys think. Thank you guys so much for the RB ranks episode. And Scott, thank you so much for hanging out with us. Always loved doing it. We've done ranked episodes forever. You have been a staple of the fantasy fest. So we really appreciate your brother. And Fitsy is not going anywhere because we've got wide receiver ranks coming up. World of World Patrick Dordy's coming up.

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