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Ranking Every Week 16 Running Back as a Start or Sit

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Good morning, friends and enemies. Welcome in to the second to last ever running back rankings video for 2025 fantasy football. We're in the semi-finals of our playoffs and we're going to be going through every single fantasy relevant running back. Every single game and whether each of these players are starts, sits, or flexes for your lineup.

We're going to start off with Thursday Night Football. We've got the Los Angeles Rams traveling to Seattle. This is a 43.5 point total. The Rams are one and a half point favorites here. I think weather is something to keep an eye on for this game. I think there's supposed to be a little bit of rain. Seattle's obviously an open stadium there. So, uh, something to, you know, just keep an eye on as Thursday approaches.

If we look at practice reports, doesn't look like Dvonte Adams is going to suit up. Though, though, I I will say I I felt a little bit more of a positive vibe around someone that has this hamstring injury than than I would assume. Like, not ruled out right away, especially on a short week, but you know, not here to predict that. Charles Cross, the offensive tackle for the Seattle Seahawks, would be a big loss. Started the week off with a DMP there. So, could be down a man on the offensive line for Seattle.

That being said, we've got Kairen, we've got Kenneth, we got Blake, we got Zack. We got a bunch of guys doing a bunch of things in committees here. Blake Horm's obviously come off of back-to-back good games. Kron Williams has still been a stud in that time. Now, these two teams did play not too long ago. In that game, Kairen had a good game. This is obviously a very, very good stout run defense for both sides of the ball. Though the top two players, Kairen Williams, Kenneth Walker, both had really strong games in this one.

When I think about Kairen Williams playing in Seattle, it's like, yes, I like the Rams. I do think without Devonte, they're going to have to play a lot of 12, 13 personnel. They're going to go heavy on the ground game. That being said, you know, Vegas even has both of these guys. I'm surprised Kenneth is that close to to Kairen Williams. Maybe we just don't want to overreact to a bad game from Kairen last week. But they have Kron Williams' line only at 65 total yards. So 55 and a half rushing yards, nine and a half receiving yards. Though I I could see a world where uh, the the running backs get a little bit more involved in the passing game with Devonte Adams out of the picture.

So with that being said, Kairen because of how effective he's been this year and it really hasn't been like, oh, this is a bad matchup. He's played poorly. The Rams are just such a good offense. He's for me he's teetering somewhere between like he's not a must-start for me given the matchup. I don't want to take a one-game sample size that he had a good game last time against Seattle because Blake Horm had an awful game. I think he rushed eight times for like 10 yards or something like that. This is just a great Seattle run defense. So, I'm going to throw Kairen somewhere between the feels good and the dub flex category. I think he's deserved to be in that feels good category more so often than not. I'm going to be honest, the rest of the guys, I don't want them in my lineup for the semi-finals of the playoffs.

Now, I know Kenneth Walker's line is pretty good. 61 yards. Last time they played the Rams, he went over 100 total yards from scrimmage. Was pretty involved in the passing game or at least had a high production total there. I think he had like 45 receiving yards in that one. Overall though, just based on how Seattle's offensive line is playing, based on Seattle's run game, based on the Rams defense here, one thing to keep an eye on, Braden Fisk, DNP with an ankle injury on Monday as well, which would be a big downgrade to the defensive line. But right now, if I'm if I'm really just being honest here, if we are opening up and being vulnerable, the next three guys are going straight into the shaky flex category. Blake Cororm, Zack Charbanet, Kenneth Walker. I don't look at any of them as guys that I think are strong flexes in your semi-final matchup for week 16.

So, we're going to move into Saturday's matchups. We have Philadelphia at Washington. Yes, I said Saturday's matchup. So, make sure you are primed, you are ready. Always put these dudes, if they are playing in the early games in the actual position slot because if something happens to them and you have them in the flex spot, then you have less options to maneuver around those, you know, Saturday, Sunday injuries that could happen pregame or whatever. We saw a couple of them last week. So just be conscious of that.

Philadelphia at Washington I actually think is pretty clearcut. We have Saquon in the mustard category. You know the ground game has not been great but he's been coming through and Washington is just such an easy matchup for Philadelphia. 6.5 point favorites here. 44.5 point total.

On the flip side this is another grouping where it's like it's obviously a muddled backfield but to me it's easy. You don't want any of these guys in your lineup because Jakori Kroski Morett had sort of a breakout game last week. Not involved in the passing game whatsoever. but with Chris Rodriguez randomly kind of sidelined last week. He took over as the main back. However, Chris Rodriguez returned to a full practice on Tuesday. So, very much expecting him to be ready for Thursday, which makes this entire running back group one to avoid in my opinion. Yes, one of them could end up having, you know, 40, 50 yards and a touchdown and you could look back and be like, I wish I had the 11 points in my lineup. But right now, JCM coming off the good game, we have no idea how they're going to split carries between him and Rodriguez. And with the Philadelphia Eagles defense, which is not like terrifying anymore, but still above average, I just don't want to play any of them.

Green Bay at Chicago. Huge match up for both of these teams. You got the Packers as one and a half point favorites here. They're on the road in Chicago. 46.5 point total here. Let's look at the injury reports for both sides. This is going to be another very, very cold game out there in Chicago. The ones that stand out obviously are the receivers. You have Roma Dunes started with the DMP. Luther Burton also started with the DMP. Christian Watson DMP. Dantavian Wixs DMP. So, it's probably going to be a running back centered game here for both sides. Lucas Vaness DMP here. And Zack Tom, offensive tackle for the Packers who left last week's game is also a DMP. That would be a big hit to this offensive line.

Regardless, Jacobs, you know, played through the knee soreness. I expect him to kind of miss a little bit of practice time this week, but he should be good to go. We saw him last week, two touchdowns here. Not going to overthink that. Jacobs is going in there. DeAndre Swift, like, yes, is a very tough matchup on paper versus the Green Bay Packers. Know Michael Parsons obviously going forward. He's obviously a better pass rusher than he is a run defender. But regardless, Swift coming off the two touchdown nearly 100 yard game. I feel relatively good about DeAndre Swift. I think again in the in this cold weather, this is going to be a game where Chicago, especially if Rome is out, especially if Luther Burden are out. They have all these weapons that they're down. Like you can't run a passing game effectively through Alam Zakius and DJ Moore. Maybe Coulson Lovelin gets a bump up there. But I'd imagine we're going to see a lot of 12 personnel, a lot of two tight ends, a lot of heavy blocking here. So DeAndre Swift to me I feel like he's guy like Kyron Williams who's kind of earned that feels good category. He's probably closer to a dub flex like you definitely have DeAndre Swift in your lineup if you own him.

Kyle Nungai guy who we did see a little bit of a a snap taper effect off of the split for split Swift to Kyle Manungai drives last week or was a little bit more in favor of DeAndre Swift. And I don't necessarily feel like Kyle Manungai is like a super strong flex. So I'm going to put him into the shaky flex. I can definitely start him if you need to but don't feel overly strong about it.

Let's move to the 1:00 slates on Sunday. Buffalo at Cleveland. Here we've got Buffalo's 10-point favorites, 42.5 point total in Cleveland. I've mentioned this quite a few times at this point, but since Malik Collins, their kind of star under the radar defensive tackle for the Browns, has gone out. They've been shredded by opposing running backs in fantasy football. James Cook is the goat right now. He's going into the must-start.

Quinton Judkins is a really, really tough start at this point. and he's a tough click and he's been, you know, floating around that feels good category for me for a while cuz the amount of touches he typically gets is great. Last week we had no Dylan Samson, we had no Jerome Ford. He got four targets, turned it into nothing. And at this point, Judkins, I would say he's averaging like three yards a carry. They were without four of their starting offensive linemen for Cleveland last week. So without that, I I would almost picture Judkins the same way as Genty, where it's like the offensive line is just so far out mismatched to the defensive line that he's just getting hit behind the line of scrimmage every single play, whereas Genty has a little bit more upside cuz he's so involved in the passing game, but Judkin simply is not. This should be a great matchup on paper. Buffalo Bills get kind of scratched through the ground game. And I do think if Dylan Stampson misses again, Drone Ford's on the IR, like those four targets, that feels a little bit more like noise and that not actual signal here where those four targets could easily turn into like 30 yards for a guy like Judkins. So, I don't want to overreact, but he won't be like a top 15 guy for me. So, we'll throw him into the dub flex category and we will move forward.

Cincinnati at Miami, 50.5 point total here. The Dolphins are at home. They are two and a half point underdogs. Devonte Chan of course is going right into the must-start. Uh Chase Brown, you know, the the Miami Dolphins run defense has been they were kind of tore up by Pittsburgh, but prior to that game, they have been a lot better over the second half of the year. I still feel really good about having Chase Brown in my lineup, and I think we could just move forward after that one.

Kansas City at Tennessee. So, we've got Patrick Mahomes obviously out for this one. Kansas City's down a bunch of offensive linemen. Tennessee Titans stink. This is a 37.5 point total here. Chiefs still favored by three and a half points. Tony Per coming off of two really, really, really strong games. I still think I am not looking to get him into my lineup. He'll be a shaky flex. He'll be, you know, towards the top of it for sure. I don't think you can completely write off what he's done the last couple of weeks. And those types of performances do have momentum to them. Those types of performances do end up giving you a really really high, you know, carry total and opportunity share total. When you get 20, 20, 25 carries and you turn them into a really productive day, the game plan typically ends up being the same thing the following week. So Tony Fard, shaky flex, I don't feel great about him, especially not in the match up against the Kansas City Chiefs.

On the other side of the ball, unfortunately, Pacheco actually had more carries than Kareem Hunt last week. Kareem Hunt is useful as the goal line back. Unfortunately, they're not going to have a lot of goal line opportunities with Gardner Mchu under center instead of Patrick Mahomes. Tennessee is also a pass-funnel defense where it's not that easy to run the ball against Jeffrey Simmons and Tavandre Sweat here. So honestly, Kareem Hunt rather not. Isaiah Bachco rather not.

Immediately, we're going to go to the Chargers at the Dallas Cowboys here. All right, so we've got a 49.5 point total. We've got the Chargers as 1 and a half point underdogs playing in Jerry's world. Omar Hampton still playing fewer snaps than Kamani Vidal, but he's looked really good. He's getting more carries, which is important, and he's almost assuredly the goal line back. This is a very, very good matchup against the Dallas Cowboys defense, which has been better over the second half of the year, but still not a matchup that scares you to stay away from them whatsoever. Javvante Williams is going to go into the must-start category uh right away, just the touches, the offense that he's attached to. Amari Hampton, I'm going to throw into the dub flex category for sure. And honestly, he's probably closer to feels good than he is dub flex. Kamani Vidal, the matchup is there. I do think the yardage total here will it'll continue to move in favor of Omar Hampton in my opinion. And Vidal has definitely carved out a role as the pass-catching back in this Los Angeles Chargers offense here. And I do think he's viable to to pop off a big play, but I also think without goal line touches, without having the backfield to himself, if he doesn't pop off that big play, he's closer to a shaky flex for me than he is a like must-start guy. And I do think there's a legitimate conversation to be had between Manungi, Pard, Vidal, Kenneth Walker, Blake. All guys in time shares that you can make good cases for. Like some of them are explosive and athletic. Some of them have the better matchup, etc., but they're all in the same tier for me.

Moving to Minnesota at the New York Giants. 43.5 point total here. They are in New York. New York is three-point underdogs in this one. So, we have Aaron Jones, who is projected an extremely high yardage total here. Obviously, you play against the Giants and you're probably going to have a good game. We saw what JCM did to them last week despite having to shake off the rust of basically like 10 weeks of doing a nothing burger. Aaron Jones is projected 78 total yards in Vegas, which is a high number for him. I get it. You know, him and Jordan Mason are splitting carries are splitting snaps, but Jones is typically playing like 65% of the snaps in this offense. An offense that's looked good against shitty opponents, and the Giants are absolutely that. So, Aaron Jones to me, dub flex for sure. Like, I definitely think you should probably have him in your lineup. I think that's the same with Tracy randomly coming off of that massive game, two touchdowns despite like missing time the week before with the hip injury and just sharing the backfield with Devin Singleary. So, I don't want to get over my skis with Tyrone Tracy because again, anytime there's like a committee, it's viable for there to be a hot hand approach where, you know, Devin Singleary out touches him 16 to 12 this week and it looks bad, but I do think riding the hot hand could help this week. And then Singleary, Jordan Mason are both going to go into the shaky flex category. Singleary should have been up there. Bang.

New York Jets at the New Orleans Saints here. All right, so we've got a 4 and a half point favorite game for the New Orleans Saints. 40.5 point total going to be low scoring. I don't think we have word on exactly like who's starting where for what team. I believe Brady Cook will be getting another start here unless Tyrod Taylor or Justin Fields can return. That would be an upgrade for Bruce Hall of course cuz Brady Cook can't really manage offensive drives very well. Bree Hall, man, I don't want to overreact. This isn't a great matchup. Like the New Orleans Saints have actually been a little bit better against opposing offenses than probably given credit for just cuz their team doesn't have a lot of success. I don't feel great about Bruce Hall. I'll throw him into the dub flex category. That that's where I'm at because, you know, he's probably going to get the line share of work and he's always viable to pop off a big play. Good pass catcher. We did see Isa Isaiah Davis play quite a bit last week. I think the snaps were somewhere in like the 57 to 43% range for Bree Hall and Isaiah Davis, though I don't think that's necessarily sticky. I just I just think it's hard to feel good about any player in the Jets offense at this point.

The other side of the ball, we don't have any injury updates on Alvin Kamaro. We do know Devin Neil is very likely to miss this game with a hamstring injury which leaves Audrey Estay and Evan Hull as the two remaining backs, the last men standing in this backfield. They split snaps when Deon Neil went down last week. It was a little bit more in favor of Esme. Esme was also running the more valuable plays and snaps in there. He was running routes. He was catching passes. And I also think given his size discrepancy, he's got 15, 20 pounds on Evan Hull. It would make sense that he becomes the goal line back here. So, I'm not quite ready to throw Estimate into the dub flex category, but I do think you could do a lot worse than him. So, I'm going to throw him into the shaky flex and I do think he deserves to be in this conversation because the Jets defense is so [ __ ] bad this year, especially against the run that I think there are going to be some teams that benefit from having Audrey Estimate, assuming Kamara and Deon Neil are out in this one. Evan Hull is going to be a guy that like wouldn't surprise me if he had uh, you know, like an Amari demarcado type performance where carries the ball five times, catches three to four passes and ends up with a big play on his hands cuz he is an explosive athlete but like you can't rely on him in your lineup for championship semi-final week.

Moving to Tampa Bay at Carolina. All right, so we've got Tampa Bay three-point favorites in this one. 45.5 point total. Now, Bucky, his Vegas yardage is up at 81 yards. And Rico not too far behind 75 yards, which I feel like is a little bit lofty as well for him. Bucky is the go-to guy there, getting the majority of touches. However, they very clearly like Shawn Tucker on the goal line, which is a bit concerning for Bucky Irving owners. That being said, I still think he's the best player. I still think this Tampa Bay offense is going to continue to get better and better now with Mike Evans back on the field there. I think that's kind of like an underrated part of the narrative here. I think, you know, this is like a all chips kind of rise with the tide, right? And I think Bucky will be an efficient player as long as the offensive pieces are healthy for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And Bucky, listen, like Shawn Tucker will get the carries, it looks like, on the one or two yard line, but Bucky might get in for one or two of those. He's also a guy that they'll have inside the 10 yard line that they could run pass plays for. So again, don't want to overthink like one game sample sizes for a guy like Bucky Irving who is continuing to get healthier and healthier and getting more touches in that back field.

That being said, like I don't want to start the other Tampa Bay Buccaneers running backs. Rico Dattle is an interesting case. He did out carry Tuba Hubard. I think it was 16 to8 last week. They kind of split the routes run and the number of targets they get on a week-to-week basis. But it is Rico Dattle who is in there on the goal line. This is like not an easy matchup necessarily. You know, anytime like Vea is in the middle of a defensive line, that's going to be tough to run against. He's going to swallow up a lot of running backs there. Pause. But they have allowed the eighth most fantasy points to the running back position. I think their defense has kind of been exposed the last few weeks as well. They are bottom five in EPA per rush allowed, which is probably a little bit more telling towards like how good they actually are. And I do think based on this line, 75 total yards plus 120 for an anytime touchdown. Like Rico D's likely going to be in my lineup. I have a decision to make this week. I mean, Kareem Hunts now out of the running, but I'm going to be deciding between Rico Dattle and I think uh what Brian Thomas Jr. and someone else in my flex. And I think I'm pretty comfortably going to end up going with Rico Dattle there. Obviously, if you want any of my rankings this week, flex, you know, running back, straight up, wide receiver, PPR, half PPR, whatever, those are always available to you guys on bdge.co for big dog members, that's our monthly membership. Get you the waiver rankings, get you the weekly rankings. The cheapest way to get them is by going to our partner app or website, MGM. If you deposit $10 for the first time using code BDGE, play any slip on there. Uh, you want to take that Rico underline. Don't suggest it, but that could be a slip that you play. Any slip you play on there with code BDGE is going to get you a promo code sent to you in their app for three months free of the big dog membership going into the offseason. We got dynasty rankings, all that good stuff. So, the link to go to our partner website will be down below. Rico Dattle also down below in that dub flex category means Shuba Hubard can obviously always, you know, break away a big passing game. He's been relatively involved on that side of things. So, he's going to go into the shaky flex category and we will move on to Atlanta at Arizona.

All right, so we've got Atlanta is two and a half point favorites on the road in Arizona. Bjan, of course, is a must-start. The other side of things a little bit trickier. Zonovan Knight's on the IR. Trey Benson's on the IR. James Conor's on the IR. So it leaves Michael Carter. It leaves Amari D Marcato. Last week it was a bellcow role for Michael Carter once Zonovan Knight went out. Though it was the first week back for Amardi Marcato from the high ankle sprain. So I do think Amardi Marcato will have a larger passing game role this week against the Atlanta Falcons. So, when I'm looking at Michael Carter, I actually think I I I think he's kind of a good start this week. Like, I'm having trouble throwing him in one of these tiers. Like, I do think it's a shaky flex just based on like the player and the archetype and this offense just throws to Michael Wilson and Trey McBride every time they're down there. But, I do think if it's consolidated, if Amari De Marcado does end up, you know, hovering around 20 to 25% of snaps, we could see a really strong day out of Michael Carter just from a volume standpoint. He does catch passes as well. So, as weird as it sounds, I'm actually kind of leaning closer to the dub flex category for Michael Carter than I am the shaky flex category. But I do think he belongs in the conversation with all these guys down here for the most part. Amard Marcato is going to be much closer to a rather not than a flex start for you.

Jacksonville at Denver. Next grouping up here, we've got the Broncos as three-point favorites at home. Feels like a pretty low line. I guess Jacksonville's playing pretty well, but I don't know that I actually believe in what they're doing right now. 45.5 point total here. RJ Harvey bangs up his ribs last game, so we don't have any reports on how serious that was or if he's actually in jeopardy of missing this game. That being said, these are two very, very tough run defenses. It's two of the best in the NFL. On the other side of things, Bashaw Tuton's going to have finger surgery, which is going to sideline him probably for the remainder of the fantasy season, uh, if not the entire regular season. So Travis ETN for me despite the matchup I mean just the involvement the number of opportunities the backfield guys get in Jacksonville puts him into the must-start category despite playing against Denver obviously RJ Harvey if he's healthy he's so inefficient on the ground but they give him so many touches so he's kind of he's kind of similar to Travis ETN so I'd put him into the feels good category because he catches passes because he gets all the goal line work but I do imagine it'll be another inefficient game for him on the ground and there's no one else that you want to start in this matchup I guess we could put the Quinn Allen in the rather not just to show a little respect.

Next up, we got Las Vegas at the Houston Texans. Houston 14.5 point favorites here. 37.5 point total, which means Vegas's projected scoring for Las Vegas is probably around like 12 points or something like that, which is not great for Ashley Genty. This is obviously not an easy matchup whatsoever for him against the Houston Texans. That mismatch between their defensive line and the Las Vegas offensive line is horrendous. But yeah, I I genuinely think Genty belongs in the dub flex category. Again, like opportunity shares 80%. But yeah, you're having the conversation of like Genty versus Michael Carter versus Kamani Vidal. It it's it's bad, but that's really where we're at right now.

On the flip side of things, we had Nick Chub missed last week's game with a rib injury. We have Woody Marks leaving last week's game with an ankle injury and then Jaward Jordan is the one who steps in, has a big game, but he's undrafted. He's unathletic. I do like the matchup against the Raiders, but I don't think the Woody Marks injury is supposed to be overly serious. If Woody Marks and Nick Chub both miss, I'm going to put Jaw Jordan into the dub flex category. If either of them play, he's going to fall down to the shaky flex at best and closer to the rather not category for me. Woody Marks, if he is healthy, if he is playing, I probably have needed to see like just better outings for him. More like taking over the game, taking over the backfield type of performances for me to feel great about him. But he'll go into the dub flex category and probably, you know, closer to thisish range here than at the bottom of it. If Nick Chub plays, there's just a lot of moving parts here. Obviously, I don't really want to play Nick Chub, but we'll move on to the next game.

We've got Pittsburgh at Detroit. Detroit seven-point favorites, 51.5 point total. Of course, Jamir Gibbs is going into the must-start category. The other side of the ball is a little bit trickier. I mean, we have Jaylen Warren and Kenneth Gainwell and Gainwell is just popping right now. Like, Kung Fu Kenny is having a Kendrick Lamar type season right now. If any of you guys watch the Monday night game, it's like every drop back it feels like Kenneth Gw is like the first read for Aaron Rogers. So, at this point, it's not a good matchup. Like, the Detroit Lions run defense is pretty good. And it feels like now that the entire mainstream is like, "Oh, Kenneth Gainwell is the better start over Jaylen Warren." That's exactly when the flip switches. But I just don't know how you can go in any other direction here. Another guy that you just kind of have that same conversation of like, okay, do I start Michael Carter or do I start Kenneth Gainwell? Do I start Kenneth Gainwell or Kamani Vidal? These are two guys in a in a time share. I think at this point, it's pretty safe to say that Jaylen Warren's probably a shaky flex, more so a dub flex. It's really deciding between Kenneth Gainwell. Do we feel great about him in the in in the flex category? Do we feel good about him in the shaky flex category? In full PPR leagues, I do think he's kind of earned the dub flex designation. He's playing a lot of snaps. Aaron Rogers loves to throw to him. He's looked really good on the ground. So, his line's at 4 and a half receptions right now. That's such a high floor for a PPR game, especially one that has a 51.5 point total. We know Detroit's going to score. We know Pittsburgh is going to have to answer if they want to stay in this game. So, Kenneth Gainwell, we're going to throw him into the dub flex category.

David Montgomery, he's one where like definitely don't want to start him. I think he could do worse. Uh, we did see Devon Han just kind of like tear through the Pittsburgh Steelers run defense that kind of got away from that obviously. I'm curious to see if their rookie Derrick Harman can get back onto the field for this game. Derrick Harman was their first round pick interior defensive lineman and the splits with him on the field versus off the field for opposing running backs is really, really wide. It's a big gap there. I also think they just lost Nick Herbig. Obviously TJ Watt was out last game with the lung thing. I I'd assume he's probably out longer distance. So, there could be a lot of injuries on the defensive line for the Steelers that obviously impact a dude like David Montgomery when you're running into the interior. You know, without those guys, it becomes a lot easier. So, I do think Dave Montgomery is in the consideration of being a flex start for you this week if you need them.

Let's move to the Sunday night football game. We've got New England at Baltimore. Huge game for Baltimore. It's a 48.5 point total. The Ravens are three-point favorites at home despite the way that the season has kind of played out so far. So Derrick Henry, I actually kind of love Derrick Henry in this game. I think they're going to try to get him going. The Patriots have been a great run defense up until Milton Williams got hurt in week 11 against the Jets. And then since then, they've been extremely mediocre, if not pretty [ __ ] bad. Last two weeks, they've gotten torched. James Cook had a huge game. They're allowing like 30 points per game to to running backs over the last two weeks. And since Mil Williams got hurt, they are 31st in EPA per rush allowed and like 30th in offensive success rate on the ground allowed as well. So not a very scary matchup. And Milt Williams will miss this game as well. He's still on the IR. So Derrick Henry, I think it's a little bit tough to throw him into the must-start category, but listen, if I have him, I'm starting him over these guys for sure. And I'm just going to throw him there. Sherman Henderson coming off of a massive game last week with, you know, all the breakaway runs and everything. And it looks like he's clearly kind of like taken over the backfield to himself. So I got Trayvon, you know, big play guy. I think there's a chance that he goes out and gives you like six, seven, eight points for sure, but anytime you have a guy that can rip off like a 25, 30 point game, he needs to be in your lineup for the fantasy playoffs, Randre is definitely going to be in the shaky flex category for me.

Last game of the week, we've got San Francisco at Indianapolis. This is a 46.5 point total. We've got Indie six-point underdogs here. Now, Philip Rivers already ruled as a starter for Monday night, which means we're going to get another 30 touches from Jonathan Taylor here. So, yes, despite the poor efficiency that we're likely going to see. I do think another week with Rivers practicing and starting will bring a little bit more continuity to this offense. I also think again like 25, 30 touches, he's going into the must-start category. An easier matchup against San Francisco than it was against Seattle here. And they're at home. San Francisco has to travel to Indie, which I think obviously goes in their favor. So, Jonathan Taylor is going to be a must-start and uh obviously Christian McCaffrey is too. That's going to round out the running back rankings for week 16. Let's go into poster mode for you hoes. There you go. And if you want my rankings, as always, you can get that at bdge.co. Become a big dog member either through the site or through our partner MGM. Play any slip on there when you deposit for the first time. Code BDGE. That'll get you three months free to the big dog membership. All right. I'll do the same exact thing for wide receivers tomorrow. So, subscribe if you are new to the channel and want to see that as well. Smokeies. Bye.