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The most important position in your fantasy drafts this year is easily the running back position. It's not even close. So, in this video, I want to share with you the five running backs that I'm drafting everywhere right now. I can't stop drafting these guys, and I think you should draft them, too.
And we're starting with Jeremiah Love, which is going to be a controversial one. The third overall pick in this year's NFL draft. The 21-year-old great, one of the best prospects we've ever gotten out of Notre Dame. And it's controversial because I've made a video somewhat recently about like the Vegas markets are telling us that Jeremiah Love might be a bust. And I'm here to say I made that video a month ago and things changed including one the Vegas lines information we're getting this off season and just where Jeremiah Love is going in drafts now and now he's appealing.
Now if you're not familiar with Jeremiah Love, he's a 6' 212lb running back, very good size. We like to see that. And also the guy didn't even have to go to the NFL combine. He didn't have to test. He was going to be a first round top 10 probably top five pick no matter what. What does he do? He runs a 43640 time at the NFL combine. 98% speed score for his size at 212 lbs at just 20 years old. Like there's not much not to like about this guy. Oh yeah, he also went out there and and his his speed score was second amongst running backs at this year's combine. His 10 yard split was third. Like everything you wanted to see out of Jeremiah Love, you got it all in college with the film, with the production, with the receptions, all that. And then he shows you on display at the combine that he also is extremely fast. And this guy is a true blue chip prospect. We didn't have much in this year's draft class. We get these guys in like the actual NFL draft once every few years to be a top 10 NFL pick. the Bejon Robinsons, the Saquon Barkclays, the Jonathan Taylor. He's in that guard, right? He's cut from that same cloth last year in just 199 carries. Doesn't even have a 200 carry season in his NFL or is in his college football career, which should mean even more tread on the tires for the NFL. Over 1300 rushing yards, seven yards per carry each of the last two years in college despite facing tough competition, especially in the college football playoffs um in previous years. And then you get 19 touchdowns, 21 touchdowns. You scroll a little bit here, you're getting these 28 and 27 catch seasons when they're not passing a lot and the running backs aren't involved despite that and 11% target share at just 20 years old last year. Jeremiah Love, he checks all the boxes. You watch the film, you watch the explosiveness, the broken tackles, catch passes, whatever you want efficiency, whatever you want to look at, he checks the box.
Here's some more stats that just prove that. Ray GQ, follow him on Twitter. Jeremiah Love, every 15 yard touch from 2025, he ranked first in efficiency per rush. He ranked first with seven and a half yards per attempt. He ranked first with a 16.2% chunk percentage, which I assume is similar to an explosive play rate. First in EPA, that's efficiency, expected points added per target as a pass catcher. Uh, and also he was top three uh only with Genty and Scataboo. So, this is also factoring in last year's running back class in broken tackle rate. So, when you look at last year's class, Genty, he profiles out as a better running back in my opinion and based on the numbers and the film. Uh, when you look at Scataboo, definitely a better back than that. And those guys found success in their rookie years. Some other things, he ended up winning the Dulk Walker Award, best running back in the country. He was a consensus all-American. Um, yeah. So, everything is to like right now about Jeremiah Love.
So much so that he went number three overall, which ended up gaining guaranteeing him a 4-year, $50.5 million contract, the most fully guaranteed money ever to a running back in NFL history. Obviously, the cap is going up every year because of that. These rookie contracts are going up every single year. So, I'm sure there'll be a running back in one or two years who goes in the top 10 and he ends up becoming like the next highest paid guy. But it's insane that a guy who's never played an NFL snap has the most guaranteed money at the running back position. Usually this will happen. Now the big concern for Jeremiah Love and why I've had questions about him when he was going in the second round in the middle of the second round of drafts is the backfield. They just signed Tyler Alier. He's a guy who vultured touchdowns, seven to eight of them away from Bejun Robinson over the past couple years. He's a talented running back. They signed him this off season. They still have James Connor and they still have Trey Benson who at this point seems like he'll probably be a cut candidate. But what I'm here to say about these guys, whether it's a Tyler Alier, who I think for the most part really only offers a goal line role, but we're hopeful that Jeremiah Love as a 212 pound running back who was able to handle that role in college can do it. Uh Tyler Alier is probably his biggest competition. I'm not really worried about James Connor, 31 years old, coming off of a season ending injury, maybe a cut candidate. I'm not worried about Trey Benson. Never did anything when his competition was only James Connor and now he has Tyler Algier and Jeremiah Love to deal with and oh yeah, he's coming off of a season ending knee injury. So I'm not worried about these guys at all. It's really just Jeremiah Love, who he spent the top three pick on, who he gave the most fully guaranteed contract in NFL history competing with Tyler Algier. Sure, for the first month of the season, will Algier maybe be more involved? I'll grant you that. But by the time it's week six through the rest of the fantasy playoffs and championship week, if he's healthy, it's got to be the Jeremiah Love show.
Now, the offense and quarterback situation isn't going to be great. Maybe Carson Beck starts some games. We'll see if Jacobe Brassette ends up getting his contract that he wants for being the starter that he's holding out currently for. But, as you can see right here, Alfredo Brown, he put together this chart, 2025 NFL quarterback checkdown rates. And what that means for RBs, you can see right here on this chart, if we zoom in, number three in checkdown rate, tied basically for number two is Jacobe Brassette. Now, we knew this last year. If you watch the Cardinals offense, running backs were seeing targets often in this offense. But what does this mean? It means that, as you can see right here, he says stuff about a couple of other running backs whose quarterbacks check it down. And he says for Jeremiah Love, it might pay off his fantasy draft cost in PPR formats. And this is where I'm really interested in Jeremiah Love. PPR and half PPR for the most part for these running backs who go in like the third round. Jeremiah Love, if you're getting him in round three in a half PPR or PPR format, he's somebody that I'm buying into right now because if you look at this, his rushing yards, they're set at 900 rushing yards. Now, at points this off season, they've been as low as 800 rushing yards, 850. It's now gone up to 900. I think maybe this is a little bit of indication that we're probably losing James Connor from this offense, or at least he's not expected to make the greatest recovery and be fully a go at 31 years old off of a serious injury. And but not only that, 900 rushing yards, depending on the book that you look at right now, Jeremiah Love is projected for somewhere between three and 350 receiving yards. So if you're getting a,200 yard season with seven, eight plus touchdowns out of Jeremiah Love in round three, that's very good if that's the baseline. So right now, he goes as the 24th pick in fantasy drafts. That's round three for your 10 team formats. It's basically the borderline of round three for your your your 12 team formats. This means like if in round one you end up taking with the third overall pick, let's say a Jamar Chase, a Puka Nua, right? top running backs are gone and then you come back around and you get a Jeremiah Love and you pair him with Arashi Rice and you have two stud wide receivers and Jeremiah Love as your anchor RB. That feels pretty good in terms of ways to build your lineup.
It also feels pretty good if you're getting uh Chase Brown in the middle to late second round right now. I do prefer him to Jeremiah Love, but he does go before him in drafts as he should. Look, this was a guy who was a top 10 running back last year since the midway point of 2024. So, we're talking 18 months ago. He's been a top eight running back in the NFL. Since that point where Zack Moss got hurt all the way back in 2024 on, Chase Brown has been a stud. And it's kind of crazy because by like week five last year, if you had him on your team, you were probably selling low on him. Some people in smaller 8 to 10 team leagues might have been cutting Chase Brown. Like starts the season off with 13.1 fantasy points per game with a healthy Joe Burrow. From there on out, Joe Burrow gets hurt. They kind of struggle until they get Joe Flacco. You're getting eight points, six fantasy points, just 20 yards, 10 11 eight. You start to get like 12. like you're begging for the guy to hit double digit points as your second or third round pick last year and then finally starts to pay off once Joe Flacco takes over uh immediately 25 and a half fantasy points 100 yards 100 yards like he just goes on this stretch of five straight games of 100 yards multiple touchdown games 100 yards and three touchdowns and the year to end the year with Joe Burrow 141 yards and two touchdowns basically if he just has competent quarterback play meaning Joe Flacco and and not Jake Browning or obviously Joe Burrow Chase Brown the last year and a half has been one of the best running backs in the NFL in fact last year when you take out the games where Jake Browning started. This is what Chase Brown was doing. He averaged 17.3 fantasy points per game and was averaging nearly 100 total yards per game and nine touchdowns over that stretch. You can see that broken down even more right here from Max Loe over on Twitter. He says Chase Brown is the current RB10 and PPR formats is criminally undervalued. Last year from weeks 13 to 18 with Joe Burrow, he averaged 22.2 points per game. He was the RB2. Last year from weeks 3 through 12 without Burrow, 14.1 fantasy points per game was the RB20. Some of those games obviously have Max Jake Browning when it wasn't great. And week one when Burrow played the full game, 13.1 fantasy points per game against a good uh Browns defense. So if you look at it, he was the running back five overall last year when Joe Burrow started. So top five running back last year with a healthy Joe Burrow.
And the big thing about this offseason, nothing changed for Chase Brown. If anything, he's in a contract here. He'll be extremely motivated and he has no competition. Check this out. Because the Cincinnati Bengals on offense this year, at least in free agency, said, "Yeah, we're not doing anything." This is according to my team changes tracker. It's in the fantasy blueprint. You can check it out at joinbooprint.com. Their only key offseason move currently in on offense in terms of free agency or trading. Signing backup quarterback Josh Johnson. They lost Noah Fonton. They lost Jake Browning. They lost a guard. In the NFL draft, they don't make an offensive pick until the fourth round. And it's a center. It's a wide receiver. In the sixth round, it's a center. In the seventh round, it's a tight end out of at Texas. What does that mean? No running backs were added this off season. At least nobody of note. Like an undrafted free agent signed, sure, but nobody of note was added, which here's the depth chart. Currently, their current depth chart as it stands is Chase Brown, RB1. Clearly, RB2 is Sami Perine, just like last year. RB3 is Taj Brooks, just like last year. RB4 is now Kendall Milton. I'm not concerned about that. So, like, where is the concern? I'm supposed to be concerned about a 31, 32-y old Perion, 30 plus years old, right? Taj Brooks, who at this point in the NFL after being in the NFL for years, has not been able to break through or beat out for any significant touches. Chase Brown, even when he's the RB2, he's not really doing anything. Chase Brown right now has absolutely no competition. when you're going to be getting a healthy Joe Burrow, you're going to be getting a borderline top five offense in the NFL. You still have a pretty bad defense out there. Some people might think it's better. I don't know if it's going to get all that much better. I still think they're going to have to be forced to throw and be up there in like the top five to 10 in pass attempts per game. Even more targets for a Chase Brown. So, where Brown currently goes as the RB 16 middle of the second sometimes falls to the end of the second round. I think he's a pretty quality pick in fantasy drafts as it stands today.
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Next up, of a player I cannot stop drafting is Saquon Barkley. I mean, I was enjoying drafting this guy years ago when he was breaking out in round two. And I am enjoying I enjoyed not drafting him last year and taking McAffrey boldly as people called me in multiple drafts last year and that paid off gratefully. But this year we're back on the Saquon Barkley bandwagon. This is a former as recent as 2024 2000 plus rushing yard guy, offensive player of the year who now you get to go in round two because of his offensive coordinator and offensive line stunk last year. Yeah, I'm not buying into it. Did Saquon Barkley as a top five and definitely top seven fantasy pick in almost every single fantasy draft last year. Did he pay off for you? Definitely not. 1140 rushing yards. Whoops. 1140 rushing yards, 4.1 yards per attempt. No. 37 catches, 273 yards. Like when you look at it, he had 1400 total yards and nine touchdowns. 1400 total yards and nine touchdowns. It's not the end of the world. It's not atrocious. If he was a third round pick, you'd be happy. But he was a first round top five in many leagues pick. So obviously he was a bust. And because of that, people see a stain. They think he's falling off. He's not the same as he once was. He's now approaching 30, which is obviously true, but in my opinion, I don't see the major concerns for him, especially when we look at the situation this year because the offensive line's going to have to get better. Last year, they ranked 39th in run blocking rate in terms of blocking for Saquon Barkley. That's as bad as it gets after being as good as it gets in 2024. Expected to balance out this year. Saquon Barkley was stuffed the second most times in the NFL last year at or behind the line of scrimmage. This is one of the best playmaking running backs in the NFL. stuffed behind the line of scrimmage that many times. 68 is absolutely atrocious. He only had 38.6% of his runs under center. 60th in the NFL. Why does that matter? When you're working out of shotgun, you don't get ahead of steam for a guy who's big, dynamic, can have explosive cuts and vision like Saquon. Under center runs allow for that. They're expecting more of those this year with their new offensive coordinator, Shaw Manny. As you can see right here on Twitter from Joe Joe Orco. He says, "Saquin Barkley ranked top 10 in both expected fantasy points and opportunities per game last year. A bounceback is loading." I would agree with this. top 10 and expected fantasy points per game. He got extremely unlucky. Unlucky when you also pair up a bad offense. It was not creative. Did not know how to adjust Kevin Patula last year. That's why he's fired. And an injured offensive line. Those things are now changed this year. And also, big old word, regression for the nerds out there in the fantasy industry. It's probably going to hit as well, whether it's from a touchdown standpoint or an efficiency standpoint. And the crazy thing is, if it comes in both, you might get a massive 2024 season once again.
Now, here's some notes. This offseason, running back Saquon Barkley was talking in an interview about talking with former Rams running back Todd Gurley for an advice in playing in a Shawn McVey style system because Shawn Manion was a former quarterback for the Rams and is a friend of Shawn McVeyy's Shanahan system as well. So, Philly might be under center more and have more outside runs for Saquon Barkley. If that's the case, that's very good news. If that's the case, it also means we're probably going to get more targets for Saquon Barkley. when you had Todd Gurley in the same offense years ago, uh was ending up catching I think like 60 plus balls per season, 84 targets per season from 2017 to 2018. We know Saquon can catch passes. He had 91 catches as a rookie. So other 50 plus catch seasons. So there's a lot that could be changing for the positive if Saquon stays healthy and now he's cheaper than he's been in a year or two. So when I see Saquon Barkley in round two, I get very excited when I'm in the back half of these drafts. And if I could ever put the combination of like a Justin Jefferson and a Saquon Barkley together, the ultimate bounceback candidates from last year and their situation is much better now. If I can start with a Justin Jefferson and Saquon Barkley, arguably you would not be shocked that those guys both finished in the top five in fantasy scoring this year and he had both of them. That's amazing.
The next guy I got to talk about is a another 29-year-old running back, which is crazy, but I just can't stop drafting him where he currently goes in the fifth or sixth rounds of fantasy drafts. And it's David Montgomery on a brand new team this year. Goes from the Lions, traded this offseason to the Houston Texans. And look, he's not the most exciting pick. He's not the rookie Jeremiah Love like we talked about. He's not a second or third year breakout, right? He's an aging veteran. I get it. He's never had the Saquon Barkley seasons. I get it. However, he's not nearly as expensive as those guys have been and he's always been reliable, especially later in games. Now, look, last year, did he take a backseat to Jir Gibbs in his breakout season for Gibbs? Yes, only 158 carries. He was still efficient, four and a half yards per carry. Uh he was still able to put up 900 total yards as mostly a backup the second half of the season. He's still been able to get touchdowns, 8 12 13. That's kind of been the calling card of his career. uh no matter where it's been with the Bears lines and now hopefully the Texans, but 9.8 fantasy points per game is going to look atrocious. I get it. The guy was a complete backup running back last year. We have to keep that in mind. However, if you actually look at the games last year when he was able to go out there and get a dozen plus touches, whether it was just a game script that made more sense for him, if Gibbs was banged up, whatever it might have been in those games where David Montgomery as a 28 29year-old last year saw at least a dozen touches, he averaged 13 fantasy points per game and nearly 80 total yards per game. So now he's going to be in a situation by all accounts, whether it's coach speak, whether it's the situation in competition, the fact that they went out there and traded for him, he looks like a workhorse running back for this team. And I know it's been a while, but we do have proof. Some people said in the comments sections on like a recent reel that I had about this, where's the proof that David Montgomery could be a workhorse? Uh, do you remember? I get it. They're probably like an 18-year-old don't even remember that he was on the Bears. Uh, do you remember that he was on the Bears? And in 2020, he carried the ball 16 and a half times per game, fourth in the NFL. He had 14.5 targets per game. He averaged 21 opportunities per game that season, which was top three in the NFL. During that season, back in 2020, he was a top 20 running back. Actually, he was the number 12 running back. He followed that up the next season in 2021 with another decent workload season. Another 225 carries. Oh, yeah. Then he went for another 200 200 plus carries the next two seasons. Uh, is he has it been a while? Is he much older? Is he not in his prime anymore since he had those workloads? Might it take his body longer time to heal as a 29year-old and not a 24y old? Of course, all these things are very true, but he's a professional. It's his entire job to stay healthy and be able to recover. And now he has the opportunity to be a workhorse. I think he's going to make the most of it. He's still trying to earn another potential contract in the NFL, right? So, he's going to take every opportunity he can.
This is the trade right here. They traded David Montgomery to the Texans in exchange for a fourth round pick. A seventh round pick, an offensive lineman Juice Scrubs. So, it's not like they just traded a seventh round pick for David Montgomery. They gave up an offensive lineman and a fourth round pick. Multiple draft picks. A fourth round pick is pretty valuable for a running back in David Montgomery when you can just go spend that fourth round pick in the NFL draft. They said, "No, we'll take the 29-year-old David Montgomery." And outside of that, if you pull up the team changes tracker here from the fantasy blueprint, what did they do this off season at the running back position? Nothing else. They signed Evan Hall, adept running back, obviously David Montgomery. Other than that, improve the offensive line, getting Wyatt Teller, Evan Brown, Braden Smith, trades and free agency signings. First round pick, Kaylin Rutled, just a physical offensive guard, tackle, probably going to play for this team. And there's no more Joe Mixon, who didn't play at all last year. There's no more Damen Pierce. So, like, it's full steam ahead for David Montgomery. So much so that if we pull up the overall depth charts as it stands as of this recording for the Houston Texans, you got Montgomery the clear RB1. You got Woody Marks. We'll get into him. Um secondyear player, mostly a receiving back. You got Jaward Jordan who had a couple hundred yard games last year was pretty impressive, but again he's somewhat limited after this. Just British Brooks, Noah Winningington, Evan Hall. Like none of these guys if any of them will even make the team after Jawar Jordan. So like it's clear David Montgomery show. Is there some upside for a Woody Marks? I would say yes. He's only I mean in his second year in the NFL despite that he's going to turn 26. So, he's an older prospect, former fourth round pick, but he's not really an efficient running back, right? Like, he can catch passes. That's what he was known for. He cut a ton of balls in college. Let's pull it up right here. How many balls did he actually catch? Oh, look. I mean, just insane. Like 60 catches, 83, 48, 23, 47, like up there in like the record books for college total receptions as a running back. But unfortunately, he wasn't in college football last year anymore. He just wasn't efficient. 3.5 yards per carry. He had every opportunity to take over and be the guy with Joe Mixon not playing last year with Damen Pierce not looking impressive. They tried to lean on Woody Marks at times. He didn't do anything. He just didn't run the ball. He can catch a couple of balls and do maybe something a little bit after the catch, but other than that, not much you're going to get from what he marks. David Montgomery a much more proven commodity. David Montgomery right now, based on all the coach speak, the Texans view Montgomery as a three down back. They have a defensive minding coach, a coach that wants to run the ball. Lean on the guy that just dominated in the second half of games, the last two to three years with the Detroit Lions in David Montgomery. Currently goes as the 48th overall player. Do I like David Montgomery in round four? Absolutely not. There's so many better picks in round four. You have Cam Scatteraboo and Josh Jacobs at the running back position. Across positions, you have Garrett Wilson, Lad Mankey, Jaylen Warren, uh Terry McLaren. Like, I like these guys way more. When David Montgomery falls to round five, and if he's your RB2, I do like that.
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Okay, next up, let's go to Josh Jacobs. Right now, Josh Jacobs is somebody that was an RB1 like each of the last two seasons. He's now plummeting down the rankings. And he's plummeting down the rankings in my opinion for this obvious news if you're paying attention. Uh, he was arrested, but then he was released from jail after his arrest on several domestic charge violations. Since then, he has been in camp and practices. As of this recording, he's been with the team. It's business as usual. according to Matt Laflur and based on the Packers offseason moves which has been basically and literally nothing at the running back position like this they have an aging running back they have all these reports about domestic violence this offseason signed nobody in free agency let Emanuel Wilson their RB2 walk sign and added nobody in the NFL draft meaning the Packers dep chart right now at running back is Chris Brooks who has 82 career carries and Marshon Lloyd who's been always injured and has six career NFL carries so what is all this news and why do I bring it up it means to me that the Packers internal investig stigation, whatever the evidence was that they saw, they're not concerned about Josh Jacobs not playing this year. He'll either get a lawsuit that's going to take some time and he'll be suspended next year or they think the case is potentially bogus and it's not going to lead to anything, maybe a settlement at the most and that's why they're not making any moves. Do you really think that they would not just sign anybody or draft anybody if they had this on their radar? I would say probably not. I think they would have signed at least somebody by now. But obviously this is a fluid case and a lot more can come out. In my opinion, as it stands today, they're probably behind the scenes maybe negotiating some sort of settlement. Maybe there's nothing to this and it gets dismissed, but at this point, since we haven't had any new evidence in the past 6 to 8 weeks, odds are it's a controlled situation or it's just a very slow situation and it's not going to affect this year. That could all change tomorrow with some bombshell video or whatever that comes out. So, if it does, obviously hopefully the right things are done in the legal system, right things are done in terms of suspension, but as of right now, none of that's on the radar.
So, we have to deal with is the last two years for Josh Jacobs where he's had 300 carries with the Packers last year after missing two games, 234 carries. always been productive for these 1400 and 1500 total yard seasons. A top 10 running back in back-to-back years, 14 and 16 touchdowns. And to be completely honest with you, I don't see this changing this year. They let Romeo Dobs off. They traded Dantavian Wixs. They have three wide receivers. Tucker Craft coming off a torn ACL. Who knows if he's ready week one, they're going to lean on Josh Jacobs this year. This team in general wants to run the ball, especially this year. So, I think, like I said, the offense is going to be built around Josh Jacobs. And we saw it last year. We saw it obviously in 2024. Great season, first year with the Packers. Last year, in his first 10 games, before he suffered a week 11 knee contusion and knee bruise, in those first 10 games, he was on another level. Check it out for yourself. In those games, Jacobs was averaging 18.1 fantasy points per game. He scored 11 rushing touchdowns in just 10 games, and he was averaging 22 opportunities per game. He was easily a top 10 running back, and he's on a team in the Packers that last year just ranked seventh in rush attempts per game, and I think that's going to continue this year. So, Josh Jacobs, where he currently goes in round four, is a great pick. I have been on record saying it non-stop that I think round four is as of right now for 2026 the currently best round in all of fantasy football. You have Garrett Wilson here, Josh Jacobs, Cam Scataboo, Luther Burton, Jaylen Wadd, Terry McLaren, heck even Mike Evans, who I like all of these guys. And if you're into the tight ends, you get a late round for Coulson Lovelin as it stands today.
So there you go. These are the five running backs that I cannot stop drafting. I'm drafting everywhere right now in fantasy football. But if you want to see the five players that you should draft before they break out, and the majority of these guys are going in the double digit rounds or later, round 10 or later, but can actually win you your league, check out this video right here. These are the five guys you have to draft, the five players you have to draft before they break out this.