Ranking the fantasy ‘dead zone’ running backs | Fantasy Football Forecast

In the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast, Matt Harmon and Dalton Del Don break down their rankings of the fantasy ‘dead zone’ running backs of Cam Akers, Rhamondre Stevenson, Antonio Gibson, and J.K. Dobbins.

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MATT HARMON: So Dalton, let's rank these running backs that we just talked about. Rhamondre Stevenson, Antonio Gibson, JK Dobbins, and Cam Akers. Put them in order for me, bro. Which guys would you rather have?

DALTON DEL DON: Man, I need-- I might need to rethink this. But it's-- I have it Akers, Dobbins, and Stevenson, in a distant fourth for me, Gibson, but I don't feel strongly about that at all. What about you?

MATT HARMON: I have it right now, Akers, Dobbins, Gibson, Stevenson, and I need to adjust Antonio Gibson for sure. But yeah, God, I don't love it, man. I need to-- this is the thing, man. Preseason does cause you to rerank some things because you do your initial projections and things come out this way. But a lot of these guys, all four-- Stevenson, I think is trending the right direction. But the other three guys really not trending the direction you want.

I think I'd probably rather have JK Dobbins than Cam Akers now that I'm looking at it. And I would definitely rather have Rhamondre Stevenson than Antonio Gibson. Man, God. What a mess. What a mess, this group of running backs right now.

DALTON DEL DON: Then just avoid them. Avoid that area. Try to avoid that area.

MATT HARMON: Yeah. Like we have-- that's the thing, when you rank for fantasy, like, you have to rank everybody. But I'm not telling you to-- I'm not like banging on the table to draft any of these guys. Except Stevenson, when he goes outside the top 30 backs. Like if he's going to go outside the top 30 backs, I will take a shot on Rhamondre Stevenson every time because I think he's got be a great profile to be a breakout running back. And generally just really like the talent.

So-- and injuries can cause some chaos there, and he might have that passing down role. I think honestly, like the guy I'd most want to draft, I'm not going to rank him first, but the guy I'd most want to draft here is for sure Rhamondre Stevenson with the ADP taken into account.

DALTON DEL DON: Yeah, when I was-- when we were talking about it, I was-- I might even rank him highest anyway, even if, regardless of ADP. He has the most upside. Stevenson has the most upside among this group.

MATT HARMON: Yeah Dalton, come on man. We know how you rank. Like you--

DALTON DEL DON: What am I doing? I'm going to move him up on my list.

MATT HARMON: What are you doing?

DALTON DEL DON: You're right. Yeah. I'm moving him up.

MATT HARMON: What are you doing? Yeah.

DALTON DEL DON: For sure.

MATT HARMON: Yeah, I'm more of a-- I'm more of a coward than you because I won't rank that way. But like, if I-- I'm like living vicariously through you with your rankings.

DALTON DEL DON: I will right this wrong as we speak right now. I'm moving Stevenson above them. Yes, for sure.

MATT HARMON: Oh, look at that, man. Now that-- that's good stuff. That's good stuff. We got we got Dalton to be true to himself.