Mike Tagliere | Tue, Jun 9th 2020, 9:48am EDT

Mike Tagliere’s Early 2020 Fantasy Football Rankings: Running Backs

The NFL schedule has been released. The draft is over. Most of the top-tier free agents have signed. It’s getting closer to that time of the year we all know and love. Fantasy football draft season.Projections aren’t something that happen overnight. It’s a tedious process where I do everything manually. I already had rankings put together, but once you do projections, you must move certain players.

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That process has begun, and it’s shifted plenty of players around. Because of that, I wanted to share some early 2020 fantasy football rankings with you. Today, it’ll be running backs. Should you take them early? Should you go back to the late-round running back approach? No matter which route you take, here’s how I currently value them.

Here are the links to the other positions:
Quarterback Rankings and Tiers
Wide Receiver Rankings and Tiers
Tight End Rankings and Tiers

The Every-Down Studs

1. Christian McCaffrey (CAR)
2. Saquon Barkley (NYG)
3. Ezekiel Elliott (DAL)
4. Alvin Kamara (NO)
5. Dalvin Cook (MIN)
6. Kenyan Drake (ARI)

The Second Tier of Studs Who Don’t Get Enough Passing Down Work

7. Joe Mixon (CIN)
8. Derrick Henry (TEN)
9. Nick Chubb (CLE)

The Potential Timeshare Guys with Massive Upside

10. Aaron Jones (GB)
11. Clyde Edwards-Helaire (KC)
12. Miles Sanders (PHI)

The “I Don’t Know If They Get the Workhorse Role” Tier

13. Todd Gurley (ATL)
14. Josh Jacobs (LV)
15. Austin Ekeler (LAC)

The Bad Team Tier

16. Leonard Fournette (JAX)
18. Le’Veon Bell (NYJ)

The Very Good but in a Timeshare Guys