RB Rankings, Sleepers, and Tiers. Plus, the Hot QB Rankings, No. 5-8.

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**Danny Heifetz** (1:42)
Welcome to The Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Heifetz and I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Horlbeck, who is back from Hawaii, baby. Craig, how's Hawaii?

**Craig Horlbeck** (1:50)
I was actually on a medical tourism trip. I got a facelift. I got peptides injected into my cheeks, so I'm feeling refreshed.

**Danny Kelly** (1:58)
You look it, pal.

**Craig Horlbeck** (1:59)
Yeah.

**Danny Heifetz** (2:01)
You just weren't mocking us enough before.

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:03)
I said, give me the Anne Hathaway. She looked great in ancient Greece.

**Danny Heifetz** (2:09)
Just actually learned to do ancient looms by hand. Okay. We're going to do running backs today. We're going to do running back. Rankings, we're going to do tiers, we're going to do sleeper. That's enough of Craig's vacation. We're just getting ready to run.
And then just a reminder, we also do shows during the season. So in the middle of the season, you can stick with us. Once you do your draft, you can come back. We do waivers during the season. We do trade help. We also just talk about all the dumb shit that happens during the season. So stick with us for before your draft, but also after.

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:36)
Yeah, we do a company wide fantasy football league with Bill Simmons and the rest of The Ringer. And we're going to do a live stream draft on Netflix at the end of August.

**Danny Kelly** (2:44)
Mallory Rubin won last year.

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:46)
I actually care. I feel like that was a test year. Was that a real year that counted?

**Danny Heifetz** (2:50)
It was like a seven test year.

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:52)
Yeah, right. Yeah.

**Danny Heifetz** (2:55)
Test. OK, so stick with us for all that. We have a live show in Los Angeles as well. If you want to buy tickets for that episode, description is the link for that.

**Danny Kelly** (3:02)
All right.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:02)
With that said, running backs.

**Craig Horlbeck** (3:04)
Yeah.

**Danny Kelly** (3:05)
OK, get to it.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:06)
Big picture strategy, DK, do you want to take a bunch of big, beefy, bulky running backs in the beginning of your draft? Or you think that you'll once you do that, they'll get hurt this year and you'll feel like an idiot?

**Danny Kelly** (3:14)
Well, I guess that's a kind of a loaded question because Jahmyr Gibbs, do you count him as a big, beefy back?

**Craig Horlbeck** (3:19)
I think not.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:19)
If you get a top two pick, that's like privilege. That's that doesn't count. Like if you're just I'm talking like outside the top two guys, that's like there's no conversation there. I'm saying if you're not having a top two pick, are you going to be like running back, running back to start your draft and feel great about it?

**Danny Kelly** (3:32)
Um, I'll be motivated to take a running back very early. I don't know about two in a row. That's a whole different discussion. But yeah, I mean, this is like we can't get that deep into it, really.
But yeah, I think getting one early in the first two rounds is going to be big this year because like once you get into the third, fourth, fifth tier of these running backs, it starts to get kind of scary.