Week 6 Fantasy Football RB Rankings (Top 36)

Josh Norris (0:00)

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Welcome to your Week 6 Running Back Rankings brought to you by Farmers Insurance. Hayden, this show could be very short because if you have Running Back 20 or later, it's absolutely horrifying this year and this week. But we're sickos. We're going to talk about 36 names here today because your flex matters to us.

Hayden Winks (1:41)

Yeah, I was going to say the Wide Receiver 30 range, also not the cleanest slate of names as well with bi-weeks and injuries and stuff. So we have to put somebody into our flex. So we'll be saying, of course, it's Tony Pollard over your fancy Wide Receiver, and we're going to keep this thing moving. But yeah, you're going to want the top ones, that's for sure.

Josh Norris (1:59)

Yes, that is for damn sure. Both the rankings that we do here on Wednesdays and Fridays with the Wide Receivers.

I'll also add that there has been no better recession indicator than Tony Pollard being the running back.

So I don't even know if he exists in Fancy Football. I understand he's rostered out there in 90 percent of leagues, but does he really exist in Fancy lineups? I'm skeptical. Okay. Just like the moon landing. Here we go. Ken Walker III is the running back one this week. I really don't mean that.

Hayden Winks (2:28)

I do.

Josh Norris (2:29)

K9 is off by. He's fully rested and the Chiefs here are 8.5 point home favorites against LA Chargers. This is a prime matchup.

Hayden Winks (2:37)

Yeah, he's right there. No Jameer Gibbs on this slate. So it's going to be Kenneth Walker and Bijan and Jonathan Taylor, the same suspects at the very top. He's the RB2 in usage. He's been absolutely dominant. I think that the bye week makes me feel like they're going to come out the gates and use them as they have been before. The Chargers are kind of middle of the road against Fancy running back so far, but they did allow big games to James Cook, who's the RB6. Emanuel Wilson was also the RB6 over the last couple outings here. Like you said, 25.5 point team total against the Chargers who, you know, let's face it, those coaches are, they're not even in Los Angeles anymore mentally.

Josh Norris (3:12)

Yeah, we'll talk about the Chargers backfield in a little bit. I saw Adam Gase's name mentioned today as maybe a future OC or head coach for the Chargers.

Hayden Winks (3:22)

By the way, Josh, is Mike Medina not the perfect Lincoln Riley offensive coordinator for a year in USC?

Josh Norris (3:30)

Oh, it's true.

And yet USC will still allow the opposition 45 points per game. All right, Jonathan Taylor is your running back too.

He's still in the S tier. This is against the Tennessee Titans. He has a running back 7 right now, so this is an important ranking. I think you can ask yourself why is he the running back 7 in points per game so far? Well, he's had weeks of 8.2 and 9.7 points. Hayden, we talked about like last year when this team won, he averaged around 25 points per contest. And they're kind of just winning less, a lot less this season so far.