Fantasy Football: Week 3 rest of season rankings

Running Backs 16-30

Here’s your daily reminder that Kareem Hunt has outscored Nick Chubb in PPR scoring in 8 of the 10 games that they’ve played together. Chubb’s advantage is his 3 20+ point games to Hunt’s 1. Hunt is favored in pass-heavy game scripts, which the Browns seem to find themselves in quite a bit, and will finish as an RB2 more often than the others below him on this list.

I’ve said Austin Ekeler was overvalued for months now and it looked like I was dead-right in Week 1. Joshua Kelley was taking the goalline work and Tyrod Taylor refused to check the ball down, just as I predicted. In Week 2, Ekeler rebounded with Justin Herbert at QB coupled with a favorable matchup, but he’s still in a timeshare with Kelley ROS. His value last year stemmed from targets and touchdowns, which will remain low this season. Expect RB2 production this year from Ekeler.

James Robinson looks like an absolute beast so far this year. He’s everything you want out of a capable replacement for CMC or Saquon Barkley: he’s both cheap and good. If you picked him up, great! It might be too late to get him off waivers, but you can probably get some good value by trading for him from people that don’t trust an undrafted rookie with one good game under his belt.  He’s dominating the running back touches in Jacksonville and will get every opportunity to succeed in this under-the-radar Jags offense.