Quinshon Judkins is a potential bust and avoid in 2025 fantasy football rookie drafts. Read the fantasy football outlook for the new Browns running back.
DRAFT PICK: 2nd Round (#36 Overall Pick)
TEAM: Cleveland Browns
ROOKIE DRAFT ANALYSIS: Judkins likely landed in a situation where he’ll get a nice amount of volume. But Judkins is a player who severely lacks in certain areas of his game. In addition, he’ll have to compete with fellow rookie RB Dylan Sampson, who could push for touches immediately.
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The NFL tends to value physical traits heavily, and is willing to take a chance that highly athletic players can smooth out their flaws, or will be good enough at the few things they do well that it will compensate for their drawbacks. The problem with Judkins is that when he builds up speed, he has very little elusiveness in the open field.
He nearly always just bulled straight ahead on tape. That’s a great way to shorten your career, pick up more injuries, and fail to gain extra yards when a defender is positioned in front of you. While it might be interesting to see him flatten the odd defensive back here and there, it’s not a sustainable way to gain extra yards. It’s better to make the guy miss.
Judkins has the strength and athleticism to just run over less athletic defenders, but that just won’t slide in the NFL. It doesn’t work that way at the next level — the best way to make defenders miss you is to dodge them. Judkins can’t do that with any kind of speed built up. I expect that the Browns’ backfield will feature a lot more Sampson than people expect.
– John Johnson
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