{"id":190611,"date":"2025-07-08T09:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/190611\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T09:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:57:15","slug":"nfl-rb-rankings-arizona-cardinals-rb-james-conner-snubbed-from-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/190611\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL RB rankings: Arizona Cardinals RB James Conner snubbed from top 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL training camps begin later this month. The Arizona Cardinals<\/a> open theirs on July 22. That leaves just a little more time for some final lists and rankings.<\/p>\n

Leading up to camps, ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler had scouts, coaches and team execs vote for the top 10 players at different positions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Arizona Cardinals fans would likely argue that starting running back James Conner should be on that list.<\/p>\n

Conner was snubbed, but not completely. While he did not crack the top 10, he did receive honorable mention with four other backs.<\/p>\n

“He’s a load to bring down. Short strider with quick feet to slip tacklers, find slices of daylight. Good second-level burst. Runs behind his pads. Finisher. Underrated player.” — NFL personnel evaluator<\/p>\n

Conner is rarely mentioned among the top backs in the league, yet he has an impact on games not unlike the very best.<\/p>\n

But this fits Conner. He plays like he still has something to prove.<\/p>\n

After two consecutive 1,000-yard seasons and now 30 years old, can he keep it up in 2025?<\/p>\n

Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Cards Wire: James Conner snubbed in top RB rankings by coaches, execs, evaluators<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL training camps begin later this month. The Arizona Cardinals open theirs on July 22. That leaves just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,7,757,6388,6,20745],"class_list":{"0":"post-190611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-james-conner","14":"tag-jeremy-fowler","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nfl-training-camps"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}