{"id":91345,"date":"2025-05-30T19:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/91345\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T19:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:06:13","slug":"fantasy-football-consistency-rankings-running-backs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/91345\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Football Consistency Rankings: Running backs"},"content":{"rendered":"

This ranking considers running backs that started at least 10 games in 2024. Fantasy points were derived using one point per 10 yards rushed or received, six-point touchdowns rushed and one point receptions. Running backs may be devalued in fantasy and the NFL, but they are still likely the most consistent players on your team.<\/p>\n

Fantasy Football Consistency Rankings<\/p>\n

Quarterbacks<\/a> | Wide receivers | Tight ends<\/p>\n

This is why running backs are going to be more expensive this season. In 2023, there were only nine running backs with more than 50% of their games with 15-plus fantasy points. In 2024, it leaped up to 16. That\u2019s plenty for everyone to own a consistent back, if not two.<\/p>\n

It was surprising to see Saquon Barkley<\/a> with only 63% consistency, but realize he laid down seven monster performances, much like Derrick Henry<\/a>. Jahmyr Gibbs<\/a> and Bijan Robinson<\/a> took the top two spots but only managed 47% in 2023. Alvin Kamara<\/a> will slow down, but he\u2019s been a lock for a high showing in this metric, placing No. 3 in both of the last two seasons.<\/p>\n

Better than average: Running Backs<\/a><\/p>\n

Christian McCaffrey<\/a> had the crash and burn in 2024, but running backs were more productive and consistent overall last year. And consistently high production is what gets you to the league championship.<\/p>\n

There were only four running backs with more than nine games scoring a touchdown in 2023, a number that doubled last season. There were 13 running backs that totaled 10 or more touchdowns. We are re-entering the age of running backs. Committee backfields are still prevalent, but at least the bulk of scoring ends up with just one running back on most teams.<\/p>\n

The 25-point performances are weekly winners. Henry, Barkley, Gibbs, and Robinson are very likely to be the first four running backs taken in fantasy drafts, because they are clear difference makers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This ranking considers running backs that started at least 10 games in 2024. Fantasy points were derived using…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[24469,2825,292,1999,24470,24468,7,3027,3608,1753,4129,4076,894,24471],"class_list":{"0":"post-91345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-2025-fantasy-football","9":"tag-alvin-kamara","10":"tag-derrick-henry","11":"tag-fantasy-football","12":"tag-fantasy-football-consistency-rankings","13":"tag-fantasy-football-statistical-analysis","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-james-cook","16":"tag-joe-mixon","17":"tag-jonathan-taylor","18":"tag-josh-jacobs","19":"tag-kyren-williams","20":"tag-saquon-barkley","21":"tag-which-running-backs-should-i-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114598352261525463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91345","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=91345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}