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Week 1 is just around the corner and we cannot wait until the season is fully underway. As we inch closer to the Thursday night showdown between the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, we’re eager to get fantasy managers as prepared for their drafts as they can be.
We here at NBC Sports EDGE are excited to provide you with all the information you need to be successful from draft day until the last day of the fantasy season. With a handful of content on deck — from positional rankings, season-long projections and ADP reports, to mock drafts and draft cheat sheets — we are as proud as we’ve ever been of what we have to offer and are excited to share it with you over the next couple of weeks. Regardless of what format or size your league is, we are confident we can provide the tools you need to secure your coveted league title.
We have already shown off our first expert mock draft, sleepers, overall half-PPR rankings, QB Dynasty Rankings, and RB Dynasty Rankings for 2021. We’ve also previewed an excerpt from Chris Allen’s Differences in Draft Strategy: The Nuance of Best-Ball and the Latest ADP Trend Report.
Today we’re taking another look at our RB Rankings as the latest news from training camp shuffles things up. Have a look:
2021 Half-PPR Fantasy Football RB Rankings
1) Christian McCaffrey – CAR | WK13 BYE
2) Dalvin Cook – MIN | WK7 BYE
3) Derrick Henry – TEN | WK13 BYE
4) Alvin Kamara – NO | WK6 BYE
5) Ezekiel Elliott – DAL | WK7 BYE
6) Saquon Barkley – NYG | WK10 BYE
7) Jonathan Taylor – IND | WK14 BYE
8) Aaron Jones – GB | WK13 BYE
9) Austin Ekeler – LAC | WK7 BYE
10) Joe Mixon – CIN | WK10 BYE
11) Nick Chubb – CLE | WK13 BYE
12) Najee Harris – PIT | WK7 BYE
13) Antonio Gibson – WAS | WK9 BYE
14) Clyde Edwards-Helaire – KC | WK12 BYE
15) Chris Carson – SEA | WK9 BYE
16) D’Andre Swift – DET | WK9 BYE
17) J.K. Dobbins – BAL | WK8 BYE
18) Darrell Henderson – LAR | WK11 BYE
19) Miles Sanders – PHI | WK14 BYE
20) Josh Jacobs – LV | WK8 BYE
You can compare with our rankings from July to see how they’ve shifted.
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