Fantasy Football 2016: Rankings for Top 10 Running Backs and Sleepers

If you listen closely enough, you can almost hear it all.

The clashing of pads. The whistles. The quiet tapping of a pencil from a fantasy football owner who’s on the clock. The groans when another owner’s beloved sleeper gets picked.

Football is coming. That means it’s fantasy season.

Wide receivers seem to be on everyone’s mind, but it’s unwise to forget about the foundation of fantasy football—running backs.

Let’s talk RBs below.

Standard Rankings

Sleepers

DeMarco Murray

Last season, the world turned on DeMarco Murray.

The former Dallas Cowboys bell cow, who racked up 392 carries, 1,845 rushing yards and 13 touchdowns in 2014, plummeted from the No. 1 running back to 18th in his first season with the Philadelphia Eagles, per ESPN.com rankings.

Murray wasn’t consistently bad by any means; he had his games. Thanks to the 28-year-old’s prowess as a receiver, he put up seven outings with double-digit fantasy points.

But he also laid quite a few eggs.

Eagles’ ex-coach Chip Kelly insisted on using his backs in East-West situations. Murray is the definition of a North-South runner, so it’s not surprising that the fit was much more frustrating than fruitful.

On March 7, though, the Eagles traded Murray to the Tennessee Titans.

With your league likely still soured on Murray from last season, don’t be afraid to take him earlier than his Average Draft Position as the 18th running back—and 49th player—off the board, according to FantasyPros.

According to ESPN.com, Tennessee ranked 28th in rushing last year because the team was …

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