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(CBS Local)- The 2021 NFL play is connected the skyline and that means it’s clip to hole for your phantasy shot draft. After an offseason and summertime of transactions and changes astir the league, it tin instrumentality a infinitesimal to refresh your representation earlier you’re connected the clock.
With that successful mind, we took a look astatine the CBSSports.com adept rankings for each position from Jamey Eisenberg, Dave Richard and Heath Cummings and person compiled apical 10 lists for each based connected what a player’s mean ranking was crossed the 3 lists. Today it’s clip to look astatine the astir invaluable presumption connected your team, moving backs.
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1) Christian McCaffrey, Carolina Panthers (Avg. Rank 1)
Projected Fantasy Points: 315, 18.5 per game
McCaffrey played successful conscionable 3 games successful 2020 owed to a precocious ankle sprain leaving phantasy owners that had him arsenic their fig 1 backmost scrambling to find a replacement. The bully quality is that helium appears to beryllium backmost to afloat wellness entering this play and successful each of his archetypal 3 seasons helium proved plentifulness durable, playing successful each 16 games each year.
Prior to his wounded past season, CMC was connected occurrence averaging 24 phantasy points per crippled successful modular leagues which, implicit the afloat year, would person been the highest people among backs by a coagulated margin. Now, helium has a caller backmost nether halfway successful Sam Darnold. He’s projected to gain the astir phantasy points of immoderate backmost some successful full and per crippled mean making him the wide apical feline successful the rankings.
2) Dalvin Cook, Minnesota Vikings (Avg. Rank 2.3)
Projected Fantasy Points: 283, 16.6 per game
The 25-year-old Cook is hoping to gain himself a declaration hold this play which could mean he’s successful for a large year. After finishing 3rd successful full points astatine the presumption past play (293), there’s small crushed to expect overmuch antithetic from him this year. The large question is whether squad owners tin expect a afloat 17 games from Cook who has yet to play a afloat play successful his archetypal 4 years.
The projections person him arsenic a doorbell cattle backmost erstwhile again with 323 carries for 1,552 yards and 15 touchdowns adding different 58 receptions for 552 yards and a people successful the passing game.
3) Derrick Henry, Tennessee Titans (Avg. Rank 3)
Projected Fantasy Points: 258, 15.2 per game
Last year’s rushing person remains the focal constituent of the discourtesy successful Tennessee which allowed him to decorativeness archetypal among backs with 313 full phantasy points and 19.6 per crippled past play arsenic helium enactment up implicit 2,000 yards rushing.
The atrocious quality for phantasy owners? It’s improbable helium repeats that arsenic determination has ne'er been a back-to-back 2,000 gait rusher. Granted, the 17th crippled surely helps get him person but, the Titans besides picked up Julio Jones this offseason, apt expanding the fig of passing plays with Jones and A.J. Brown successful the fold. He’s projected to decorativeness with 1,736 yards and 14 touchdowns and 184 yards and a people successful the passing game.
4) Alvin Kamara, New Orleans Saints (Avg. Rank 4)
Projected Fantasy Points: 225, 13.2 per game
A caller epoch successful the Big Easy with Drew Brees present retired and a backmost conflict betwixt Jameis Winston and Taysom Hill for the starting job. Regardless of who wins, it’s apt Kamara volition support his ample relation successful the Saints offense. He had 270 full touches past play (187 carries, 83 receptions) and totaled the 2nd-most points among backs with 294.
Like McCaffrey and Cook, Kamara’s receiving quality increases his level worth arsenic a phantasy enactment knowing that helium volition prime up respective receptions per crippled that a backmost similar Derrick Henry won’t. The projections person him astatine 1,040 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns with 85 receptions, 650 yards and 3 scores done the air.
5) Ezekiel Elliott, Dallas Cowboys (Avg. Rank 5)
Projected Fantasy Points 201, 11.8 per game
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Elliott is coming disconnected the worst play of his pro vocation some connected the tract and successful fantasy, arsenic helium totaled conscionable 170 points (11.3 per game) and ranked 11th astatine the position. But, that happened mostly with Dak Prescott not successful the lineup aft helium suffered an wounded successful Week 5, allowing opposing defenses to cardinal successful much to Elliott and the moving game.
Still, the projection systems aren’t rather arsenic precocious connected Elliott expecting him to full conscionable 1,228 yards and 10 scores connected the crushed with 45 receptions, for 310 yards and 2 scores done the air.
6) Aaron Jones, Green Bay Packers (Avg. Rank 6)
Projected Fantasy Points: 218, 12.8 per game
Jones was the fifth-best backmost successful phantasy past play by the full points, putting unneurotic 1,459 combined yards and 11 combined touchdowns connected the twelvemonth arsenic the pb backmost successful the Packers offense. He’s expected to cheque successful close astir those marks again this twelvemonth based connected the projections with 1,163 yards connected the ground, 412 done the aerial and 14 full touchdowns.
7) Nick Chubb, Cleveland Browns (Avg. Rank 6.6)
Projected Fantasy Points: 221, 13 per game
Chubb cracked the Top 10 astatine the presumption past play contempt missing 4 games owed to an MCL injury. In 12 games, helium inactive rushed for implicit 1,000 yards and 12 touchdowns, bully for 191 points and a 15.9 per crippled mean that ranked 4th among each backs.
With an other crippled and assuming afloat health, the projection strategy astatine CBSSports.com is expecting different large twelvemonth from Chubb with implicit 1,600 yards rushing and 10 touchdowns. Like Henry, Chubb’s passing crippled worth is constricted chiefly due to the fact that the Browns person Kareem Hunt to instrumentality those touches.
8) Jonathan Taylor, Indianapolis Colts (Avg. Rank 8)
Projected Fantasy Points: 225, 13.2 per game
As a rookie past season, Taylor broke retired for implicit 1,100 yards and 11 touchdowns connected the crushed for the Colts joining Edgerrin James and Marshall Faulk arsenic 1 of conscionable 3 rookies successful franchise past to amass implicit 1,000 yards rushing. He finished with the fourth-most points (215) past season.
The projections look for him to eclipse the 1,300 gait people this play with different 11 scores and perchance a bigger relation successful the passing game. He’s projected for 51 catches and 396 yards aft snagging 36 for 299 a twelvemonth ago.
9) Saquon Barkley, New York Giants (Avg. Rank 9)
Projected Fantasy Points: 217, 12.8 per game
Barkley is coming backmost from a large genu wounded successful 2020, truthful it remains to beryllium seen however reliable helium volition be. He was constricted successful his effectiveness successful the lone enactment helium saw past play arsenic the Giants discourtesy struggled retired of the gate. His presumption for the Week 1 crippled against the Broncos is unclear arsenic helium was placed connected the physically incapable to execute database (PUP) database to statesman camp.
All that said, if Barkley is capable to instrumentality to his 2019 signifier past phantasy owners are successful for a treat. He totaled 191 phantasy points that play with implicit 1,400 combined yards and 8 touchdowns. The 2021 projections look him eclipsing that with an other crippled (in theory) successful manus with 1,751 combined yards and 12 touchdowns projected.
10) Najee Harris, Pittsburgh Steelers (Avg. Rank 10.6)
Projected Fantasy Points: 203, 11.9 per game
The lone rookie backmost connected this list, Harris comes with awesome pedigree arsenic a erstwhile five-star enlistee who won the nationalist title astatine Alabama and was past selected by the Steelers successful the archetypal round. He showed the quality to beryllium a origin some successful the tally and walk crippled astatine Alabama with implicit 3,800 yards rushing and 700 yards receiving crossed his 4 seasons successful Tuscaloosa.
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The projections expect him to enactment up the 10th-best phantasy play of the moving backs this twelvemonth slotting him successful for implicit 1,000 rushing yards, 400+ receiving yards and 13 full touchdowns.
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