2024 Fantasy Football Running Back Tiers: Jahmyr Gibbs’ injury mixes things up

When drafting your Fantasy Soccer workforce for 2024, you must by no means do it primarily based simply on one checklist. Whether or not it is rankings, projections, tiers, or common draft place, utilizing any of those by themselves goes to result in worth missed. With that in thoughts, I’ve created tiers under which might be largely primarily based on my projections. In the event you use these at the side of ADP, you will be on the suitable path.

My working again tiers obtained a shake-up on Monday evening with the information that Jahmyr Gibbs suffered a hamstring harm on Monday. Seeing as we nonetheless have greater than three weeks till the season begins, there must be loads of time for Gibbs to get well assuming that is nothing greater than a standard hamstring harm. However Gibbs has battled this particular harm a number of occasions, together with final season and earlier this offseason. On the very least, this harm takes Gibbs out of first-round consideration for me and bumps him down one tier within the tiers under. If we discover out the harm is extra critical, he’ll drop much more.

In fact, the flip facet is the impact an harm like this has on the worth of David Montgomery. The Lions have talked about growing Gibbs’ workload this season and I believed them. Due to that, Montgomery fell in Tier 8 strictly primarily based on projections. I’ve taken 10% of Gibbs’ workload in my projections and on condition that work to Montgomery, which bumps him as much as Tier 6. 

What this harm ought to spotlight although, is Montgomery’s contingent upside. If Gibbs had been to undergo a long-term harm, we might count on Montgomery to carry out like a Tier 4 again at worst. It would not be that shocking if he was a top-five again with out Gibbs. This is among the greatest offenses in soccer and it has been very pleasant to working again manufacturing. For gamers like Montgomery, it is value contemplating that contingent upside when drafting, and never simply his projection with 17 video games of Gibbs.

Tier 7 is all about that contingent upside. These three backs, Tyjae Spears, Trey Benson, and Zach Charbonnet, don’t undertaking increased than all of the backs within the tie under them. But when the opposite again of their offense goes down, I imagine all three would have top-12 upside. Benson’s first preseason efficiency gave me slightly pause in that regard, however I nonetheless imagine in what he placed on tape in faculty and count on he’ll acclimate to the NFL shortly. 

De’Von Achane, Raheem Mostert, Jaylen Warren, Najee Harris, Brian Robinson Jr., and Ty Chandler are just some of the opposite backs I’d contemplate bumping up due to contingent upside. Although I am much less certain that Achane and Warren would see workhorse roles even when there was an harm.

Listed here are my working again tiers: