Week 8 Rankings: Running Backs

hey poster number sixteen...your boy Stephen Jackson is the guy to bench since it is a bye week for him...guess you only follow what brad evans writes...

what is Brad Evans on...his kicking ratings are horrendous and he rates Steve Slaton as his number one RB...Slaton may not even be the starter on his team...is he trying to be funny...well he isn't and I think a lot of us are just not thinking of him as an expert. I hope he isn't a candidate for substance abuser of the year...just think of skinny him receiving the award from big Rush Limbaugh...yuchhhhhhhh

Roy Williams......OR.........Eddie Royal

Scott P., on the Sunday show you said you perferred T. Jones to Rice. What's up?

#21----- I have a feeling Ryan Grant is going to have a heavy workload agianst the Vikings simply because the Packers will want to keep moving the chains as much as possible. McCarthey does not want to lose to Brett that is a given. Look for the run game to be established earlier and often. If the pass game gets rolling look out but i have a feeling the Pack will run all day IF it helps the pass. #12----- McCoy. But this is a real downer. And for myself im going to stick with what i have and not drop/pickup anyone. So my options in one league are,Ricky,MoJo Drew,Pierre Thomas. Im going With Ricky AGAIN and obviously MoJo DRew.In my other league im screwed, i have Tomlinson,sproles,Rierre Thomas. Im chosing to go with L.T and Pierre. I have bye week starting r.b.'s in both leagues. What my gut tells me is to trade L.T. and Pierre but i couldnt ask for pennies for either.Sucks.BUT what i really want to do is drop L.T. and Pierre because they are taking up extra valuable space on my roster. All i know is thank the almighty beer gods i picked up Cedric Benson and Ricky Williams. Those two Longhorn pot smoking rejects are keeping me afloat with 4-3 and 5-2 records.

I agree with #27 I kept him Forte in my keeper league! I kept him and Turner and went from losing the championship game last by 1 point to struggling to make the playoffs this year! I did get someone to trade me Ocho Cicno for Forte 3 weeks ago and have done good snce! I got Ray Rice last round of the draft and I will be keeping him this year! Him and V. Jax propbably!

I agree with #27 I kept him Forte in my keeper league! I kept him and Turner and went from losing the championship game last by 1 point to struggling to make the playoffs this year! I did get someone to trade me Ocho Cicno for Forte 3 weeks ago and have done good snce! I got Ray Rice last round of the draft and I will be keeping him this year! Him and V. Jax propbably!

Who would you rathe have going forward Shonne Greene or Beanie Wells! I just keep looking at Wells FF Playoff schedule! Has to be the easiest of any RB and if he has taken over by then which he should lookout! I could also add both and drop PT Bruiser even though I invested a third round draft pick on him! HELP! Any opinions would be nice!!!

I own MoJo Drew, R. Brown, R. Williams, P. Thomas, K. Moreno, and for this week L. McCoy. I'm obviously playing Jones-Drew and R. Brown., but who else? I'm a little surprised McCoy isn't ranked a little higher. I want to play Ricky, but if the Jets figure out how to stop the run, then two of my players are affected. I'm very hesitant on playing Thomas with the emergence of Mike Bell.

how is forte still in the top 10, are you kidding me? these guys show no respect to backs like Darren Sproles and Hightower. These backs will give you 10 points a week at minimum against teams with poor defense and may even surprise you against teams like Baltimore. All I know is that its week 8 and I'm trading Forte if I have him. Also give Thomas Jones some credit, he had a good year last year and he's having another one. Too bad you experts predicted Jones to share less carries and have an under achievable year. I never listen to these Joe Shmo's. Go with your gut and pay attention to who your guys are playing fantasy footballers.

I own both K. Smith and R. Brown and am choosing to ignore this advice and start Smith over Brown. The emergence of Ricky Williams and the fact that Rex Ryan should be intent on stopping Brown after the Monday night fiasco coupled with Kevin Smith being the lone back against a team that seems to want opposing RB's to score makes this a fairly easy decision for me. It's surprising to me that the Yahoo guys always try to play it so safe with the bigger names each week.

Deanna, BW is out. LM instead.

I don't want to be rude, but I guess better than these guys. How can a player who is questionable be ranked so high? Why bother waiting until Friday to post rankings if you are not bothering to adjust according to the injury reports?

I am stacked at RB this week... what's the opinion on who to start, I can start three of the five....

Steven Jackson, Ray Rice, Kevin Smith, Steve Slaton, Brandon Jacobs....

I've already benched Jacobs, but I have a tuff call on the other back to bench...

Thanks!

how is Matt Forte on this list he blows, what a drop off from last year, waste of a top 5 pick in 3 of my leagues.

needless to say I'm not doing well

# 25 mccue_d thats a tough call. Me personally, I would go with either Burleson or S. Greene. Both have potential (hey, the Seahawks gotta pass the ball to SOMEBODY) but both also have risk. Greenes only had one good game. The Seahawks are bad. If you put a gun to my head I'd go with Greene. The Jets O-line is playing like a well oiled machine with their outstanding zone blocking scheme and Sanchez isnt going to throw all that much. But I always say you should go with your instincts and not listen too much to other peoples advice. I asked a so-called "expert" last week for help and he told me to start S. Holmes ( 5 points) over P. Harvin (20 points). Oops. Needless to say I lost by 12.

got a tough decision. non ppr league. got QB: Eli Manning RB: MJD and K.SMITH( NOT JONES CAUSE HES NOT ON AN ACTIVE ROSTER) WR i got AJ and CJ. barring that both AJ and CJ play i also have a flex and it could be one of these guys. Burleson. M.Bell. S.Greene. B.Wells. or L.McCoy. my league only allows 2 moves per week. i aleady made 1 move. so i only got 1 left. should i pick one of those 4 guys as a flex or stick with burleson and go grab a QB just for this week. these are the best available. Orton. Hasseldick. Stafford( who looks like hes gonna play) sad that im sayin this but Bulger. leave some opinions. im leaning towards picking up either M.Bell or S.Greene. i dont like the way mccoy's running this year and the Cards running game is unknown week to week. but ive owned M.Bell and love him. im the minority in the fact that i think he's a much better runner than the PT dancer. he runs over ppl and he runs with a purpose thats for sure. but the Saints backfield is as unknown as to whos gonna get the carries as the Cards. so you would think thatd leave Greene. cause the Jets Fins game will prob feature close to 100 rushing attempts. and unlike Leon Washington. Greene is the better goal line back than Jones so, one would think that hell be the red zone and goal line back along with short yardage in a run heavy game. but thats just my opinion. leave some comments. thanks

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Kevin Jones the RB for the Bears is on IR I believe

You guys keep posting Kevin Jones? you mean Kevin Smith or Thomas Jones? how do you not know your own players...

Michael Tuner, Pierre Thomas, Ryan Grant, and Kevin Smith.....Which two should I start?

thank you post 7, as i asked last week and caught grief from a few people in here for asking if i really should start gore off a bye week and just coming back from injury and the o-line problems... well as you all saw it happened he wasn't a good start.. but oh well as stated you must choose and yes i listened to them and played him and the rest of the story was i lossed due to it and took it on the chin.. learned from that... gl to all this week ... ps not playin gore this week though going with rice and sproiles...

I'm seeing conflicting rankings regarding my 3 RB's where I only start 2.

I've got Ronnie Brown, Ray Rice and Kevin Jones. ( also have Mendenhall for good luck!))

Here they're giving love to Ronnie Brown but I see him ranked below the other 2 on competive sites.

alright ray rice ,ronnie brown, and matt forte....which 2? usually a no brainer but forte is up against the browns.

Steven Jackson, Ray Rice, Kevin Jones, Steve Slaton,

I'd sit Jones