2026 Dynasty Fantasy Football Running Back Rankings (Top 100): Post-NFL Draft

May 11, 2026

2026 dynasty fantasy football running back (RB) rankings with tiers and rookies. These post-NFL Draft offseason dynasty league rankings for the top 100 RBs for dynasty and rookie drafts.

With free agency and the NFL Draft in the past, rookies and veterans have found their new teams, and it's time for an updated look at our dynasty fantasy football running back rankings for 2026. Use these rankings to crush your start-up drafts, dominate your rookie drafts, and find undervalued players to trade for. Below, you will see where key RBs like Jeremiyah Love, Jadarian Price, Kyren Williams, Omarion Hampton, Travis Etienne, De'Von Achane, and more stand, among all others.

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2026 Dynasty RB Rankings for Fantasy Football

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Dynasty Fantasy Football RB Player Outlooks

Ashton Jeanty, Las Vegas Raiders

A lot was expected of running back Ashton Jeanty in his first year in the NFL in 2025 after the Las Vegas Raiders took the Boise State product with the sixth overall pick in last year's draft. Jeanty didn't quite live up to those expectations in Year 1, but fantasy managers should still view him as a top-five dynasty RB with an upgraded offensive line and under new head coach Klint Kubiak in 2026 and beyond. The 22-year-old rushed for 975 yards and five touchdowns on 266 carries over 17 starts, adding 55 receptions on 73 targets for 346 yards and an additional five touchdowns as a pass-catcher in 2025.

Even though he technically didn't live up to his rookie projections as the Raiders' lead back, he still finished as a top-15 fantasy back in half-PPR scoring. Kubiak is expected to lean heavily on Jeanty and the ground game in his first year in Sin City, giving the second-year back plenty of breakout potential as an elite RB1. RotoBaller has Jeanty ranked as the No. 3 dynasty RB at this point in the offseason, behind only the Falcons' Bijan Robinson and the Lions' Jahmyr Gibbs.

Bucky Irving, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Bucky Irving was unable to recapture the rookie season magic that made him fantasy's RB14 in 2024. Missing seven games in 2025 with foot and shoulder injuries, Irving was absent for much of Tampa's early-season success, returning to a unit that looked largely out of sorts to finish the year, resulting in the firing of first-year offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard. While Irving's touchdown totals were way down from 2024, his 86.5 yards from scrimmage per game still had him on a 17-game pace of 1,470 yards and almost seven scores.

New offensive coordinator Zac Robinson arrived from Atlanta with a stated goal of involving Irving in the passing game, as he had Bijan Robinson, and while the free agent acquisition of Kenneth Gainwell is likely to take a solid chunk of receiving work off his plate, Irving is potentially being slept on as RotoBaller's dynasty RB16 and falling.

With the Buccaneers' offensive line expected to be healthier in 2026, his per carry average could look closer to the 5.4 yards from his rookie campaign than the 3.4 yard clip of 2025, and with Gainwell only once handling more than 85 carries in his five-year career, Irving should see enough total volume to put him back into the dynasty RB1 conversation.

Rhamondre Stevenson, New England Patriots

New England Patriots running back Rhamondre Stevenson finished 2025 with 948 yards from scrimmage and nine touchdowns, good enough for an RB25 finish despite missing three games. Heading into his sixth season, however, the 28-year-old former fourth-round pick has fallen to RB44 in RotoBaller's dynasty rankings, largely on the assumption that second-year back TreVeyon Henderson will take over a larger share of the Patriots' backfield. Even if true, New England projects to have one of the best rushing attacks in the NFL in 2026 after continuing to invest in the offensive line, as well as fullback and tight end.

Should the team add current Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown on or after June 1st, pairing the three-time Pro Bowler with 2025 MVP runner-up Drake Maye, the offense as a whole could take a massive leap forward. With three years remaining on the extension he signed in 2024, Stevenson should continue to see enough involvement to outperform his current cost to acquire before even factoring in the insurance upside of splitting work with a back who has missed significant time to injuries dating back to his college days.

Christian McCaffrey, San Francisco 49ers

When on the field, San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey represents the biggest mismatch in fantasy football. Even in a down year by his own metrics, McCaffrey finished as the RB1 in 2025, his fifth top-three finish in as many healthy seasons. He touched the ball 44 more times than any other non-quarterback in the league, and while that sort of volume is exactly what makes him the most dominant asset in the game, it also makes him one of the riskiest.

With McCaffrey taking 311 carries in 2025, it's important to note that he has handled more than 100 attempts in back-to-back seasons only one time since starting his career with three fully healthy campaigns, and he has never played more than six games following a season in which he carried the ball at least 220 times. At almost 30 years old, and with his past injury history pitted against his league-winning upside, he comes into organized team activities as RotoBaller's dynasty RB9.

Given the way his last season went, it's likely he is already rostered by a contending team in most leagues, and while he profiles as an obviously risky hold, he remains, paradoxically, far too valuable to sell for the prices he's currently fetching.

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