Week 10 RB Rankings: Tiers, Starts and Sits

Gibbs, McCaffrey and Walker form tier 1, projected from 21.1 to 24.4 points. Start them and move on. The fight is further down, where nine backs share tier 3 at 11.1 to 14.3 points.

Carry share sorts the middle of the board better than rank does. Blake Corum and Woody Marks are taking more of the work. Aaron Jones and Ashton Jeanty are taking less. D'Andre Swift is on bye, so check your depth.

Look at the length of each bar. A short bar is a safe week. A long bar is a gamble.

Blended from CBS, ESPN, FanDuel, FleaFlicker and Sleeper. Full PPR. Opp is this week's opponent. Range runs from floor to ceiling.

A tier is a group the projections treat as close to the same. Take the highest tier you can and stop splitting hairs inside it.

Corum is RB24 and projects 10.1 points, which looks small for a start. The trend is the case. In his last three games he scored 17.1, 13.3 and 11.8. He has taken 41.1 percent of the team's rushes in that stretch, up from 35.5 percent for the season. Los Angeles is a 9.5 point favorite at Arizona with a team total of 24.5. Favorites run the ball late, and he scored 14.0 in this same game in Week 6. He plays under a third of the snaps, so a bad script can hurt him. His floor is 4.3. As a flex, the upside is well worth that.

Marks is RB21 and projects 11.1. He is Questionable, so check the news before you lock a lineup. If he plays, the usage is clear. His share of the team's rushes is 66.8 percent over the last three games, against 48.7 percent for the season. Houston is a 4.5 point favorite at Cleveland with a team total of 23.0. His last three scores were 10.1, 9.1 and 8.4, an average of 9.2. That is steady and not special. The season average is 8.9, which is RB36, so do not expect a blowup. Treat him as a solid flex with a safe floor.

Green Bay is the fifth softest defense against running backs, and that is the bait. Jones is RB28 and projects 8.7. His last three games were 3.6, 6.0 and 3.1, an average of 4.2. Earlier this year he scored 16.8 and 18.7 in back to back games. That version of the role is gone. Over the last three games he has under a third of the team's rushes. For the season it is a bit over half. Minnesota is a 3.0 point underdog with a team total of 19.8. A trailing team throws more. Sit him unless you have no other option.

Jeanty is RB18 and projects 11.7, with five sources within a spread of 1.25. The sources agree on the number. The setup is the problem. Las Vegas is a 6.5 point underdog with a team total of 17.0. His scores have slid from 21.6 to 10.3 to 7.0 over three weeks. He has 31.0 percent of the rushes in that stretch, against just over half for the season. He is started in 88.0 percent of leagues, so most managers will play him. If you have a back with a better script, play that back. Keep Jeanty in the flex only if you must.

Pollard has the big scores that make managers nervous about benching him. He posted 36.5 and 28.7 in Weeks 7 and 8, and his last three games average 24.3. Those two games sit far above everything else. His other six scores run from 4.4 to 13.6. This week is the hard part. Tennessee is a 10.5 point underdog with a team total of 18.0, and Jacksonville ranks 31st of 32 against running backs. The usage is real, with 80.3 percent of the team's rushes in the last three games. The projection is 11.3 for a reason. Start him as a flex, not as a star.

Hill is RB39 and projects 6.9. He is rostered in only 16.0 percent of leagues, so he is available in most. Last week he scored 18.2 against Jacksonville, after 6.3 and 7.5 in the two weeks before. His season average is 6.8, so do not chase the 18.2. The reason to add is the setup. Baltimore is a 4.5 point favorite against Los Angeles with a team total of 21.5. His target share of 11.7 percent keeps him in the game when the run game stalls. He is a depth add and not a weekly starter. Use him if a bye has left your bench thin.

Defense rank 1 is the softest matchup for the position and 32 is the toughest. Team total is the points the game line gives his team.

Soft draws among the starters:

Tough draws among the starters:

Position rank this week against last week's. Only moves of 3 spots or more. Risers are ranked inside the top 36 now. Fallers were inside it last week.

Risers:

Fallers:

Check Sunday morning before you lock anyone in a questionable tag.

On bye in Week 10: CHI, DEN, PHI, TB.

How to read this. Projections blend CBS, ESPN, FanDuel, FleaFlicker and Sleeper, as published for Week 10. Rostered is the share of Sleeper leagues that hold the player. Tiers group players whose projections sit close together. Floor and ceiling are the 20th and 80th percentile of how scores have landed around projections like this one. They are a range, not a promise. Defense rank is points allowed to the position, where 1 is softest. Team total is the points the game line gives his team. Stats run through Week 9. Scoring is full PPR.