The brand new place rankings for the Class of 2026 are out, so it is time to have a look at the storylines at every place. In the present day we proceed the working backs.
NEW POSITION RATING: Run again | Common Rear | Professional-Model QB | A dual-threat QB
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RATING OF RIVALS OF THE WEEK
sunday: Who must be #1?
Monday: 5 Star Countdown | Meet the brand new 5 star
Tuesday: New Rivals250 launched | Place by place | The largest risers
Wednesday: New rating of offensive positions | QB Ranking Breakdown | Breakdown of the ranking of RB | WR/TE Ranking Breakdown | OL Ranking Breakdown
Thursday: New rating of defensive positions | DL Ranking Breakdown | LB Ranking Breakdown | Database ranking breakdown | ATH Ranking Breakdown
Friday: New state rating | Who’s #1 in every state
saturday: Spherical desk on the rating of rivals
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IS THERE A FIVE-STAR RUNNING BACK?
That is a giant query because the junior season approaches for the Class of 2026. The NFL Draft hasn’t been form to working backs lately. A working again has not been chosen within the first spherical of two of the earlier three NFL drafts, exhibiting how little the place issues on the sport’s highest degree.
Absent a really elite prospect on the place who has the velocity and all-around ability set to face head and shoulders above the remainder of the category, it is exhausting to see a working again reaching five-star standing this cycle.
The Savion Hiter is at present the closest to five-star standing at twenty sixth general.
There’s nonetheless quite a bit to be taught in regards to the high 2026 working backs, and lots of of them will probably be competing in a couple of extra video games this offseason. We’ll be trying to see if any of them are price putting on the high of the Rivals250.
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RACE FOR NO. 1
Savion Hitter remained the No. 1 ranked prospect within the 2026 Rivals250, however he confronted stiff competitors from various prospects.
Ranked No. 26 within the Rivals250, Hitter has a balanced ability set and brings spectacular velocity, energy, imaginative and prescient, toughness, persistence and receiving skill to the sector. Only a few spots behind him on the Rivals250 is Tradarian Ball of Texas. His elite velocity has moved him up the Rivals250 rankings, and he is probably not completed climbing the rankings.
DeVian Gross, the top-rated versatile quarterback, has a mode that lends itself properly to the school degree and past.
Maintain a watch out for top-100 working backs Dezephen Walker and Jonathan Hutton of Oklahoma. Walker and Hutton, who lettered 40 occasions within the 4.4s and 4.5s, have the traits to play at any college within the nation.
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YATES MAKES A SPRAY
After receiving his preliminary rating within the 2026 class, Damarious Yates has emerged as one of many top-rated working backs within the Rivals250.
The Mississippi native posted spectacular observe occasions, together with a ten.9-second 100-meter sprint and a 20.43-second 200-meter sprint. The 5-foot-11 ball provider can also be extraordinarily productive. Final season, Yates ran for 1,129 yards and 19 touchdowns regardless of lacking 4 video games. He additionally will get a risk from behind. He had 365 receiving yards and 7 touchdowns final 12 months.
Yates is not ranked within the high 100 of the Rivals250, however he might problem a few of the greater ranked working backs as the method progresses.
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SEVERAL TEXAS IN THE RIVALS250
It has been an elite 12 months for banks within the state of Texas, with seven ranked within the Rivals250. Tradarian Ball leads the pack at No. 30, adopted by Devian Gross (#48), Jonathan Hutton (#74), Javian Osborne (#162), Racine Guillory (#165), Rylan Morris (#169) and KJ Edwards (No. 242).
Hatton (Oklahoma) and Guillory (Texas) are the one two who’ve dedicated, but it surely’s nonetheless early within the recruiting course of, so there’s loads of time for drama. It will be stunning if the Sooners and Longhorns did not attempt to add one other working again to their 2026 courses.
Ball, Gross, Osborne, Morris and Edwards are in contact with coaches from Texas, Oklahoma and dozens of different packages throughout the nation.