In each of the last four seasons, at least one rookie has ranked among the five highest-scoring running backs in fantasy football. Most recently, Saquon Barkley finished standard-scoring RB2 a season ago, with Kareem Hunt, Alvin Kamara, Ezekiel Elliott and Todd Gurley preceding him as top-five rookies in previous seasons.
It's always hard to bet on a rookie reaching that level of success, because there's so much we don't know about them until they take the field in the NFL. If someone from this year's draft class is going to keep that streak alive, however, Oakland Raiders first-round pick Josh Jacobs is a good bet.