As we inched closer and closer to the running back group in ESPN’s positional rankings, I couldn’t help but convince myself that Charger fans were about to be letdown once again as Austin Ekeler was left out of the top 10 for another year.
Fortunately, that’s not the news I’m bringing you today.
On Friday morning, ESPN dropped their top-10 running backs — all voted on by league executives, coaches, and players — and the Chargers’ RB1 finally broke through (just barely) to make the list at #10. The nine running backs ranked ahead of him were (in descending order): Nick Chubb, Christian McCaffrey, Josh Jacobs, Saquon Barkley, Derrick Henry, Jonathan Taylor, Alvin Kamara, Dalvin Cook, and Tony Pollard.