ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler released a list of their top-10 running backs, plus four honorable mentions, and Cam Akers was nowhere to be found. The Cleveland Browns had two of the 14 running backs (Nick Chubb was fourth, Kareem Hunt was an honorable mention) but Akers, who had 424 rushing yards in his final five games of 2020, has not been able to crack most analyst’s sphere of the “top-10 backs” entering next season.
Should he?
Akers, who also added 221 rushing yards in two playoff games, giving him nearly a 100 yards-per-game average once he became a starter for the LA Rams, has to knock really hard on that door of opportunity if he wants to bust into the conversation.