Broadly's Pre-Draft 2026 RB Grades

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I know it's time to get back to working on grades when I start getting DMs about if I'm going to do them this year. A few of you have been asking, and here we go. I want to stop here before we begin and acknowledge that this year marks 10 years of doing these grades and refining the process now and 7 of posting them here on Reddit. I've said it many times and I'll keep saying it: thanks to anyone and everyone that has engaged with this project over the years even if it's just to say thanks or ask a clarifying question. After all this time, I've pretty much lost the level of intrinsic interest in dynasty and player evaluation to keep it going were it not for wanting to get these out there for the folks I know look forward to it every year. So again, thanks! --- For those of you that aren't already familiar with what I do, here is the link to my final RB grades from last year. You can still view my historical RB grades here. These historical grades are currently being updated so you may see some differences from previous years as I go. I'm reworking the weighting on one of my production inputs. If you're new and want some more convincing to stick around, here is an analysis of my grades over the years someone else did. Before my old account got suspended, I wanted to do a retrospective kind of thing like this and someone did it for me. Shout out to you u/CultofBroadly. Now on to the grades! --- Before the grades some high-level process things to keep in mind: These are the projected grades and are pending draft capital. They can and will change and capital is my single most highly weighted input. For now I'm using Charlie Campbell's mock draft rounds 1-4 for my capital input. I only graded the one's he took in the first 4 rounds plus a couple more that I've read some buzz about for now. I'll do every RB that gets drafted plus any interesting undrafted players in my final grades. If I can't find official athletic testing, I assume they meet my lowest threshold and no more. If I find compelling reason to raise any of them over time, that could mix things up too though far less than changes in draft capital. These grades are attempting to solve for first 2 years NFL fantasy production. And first 2 years production is a good proxy for career production. Player evaluation is useless absent consideration of market price and personal exposure rates. Dynasty is 100% a game about beating the market and having an efficient distribution of assets. So take that into consideration. I'd estimate I watched about 1 hour total of college football last season. I don't do film evaluation. I do have a film evaluation input that is heavily weighted and for that I rely on Lance Zierline at nfl.com. If you prefer more film-oriented analysis, I recommend u/cjfreel's work highly. I do not factor landing spot or character concerns at all in my evaluations. There are other content creators out there that have done a great job objectifying this kind of information. I haven't made this kind of effort. The grades are roughly out of 4 and are sorted into historical tiers. Given equal price, I will favor a higher rated player within tiers. The tiers are me kind of squinting at historical baseline hit rate + historical magnitude of hits. The labels for the tiers are just for consumption of the material -- if you'd rather name them "Bob", "Larry", "Joe", "etc." then go ahead. Don't get caught up on the labels. So for example "Draftable" doesn't always mean "Draftable". T…