Could Breece Hall have a higher fantasy ceiling in 2026?
Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Josh Norris and Hayden Winks discuss how the Jets running back should have a much better situation for fantasy managers this season - based on the team's commitment to him as a bell cow and drastically better scoring potential than previous seasons. Check out the full conversation on "Yahoo Fantasy Football with Josh and Hayden" - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you listen .
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All right, next is Breece Hall as our running back 14.
Coming off a career high in rushing yards- Yeah and I don't think anyone else has uttered that phrase all summer long.
Unfortunately, that equaled the running back 20 in points per game on the season.
Why?
What we always come back to, he only scored five touchdowns.
So Hayden, we are banking on him scoring way more than five touchdowns this season.
Yeah, I think a couple things have changed.
One, we have, like, a triple down on Breece Hall, the player for, for the Jets.
They could have traded him.
They decided not to.
Then they gave him a big, payday this off-season after franchise tagging him, and then it, all of their off-season reports, like, not this, like, three-headed monster that we had last year.
Now there's was like, "Oh, Breece Hall is just gonna get the rock a, a ton."
And that's how it, how it should be.
By the way, Isaiah Davis coming back from an injury, still kind of working his way back right now.
Braylon Allen is, he's a very one-dimensional player.
I think the Jets offensive line's actually in a really good spot, not even, like, an average spot.
I think it's a, a good offensive line.
And we gotta remember, the Jets weren't, like, just jet-sing last- like, they were, like, really jet-sing.
I mean- Oh, yeah Brady Cook was out there.
Uh- Yes if you re- start removing, like, five games with, like, Brady Cook, then he at least was, like, the RB 17, and that was still with, like, really terrible quarterback play.
I think that Geno Smith, for all of his warts, and there's certainly plenty, this is gonna be night and day versus the quarterback play Breece Hall has played with, throughout his career.
So I feel good about that.
Fishawnu Membu just run bet- between, the tackles, right there, and then I think, I still think that Breece Hall is a really good player.
And I just think the environment's been so bad.
Like, this seems like it can be, like, the last year where we can draft him.
And as the Jets get better, he's gonna be, like, a second round pick for the next couple seasons.
Yeah.
You almost have to decide, do you think the Jets or the Cardinals are misprojected, across the league?
If you get one of those right, then y- you're probably gonna have a good season because- Yeah both teams have We know about Breece Hall and Garrett Wilson, how are they go, and then all four of the Cardinals.
I, I might be leaning the Jets in, in that regard.
Like, this offensive line and just what they've have the infrastructure for it is, is so good, whereas, you know, they were 29th in touchdowns per game last year, 29th in red zone drives per game, 31st in red zone touchdown success rate.
I mean, inching closer to, in a bunch of those areas, just a league average- Yeah can lead to really, really good things of Breece Hall, who, you know, the play caller and the beat writers have all called a bell cow this off-season.
I've been drafting both of those players over the receivers in round three.
And then in round four or five, I feel pretty good about getting two wide receivers.
So if you're picking, like, a, a Puka team, a Ja'Marr Chase team early on, I, I think that you wanna prioritize these backs and then s- figure out wide receivers in the next round
