Could Chase Brown be a top-5 RB in 2026?
Yahoo fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Justin Boone discuss how the Bengals running back could deliver for fantasy managers this season. Check out the full conversation on the "Yahoo Fantasy Forecast" podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you listen.
Video Transcript
Chase Brown, I mean, he's the most underrated player in these first two rounds.
Wouldn't shock me at all if he ends up being the guy who's a top five, top three back, because last season that's what we saw from him once we got decent quarterback play in the Bengals offense, right?
In the early part of the year when Joe Burrow was hurt, when the schedule was tough, he struggled a little bit.
Once Joe Flacco was out there, which isn't that high of a bar, and then especially once Burrow got back, the rest of the season from week six on, we saw Chase Brown put up top five stats.
He could certainly do that again, and all the talk right now coming out of Cincinnati is that he's one of the focal points of that offense, so he is gonna get a ton of work.
It all just boils down, Harmon, to me loving the running backs in that range.
That early part of round two into the middle part of round two, I wanna take all these guys.
I'll take whoever falls to me.
I'm really, really happy to have them on my roster, and that's why, you know, we're often starting either running back, running back or wide receiver running back
