Is Christian McCaffrey the #1 overall pick in 2024? | Yahoo Fantasy Football Show

Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Andy Behrens explore the RB1 position, debating whether Christian McCaffrey’s ceiling surpasses the rest of the top RBs. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Football Show” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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MATT HARMON: We all ranked Justin Jefferson first overall last year. And that didn’t go well. We all ranked Jonathan Taylor first. I mean, that was a legit conversation, I think, between Taylor and McCaffrey. And a lot of the takes from that year did not age well for a lot of people that really wanted to tell you it had to be one or the other. Everybody ranked JT number one that year. Didn’t go that well. And that doesn’t mean that McCaffrey is cursed. But it just means that there’s no certainty, right.

I’d love to draft Aiyuk and Samuel when annually– there’s going to be the annual sort of consternation from the fantasy community about, how many targets could I project here? and that whole thing. I want to be drafting those guys next year. It just the reality is it’s hard to roll over everything that went so right this year. And again, I think next year is probably the last time that these guys are all together.

ANDY BEHRENS: There are not a lot of instances where the RB1 from one season runs it back the next year and is again the RB1. That’s vintage LaDainian Tomlinson stuff. And Priest Holmes did it. And maybe Gurley did it one year. But we don’t see that a lot. That’s like an every 10 year thing.

Maybe the most likely scenario for McCaffrey is not that he produces stat for stat exactly what he just did. I just think the ceiling for Christian McCaffrey is higher than anybody else because of the nature of the offense, because of his skills as a player, because he’s a do it all guy. So his ceiling is higher.

And I also think he’s going to be– assuming nothing happens between now and July, he’s going to be going into next season…

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