Seventh Heaven: The Top Seven Fantasy Rookie RBs for 2009

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While the 2009 Draft didn't have a super-flashy, consensus No. 1 pick, the class as a whole does look to have a lot of depth and could potentially turn out to be very deep indeed.

In the interests of putting everything into perspective so that it can be better organized and put into useful form, I've gone and done the UNTHINKABLE and ranked the Top Seven rookie running backs of 2009 as I see them, followed by some honorable mentions dealing with some toss-ups and late round super-sleepers.

So go and get a drink, put on your slippers, do some push-ups—whatever it is that your crazy ### does to get ready to read some delicious fantasy football analysis. Please don't hesitate to print this bad-boy out and take it with you on your marathon outings into the bathroom either.

Nothing makes bathroom reading better than rookie running back rankings (in my opinion, at least).

Ready. Steady. GO!


7. Donald Brown (IND)

I like Brown a lot, but just can't shake the feeling that Joseph Addai isn't going anywhere anytime soon and as long as Peyton Manning is the QB, the Colts RB2 would be worth a serious look only in much deeper leagues.

For Addai owners though, it's obvious that Brown would be a viable and practically mandatory handcuff unless you want to be beating yourself with a toaster if Addai possibly goes down with an injury and Brown steps into the starter role and starts tearing it up. That's never fun. Oh no!

On the skill set front though, Donald Brown is an absolute beast of a workhorse. He had a ridiculous 367 carries last year en route to 2,083 yards and 18 touchdowns. While 2,083 yards is certainly impressive no matter what division it was accomplished in, I'm much more impressed and infatuated with those 367 carries.

Say what you want about his yardage totals and how they correlate to less-than-stellar opposing defenses, but no matter how poor the defenses you face are, if you run the rock 367 times than you my friend are what I like to call, "a house".

Bottom line:

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