This is a special class of rookie running backs. Throughout the NFL draft cycle this past spring, there was a steady stream of comments from draft analysts and team executives alike on the talent and depth about to hit the NFL at halfback. Organizations then drafted 25 running backs in Green Bay, including four top-40 picks. By the Jimmy Johnson value chart, it was the most draft capital teams had spent on running backs in a given draft since 2018, when the Giants used the second pick on Saquon Barkley .

And through five weeks , those backs have been off to a wildly impressive start. In my quarter-season awards column last week, I mentioned that rookie running backs combined to rack up 737 rushing yards in Week 4, the most by any set of rookie backs in any week of September footba

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