2027 NFL Draft Running Back Rankings - 13-24

#	Player	Pos	H/W/S	Weight	Height	40YD	AVG POS RANK	AVG OVR RANK	Rating	Summary
13	RB Hollywood Smothers	5-11 195lbs 4.52	RB	195lbs	5-11	4.52	8	96.8	81.4 MORE>>	Smothers is a shifty, sure-handed three-down back who led the ACC in rushing per game at NC State and did it without putting the ball on...
14	RB Justice Haynes	5-11 210lbs 4.49	RB	210lbs	5-11	4.49	10	143	80.6 MORE>>	For seven games he was the Big Ten's best back: 857 yards at over seven a carry, ten touchdowns, three games of 149 yards or more including...
15	RB Jeremiah Cobb	5-11 200lbs 4.42	RB	200lbs	5-11	4.42	31	511	80.1 MORE>>	The production survived the circumstances: 969 yards and top-tier rushing tape as the feature back in an Auburn offense that spent the...
16	RB DeSean Bishop	5-10 208lbs 4.55	RB	208lbs	5-10	4.55	19	291	75.3 MORE>>	The walk-on made the record book: 1,076 yards and a team-high sixteen touchdowns, All-SEC recognition, top-tier rushing tape, and...
17	RB Rueben Owens II	5-11 215lbs 4.38	RB	215lbs	5-11	4.38	30	497	74.8 MORE>>	The recruiting class called him its best back, and the stopwatch still agrees: rare timed speed, among the fastest in the group, deployed...
18	RB Darius Taylor	6-0 215lbs 4.54	RB	215lbs	6-0	4.54	22	314.5	74.1 MORE>>	The three-down toolkit is closer to complete than anyone else's in this tier: thirty-four catches with receiving tape among the group's...
19	RB Keyjuan Brown	5-10 210lbs 4.62	RB	210lbs	5-10	4.62	13	194.7	73.3 MORE>>	Few backs anywhere squeezed more from their touches: 703 yards on just 96 carries, better than seven a pop, with top-tier rushing tape,...
20	RB Derrick Davis Jr.	6-0 210lbs 4.56	RB	210lbs	6-0	4.56	20	304	71.9 MORE>>	This is a bet on an athlete, not a tape library. Davis arrived at LSU as a four-star safety, moved to running back when injuries forced the...
21	RB Quintrevion Wisner	6-0 194lbs 4.50	RB	194lbs	6-0	4.50	16	246.5	71.8 MORE>>	A year removed from a thousand-yard season, the hamstring never let him show it: injured against Ohio State in the opener, Wisner managed...
22	RB Quinten Joyner	5-11 205lbs 4.47	RB	205lbs	5-11	4.47	35	547.5	71.4 MORE>>	The 2025 season ended in an August scrimmage: a torn ACL took the year before his first carry as Texas Tech's lead back, a job he had won...
23	RB James Peoples	5-10 206lbs 4.50	RB	206lbs	5-10	4.50	29	465	71.2 MORE>>	Recruiting rankings said star; the depth chart said otherwise. Peoples arrived at Ohio State as a national top-100 recruit and the...
24	RB Dante Dowdell	6-2 227lbs 4.48	RB	227lbs	6-2	4.48	37	569.5	70.6 MORE>>	Dowdell is a big, downhill lead back with a nose for the end zone who has produced at Oregon, Nebraska and Kentucky before landing at...

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We've compared players 40 times and weight and charted them on the scatter chart below. You'll find the 40 time on the Y-axis and on the X-axis the weight in pounds.
The exceptional athletic freaks (determined by the combination of speed vs weight) will be found at the top right of the chart while the less impressive athletes will be sitting towards the bottom left.