Woody Marks enters Week 5 as one of the biggest risers in all of fantasy football. The breakout game that was foretold by many of the QBList staff came to pass as Marks surpassed Nick Chubb and exploded for a 23.9 fantasy point outing, finishing as the RB5. There is no shortage of praise out there for the rookie out of USC, but arguably the most excited of the lot is Head Coach DeMeco Ryans, closing his post-game presser by sharing “we’re excited to see how much more he can handle.” An expanding, three-down workload for Marks after this type of performance has his vaulting 16 spots in our consensus rankings and up to RB15 for me personally. –Eric Romoff
You need only go to the opposite sideline to find one of this week’s biggest fallers, Derrick Henry. Henry enters Week 5 having carried the ball just 49 times, a 208-tote pace that would be his lowest since his 2nd year in the league back in 2017. It’s well-documented that his lack of involvement as a pass-catcher makes Henry one of the more touchdown-reliant players in the fantasy landscape, but even finding the end zone 3 times this season can’t lift him into the top-20 at his position. Henry’s fumbling issue from the early part of the season was kept in check last week, but another low-volume game script makes him very hard to trust this week, settling in as my 14th-ranked back. –Eric Romoff
Breece Hall is another significant riser as we turn the page to Week 5. Hall has been up and down this season as he’s shared the workload in a three-headed backfield where his quarterback is taking his fair share of carries. The tides turned in Hall’s favor in Week 4, however, as an injury to teammate Braelon Allen paved the path for a 20 opportunity outing, which he converted into 100+ scrimmage yards and 16.1 PPR points. The Jets will need his best this week as they are set to host the Dallas Cowboys in what projects to be one of the highest scoring games on the slate. Hall is a focal point of one of the league’s most-consolidated offenses and arguably the 2nd option in the Jets’ passing game. Dallas enters the week having allowed the 6th-most fantasy points to running backs this year and a whopping 57 receiving yards per game to the position. Hall jumps all the way up to my RB7 on the week and cracks the consensus Top-10 for the first time this year. –Eric Romoff
The day has finally come. Despite one of the most dominant opportunity shares in the NFL, Chase Brown simply cannot will his way to fantasy relevance in this stagnant Bengals offense and has officially fallen outside of the RB2 range in rankings. To be fair to Brown, he did show a bit more pop in Week 4’s game against the Broncos. He managed to set a season-high with 71 scrimmage yards with the Bengals dishing out just 15 total opportunities to their running backs against Denver. It’s highly unlikely that anyone emerges to challenge Brown for his touches in this backfield, but that merely makes him a bottom-basement buy-low target, not someone you can start with confidence. At least until further notice. –Eric Romoff