{"id":306113,"date":"2023-06-09T17:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T17:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=306113"},"modified":"2023-06-09T17:57:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T17:57:38","slug":"ranking-the-top-10-running-backs-in-the-2024-recruiting-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=306113","title":{"rendered":"Ranking the top 10 running backs in the 2024 recruiting cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">You need only look at the NFL&#8217;s list of free agents to see the running back position being devalued in real-time. There&#8217;s a long and analytic conversation to be had there, but the fact that Dalvin Cook, Leonard Fournette and Ezekiel Elliott\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/seahawkswire.usatoday.com\/lists\/most-notable-free-agent-from-each-nfl-team-who-remains-unsigned-in-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">are all still available<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0at this point in the year says everything you need to know. Nevertheless, running backs still play an important role for any offense that wants to be well-balanced\u2014including the high school and college levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Here are the top 10 running backs in the class of 2024. To get the composite rankings, we averaged their national\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/football\/recruiting\/playerrankings\/_\/view\/rn300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">rankings from ESPN<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">,\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/n.rivals.com\/prospect_rankings\/rivals250\/2024?position=ALL%20POSITIONS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Rivals<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Season\/2024-Football\/RecruitRankings\/?InstitutionGroup=HighSchool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">247Sports<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check out the top 10 QBs: <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/lists\/football-recruiting-rankings-top-quarterback-recruits-class-of-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Class of 2024 composite rankings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Running backs still play an important role for any offense that wants to be well-balanced.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306114,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306113\/revisions\/306114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}