Yahoo Fantasy analyst Matt Harmon is joined by Jorge Martin of Familia FBB in conversation about which second-year running back is most likely to step up his game and make a big impact next season. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Football Show” - subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.

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MATT HARMON: I'm going to list off these second-year running backs, and you rank them in terms of most to least likely to take the leap. Rachaad White, Dameon Pierce, Kenneth Walker, James Cook.

JORGE MARTIN: I think the one who can actually make a really, really big leap is Rachaad White. He does not have a lot of competition, and so he's going to get more rushing attempts. He already got 57 targets last year. Granted, those targets are now not coming from the GOAT. They're coming from Baker Mayfield. But he also doesn't like to get hit, so there's going to be some dump-offs to Rachaad white.

One of my favorite players in that zone is Dameon Pierce. I just worry that getting Devin Singletary there is going to eat into his time. Kenneth Walker I would have had probably at the top of this list, but he's dealing with a groin strain right now. So I always worry about those kind of soft-tissue injuries. I'm actually going to put him toward the back just because the fact that I look at him, and I just really worry that that's going to limit him at the beginning of the season and it's going to push Zach Charbonnet up.

James Cook is a guy that I'm very, very intrigued by. Because there's nobody else who's going to be-- nobody else is going to be getting work in the passing game on the running backs.

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