RB Prospect Lab Rankings: 2 Small-School Stars Score with Edwards-Helaire

Shawn Siegele
April 8, 2020

Shawn Siegele examines a couple of small-school stars in the RB Prospect Lab and updates his rankings to highlight these sleepers.

After the NFL combine, I updated our RB Prospect Lab rankings to include many of the high-profile prospects for the 2020 class. Two of my favorite sleepers were not involved in that update, and it’s time we dive into their projections.

Both of these runners appear in the mocks for the Dynasty Command Center Rookie Guide. They’re also climbing for the scouts with top-15 rankings in the RotoViz Scouting Index.

But are they still undervalued? Last weekend I broke down the two 2020 prospects who look eerily similar to Aaron Jones. Our small-school stars score in the same range in the Lab.

Small-School Stars Are Even Better Than the Hype

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Shawn Siegele

Author of the original Zero RB article and 2013 NFFC Primetime Grand Champion. 11-time main event league winner. 2015, 2017, 2018 titles in MFL10 of Death.

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