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Week 9 flex rankings: Receivers catching up with running backs

By Eric Karabell
ESPN.com

Friday, October 31, 2008

Sometimes when I am ranking the players -- it starts early each football week, and then we update them -- I can sense when it's a particularly weak week for a certain position. And this ends up getting proven in the flex rankings. The top running backs in fantasy always end up outperforming the top wide receivers, except for the occasional Randy Moss or Jerry Rice monster season, but that's not always the case in a given week. The top fantasy wide receiver in ESPN leagues for the season, for st ...

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