"A pair of running backs, who combined missed 36 games to injury the past three seasons, has dominated the fantasy football landscape in 2025. Christian McCaffrey and Jonathan Taylor have occupied the top two spots on the fantasy scoring leaderboard, in either order, every week since Week 7. With standard leagues beginning their playoffs in Week 14, they are understandably also the two players most commonly found on ESPN playoff teams."
"McCaffrey has a league-leading 10 games scoring at least 20 fantasy points, two more than anyone else. It's a dramatic turnaround by both players, for whom managers lacked the level of draft-day enthusiasm they'd exhibited in the past. For McCaffrey, his No. 6 overall average draft position (ADP), while still an awfully good number, represented the latest he has been selected in ESPN leagues since 2018 (17th overall)."
Christian McCaffrey leads fantasy scoring with 328.5 total points and a 25.3 per-game average, and has 10 games of at least 20 fantasy points. Jonathan Taylor has 297.6 fantasy points (24.8 per game) and leads appearances on playoff teams at 72.3% of ESPN leagues. McCaffrey appears on 71.9% of playoff rosters. Taylor owns five games with 30-plus points, two more than the next player. Both running backs combined missed 36 games to injury over the prior three seasons but have each remained remarkably healthy in 2025. Both have played every team game and at least 73% of their teams' offensive snaps.
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