Breece Hall has already done enough to look the part of a top-10 running back, but CBS Sports still found a way to push him outside that tier.
Coming off his first 1,000-yard season, the New York Jets back was included only as an honorable mention in CBS Sports’ recent ranking of the 10 best players at every position. The 12-person panel gave Hall six points, which left him No. 12 among 17 running backs.
That placement is where the frustration starts for Jets fans, because Hall at least belongs in the conversation. He’s not some fringe name fighting to get on the board.
There’s a real case for him being much closer to No. 10 than No. 15.
Instead, CBS Sports put Cardinals rookie Jeremiyah Love and the Raiders’ Ashton Jeanty ahead of him, and that’s where the ranking really loses the plot.
Love landed at No. 10 with 11 votes despite not having played a single NFL game. Jeanty finished with eight points, two more than Hall, even though Hall is the proven producer in this comparison.
CBS Sports has reasons to be bullish on Love. He was the highest-selected running back in nearly 10 years, and his upside is obvious. Zachary Pereles pointed to that draft status and the potential that comes with it.
But rookie hype only goes so far. Love has not even appeared in a preseason game, which makes the idea of ranking him above Hall or the Rams’ Kyren Williams hard to defend.
The same goes for Jeanty. His college résumé is strong, no question, but the leap from that to slotting him ahead of Hall, Williams, or even the Browns’ Quinshon Judkins is a stretch. The source of the skepticism is not subtle, either: the 2025 Raiders’ offensive line was described as so poor that “A group of scarecrows would have done a better job protecting Jeanty and Geno Smith than the 2025 Raiders’ offensive line.”
There’s a bigger issue here, too. If this list were projecting five years down the road, Love and Jeanty would have a much stronger argument.
Jeanty even could be talked into top-five territory by 2031. But that is not what this ranking was supposed to be.
And Hall was not the only player to get a head-scratching placement. An unnamed voter also labeled Travis Hunter the league’s ninth-best cornerback.
At some point, that just becomes too much for Jets fans to ignore.
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