Keeper RB Tiered Rankings - Peterson, then the rest

This list is long overdue and updated after all the dust has settled from the preseason and Week 1. I know your keeper season is in full swing, but you might find a use for my rankings throughout the season as you look to make trades to ensure that your team can make a playoff run this season and be stacked with talent for future seasons. These rankings reflect all significant factors from depth chart, free agency, and injury history.

Week 1 showed us who the RB thrown truly belonged to: Purple Jesus. There were some question marks surrounding the top 5 for this year, but when Adrian Peterson got done throwing defenders to the ground so he could show off his sprinter speed, nobody was talking about MJD, Turner, Forte, or Johnson as contenders anymore. "All Day" is all alone at the top of the fantasy football world; any league, any format.

Tier 1
Adrian Peterson
Tier 2
Michael Turner
Maurice Jones-Drew
Chris Johnson
Matt Forte
Tier 3
Steve Slaton
DeAngelo Williams
Steven Jackson
Frank Gore
Brandon Jacobs
Marion Barber
Tier 4
Kevin Smith
Knowshon Moreno
Chris Wells
LaDanian Tomlinson
Ronnie Brown
Marshawn Lynch
Jonathan Stewart
Brian Westbrook
Tier 5
Darren McFadden
Ryan Grant
Ray Rice
Donald Brown
Felix Jones
LeSean McCoy
Reggie Bush
Willie Parker
Tier 6
Derrick Ward
LenDale White
Rashard Mendenhall
Joseph Addai
Darren Sproles
Larry Johnson
Ahmad Bradshaw
Thomas Jones
Darren Sproles
Tier 7
Jerious Norwood
James Davis
Shonn Green
Jerious Norwood
Leon Washington
Chester Taylor
Michael Bush
Jamal Lewis
Carnell Williams
Julius Jones
Fred Jackson
Tier 8
Tashard Choice
Laurence Maroney
Willis McGahee
Fred Taylor
Timothy Hightower
Leron McClain
Tier 9
Bernard Scott
Tashard Choice
Correll Buckhalter
Justin Fargas
Gartrell Johnson
Edgerrin James
Jerome Harrison
Kevin Faulk
Rashad Jennings

Keeper QB Tiered Rankings - Class of '09

Depending on your leagues format, there are only two QBs that I believe to be worth a keeper selection. After that, you would probably be better off keeping RBs and WRs. As you can see, you can wait on a QB in your draft and still find value late. Drew Brees and Tom Brady are ranked above the rest because A) they are in high octane passing offenses B) they are surrounded with proven weapons (Colston, Moore, Bush, Shockey / Moss, Welker, Galloway, Faulk) C) they have had extremely successful fantasy seasons in recent years & D) they both have at least 3 or 4 more years of production left in the tank. I left Manning out of this tier because he has new ?s around him this season, no Harrison, an aging Addai, and most importantly no Tony Dungy. QBs that I see as on the rise are Aaron Rogers and Matt Ryan. I also think Joe Flacco will be joining Matt Ryan in Tier 2 next year. Matt Stafford has an outside chance being Tier 3 this time next season and climbing every year after that.

Tier 1

Drew Brees

Tom Brady

Tier 2

Aaron Rodgers

Peyton Manning

Phillip Rivers

Tier 3

Matt Ryan

Jay Cutler

Tony Romo

Matt Schaub

Tier 4
Ben Roethlisberger

Donovan McNabb

Joe Flacco

Matt Cassel

Tier 5

Carson Palmer

Trent Edwards

Kurt Warner

Eli Manning

Matt Hasselbeck

David Garrard

Brady Quinn

Kyle Orton

Tier 6

Matthew Stafford

Mark Sanchez

JaMarcus Russell

Jake Delhomme

Shaun Hill

Josh Freeman

Jason Campbell

Brett Favre

Tier 7

Chad Pennington

Marc Bulger

Kerry Collins

Derek Anderson

Vince Young

Chad Henne

Michael Vick

Tarvaris Jackson

Tyler Thigpen

Kellen Clemens

Daunte Culpepper

Pat White