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AFC South Power Ranking: Colts, Titans, Texans, and Jaguars running backs

By Brady Akins

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - NOVEMBER 24: Derrick Henry poses for a photo with Leonard Fournette #27 of the Jacksonville Jaguars after the game at Nissan Stadium on November 24, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Silas Walker/Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - NOVEMBER 24: Derrick Henry poses for a photo with Leonard Fournette #27 of the Jacksonville Jaguars after the game at Nissan Stadium on November 24, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Silas Walker/Getty Images) /
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Which team’s running back groups rank as the class of the AFC South?

The 2020 NFL Draft is over, teams seem like they’re done making trades for a good while, and with the exception of the never-ending Jadaveon Clowney watch that is somehow still in full effect, the big moves of free agency are mostly done for all 32 NFL teams.

And if the Draft is the apex of the offseason storm, the spot we’re in now is the calm afterward. A handful of new players have made their way to their new teams, a handful more players have parted ways with their old teams, and NFL rosters across the league are looking better in some spots and worse in others.

But the spot on the roster where it seems like the Tennessee Titans, as well as their AFC South division rivals, universally got better was in the running back groups. Both the Titans and the Colts added productive Day Two draft picks to their backfields. The Texans made a… let’s call it “ill-advised” trade to move on from all-pro receiver DeAndre Hopkins, but got former Arizona Cardinals running back David Johnson in return. And while the Jaguars didn’t add any new high-profile faces to their running back room, they did make the decision to keep their starting running back Leonard Fournette around, despite rumors that they were looking to trade him.

All four teams in the division have solid players as a part of their running back corps, but, which team has the best group of players? Which offseason moves have which team’s ground game sitting pretty heading into 2020, and which teams are stuck at the bottom of the AFC South barrel. Starting from fourth and working our way up, let’s rank the running back groups from all four teams in the AFC South.

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