Isiah Pacheco

Pacheco is a consistently explosive running back when healthy, but that acknowledgment was always made with some amount of trepidation given Pacheco's cartoonishly violent running style. Pacheco's motor is always visibly running at 150 percent, which is helpful in some situations but not others. It's sometimes useful and always entertaining when Pacheco simply berserks his way through a collision, but players who run as recklessly as Pacheco almost always burn fast. The fibula fracture Pacheco suffered in Week 2 basically ended his season, because Pacheco was a shell of himself when he returned after an 11-week absence. Kareem Hunt is not particularly close to Pacheco's level when the two are both healthy, but Pacheco was hobbled enough in his recovery that even the largely expired journeyman Hunt was more productive when the two were both active. Pacheco will likely recover more fully for the 2025 season, and if so he could yet provide the breakout fantasy potential his investors hoped for in 2024, but in the meantime he needs to get back his speed to hold off Hunt and free-agent pickup Elijah Mitchell. Mitchell in particular could be a problem if he stays healthy, unlikely as that might be. Read Past Outlooks