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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

1014: Mailbag - Managing Early-Season Breakouts, Navigating Depth Charts, and More

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

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Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.93.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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On this week's mailbag episode, JJ talks about what he looks for in ambigous backfields, how he manages early-season breakouts, the importance of depth charts, and more.   Order the Late-Round Draft Guide on LateRound.com, and make sure to sign...

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0:00.0

This is the late round podcast with your host, J.J. Zacharisa.

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What's up, everyone? It's J.J. Zacharisen. In this episode, 2014 of the late round fantasy

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1:21.1

The first question this week is from Jamie on Patreon. It says, what are the biggest questions you're

1:25.6

hoping to find answers to in week one?

1:28.7

Backfields are always the most interesting thing to watch, for me at least, in week one.

1:32.8

Because as I always say, the way backfields are split just comes down to a coaching decision.

1:37.7

And we don't exactly know how coaches are thinking this time of year throughout the offseason.

1:42.3

Whereas a wide receiver, talent can find its way to targets

1:45.9

because multiple wide receivers are on the field at once.

1:49.6

Typically, we only have one running back.

1:52.7

So I'm really interested to see certain backfield splits.

1:55.9

I think the Jets are interesting

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