4 Must Have Running Backs to Target In Your Fantasy Drafts
The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri
Sal Vetri
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🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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4 Must Have Running Backs to Target In Your Fantasy
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| 0:00.0 | Everyone's chasing upside in fantasy football, but most drafters are missing the easiest options, |
| 0:05.0 | the guys who are going to get 20 plus touches with passing game work and explosive upside. |
| 0:09.2 | So today we are diving into the four running backs who meet that criteria, and I would consider must-haves for 2025. |
| 0:14.7 | And let's start with the Seattle Seahawks running back Kenneth Walker because Kenneth Walker right now, believe it or not, |
| 0:19.5 | this dude is going in the fifth |
| 0:21.0 | round of fantasy drafts. And we're going to discuss how that's just crazy. And you're probably being |
| 0:25.1 | able to draft them right now at literally his floor. Like worst case scenario should be the fifth |
| 0:28.7 | round. Because for starters in his three years in the NFL, as you can see right here, |
| 0:31.7 | according to player profiler, these three years, he finishes the RB12 last year, best season, RB20 and RB16. And this is with a bunch of |
| 0:38.0 | different coaches and multiple different quarterbacks and different competition. He's still |
| 0:41.6 | finishing as a top 20 running back every single season. Last year was his best year. He showed |
| 0:46.3 | massive improvements in different areas. We'll get into all that. But despite this, he's being |
| 0:50.0 | drafted in the fifth round outside of like the top 20 Rbs. That is just crazy to me, and this is |
| 0:54.4 | what Kenneth Walker did last year. I specifically highlighted here on Rodeviz. These seven games |
| 0:58.6 | on the left-hand column are before his injury. During that time, he was averaging over 19 |
| 1:02.5 | fantasy points per game, 31 receiving yards and 57 rushing yards per game. So the guy was putting |
| 1:07.5 | up nearly 90 total yards per game, but more importantly, that 19 fantasy |
| 1:11.6 | points per game was top five amongst running backs. Kenneth Walker before his injury last year was a |
| 1:16.1 | top five running back. And even when he came back from that injury, he was still putting up top 20 |
| 1:19.7 | numbers for you. And every single time that he's come back from injury, these past few years, |
| 1:23.3 | he's always continued to regain the full backfield from Zach Charbonnet, the running back |
| 1:27.5 | behind him. He ranked top 12 in Snapshare last year. 72% of his backfield opportunities. |
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