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The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

5 EARLY Round Players You Must Avoid in Fantasy Football

The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Sal Vetri

Fantasy Sports, Sports

5.0 β€’ 784 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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5 EARLY Round Players You Must Avoid in Fantasy Football


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0:00.0

Your first step to win at fantasy football is getting your early round picks right.

0:04.3

Here are five players you should think twice about earlier on in draft.

0:07.7

This is a list of the most touches over the last 12 years, and Nazi Harris, his 381 last year,

0:13.1

was seventh most during that span.

0:14.9

Now, here's the interesting thing.

0:16.1

The remaining top 10 running backs on this list saw their average touches the next year

0:20.5

decreased by 23%.

0:22.4

And if you take that 23% average, put it on Najee's touches for last year, just for entertainment

0:26.8

purposes heading into this year, you would expect 88 touches to be dropped on average.

0:31.3

Now here's why this is concerning.

0:32.9

Najee ranked outside the top 50 running backs, 53rd in true yards per carry last year.

0:37.8

That's an efficiency metric.

0:39.1

And he was 28th in big plays, breaking runs of 10 plus yards.

0:42.9

In short, Harris was just not good per touch last year.

0:45.8

But here's the good news.

0:46.9

Mitch Trubisky is trending to start the season, and he targets running backs at an above

0:50.7

average clip.

0:51.6

However, that was with Tariq Cohen at running back, and Tariq Cohen

0:54.6

was literally the most efficient running back in the NFL as a receiver in 2017 and 2018.

1:01.1

His 3.80 yards per route run is one of the highest we have ever seen. So there's a reason,

1:05.8

if you're Mitch Trabisky, that you would target this guy. And now let's look at where

1:08.4

Najee ranked last year. In that same metric,

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