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The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

5 MUST HAVE Running Backs You Need for Fantasy Football (2024)

The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Sal Vetri

Fantasy Sports, Sports

5774 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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0:00.0

This is the video you've all been waiting for.

0:01.7

Arguably the most important position for years in fantasy football is the running back position.

0:06.2

So to help you win your league like I've done for many other people in the past, we're going to break down the five must have running backs for this year.

0:12.4

And it'll start with Joe Mixon, who is 27 years old, which seems crazy.

0:15.9

He's about to turn 28, but it seems crazy because this guy seems like he's been in the NFL forever because he joined the league young at just 20 years old.

0:21.8

He's been a pro for seven years.

0:23.1

And he's finished as a top 20 running back in every single one of those seasons but his rookie year because he was splitting the workload as a raw rookie in that season.

0:29.8

But since then, top 20 every year.

0:31.4

And beautiful people.

0:32.2

More specifically, if you look through this as finishes, these are them right here on Player Profiler.

0:36.2

This is the website. 7, 5. This year didn't have enough games to qualify, but he would have been in the top 10,

0:41.5

19. 9. The average finish during this time was the running back 9. A top 10 running back for

0:46.4

six straight seasons on average in fantasy is Joe Mixon. I just want to kind of give you the background

0:50.7

on the pedigree of this type of player. Now, all of those seasons in the NFL so far have been with the Bengals, but things have changed this year as he's on a brand new team.

0:57.2

Because Mixon was traded to the Houston Texans. They wanted to trade for him so that he couldn't

1:01.2

hit the open market. And then they immediately signed him to a three-year deal, $13 million

1:05.3

guaranteed, significant money for this day's running back market, or they contract up to about $20 million, $19.75 million.

1:12.1

This is significant money.

1:13.5

They wanted to trade for and sign Mixon over Devin Singletary,

1:17.7

who gave them good usage last year because they value Mixin even higher.

1:20.7

Now, here's the thing.

1:21.5

When we're talking about fantasy football,

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