You want to win at fantasy football, right?

Then you must identify breakout players.

And I've done this for you.

Here are the five breakout running backs for 2022.

Now let me ask you something.

Does the name Khalil Herbert excite you?

If you answered yes, you're ahead of the game.

And if you answered, no, I'd like to help change that.

Because Bears starting running back David Montgomerygomery he missed four games last year and in those

games he missed the rookie kaleel herbert stepped in won the backup job in camp and he ended up delivering

13.7 fantasy points per game and during this time during those four weeks of the year he ended up

being a borderline top 10 back basically was he was the number 11 back overall during that

time ahead of naji harris and right in the company of dandre swift aaron jones and alvin kamara

now here's the thing that is very eye-opening about this the bears gave this rookie 22.3

opportunities per game and opportunities are just your targets per game plus your carries per game

that's a whole lot in In fact, it's virtually

the same as with Jonathan Taylor, the RB1 last year, averaged on the season. Taylor averaged

22.6 opportunities, targets plus carries in 2021. Now, this is an important piece of intel

because David Montgomery has missed time each of the past two years. And his chance of injury

this year is above

average at 67%. And very few backups will see the opportunity of a full backfield, not splitting

with another guy like Khalil Herbert will. And yet Herbert goes outside the top 50 running backs off

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