You always want to stay one step ahead. And if you do this consistently in fantasy football,

your friends will never catch up. So here are five running backs that will ruin your fantasy

draft. You want to avoid them. J.K. Dobbins often goes as a top 20 running back. Right now,

on average, he goes as the 21st back off the board. But this is too soon given the risks. I mean,

yeah, he tore his ACL as a younger player last August. So he should be back

in theory in time, but it wasn't just his ACL. This was a complicated injury. And thanks to this

lovely injury article by Pro Football Focus and Doctors and Combinations there, you're going to have

an ACL plus LCL damage. So normally it's like nine to 12 months recovery for the ACL. When you put that LCL on top of it, usually makes it longer

and increases the risk at re-injury. And now as we get closer to the season, he's not participating

in OTAs or mini-camps or practices. And there's growing concerns Dobbins won't be ready for week

one, but it doesn't stop here. Because since becoming a starting quarterback in 2019 for like

the entire year, MVP,

Lamar Jackson, he only targets running back 16% of the time, the fourth lowest rate since that

time. And this shows because in Dobbin's rookie season, he only had 18 receptions, 1.2 catches

per game. I mean, that's not going to get it done, especially if you play in a half PPR or PPR league. So this lack of past catching work, not having usage there is a concern.

And here's why.

Teammate Gus Edwards is expected to be back from week one from his own ACL tear, but he doesn't

have that LCL damage and he's on track to return.

So you don't have any receiving game worth freely any of these backs, but including Dobbins.

And now you have Gus Edwards, who has been the second most efficient running back in the

NFL since 2018. Only behind this man, Nick Chubb, yeah, when you have that guy in the backfield

who's healthy and going to get carries probably before you if you're not back in time, it's not a

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