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The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

5 Rookie Wide Receivers You SHOULD Be Drafting in Fantasy Football

The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Sal Vetri

Fantasy Sports, Sports

5.0784 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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5 Rookie Wide Receivers You SHOULD Be Drafting in Fantasy Football


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0:00.0

If you play fantasy football, you are in the right place because today we are breaking down the five rookie running backs you should be drafting this year.

0:19.9

Rookies are one of the biggest edges in all of fantasy football. You don't know how they're going to perform because you've never seen it before. And that's exactly why the five guys in this video are going to be so important this year. And let's start with a running back who's in an ambiguous backfield. Now, what does that big word mean?

0:22.5

Oh, my God, I'm taking a risk saying that at the beginning of the video.

0:23.6

I hope you don't turn out.

0:21.2

It just means backfield. Now, what does that big word mean? Oh my God, I'm taking a risk saying that at the beginning of the video. I hope you don't turn out. It just means backfields that are up in the air. There's not a clear RB1 in that backfield. K. Tron Allen is out of Penn State. He landed on the Washington commanders in the sixth round. Now, I know what you're saying. If you're a Jacori-Crossi Merritt, a Bill fan, you're saying he's the obvious lead back.

0:38.1

And I would say, okay, maybe.

0:39.5

On paper, there's a chance that Jay, you're saying. If you're a Jacori-Crosky Merritt, a Bill fan, you're saying he's the obvious lead back.

0:38.1

And I would say, okay, maybe. On paper, there's a chance that J-C-M, Jacori-Crosky Merritt, is going to be

0:43.7

the early downback, at least to start the year. But I do think that K. Trine Allen brings a

0:47.7

skill set. This is a 5-11, 216-pound running back. The all-time leading rusher, by the way, not Saquin Barclay, not Miles

0:54.3

Sanders, not Larry Johnson. It's K. Tron Allen from Penn State as the all-time leading

0:58.6

rusher where last year he put up over 1,300 yards alone. This is also a player who was a standout

1:03.2

at the senior bowl for what's that, for what that's worth. He did not test at the combine,

1:07.3

but we do have him clocked at over 18 miles per hour in terms of his speed. If you're talking about at 220 pounds, that's more than fine.

1:13.6

I'm not worried about that at all. My guess as to why he didn't run at the combine is because if you're going to be running in the four-fives or potentially even like a low four-six, it's not going to look great next to all the guys running four-threes and four-fours. It's now the day and age at the combine where you just don't run if you don't run a fast time.

1:27.8

It's as simple as that.

1:28.4

This was a guy who produced for four straight seasons at Penn State while competing with Nick Singleton, another running back who was drafted in this year's draft class. I'm talking about every single year of his career having at least 850 rushing yards in the Big Ten at Penn State. In all four seasons, the production increased all the way up to 2024.

1:45.1

We had over 1100 yards, 10 touchdowns, five yards per carry, and then a career year this

1:49.6

past year. Despite everything at Penn State, and I mean everything, going to shit, they were the

1:54.2

number one ranked team at one point to start the before the season in a lot of the AP polls.

1:59.3

They were looking good to start the year, and then their coach gets fired, drew a lot of the quarterback tears his ACL. Everything goes to shit. Despite all that, Ketron Allen was still playing, who still had his head in the game, 6.2 yards per carry a career high, over 1,300 rushing yards, 15 touchdowns. Now, is he going to be the best pass catching running back? I mean, every single year in his college career, he was catching, like, 15 to 20 balls. So he's solid in that department. He just happened to be in the backfield with a much better pass catching running back in Nick Singleton. Alan also finished his college career on a tear. I mean, he had a good year last year in general, if you're going to have 1,300 yards, but he really finished it strong. When everybody else in penn state was probably packing it in the year

2:34.2

was over we definitely saw that out of nick singleton and some other players over there not k train

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