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The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

5 Rookies Your Friends Don’t Know But Have Major Upside | 2023 Fantasy Football

The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Sal Vetri

Fantasy Sports, Sports

5774 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

Every year this happens and it affects you and me.

0:03.1

New players come into the NFL, we call them rookies and they're total unknowns to you until you dive deeper.

0:08.7

And that's what we're here to do today.

0:10.4

Dive deeper on these five rookies that your friends don't know about, but they have major upside in fantasy football.

0:16.2

Let's start at the running back position.

0:17.9

This running back is a top five running back in the draft and your

0:20.8

friends don't even know about it. And that's the prospect out of Pittsburgh and Israel Abinacando

0:25.1

who, believe it or not, he closely compares to Jonathan Taylor. Now, he didn't take part in the NFL

0:30.3

combine, but he did his pro day and it was dominant. So here's his workout metrics and no need to

0:35.4

get startled. All this is, their bar graphs, the closer they are to 100, the better. And his burst is 97th percentile, as good as it gets.

0:42.2

His speed, 93rd percentile. He ran a 43940, which just so happens to be the best, the fastest 40

0:49.6

time in this class, even though he's not a small running back. He's not just 190 pounds. He's over

0:55.0

215 pounds running that fast. So he has the athleticism. He has that size. This means he could be

1:00.9

a three downback pretty easily in the NFL. And this is something he already proved last year.

1:05.7

In 2022, it was the first year that he was the dude, the starter getting all the reps out there in

1:10.2

Pittsburgh. He had 239 rush attempts, goes for over 1,400 yards leads all of college football

1:16.0

with 21 total touchdown 20 on the ground adds some receiving yards as well and it totals up to him

1:21.6

having 1,57 yards over 11 games or 143 yards per game ultra productive quite simply he has the rare

1:30.8

combination of size athleticism and production not only is he have all those great combinations

1:37.0

we said he's also the youngest running back at 20 years old in this class he's coming out after

1:41.7

his junior year here's his athleticism right here,

1:44.6

98th percentile, 9.8. Look at these comparables. Ledanyan Thomason, Alvin Kamara, Jonathan Taylor,

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