5 Running Backs About to Explode in Fantasy (Trade For Them Now)
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Sal Vetri
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
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5 Running Backs About to Explode in Fantasy (Trade For Them Now)
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to win your fantasy league, this is the video for you, because it's already week four in the NFL, and right now is the perfect time to be making some trades. So in this video, we're going to be breaking down five running backs who are about to explode in fantasy football, but people don't realize it. You want to trade for these guys ASAP. And let's start with Josh Jacobs, who in most leagues Josh Jacobs, the Green Bay Packers running back, he was a second round fantasy pick. And so far the production this year has not warranted that second round pick, but the usage is definitely there. And the perfect example of this is what just happened in week three against the Cleveland Browns, where the Green Bay Packers were upset after being seven point favorite. 16 carries for just 30 rushing yards. I mean, that is atrocious. 1.9 yards per carry. The worst game that Josh Jacobs has had as a rusher as his time with the Green Bay Packers. But this needs so much context. The Packers lost two of their offensive linemen early on in this game against the Brown's number one ranked defensive line and number one rank. You guessed it, Rush Defense. This is according to PFF. They're the number one ranked Rush defense right now. They were number one through two weeks.'re number one through three weeks because not only did they hold Josh Jacobs in week three to just 30 rushing yards. Remember what they did in week two? Derek Henry, just 23 rushing yards. Lamar Jackson, just 13 rushing yards. Lamar Jackson has multiple 13 yard rushes just one carry in a game every single time. I mean, we just saw it against the Detroit |
| 1:11.5 | lines on Monday night, multiple 10 plus yard rushes, and they only held him to 13 total yards. |
| 1:16.4 | Lamar and Derek Henry didn't even top 35 yards against the Cleveland Browns. Now, that context matters |
| 1:21.6 | because Josh Jacobs, these are his numbers so far on the season through three games. His |
| 1:25.2 | opportunity, according to player profile, are still elite. Top five in Snapshare. Top five in Opportunity Share. That's his percentage of backfield targets and touches that he's getting. Nobody else in the Packers backfield is involved right now. You look at what is this amounting to so far. It's currently amounting to 10 targets, nine of which came last week, by the way, and over 19 carries per game, second in the |
| 1:45.1 | NFL. And I actually want to pull that up right here because this is pretty crazy. |
| 1:48.0 | Although Josh Jacobs only got you three fantasy points on the ground last week, not great, right? Didn't even find the end zone. You come up here to what he did as a receiver, massively involved. Five catches, 44 yards, on a career high, nine targets in that game. |
| 2:00.7 | He actually saw a 36% target share, as you can see from Ryan tweets. |
| 2:04.6 | Ryan, Matthew Golden, Natavian Wix, four times the amount of Romeo Dobbs. That's obviously an outlier. It had to do with this game script. If you watch the game at all in the first quarter, |
| 2:34.2 | Jordan Love was dropping back and getting so much, he was getting pressured often that it looked like he was going to get hurt on a couple of plays, which led to the Packers basically leading to a lot of jet sweeps, a lot of Josh Jacobs, and oh yeah, a lot of checkdowns to Josh Jacobs. Now, given the fact that nobody else is involved in this offense, hence the nearly 90% Snapchat right now for Josh Jacobs. I mean, |
| 2:36.2 | Emmanuel Wilson and not involved, Christopher Brooks, |
| 2:34.3 | maybe a couple of carries per game. We'll see you in Marshawn involved in this offense, hence the nearly 90% snap share right now for Josh Jacobs. I mean, |
| 2:53.6 | Emmanuel Wilson not involved, Christopher Brooks, maybe a couple of carries per game. We'll see when Marshawn Lloyd comes back off the IR. If he gets involved, I don't think so. Right now is the perfect time to be trading for Josh Jacobs because he's had a pretty tough schedule, but that tough schedule is going to lighten up. The Cowboys in week four on Sunday night, great matchup. The Bengals after the by week, by the way, perfect matchup and the offensive line should be |
| 2:52.4 | healthier by there. |
| 2:53.2 | Then it gets the place to Cardinals, good matchup. Steelers' defense hasn't been that great. Panthers' worst run defense in the NFL yet again. I mean, this is five straight games, four of which are great matchups, one of which the Steelers, I think, is a sneaky good matchup for Josh Jacobs. The usage is there. |
| 3:05.1 | Their points are going to follow. |
| 3:06.1 | Just like last year, we didn't score a touchdown the first four games. |
| 3:08.4 | And then all he did was score touchdowns the rest of the year. |
| 3:10.3 | Trade for Josh Jacobs. |
| 3:11.2 | Right now, Kyram Williams for Josh Jacobs, I do that. Breece Hall, I do that. Jvante, I do that. There's a lot of deals in here. JSA's probably an equal deal. Alvin Kamara, I would do that. A ton of deals in here that I would end up doing. I probably wouldn't do the Malik neighbors of the world. Those guys are just in a tier of their own. But Josh Jacobs' rest of season, |
| 3:25.9 | a top 20 overall player. |
| 3:27.1 | A lot of people probably wouldn't do the Malik neighbors of the world. Those guys are just in a tier of their own. But Josh Jacobs' rest of season |
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