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🗓️ 5 June 2025
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Get your Free 5-day email course here: https://startwinningfantasyfootball.com/Grab your Fantasy Blueprint here: https://bit.ly/GetTheBlueprintNow5 Running Backs Who Deserve Way More Attention in Fantasy Football(Data source credits: Player Profiler)
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0:00.0 | Every year in fantasy football, a few running backs go completely overlooked. And these are the exact |
0:04.3 | guys that will help you win leagues because they're cheap in drafts and just need one opportunity |
0:08.5 | to have a big year. So I've got five guys in this video for you that you need to make note of |
0:12.7 | before your drafts begin. And I want to start with Tajay Spears, who is very interesting and I'll |
0:16.9 | get into exactly why. Now here's the thing. I don't blame you if you're like, oh, I faded him in 2024. I'm not going to play him. He didn't do anything in 2024. Why |
0:23.9 | but I draft him this year? I get that, but there's some context here. Tage Spears last year |
0:27.9 | never had a fair shake of things. He just dealt with injury. Look anybody's ever had an ankle sprain, it's probably at least a week or two, |
0:37.6 | and then you're probably not getting tackled by a 250-pound linebacker, right? So that's a couple of |
0:41.2 | weeks. Then when he's finally getting healthy from his ankle sprain, he gets the worst injury |
0:44.4 | a running back could have a hamstring strain. As somebody who just is recovering from about |
0:47.9 | nine months of hamstring tendonitis, hamstring strains minimum two to three weeks probably lingers with some tightness and mentally you're not |
0:54.5 | all there so that's another month or plus for tajey spears injury and just when he's finally getting |
0:59.0 | healthy from that in week 11 he has a concussion and that knocks him out for about a week a week |
1:03.1 | a half two weeks so this is a guy who basically until the final month of the season wasn't healthy |
1:08.2 | but when he actually got out there in that final month of the season, he was good. So much so that over his final three games, week 15 to 17, the dude average |
1:15.3 | 20.7 fantasy points per game on just four catches and 11 rush attempts. So about 15 touches per |
1:21.3 | game, he was averaging over 20 fantasy points per game. And that was behind a bad offensive line |
1:25.9 | with a bad quarterback. And now those things have been somewhat and probably strongly upgraded. And let's not forget what Tadj Spears |
1:31.3 | did just a year prior in 2023 when he was a rookie. He forced a 50-50 split backfield with |
1:36.3 | Derek Henry. He averaged 5.5 yards per touch, sixth best in the NFL, and he had 52 catches |
1:41.6 | on 70 targets, both top 10 in the league. Also as a rookie, |
1:45.0 | you have the 5 and a half yards per touch. That's great. His juke rate number four in the |
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