525. Optimal approach for drafting running backs in 2022

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🗓️ 26 July 2022

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Ian Hartitz and Dwain McFarland join forces to break down Dwain's article on the optimal approach for picking running backs in 2022. The guys go through early-, mid-, and late-round targets, centerpieces, fades, and general strategy at the position, mostly focusing on re-draft formats, but with a touch of best-ball goodness thrown in. Saquon Barkley in every round two, Kareem Hunt is a perfect mid-round pick at the moment, thoughts on when you should and shouldn't handcuff, all that, and much more in another electric edition of The PFF Fantasy Football Podcast.

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0:00.0	I'm your host, Ian Hart. It's joining me as always. The one the only Dwayne, the rock,
0:18.5	McFarlane. Dwayne, we just talked quarterbacks. Now we're talking running backs. Still remains
0:22.8	a great day to be great.
0:24.8	It's always a great day to be great with you, Ian. It's a great day to be great, if not,
0:30.4	like, sheesh. What are we doing to work to Ianism's end right away? Yeah, I mean, had a blast
0:37.2	doing the quarterback one, so folks can always go back and check that out. We're going to do
0:40.6	all of the different positions. Now we're going to focus over on running backs. And so for
0:45.2	this one, just a couple of quick notes like before we get started, I really just focused
0:50.3	more on ESPN and Yahoo. When we talked about quarterback, we were talking about the FFPC and
0:54.2	things like that. I've had several of you reach out to me and they're like, I don't really plan
0:57.4	those kind of leagues, so it's good context to have, to know where players go in those leagues,
1:01.7	which is kind of a good way to think about it. I really think about when I look at the high stakes
1:05.6	crowd, it's almost just another lens that I look through Ian to be like, okay, am I off on
1:11.1	any of these players versus where the market is and versus where the high stakes crowd is taking
1:16.7	them? And it's just another thing to ask yourself questions, essentially. Why is this player going so
1:22.3	much higher than another player over ESPN? So for example, I listed like just seven and a tweet
1:30.5	yesterday. So say, go through them. Go through them. It's a great list. So say, Juan Barkley goes
1:35.2	pick 16 over at the FFPC right now, 31st on ESPN. So ESPN, Yahoo, more homely, type style stuff.
1:42.9	Travis ETN is a huge one. Pick 26 versus 57. I mean, that's 30 pick difference on those two
1:49.7	guys. Breeze Hall, about a 12 pick difference. Pick 36 over at FFPC 48 on ESPN. James Cook, pick 95
1:57.2	versus 123, Rashad White 104 versus 169, basically going undrafted in ESPN right now. Not basically,
2:04.8	only 2% of leagues is Rashad White even getting drafted. It's around nine pick on FFPC. Melvin Gordon,
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