This is the Lay-Round podcast with your host, JJ Zacharyson.

What's up everyone, it's JJ Zacharyson, and this is episode 641 of the Lay-Round Fantasy

Football Podcast sponsored by Fandool.

Thanks for tuning in.

I've done a lot of episodes of this podcast.

Through the years, I've done studies on running back handcuffs, on quarterback rushing,

on breakout wide receivers, there's been a wide variety of topics covered.

Plenty of those topics quickly come and go.

You listen, you take it in, and you move on.

But others over the years have really stuck.

And one of the things that has stuck most since I started doing this podcast is the concept

of ambiguous back fields.

Years and years ago, I did a study on how to spot breakout running backs in fantasy football.

I revisit the study every year, but the gist of it is that I looked at non-early-round

running backs and found which running backs outperform their average draft position most.

From there, I found traits that these players seem to share.

One of those traits was that they came from as I dubbed it ambiguous back fields.

That these breakout running backs weren't emerging from back fields with any sort of

established starter.

Initially, that's all the ambiguous back field idea meant.

That the running backs that we should be drafting are coming from teams where there's

no established starter.

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