If I had to bet my house on seven players in fantasy football this year, it would be the guys in this video. Because every single one of them has a rock solid floor and more importantly, league winning ups upside. And I'm going to break it all down for you in this video so you can dominate your drafts and schmack around your league mates. If you're not familiar, I'm Salvatri and I've helped people for nearly eight years win their fantasy leagues, and I plan to do the same for you in this video. Let's start off with Kenneth Walker who had a roller coaster season, you can say in 2024, this is a guy who had a lot of different games, right? He had some breakout games that we'll get into, but then there were games of low efficiency, games where he left early multiple times with injuries and it became frustrated. But when you zoom out, you see that despite all of these downsides, including a bad offensive line in an offensive environment, at times that was a little bit shaky, he still was a top 12 running back, an RB1 for fantasy football, averaging 16 and a half fantasy points per game, probably and was the best season of his career. And here's the kicker. When you remove the games that this guy got injured, meaning that he left early,

so it obviously impacts his points per game, he was averaging over 17 points per game in those contests, which would have put him in the same tier of running back as a top 10 guy on the season, like a Josh Jacobs or Jonathan Taylor. We could zoom out even more and look at his overall opportunities with the Seahawks last year. He ranked top 12 in SnapShare and 11th in Opportunity Share.

So he was a borderline workhorse back. In terms of opportunity share, this is the amount of overall touches and targets you got out of your backfield. So 73% is very strong, especially

since he left some of these games earlier and it's a little bit skewed. Overall, this ended up

leading to him seeing over 18 touches per game. It was another solid season as a rusher for Kenneth Walker, but something changed in a major way about his role. And what changed was this right here. Out of nowhere, he ends up catching 4.2 balls per game. 46 receptions on the season was top 12 amongst running backs. Before this, Kenneth Walker is not known for catching passes. Let's just scroll up to his per season totals right here. You can see his first or the previous two seasons, just 27 and 29 catches. Last year, he breaks out for a 46 reception season, and it's not like this was fluky by any means. This was legitimate receiving production, and he became a legitimate receiving threat on a week in and weekout basis.

I mean, you could see this right here.

2024 leaders in design targets per game according to fantasy points data. You can see all guys that you would expect. Von Achan took a step last year. Guys like Alvin Kamara, Rashad, White, all these guys, Bucky Irving, who are past catching running backs. And then Kenneth Walker sneaks in here tied for top five in the NFL amongst running backs in design targets, meaning that they designed those plays for him. It wasn't just a checkdown because the quarterback went through all the progressions and there was nobody else available downfield. I mean, this dude was on a 15 game pace if he would have stayed healthy for 63 catches and 400 receiving yards, over 400 receiving yards 60 plus catches that's like

alvin kamara territory so he improved as a receiver he was good as a rusher despite his run blocking

last year by the seahawks being pretty terrible 24th overall in rum blocking when you include

their overall pass protection as well and pressure rating this was a bottom five offensive line last

year but despite a terrible offensive line that ranked bottom

three in pressure, third worst in yards before contact created. So Kenneth Walker basically

was bottom of three in the NFL in terms of having open running lanes. Despite that,

Kenneth Walker found success because as you can see right here, he just started to create on his

own. In terms of fantasy points data, the most elusive running backs last year in the NFL,

which is defined as running back leaders by mistackles force per attempt. So how many tackles

they broke per touch that they had, Kenneth Walker led the NFL last year up there with broken

tackle guys that we know like Derek Henry, bulky Irving, Bejohn Robinson. It was Kenneth Walker

who was creating yards and extra contact or yards after contact on his own,

independent of a bad offensive line.

In fact, there was only two running backs, as David points out here, Guru FF World on Twitter.

There were only two running backs who had 150 carries and gained more than 70% of their yards

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