This is the late round podcast with your host, J.J. Zacharre

Riesa.

What's up everyone, it's J.J. Zachary, and in this episode 886 of the

Late Round Fantasy football podcast sponsored by Underdog Fantasy. Thanks for

tuning in. The Running Back Dead Zone is one of the most popular talking points in all of fantasy football.

Every analyst will bring it up in their podcasts over the summer.

Everyone talks about it.

I've done episodes on the topic through the years plenty. the The dead zone consists of running backs who fail to reach expectation at a really high rate

and they're not giving you a ton of fantasy points.

But all the while, and this is the second point to make, all the while, they're pretty good wide receivers that you're missing out on in that dead zone range.

So not only the running back's bad, but there's an opportunity cost component to it as well.

And that opportunity cost side to the running back dead zone discussion can't be ignored.

Because in today's fantasy football landscape, drafts have become really wide receiver heavy.

When wide receivers get drafted earlier and more frequently, running back costs naturally

get cheaper.

And when running back costs get cheaper, the opportunity cost equation shifts. All of a sudden, the wide receivers

were for going in a draft when we select a running back, those wide receivers aren't as good.

And that makes it easier to draft the running back, even if that running back is in the

dead zone, right? Not so fast. We need to have a deeper conversation about what the dead zone really is and that's what today's episode is all about

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