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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

Advanced Stats on Fournette, Renfrow and Claypool (12/04 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

CBS Sports

Sports, Football

4.9722 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Yes of course you're starting Leonard Fournette, but Jacob Gibbs tells you how his role changed in Week 12 and why it could mean big things rest of season. And how do we feel about Hunter Renfrow and Chase Claypool this week? What do the metrics tell us? 

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0:00.0

Time for your weekly look at advanced stats with Jacob Gibbs on fantasy football today in five.

0:10.1

Welcome to the show, everybody. We're going to tell you about Leonard Fournett. Of course, you're starting Leonard Frenet, but we'll tell you just how good he might be or bad.

0:17.9

Chase Claypool and Hunter Renfro. Let's rock and roll. Jacob Gibbs, check out all his work on Sportsline.com by the way. Okay, Jacob, so Fornett coming off a four touchdown game. It's got the Falcons this week. What do you got? Yeah, it seems like an obvious spot, you know, but I just want to highlight really how encouraging the usage was for him last week.

0:55.4

Because if we can expect the usage we saw last week going forward, then like FourNet projects about as well as any running back in fantasy, which is crazy. I don't think anyone would have expected that, you know, just a month ago. But like, truly, we saw him just take over the receiving work, the passing down work for, from Gio Bernard last week, which is something we really hadn't seen while the two of them had been healthy.

0:58.6

Before now, it was on the field for all the two minutes snaps, and his third down rate was way up.

1:04.7

It was up from 38% prior to week 12, all the way up to 88% last week.

1:12.1

And so because of that,

1:16.8

we saw him, you know, see 24 percent target share, eight targets. And then more importantly, he was on the field all the time. 81 percent snap rate was the highest in week 12. And then just

1:21.9

a couple other, you know, metrics that I really like to look at for running backs, where he was

1:26.0

clearly leading the league.

1:32.5

Route involvement, so the percentage of Tampa Bay's dropbacks that he ran a ride on was up to 81%. That was the highest of any running back in week 12.

1:35.7

And then red zone touches were just ridiculous.

1:39.0

And that will likely be the case again here with Tampa Bay rejected for the highest implied total.

2:17.7

Fournett had more touches from inside the 10-yard line than any other player had from inside the red zone last week. He had eight touches from inside the 10-yard line. So it's the whole package. He's got everything. He's got the receiving work. He's got the early-down work. He really only gave up a little bit of his early-down work, Toronto Jones. He had 77% of the running back rushing attempts last week, and he's got the red zone work. And he's completely dominating the red zone work. And so really, just from a projection standpoint, if this is the role we can expect from Fortinette, he's a top five running back. And that's crazy, especially in this spot against Atlanta. He definitely is with Tampa Bay and apply for over 30 points.

2:19.9

Let's talk about Chase Claypool.

2:24.7

I want to know how you feel about him because I actually do like Chase Claypool quite a bit,

2:27.8

and it makes me nervous when I've counted on him before he's let me down.

2:29.3

But I like Claypool this week.

2:30.2

How about you?

2:32.5

Yeah, you have ever right to feel nervous.

2:33.3

I feel the same way.

2:38.8

I've been expecting Claypool to break out for a while now. It hasn't really happened, but I do continue to believe that it's coming. We saw him, you know, really play limited role last year, 63% snap rate. And it was

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