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FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

Best Ball Livestream: Running Back Breakdown and Top Strategies (Ep. 1624)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

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Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.810.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Join Tom Strachan and Andrew Erickson as they break down everything you need to know about running back strategy for your 2025 fantasy football best ball tournaments!

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:09.1

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0:36.3

Welcome in the Fantasy Pro's best world show with myself Tom myself Tom Stracken, and of course,

0:41.1

that man over there, Andrew Erickson, training camps. It's real. Football is back in a way

0:47.3

but it's not been back for quite some time, Andrew. How are you feeling about the season as we get

0:52.1

to this point late in July?

0:55.0

I'm feeling good, man.

0:56.2

I'm feeling excited.

0:57.5

I'm in the new house.

0:58.7

That's why the backdrop is gone.

1:01.1

The FP BP backdrop is no more.

1:03.6

Now we have this gorgeous, plain old wall that the possibilities are endless.

1:09.0

Although I'm not sure my wife is going to let me put up the flowers portrait that I did. So it did such a great job on. She's not proud of it. But maybe it'll make a cameo at some point during some of these streams during the season. Yeah, man, we've got to go widescreen at some point, involve a bit more backdrop. Like, we've both got these big blank canvases behind us, both of us having moved to house recently, and maybe it's time to inject a little personality. But tonight we're talking about how to inject the perfect running back room into your best ball roster. We're going to talk about build archetypes, roster construction strategy. We're going to talk about our favorite place in the draft to draft running backs.

1:45.6

And then we're going to get on to some late round running backs that we love before breaking down a few of the listeners running back rooms.

1:52.5

So Andrew, we're going to start with build archetypes. And we're going to start by talking about the pros and cons for some popular running back strategies that we've talked a little bit about

2:02.0

before, but it feels like the right time to get into them. And I want to start with anchor running

2:06.9

back. And I want to start with this one because I believe it's your favorite of the strategies.

2:10.9

I know it's a strategy that you've used to a lot when we draft together. We kind of find

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