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🗓️ 26 April 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:24.6 | So there were 17 running backs drafted in the 2020 NFL draft. And I want to break down the ones that are must-owns, the one that you have to really look at in draft. And this doesn't mean you're drafting them in your first, second, third rounds of your fantasy football draft. It means that you're drafting them at some point or in your final round or picking them up after the draft ends and dropping the kicker that for some reason you drafted in your draft in the first place. But I really need to kind of address something that is just going to drive me nuts up until the season starts. And that's the fact that people think that every single rookie running back is going to be some sort of value and |
0:28.4 | should be drafted. And that's not the case at all. There were 17 running backs drafted. I will put |
0:32.7 | them up on the screen right now. Look at these names and look at the rounds that they were selected in. Draft Capital Matters. Look back to last year. In 2019, loads of running backs are selected. |
0:41.5 | In the third round alone, there is five running backs selected. The ones that actually mattered |
0:45.1 | last year, Devin Singletary and David Montgomery. The ones that didn't get that much work, |
0:50.0 | Damien Harris with the Patriots got pretty much no work, was not even active for half of the games. |
0:58.0 | You had Darrell Henderson, Jr. seeing about 2% of the snaps last year for the Rams, and Alexander Madison saw a good amount of work, but mainly as a backup in Minnesota. |
1:01.8 | Then you drop down to the fourth round where it's Bryce Love, Justice Hill, Benny Snell, and Tony Pollard. |
1:05.4 | Yes, Tony Pollard had a couple of really nice games and a couple of blowouts as well in the Miami game when he scores two touchdowns and 100 yards because Zeke is pulled in the third quarter. But you get the point here. These guys are |
1:15.0 | not number one picks. These guys are nowhere even near your top six, seven, eight, ten rounds of |
1:19.8 | your drafts. So don't be getting all hyped up before the season starts. Don't be getting all hyped |
1:23.7 | up before the preseason. If there is one with the pandemic that's going on you should be focusing a lot on the first three rounds of the NFL draft and where running backs are selected |
1:31.1 | there unless there's some sort of injury that tells you otherwise and really you should be focusing |
1:34.9 | on the first two rounds with heavy emphasis now there were 10 running backs selected in the first |
1:38.5 | three rounds of the draft and some of them are just going to unideal spots. I'm going to talk through a good chunk of running backs today, |
1:44.2 | not all 10 of them, but we'll talk about the ones mainly in those first two rounds, which was about |
1:48.5 | five or six guys drafted, and we'll talk through why they're the must own ones, why they have |
1:53.1 | really good opportunity. Do not fall for the people telling you that Anthony McFarlane selected in the |
1:57.8 | fourth round at pick 124 is going to have any type of draft capital |
2:00.9 | to get ahead of Jaylon Samuels to get ahead of James Connor in that running back rotation |
2:05.5 | right away. It's going to take a couple of injuries for him to see the field. Don't let somebody |
2:09.7 | tell you that Eno Benjamin selected in the seventh round from Arizona at the 22nd second pick is going |
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