Cracking the Commanders Backfield

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The Commanders’ backfield is a fantasy puzzle, and Jeff is breaking it down piece by piece. Brian Robinson trade rumors are heating up, Jacory Croskey-Merritt is generating serious camp buzz, Austin Ekeler still looks like the passing-down guy, and Chris Rodriguez is lurking as a key role player. Jeff tells you exactly how he's handling each of them in drafts, which player has league-winning upside, and which ones he's letting someone else take.

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0:00.0	Yeah, what's going on?
0:13.8	Yeah, what's going on?
0:15.6	What's up?
0:17.0	It's Wednesday, August 20th.
0:18.3	I'm Jeff.
0:18.7	This is the rant.
0:20.5	You know, every year, every year without fail, there's going to be a player or two,
0:24.5	or maybe a handful, who just start buzzing like crazy when we get into fantasy football
0:30.3	draft season. And sometimes the buzz materializes it turns into the real deal.
0:35.5	I can think of like Pacheco in his rookie season,
0:39.1	although this version of Pacheco, maybe not so much,
0:42.6	but guys like him, Philip Lindsay, you know,
0:45.1	and again, that fizzled out pretty quickly,
0:47.2	but guys get this buzz and they materialize.
0:50.7	Then other times guys get buzzed Justin Ross,
0:53.5	and they don't materialize.
0:56.0	Well, this year, we know who the buzz player is. It's Bill. Bill is buzzing. Jacori Kroski
1:01.7	merit and rightfully so, given all the uncertainty in the Washington backfield. So I did want to
1:06.2	take a few minutes today because we do have massive fantasy football drafts coming up this weekend. You might
1:12.8	have them on Friday. Definitely on Saturday is a huge day. It's the biggest fantasy football
1:17.1	draft day of the year. I have an important draft on Saturday Home League, a lot of pride on the line,
1:22.5	and maybe a little dough as well. But I think we need to have some clarity on how to approach
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