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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

Do These Stats Matter? (05/16 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

CBS Sports

Sports, Football

4.9721 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Big plays from the Patriots running backs, Joe Burrow's underwhelming finish and Mike Williams' struggles near the end zone. Do any of last year's stats matter going into 2022?

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Do these stats matter?

0:35.7

Let's find out right now on fantasy football today in five. Adam and Dave here on a Sunday night. You should always watch these on YouTube. Dave is quite the character. Do these stats matter? You know, if they do, they can be really impactful for fantasy. If they don't, well, I guess they can also have an impact for fantasy because it's just going to determine how you draft. But anyway, I'm going to give you some stats on some players. You tell me what you think of it. All right. Damien Harris versus Ramandre Stevenson. They were splitting pretty evenly late in the year. Who's better? Who's the better running back? Well, both average 4.6 yards per carry. Love the explosive plays, though, from Damian Harris. Damian Harris had eight carries of 20 plus yards.

1:12.2

Ramandre Stevenson had one.

1:14.0

I believe his longest run of the year was 21 yards.

1:16.9

Yes, Harris did have more carries, but that doesn't explain eight to one in that category.

1:20.9

However, Dave, we use a site called True Media, great source of stats.

1:25.4

They define explosive runs as carries of 12 or more yards. Remandre Stevenson actually had a higher percentage of those types of runs than Damien Harris. So he was in that 12 to 20 range a lot. He did not break any big runs. What does it all mean? Does it matter as we look at this Patriots backfield? Unfortunately, I don't think this one matters that much. I think that you can look at Damian Harris' stats and Romandre Stevenson Sats and say,

1:48.7

the Patriots have a good problem.

1:49.9

They've got two really good running backs, and that's bad for fantasy.

1:53.1

But I've got a stat to put on top of that that'll separate these two quite a bit

1:57.7

when it comes to how you view Patriots running backs on draft day.

2:01.5

Last year, downs of three yards are closer.

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