Not sure where to find upside in the double-digit rounds in best ball.

Well, the rookie running backs are better than you think.

That's what we're going to talk about on today's episode of stealing bananas shorts.

I'm Ben Gretchen from my newsletter at Ben Gretsch.com.

With me, as always is Sean Siegel.

Find all of his work at Rodeviz.

Let's jump into the discussion.

But you're pretty fired up about some of these guys that we've been drafting.

Set the stage for us on the rookie running backs and how we should be looking

at this. I mentioned that I wrote a piece called Hammer the Rookie Running Backs in all formats

back on May 8th over at the substack. A lot of that was because of the dynasty rookie drafts, you know, window at that time and seeing that because of

draft capital, they're falling into the third round consistently in dynasty rookie

drafts.

When I see the conversation around these rookie running backs, I'm consistently seeing the

point about draft capital.

Our buddy Davis, Maddock did a great thread the other day on Twitter about the Los Angeles Chargers being the running back position

there being one of the questions that is so important to get right for fantasy football for this

year. We've spent a lot of time talking about it. He talked a little bit about Gus Edwards,

talked about J.K. Dobbins and how they are tough bets, especially Dobbins coming back from that Achilles. We just took him in our last draft.

You know, you can still make that play at times. And then he talked a little bit about Isaiah

Spiller and then went into Kamani Vidal and both those guys. But I just thought it was interesting

that, you know, on the Vidal point mentioned that, you know, he is a sixth round rookie.

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