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Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Draft Guide: Running Backs (plus the insane 'zero RB' strategy)

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

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4.7 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Andy Behrens is joined by fantasy analyst Denny Carter of Rotoworld to talk running backs and much more on the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Forecast!Here’s the plan for this week: Every day, we’re dedicating an episode on draft strategy for the big four positions in fantasy football: Quarterbacks, running backs, receivers, and tight ends. We already KOed the QBs, now Andy and Denny tackle the most important position, the running backs!For most people, taking a running back with your first-round pick is a no-brainer. Seven-plus players in most analysts’ first-round rankings are usually running backs. That said, the Zero RB strategy has gained momentum in recent seasons. Andy and Denny kick off the podcast discussing how to execute a proper Zero RB draft along with its pros and cons. (1:50)Diving into the different tiers of RBs, Andy & Denny discuss who they consider the top backs behind Christian McCaffrey, the pitfalls of drafting Derrick Henry and at which point in the first round should you start considering a wide receiver like Michael Thomas instead. (11:00)Overall, there are around 14 running backs being drafted in the top 25 picks of Yahoo drafts, among those names like Miles Sanders and Austin Ekeler. Who among that tier should you absolutely reach for or definitely avoid? (16:00)Moving onto rounds three through six, there are a minefield of backs like Mark Ingram and James Conner, which names in this class are worth spending that draft capital on? (25:50)Lastly, the guys close out the show discussing some very late round options for those Zero RB vultures out there (33:05) and throw some cold water on the very unproven Antonio Gibson in Washington. (42:05)Remember to stay tuned to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast, which will now have FIVE new episodes per week!Follow Andy: @andybehrensFollow Denny: @CDCarter13Check out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Yahoo fantasy football forecast. You've downloaded a very special episode, folks.

0:09.4

First of all, it's position preview week. You learned all about the quarterback situation from

0:15.7

Scott Pianowski and T.J. Hernandez in our last episode. Today, we're going to be discussing the running back landscape.

0:23.2

And I thought to myself, who better in the fantasy industry to discuss running backs with

0:30.5

than an analyst whose entire brand, basically, is that running backs are bad and you shouldn't draft them.

0:39.3

So we'll see how this goes. I'm joined today by Roto World's Danny. Danny, what's up? How you doing? I'm doing well.

0:44.7

It's great to see you like, you know, actually face to face here. I mean, obviously over the computer,

0:49.8

but we've never, we've never done this. We've been online friends for so long.

0:55.0

This feels right.

0:56.6

I know.

0:57.0

I have, I mean, at this point, most relationships in my life are like that.

1:00.6

So I have a lot of this moment where I'm interacting face-to-face with somebody for the first time after knowing them for like, I don't know, eight years, 10 years, whatever.

1:09.4

But only ever going back and forth on social platforms. For those who don't know, eight years, 10 years, whatever, but only ever going back and

1:10.9

forth on social platforms. For those who don't know Denny, first of all, you should be following

1:16.2

his unverified Twitter account. Normally, I wouldn't recommend an unverified account, please,

1:21.8

but his is fine. At CD Carter 13 on Twitter. The crazy thing is that most of your burners are verified.

1:29.9

That's weird.

1:30.6

It is weird.

1:31.6

I have 13 verified parody accounts.

1:34.6

You know, it's just.

1:35.9

People probably know you from such accounts as the Matt Harmon Twitter feed and the JJ Zacharice in Twitter feed.

1:43.3

That's all part of Denny's Empire.

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