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Establish The Run Fantasy Football

Episode 227: 2021 RB Strategy, Sleepers & Busts

Establish The Run Fantasy Football

Fantasy Football

Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

This is the second of a four-part series. Adam Levitan, Evan Silva, and Mike Leone discuss how to attack the running back position in fantasy football drafts this season. 

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

  • Macro RB themes
  • Why WR over RB in middle rounds
  • Exceptions to the "Dead Zone"
  • Sleepers, Busts


Links mentioned in the episode:

  1. Silva’s Top 150 - https://establishtherun.com/evan-silvas-fantasy-football-top-150/
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  3. 2021 Rankings Homepage - https://establishtherun.com/2021-draft-kit-rankings-homepage/
  4. Subscriber-Only Discord Instructions - https://establishtherun.com/my-account/discord/


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Timestamps:
The 2021 approach to Running Backs (2:22) | Poking holes in the top backs (4:23) | How to approach round 2 RBs (7:04) | Middle Round Running Backs - “The RB Dead Zone” (12:47) | How to find late round Running Backs (21:38) | 2021 Running Back Busts (29:45) |

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode 227 of The Official, established the run.com podcast.

0:23.2

My name is Adam Levitan, as always joined by Evan Silva, fantasy drafts, are on the

0:27.9

horizon very shortly. It is time for us to finalize our plans for both a macro and micro perspective

0:35.2

for this. Evan and I are joined by the man, of course, with no soul. He has been working on

0:40.2

the spreadsheets for your draft kit for the last six months. And therefore, it's translucent. It

0:45.8

is Michael Leoni. Michael has gone. It's going well, you know, I'm hoping once the season kicks off,

0:52.6

I'll be really get outside, get some color, but might be too late at that point. Evan,

0:59.1

Evan, how's it going? Going well, we just recorded a quarterback show. So check that out,

1:05.5

looking at every level of the quarterback field this year. But now we're going to talk about,

1:10.6

you know, maybe the most important position in all of fantasy. And the most controversial,

1:15.4

I mean, my god, if you guys are on fantasy Twitter, the running back position has turned into a

1:20.1

full blown civil war in the fantasy community. We will touch on that as well. On today's show,

1:25.4

as we mentioned, it is the second part of a four part series. We're going to break down all

1:29.7

things running back for the 2021 football season. Tears, optimal strategy, guys we like, guys we

1:35.7

don't, etc. Before we get into that, if you have a season long fantasy draft coming up and you plan

1:41.9

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1:47.1

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1:51.1

the subscribe page. Second, the underdog promo, they just launched the puppy three. I believe it

1:56.5

is five dollars. And I believe Leoni is it 500k prize pool on five dollars, which is just

2:03.2

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2:11.0

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2:18.3

homepage in the best ball tab. All right, let's get into it here boys. When they're running back

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