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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

Identifying the Workhorse RBs (05/18 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

CBS Sports

Football, Sports

4.9721 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

We need some workhorses! A lot of carries and a lot of TDs would be nice, but are we going to get that from the Year 2 RBs? And do we have potential workhorses in Arizona? San Francisco? Denver? Let's discuss.

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0:00.0

We love workhorse running backs in fantasy football.

0:06.2

Let's see if we can identify some and find out if they are good right now on fantasy football

0:10.1

today in five.

0:12.2

All right, everybody, welcome to the show.

0:13.7

This was a fun topic last year.

0:15.3

We had guys like Levion Bell and Melvin Gordon and David Johnson, and we probably were

0:20.3

talking about Mark Engram this time of year, Todd Gurley, wondering what their workloads would be. Would they be workhorsebacks? Would they get maybe 250 carries or something like that? And really, were they good anymore? This year, they're kind of being replaced by younger running backs. We'll talk more about that in depth on the full-length show on fantasy football today. I'm Adam Aiser with

0:37.9

Jamie Eisenberg. Let's give you a little preview. First, Jamie, we're wondering, are these

0:41.5

guys workhorses number one? And are they good? That's equally as important. So looking at the

0:47.5

year two running backs, you do have competition in some of those backfields. So Jonathan Taylor,

0:53.2

Camakers, DeAndre Swift, Clyde Edward Ziller, J.K. Dobbins, Antonio Gibson. How many have competition in some of those backfields. So Jonathan Taylor, Cam Acres, the Andres

0:54.3

Swift, Clyde Edward Zillard, J.K. Dobbins, Antonio Gibson. How many workhorses? And it's a vague definition I know, but you kind of know it when you see it. How many workhors do you think we have there? I think Jonathan Taylor should be one. I think Camakers should be one. I think Antonio Gibson and Clydevers Hillare should

1:12.2

be workhors just looking at what the rest of their backfields look like. You could probably argue

1:16.9

that Acres, knowing that Daryl Henderson had a big role last year, might not be that guy. You could

1:23.3

argue maybe even Jonathan Taylor with Marlon Mack back might not be the same guy given the

1:28.1

way that the year started for him and the way that the year finished. But I think you have to take

1:31.4

the chances on those guys. Antonio Gibson, when healthy, looks like that guy based on what we saw

1:37.6

last year. Dobbins probably is not, but I don't think that necessarily matters. You know,

1:42.4

we've seen the Ravens running back, the main Ravens running back, about 16

1:46.6

touches per game, finish as a top 15 caliber type of guy on a per game basis, looking

1:52.4

at Mark Engram in 2019 and Dobbins last year.

1:56.2

So he doesn't have to necessarily be a workhorse to be a top 15 PPR running back and maybe close to

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