Is The RB Dead Zone Dead? Plus How To Handle It (Episode 747 with Adam Levitan, Mike Leone, and Jack Miller)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan, Mike Leone, and Jack Miller discuss the state of the RB dead zone in 2024. Which backs going in that range this season are better bets than others?
In this episode, we discuss:
The state of the RB dead zone
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Timestamps:
(2:48) - Defining the Running Back Dead Zone
(10:42) - Travis Etienne
(12:52) - Isiah Pacheco
(15:49) - Josh Jacobs
(19:34) - Rachaad White
(21:46) - James Cook
(26:31) - Joe Mixon
(29:20) - Alvin Kamara
(31:15) - Kenneth Walker
(33:55) - Rhamondre Stevenson
(35:54) - Aaron Jones
(37:43) - James Conner
(40:11) - Zamir White
(43:04) - Kyren Williams
(46:44) - De'Von Achane
(47:54) - Derrick Henry
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to go and Hello and welcome to episode 747 of the official. |
| 0:20.7 | Establish the run. |
| 0:22.1 | podcast my name is Adam Levitan and the first |
| 0:25.2 | preseason game of the 2024 NFL season is this Thursday I repeat we have actual NFL |
| 0:31.9 | football this Thursday Texans versus Bears in the Hall of Fame game. |
| 0:35.6 | We're of course covering it part of our preseason package but anyways football is here. We really need to start thinking |
| 0:41.5 | about our home league slash redraft strategies for |
| 0:45.4 | 2024. To start that process I am joined by two young men, you know, and I presume you love, |
| 0:52.4 | Michael Leone, how's it Michael Leone has it going. |
| 0:53.8 | It's going a while. How are you doing well? Jack Miller has it going today buddy? |
| 0:58.8 | It's going good training campus here. I thought you were a bit generous with without actual NFL football for the Hall of Fame game, but it is technically NFL football. |
| 1:09.2 | I'm excited to talk talk dead zone today. |
| 1:13.4 | Yeah, yeah, I consider football when we can play DFS. |
| 1:17.0 | That's it. |
| 1:17.3 | That's a distinction for me and so it is an NFL DFS slate. |
| 1:20.3 | Okay, on today's show, we're going to be talking about running backs and specifically the dead zone. |
| 1:26.8 | Hopefully you all read Jack's article, which is titled The Death of the Running Back dead zone. |
| 1:32.1 | We're going to talk about that, you know, historically it has been a huge edge |
| 1:36.1 | to fade the running back dead zone, but now the ADPs average draft positions |
| 1:40.5 | and the market has changed so much, |
| 1:42.3 | you can get better running backs in that dead zone, which is historically defined as rounds 3 to 6. |
| 1:48.0 | So I think just fading the entire running back dead zone is no longer actually right where I thought it was 100 |
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