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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

James Robinson Profile: Was 2020 Too Good to be True?

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

CBS Sports

Football, Sports

4.9721 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Gibbs discusses James Robinson's 2020 season and why you shouldn't expect a repeat. From TD regression to a new QB, things will be different in 2021. 

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0:00.0

Where are you drafting James Robinson now? Round two, round three, round four. Let's talk to Jacob Gibbs and find out where we should be taking James Robinson.

0:12.0

Welcome to the show, everybody. This is fantasy football today in five. Jacob Gibbs is here. You can follow him on Twitter at J.A. Gibbs underscore 23. And you, of course, can read all of his great content on

0:22.3

Sportsline.com, which is an amazing site with great resources, especially if you like to gamble.

0:27.2

But we're going to talk fantasy here. James Robinson, in the most recent draft I did,

0:31.0

he went at the very end of round three at the three-four turn. What did you notice about Robinson

0:35.5

last year when he was a top eight running back?

0:39.2

I think really what I noticed as a theme is that Robinson, things could not have gone better for him last year.

0:45.5

He really, like, I think of the top range of outcomes in a lot of different regards.

0:49.9

And the first one we'll talk about is his schedule.

0:52.5

He faced one of the easiest schedules in terms of rushing defense DVOA of any running back.

0:59.3

He only faced one top five rush defense all year in terms of DVOA and 11 of the 14 defenses he faced ranked in the bottom half of the league in terms of rush defense DVOA.

1:08.8

The average rank was 20th.

1:11.2

And even while facing a super easy schedule, he really wasn't that efficient.

1:16.6

He really got there on mostly volume alone, I mean, kind of similar to like Linder Fernette

1:21.4

right before he got there.

1:23.9

In terms of just like comparing him to other Jacksonville running backs and also the league average

1:28.3

nothing really stood out so yards per attempt league average was 4.5 Robinson was 4.46 other

1:34.6

jacksonville running backs were 4.41 rushing success rate league average was 41 percent his was 34 percent

1:41.1

which was obviously affected by playing in such a gross offensive situation,

1:45.1

but other Jacksonal running backs were at 33%.

1:47.0

So he barely even stood out compared to his teammates, and it's not like he had, you know,

1:52.2

ultra-efficient running back teammates.

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