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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

Michael Carter Profile: Get Excited for this Rookie (07/31 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

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🗓️ 31 July 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Gibbs tells you what Michael Carter did so well in college and what we can expect in his first season in the NFL. As good as he may be, will his team's offense hold him back?

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0:00.0

As of July 1st on NFC, Michael Carter, Jets rookie running back, is the 29th running back off the board going about 80th overall.

0:11.7

But getting some first team reps in training camp, will that help?

0:15.0

And what should it mean for you on draft day?

0:18.4

Well, let's bring in Jacob Gibbs to answer that question.

0:20.7

I'm Adam Azer here on Fantasy Football Today and five. Jacob's got player profiles all over Sportsline.com. Make sure you check him out. So let's talk about Michael Carter here and what you like about him. He can make plays after contest. Yeah, I'm really, really excited about Carter. Of course, his upside is ultimately going to be kept by the offense that he's in, like we talked about with Elijah Moore last week. But I am cautiously optimistic about the Jets. They've got some really exciting pieces here, and Carter is definitely one of them. He led the entire nation with eight yards per carry last year. So this really shouldn't come as much of a surprise. He was good at creating yards after contact, but he was.

0:55.7

He was really, really good at it.

0:57.5

The leak average was just 4.2 adjusted yards after contact per rush, and Carter average 6.6.

1:04.5

And that's an area that the Jets really struggled in last year, among many other things.

1:14.6

Among 68 qualified backs, Frank Gore and Prine finished 60th and 62nd out of 68 and adjusted yards after contact per attempt. And Kevin Coleman

1:20.7

has been just around the league average as well. So I think Carter definitely brings an element

1:25.5

that they haven't had previously and don't

1:27.5

have right now outside of him.

1:29.1

And I think we're seeing that already with him getting first team reps.

1:31.3

Yeah.

1:32.3

I mean, it's very exciting.

1:34.0

It just, you know, this hasn't been a terrible source of fantasy points to Jets backfield.

1:38.1

So we need someone to break that mold.

1:41.5

And he might have to do that by creating some big play. So tell me about his

1:45.9

ability to do that, Michael Carter. Right. So anybody who's able to make people miss definitely

1:51.8

has the ability to break off big plays. And that's something we saw consistently from Carter.

1:55.5

I don't want to overreact to this stack because, of course, the competition was a little bit

1:58.6

worse at UNC than for most of the NFL

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