NFL Draft Prep: Scouting the RB Class (03/21 Fantasy Football podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Bijan Robinson is going to be the first running back taken in the NFL Draft and your Fantasy drafts in all likelihood. Is he really worth a first-round pick? Emory Hunt gives his thoughts, plus talks about the best pass-catching back in the draft and some Day 3 sleepers to keep an eye out for.
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| 0:33.4 | To get to know some of the top running back prospects for the upcoming NFL draft, |
| 0:39.6 | next on Fantasy Football today in five. |
| 0:46.2 | Welcome to FFT and five. I'm Chris Towers. I'm here with Emery Hunt. |
| 0:50.7 | We're going to talk about some of the top running back prospects for the upcoming NFL draft. |
| 0:55.1 | Remember the NFL draft taking place at the end of April. So over the next five of six weeks, we'll continue to be profiling some of the top guys that you need to know. |
| 0:59.7 | And some of the sleepers who, you know, every year there's some late round guys who pop. |
| 1:03.8 | And, Emery, I want to start, you know, Bejon Robinson has been the consensus top guy at the |
| 1:08.5 | running back position for pretty much as long as you want to talk about the 2023 NFL draft, you know, at least the last two years. |
| 1:17.0 | He's going to be presumably a first round pick in the NFL draft and possibly a first round pick for fantasy drafts if he lands in the right spot. |
| 1:25.7 | I guess the question for me is, you know, will his |
| 1:28.5 | skill set translate for fantasy in particular where we want, you know, goal line backs and past |
| 1:33.6 | catching backs? But also, are there any, you know, potential shortcomings for Bejohn |
| 1:39.6 | Robinson that could end up leading to him being a disappointment for fantasy? |
| 1:43.5 | You know, and that's a great way to phrase it, Chris. I think he is all systems go in terms of what you're expecting from a fantasy perspective for a couple of reasons. One, he's going to get drafted in the first round, which means he's going to get the football. Two, he's a great receiver downfield in the passing game, so he doesn't have to leave the field. Three, he's a really |
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