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theScore Fantasy Football Podcast with Justin Boone

RB Breakouts, Busts, & Draft Strategy for 2022

theScore Fantasy Football Podcast with Justin Boone

Score Media and Gaming

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4.9520 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Boone is joined by John Paulsen of 4for4.com to discuss how to approach running backs in this year's fantasy drafts.

  • How will the Broncos distribute touches between Javonte Williams and Melvin Gordon? (2:35)
  • Will the Rams deploy a committee with Cam Akers and Darrell Henderson? (7:55)
  • Strategy for drafting fantasy running backs (11:55)
  • RB breakouts (15:40)
  • RB busts (23:20)
  • RB sleepers (28:45)
  • Super-deep RB sleepers (36:30)
  • Rapid-fire questions, including which RB will lead you to a title (39:25)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome, everyone to the score fantasy football podcast.

0:17.3

I'm your host Justin Boone, the lead fantasy analyst at The Score.

0:20.3

Always appreciate you tuning in and dropping those ratings and reviews over on Apple Podcast.

0:25.6

I think the most recent one was five stars from Z Mednick.

0:28.6

I hope I'm saying that correctly.

0:29.6

So thank you for that.

0:30.6

I also encourage you to check out the score fantasy football draft kit.

0:33.6

I did a bunch of updates in the last 24 hours, all the rankings, the tiers, the salary cap values, all that stuff's up to date. I'm also in the process of updating the breakouts and busts and sleepers, that whole series, putting the latest information on those players. So make sure you give that another look. Some of the names have changed over the last couple months, mostly due to injury, like our guy, Tim Patrick, who we talked about on Wednesday's show.

0:56.4

We went over some of the training camp news.

0:58.4

We previewed the quarterback position with Jamie Eisenberg.

1:01.2

I'd recommend going back and listening to that one, especially if you're curious what we think about that Denver passing attack without Tim Patrick.

1:08.4

On today's show, we're to continue this position preview series.

1:12.2

It's going to be running backs this time.

1:14.1

And as our guest, we have a man who I have mad respect for.

1:18.6

I always viewed him as my toughest competitor in the Fantasy Pro's accuracy contest

1:22.3

because he was always up there near the top with me.

1:25.0

He's a heck of a fantasy analyst.

1:26.8

He's also a really good dude. John Paulson, 4 for 4. You can find him on Twitter at 4 for 4 underscore John. You can also hear him on the most accurate podcast with another friend of the show, our buddy John Daigle, nice little combo there. So John, welcome back to the show, man. How are you doing this time of year? I mean, we're in the process of, like, ramping back up for another fantasy season. How are you doing right now? Well, first of all, thanks for having me back on. Justin, it's always good to talk to you. Yeah, you were running down what you were doing with your rankings updates and everything, and our lives sound very similar right now just trying to keep up with

2:02.2

everything and we're not really even into the heart of camp yet where we're going to get even

2:07.2

more injuries coming up and having to update everything so yeah I think I think the unofficial

2:11.9

start to the fantasy seasons like July 4th I think after that you really start to you know get more

2:17.3

questions and there's more of

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