RB Fantasy Draft Strategy 2024: Handling Early Rounds, Targets, Sleepers, Busts (Episode 759 with Evan Silva, Mike Leone, and Adam Levitan)
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan, Evan Silva, and Mike Leone give a comprehensive breakdown on how to approach the RB position in season-long leagues for the upcoming season.
In this episode, we discuss:
How to approach the RB position for 2024
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Timestamps:
(2:28) - General Home League RB Strategy
(5:42) - Picking at No. 2 or No. 3
(8:53) - Being Empty at RB in Mid Rounds
(13:00) - RB-RB Starts
(14:47) - RB Handcuffing
(16:02) - Priority Target Running Backs
(25:04) - RB Busts to Avoid
(29:02) - Late-Round Strategy & Sleepers
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to go and Hello and welcome to episode 759 of the official. |
| 0:19.0 | Establish the run. |
| 0:20.0 | podcast. |
| 0:21.0 | My name is Adam Levitan, joined by Evan Silva and Michael Leone for a breakdown of how to attack the running back position in your home league draft this season. |
| 0:31.0 | Lione, how's it going? |
| 0:33.0 | It's going well, excited to be diving into some home league stuff. |
| 0:37.6 | Silva, the people are roasting you on Twitter for going full boomer on Sam Sherman. |
| 0:41.6 | How's it going today? |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, you know, I, so I love Sam Sherman, you know, so I don't want that to come off as like I don't like |
| 0:51.6 | Sam Sherman. Leone, you know, this is, these, uh, these podcasts are where Leoni really shines. |
| 0:57.2 | Obviously his, his projection podcasts with Ben Gretsch on ETE or a must listen every off season but as we start to get |
| 1:06.0 | Really close to the season I would just for listeners like just listen to everything that Leonia has to say on these particular |
| 1:13.1 | podcast because he gets this kind of stuff. On today agreed on today's show we're |
| 1:18.0 | going to talk all things running back strategy to come into your draft way that the running back position targets for us, bus, |
| 1:26.0 | sleepers, we'll be back with a wide receiver version of this show very soon. |
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| 2:18.8 | Secondly, if you're into college football |
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