RB Tiers & Draft Strategy

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

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🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Ratcliffe breaks down his running back tiers and fantasy football draft strategy at the position in 2021. He kicks things off with his top running backs and discusses why it's going to be tough to not draft the position in the first round this year. Jeff then breaks down why tiers are more useful than rankings in your drafts. Next, he discusses the running backs he's targeting in the middle rounds. Jeff then gives you the top handcuffs for 2021 and breaks down the running backs to target and to avoid in the late rounds of fantasy drafts.

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0:00.0	What is up? It's the rant. My name is Jeff Racklevin. It is Friday, July 23rd, the
0:21.6	second to last Friday here in July, man. And we're rolling into fantasy football draft
0:28.5	season talking some tears after all those team preview podcasts. By the way, if you
0:34.5	missed any of them outside of like cam acres, most of those pods are still good. And so we
0:39.0	get into the heart of training camps. You can always go back, download them. I mean,
0:42.7	at least download them, even if you don't listen to them. All right. That helps me. But anyway,
0:48.0	we're going to talk about running back tears and strategy today. Yesterday broke down that
0:52.6	quarterback strategy for both super flex to quarterback leagues and your traditional one quarterback
0:57.6	formats today at running back. I mean, the name of the game is to get a top 10 guy first and
1:03.6	foremost before we dive into the tears. I like to get a top 10 guy. I realize if you're picking
1:09.8	at 11, there may be already 10 off the board at that point. I do think Kelsey sneaks in. I think
1:16.2	the occasional wide out may go in some home league drafts. I am not seeing that in industry drafts
1:22.0	right now, but maybe in your home leagues, somebody like Tyree kill does possibly slide ahead of you
1:28.1	if you're at the back end of that first round. But even if you don't get a top 10 guy at top 12
1:33.1	guys, fine. I want to anchor with that player. And here's what I've noticed. The position I'm most
1:41.0	likely to punt out of my starters in 2021 fantasy football drafts is my second running back spot.
1:47.3	I've noticed that, you know, you almost can't avoid getting a running back in the first round.
1:52.2	And then there's just insane value at wide receiver. And would you rather structure your lineup
2:00.2	with let's say you get a top 10 running back and then a top 20 running back. And then you would
2:08.2	have a top 10 wide out a top 20 wide out and then like a top 30 wide out. Or would you rather
2:14.0	it be a top 10 running back to top 15 maybe even top 10 wide outs three top 20 wide out something
2:23.2	along those lines, three possibly even three top 15 wide outs. I just think this is the year to
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