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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

RBs to Draft If You Go WR Early

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Ratcliffe does the reverse of Episode 38 on today's pod and breaks down 12 running backs to target in your fantasy football drafts starting in Round 5 if you end up going wide receiver heavy early. In the process he talks about why he uses a...

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0:00.0

You're going to be. What is up it up it's the rant? My name is Jeff Radcliffe and it is

0:18.7

Thursday August 13th. I mean, hey man, whether you like it or not, we are in the heart of fantasy football

0:27.8

draft season. Over the next month, there will be drafts every stinking weekend. It starts really this weekend.

0:35.0

I know it's a little early, but you know the old excuse the people used to say for having drafts this early

0:41.0

What if they get hurt in the preseason?

0:43.9

Well, we don't have that excuse this year,

0:45.7

so it really doesn't matter that much.

0:47.8

And I don't know how much of an indication

0:49.7

we're gonna get in terms of depth chart movement. I'm still kind of waiting on that sort of stuff. So really, honestly, this year, of any year ever, really doesn't matter if you have your draft early or as late as possible. So it starts. It really starts to ramp up next week.

1:03.8

So it starts.

1:05.1

It starts this weekend.

1:06.8

It really starts to ramp up next weekend.

1:08.9

I have an important home league draft next weekend.

1:11.9

The following weekend is always the biggest

1:13.7

fantasy football draft day of the year and then Labor Day weekend and then it's

1:17.4

on baby. We are so stinking close and as I keep saying I am very confident now I'm not going to say

1:24.2

100% certain because that's foolish but I'm pretty darn confident we are going to

1:28.2

see this season start on time so today we're gonna do the flip side of what we did yesterday.

1:34.3

Yesterday on the podcast I talked about some whiteouts to target if you go running

1:39.8

back heavy early. Well what if you go wide out heavy early? Who are we targeting at

1:45.2

running back? Not as extensive of a list, I should say. When it was all said and done I actually added a couple players to the

1:55.3

article for FTN fantasy.com that went live today so if you want those couple

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