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Fantasy Football Weekly

Rookie Runners

Fantasy Football Weekly

iHeartPodcasts

Leisure, Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We're sick of people saying this isn't a great year for rookie running backs. Charch and Brian break down eight backs who can succeed at the NFL level, along with a couple who won't.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:05.5

Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:11.3

Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from IHeart Radio.

0:15.0

Your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and whatever stupid stuff they decide to drop into the show.

0:23.1

Now here's your host, Paul Chartian.

0:28.3

Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm Paul Chartian. My co-host, as usual, Brian Johnson.

0:35.0

Good day, Church.

0:36.6

Good to talk to you as well.

0:38.4

It's another edition centered around rookies as the draft gets a little bit closer.

0:44.5

Last week we did quarterbacks.

0:45.8

We encourage people to go back and listen to that one if you missed it.

0:48.8

As we break down players at a position leading up to the draft, And then a couple of three weeks from now,

0:56.5

we'll be talking about the first round as we record on Fridays.

0:59.7

That'll be fun.

1:00.3

Would you call this a shallow running back class?

1:07.1

Yeah, I don't know.

1:09.1

We're going to talk about 10 guys who I think all have a chance to make an impact.

1:14.3

I mean, all 10 of these, I think, have pro-level abilities to some degree.

1:19.5

My 10th, you know, the 10th guy, I've got guy number 10.

1:22.3

Yeah, that is crazy about him.

1:24.2

But I think, I think the other nine could have an impact in the right situations. I do, too. You're getting a lot of hate overall. Yeah, I think there's a, you know why? It's because there isn't a, there isn't a, Sequin Barclan. Sequin Brad is. Or an Ezekiel Elliott at the top of the first round to make people, whoa. Right. But there's still some really good running backs in this class, and we're going to break them down.

1:27.5

I want to start with this, though. I think there's still four ideal landing spots where any of these rookies could just walk in and become a workhorse back. Right. Miami. You know, you know, like Miles Gaskin, but I think, I think if, you know, the right guy falls there, you know, I think he gets pushed to the background. I'm holding my breath as a guy who's rostering Miles Gaskin in hopes of leading me to the second year in a row in our Empire League so I can dig down the whole pot. So I've survived free agency. Yeah, right.

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