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Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Rookie Snapshot 2020: Running Backs

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Yahoo Sports

Football, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports, Nfl

4.3 • 790 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Hello everyone and welcome to the second edition of Rookie Snapshot, our new miniseries where Liz Loza is joined by Yahoo Sports NFL Draft analyst Eric Edholm to take a deep dive into top prospects (and future fantasy stars?) set to join the league.In this episode, our experts look at some of the stud running backs in the 2020 rookie class. This week’s episode includes:• Jonathan Taylor, Wisconsin Badgers (02:21)• JK Dobbins, Ohio State Buckeyes (16:20)• D’Andre Swift, Georgia Bulldogs (27:30)• Cam Akers, Florida State Seminoles (35:12)• Clyde Edwards-Helaire, LSU Tigers (45:11)You’ll learn the one word you can use to describe each prospect, a key stat from their college days, which NFL player they compare to best and finally, Liz & Eric play GM matchmaker and pick the NFL team that fits with their skillset the best.Liz and Eric will be back with Episode Three next week to discuss a Grab Bag of rookies to know ahead of the NFL Draft!Please remember to rate, review and subscribe on your podcast provider of choice and send us your questions for future episodes on Twitter @YahooFantasy.Follow Liz @LizLoza_FFFollow Eric @Eric_EdholmCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football podcast, the special rookie snapshot edition.

0:07.7

This is week two, episode two.

0:10.4

Last week, Eric Ed Holm, the Yahoo Sports Draft analyst and specialist, joined me to talk about wide receivers.

0:17.9

This week, we're going to talk about running backs.

0:20.6

Eric, before we get started, Neem, one crazy thing you unexpectedly did during whatever day

0:27.2

this is of quarantine.

0:29.1

Oh, during this day, huh?

0:31.3

Any days, between now and last week.

0:34.3

They're all the same days.

0:35.5

Gosh, I've really been extremely boring. Like, I've just had my head

0:39.7

down, tunnel vision, draft mode. People are talking about this whole quarantine thing being bad.

0:44.8

I'm like, wait a minute, I quarantine every single year around draft time. This is not new for me.

0:49.4

So I don't know. I haven't done anything crazy. I did make some baked beans the other day. That's about

0:54.5

as wild as I get. Is that the answer that you're giving because you think our bosses are listening?

0:59.5

No, like for real. I would give you some sort of, you know, sort of, you know, I wish I had something

1:06.8

exciting. I really don't. You put me on the spot and made me look like the boring guy than I am. I'm sorry. No, you're not a boring guy. You are a company man who takes his work seriously,

1:16.1

and that is very important, especially these times. I haven't done anything crazy either. I mean,

1:20.5

we both have little kids and we both have partners who are also at home working. I have not gotten

1:26.5

into any fights with my husband in a week.

1:28.8

That's really good. Yeah. I was going to say, I think the social distancing thing is actually working

1:32.9

to help my relationship in a good way. My wife sees less of me. That's great for her.

1:38.5

But you are in the same house. So there's that. Yes. Yes. As you know, she's in the medical field, too.

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