Running Back Strategy 2025: Targets, Sleepers, Busts, and Where To Draft Them (Episode 902 with Evan Silva, Adam Levitan, Mike Leone)
Establish The Run Fantasy Football
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan, Evan Silva and Mike Leone take one last look at 2025 NFL Fantasy Football Drafts, previewing and providing all their analysis to give you everything you need to crush your draft and RB drafting strategy this year
In this episode, we discuss:
- Is drafting three RBs in your first three picks a viable strategy?
- How should you pivot if you miss out on the elite RBs?
- Who are the mid-round RBs that could save your draft?
- Which Round Two RBs stand out above the rest?
- Our experts' thoughts on Handcuffing, and whether you should do it
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
2:10 - How 2025 Running Back Strategy Shapes Up
6:28 - Drafting Without Two Elite RBs
10:18 - Backing At the End of the First Round
14:57 - Round Two Running Backs
21:12 - Drafting RB-RB-RB
25:25 - Favorite Mid-Round Targets
31:56 - RB Busts to Avoid
43:17 - Late-Round Strategy & Sleepers
49:11 - Handcuffing Strategy
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 902 of the official Establishtherrun.com podcast. |
| 0:23.4 | My name is Adam Levittan, and the position we need to get right this year, I think, is the running back position. |
| 0:30.3 | To discuss all things RB for the 2025 fantasy football season, I am joined by the two young men you know and love. |
| 0:38.2 | Michael Leone, how's it going today? |
| 0:40.8 | I know, the young moniker is wearing out. |
| 0:45.3 | By the way, Leone has launched a solo pod. |
| 0:48.3 | I cannot vouch for the sex jokes in his solo pod. |
| 0:52.8 | However, he has launched one. |
| 0:53.9 | You can check that out. It's free on the ET |
| 0:55.7 | feed, on the ETE feed. Silva, how's it going today? It's going great. I wanted to apologize to, |
| 1:04.6 | you know, all the true patriots out there for the shirt I'm wearing. I need to do laundry. And this is the last shirt that I had. |
| 1:14.4 | I didn't want to go shirtless, you know, so I had to capitulate and wear this one. |
| 1:21.2 | For those audio listeners, you should check out the YouTube because Silva is rocking our signature |
| 1:26.3 | capitulate t-shirt |
| 1:28.1 | with of course the definition to surrender to the spreadsheet socialist due to indisputable facts. |
| 1:32.7 | So one of my favorite shirts that we've ever made. Anyways, on today's show, we're going to talk |
| 1:39.2 | running back strategy for your draft, targets for us, bus, sleepers, handcuff strategy, and more. |
| 1:47.3 | A couple quick reminders here. |
| 1:49.2 | One, the early bird price on our NFL bundle expires this Friday night. |
| 1:55.1 | Check that out. |
| 1:56.2 | And two, our college football props slash full stat sub is live. If you're into betting props on college football, |
| 2:04.4 | check that tab at Establish the Run.com. All right, I want to start with some just general |
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