Running Backs Preview Part One: Strategies, Trends and Sleepers (08/10 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
CBS Sports
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🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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On Part One of our RB Preview, we give an overview of the position and our draft strategies. What does recent history tell us about Rounds 3-4 (5:55) and why should that shape your RB approach? What is our overall strategy at the position (10:50)? We make the cases for loading up early and also for taking a more patient route ... How should you use RBs to build your Fantasy team? Dave and Jamey will give you some options as they quickly mock draft from the middle and the end of the first round (17:40). Find out which method would work best for you. Also get some sleepers (33:55), breakouts (37:40) and busts (46:50). People love Antonio Gibson, but Josh Jacobs and Miles Sanders have fallen out of favor ... A look at the first round of ADP (50:45). Is Ezekiel Elliott worth a Top 5 pick? How many RBs should be drafted ahead of Davante Adams? And for some reason we finish the show by randomly ranking the Top 5 Arnold Schwarzenegger movies (1:04:00) ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com
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| 0:34.7 | This is Fantasy Football Today from CBS Sports. |
| 0:42.5 | It's time to dominate your fantasy league. |
| 0:44.8 | One play, one for the races, touchdown, always the backhand. Now here's some combination of Adam |
| 0:51.9 | Dave Jamie Heath and Ben. Time to talk about running backs, the key to Fantasy Football. |
| 1:00.1 | Also, wide receivers tied into quarterbacks, but certainly running backs. They are super important |
| 1:05.6 | in Fantasy Football and they stress me out. This is a tough position with a lot of incredible |
| 1:11.4 | players, the best most valuable players in Fantasy Football, but also a lot of busts, especially |
| 1:16.8 | the last two years. We have not done a very good job with our first round picks in running backs, |
| 1:22.3 | or maybe we can just play in the running backs. They haven't done a great job. I'm Adam Azer |
| 1:25.3 | with Dave Richard and Jamie Eisenberg. I mean, the cafeteria in Barclay last year, for example, |
| 1:30.0 | duds, and there were others later toward the back half of the first round that did not pan out. |
| 1:35.4 | So I'm going to ask you guys, what do you think about running back this year? It's 2021, Jamie. |
| 1:39.2 | How's running back looking to you? That's great. No one's going to get hurt. |
| 1:43.6 | There's going to be no problems. All the offensive lines are fantastic. The quarterbacks are |
| 1:48.0 | throwing to their running backs all the time. There is going to be off the charts, record breaking |
| 1:52.8 | numbers for running backs this year. The quarterbacks are throwing to their running backs. |
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