Running Backs you can TRUST in Week 5 | Fantasy Focus

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Welcome back to Fantasy Focus! Daniel Dopp, Field Yates, and Mike Clay break down everything you need to know heading into Week 5. With multiple backfields around the league dealing with injuries, which Running Backs can you start confidently in Week 5? Can Ashton Jeanty keep rolling against a tough Colts defense? After Malik Nabers season-ending injury, what will the giants pass catchers and offense look like? Plus, Mike Clay dishes out his WR/CB shadow upgrades and highlights which matchups to keep an eye on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.8	Previewing all the things that you need to know. Part one of our week five preview. We're going to dive into a handful of topics we brought to the table as well as the Shatter Report. Now that the playbook is out, go check that out right now on ESPN.com. It is an awesome article every single week. And we got a Thursday night football preview and a little bit of fun at the end of the show. So a very fun show playing for today, but first and foremost.
1:27.1	Fun. Yeah, today it's going to be fun. No, you don't, Field and I plan the fun. You just sort of show up, Mike. That's how that works. Just sit there. I don't see fun. I don't see fun on this note. It's not there. It's not there. And I have breaking news. I'm either going to be the most tired I've ever been on a show in my entire life or I am going to be so wired that my voice will never drop below the current level that it's at. What, what were you doing last night? 522 wake up call this morning. 522. Yeah, my two-year-old, I don't know. Was that planned? No, definitely not. Maybe in her brain, but it wasn't in my brain. And so I'm trying something. I have a, in my hand, I have a cup of
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