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Fantasy Football Today

Week 2 Start or Sit! Breaking Down the Backfields (09/19 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today

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4.68.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Heath tells you who to start and who to sit in the Raiders, 49ers, Bills, Ravens and Jaguars backfields. Anyone trusting Kenyan Drake this week? Where are we on Elijah Mitchell? Plus some injury news and your questions. 

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0:00.0

Good morning everybody, let's get those line-up set who's starting Peyton Barber in week

0:09.0

two.

0:10.0

This is Fantasy Football today in five.

0:12.0

I'm Adam Acer with Heat Thumbings.

0:13.9

Boy, when a guy is announced as the starting running back, you usually see four people

0:21.0

run to the waiver wire to add up.

0:22.7

Peyton Barber is only 6% rostered and no, I am not dropping just a Jefferson everybody

0:28.6

for Peyton Barber you could stop asking.

0:30.6

Heat Barber will start and, you know, according to Groot and he's going to get a lot of the

0:35.8

carries and they're going to keep Canyon Drake in that passing down his role.

0:39.4

Do you buy that against the Steelers?

0:40.9

I guess you're not starting Barber.

0:42.6

Are you starting Canyon Drake?

0:44.3

I, um, yeah, I don't have Barber in my top 48 running backs.

0:47.8

So I'm kind of going with the flow of everyone else, which is, and I don't know why we would

0:51.5

ever ignore what John Grootin says, but I presume it's about a 50-50 split in terms of

0:58.5

carries.

0:59.8

But Drake gets the passing game role and that will be more valuable.

1:03.9

I bumped the Raiders.

1:05.3

They were extremely pass heavy and that came against the Ravens.

1:08.7

70% of their offensive plays were passes.

1:11.3

I bumped them up a little bit more pass heavy, which lends itself more towards Canyon Drake

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