What is the RB Dead Zone?

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, we dive headfirst into the RB dead zone. What it is, why it matters, and how you can use it to absolutely smoke your fantasy draft. Jeff breaks down the data behind the dead zone, explain why those dead zone RBs are so risky, and give you actionable strategies to avoid landmines and build smarter rosters. Whether you’re a Hero RB truther or a zero-RB rebel, this one’s packed with draft-day gold.

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0:00.0	Rap back where you at?
0:14.0	Yo, what's going on? It's Tuesday, July 29th. My name's Jeff. This is the rant. I got a good one for you today.
0:23.5	Recently, I've been thinking through some of these concepts that we use quite often and, well,
0:30.1	quite often they're also misunderstood by folks out there. And I find the running back dead
0:34.6	zone is certainly one of those concepts. So I want to talk about it today.
0:38.5	What is it?
0:39.4	Why is it a valuable concept?
0:41.3	And how can we use it to our advantage in fantasy football drafts?
0:44.9	Very, very important stuff here.
0:46.5	So we're going to dig into that topic today.
0:48.8	You're going to draft better in 2025.
0:50.6	If you combine the podcast that I've been doing here with all the content over at FtnFantasy.com, the cheat sheets were fully updated yesterday, got more article content coming throughout the week. And there's free stuff up there as well. My daily dive article is free. It's a quick breakdown of the key news items for fantasy football purposes over the last 24 hours. So go check that out even if you aren't a subscriber.
1:12.0	But if you want to get behind the paywall, use the promo code rap pack for 10% off.
1:17.3	I mean, it's time.
1:18.8	It's fantasy football time, man.
1:20.6	And if you're anything like me, you're going to have some drafts coming up here soon.
1:25.1	I got you.
1:25.9	I got your back over at Ftnfantasy.com.
1:29.0	But let's start with this topic here, okay? What is the RB dead zone? And I think more
1:36.2	importantly, let's just define a dead zone as a whole because a dead zone is just simply a period
1:43.8	in a draft where you don't want to draft
1:45.5	a particular position.
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