Which RBs in the Dead Zone to Draft, and Which RBs to Avoid (Episode 586 with Adam Levitan, Mike Leone, Jack Miller)
Establish The Run Fantasy Football
Fantasy Football
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The devaluation of RBs from the fantasy football market is creating mixed signals in Rounds 3-6, formerly known as the "Dead Zone." How should we handle?
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How the Dead Zone is defined
Characteristics of Dead Zone backs
RBs in Rounds 3-6 to target
RBs in Rounds 3-6 to avoid
More
Timestamps:
2:02 - Defining “The Dead Zone”
6:11 - Rhamondre Stevenson
9:46 - Breece Hall
10:59 - Jahmyr Gibbs
13:02 - Najee Harris
15:58 - Travis Etienne
20:02 - Aaron Jones
22:26 - Joe Mixon
26:47 - Kenneth Walker
28:53 - J.K. Dobbins
30:54 - Alexander Mattison
35:20 - Cam Akers
37:48 - Miles Sanders
40:10 - Dameon Pierce
41:41 - Rachaad White
42:54 - David Montgomery
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the official EstablishTheRung.com podcast. |
| 0:18.7 | My name is Adam Levittin and today we are gathered to discuss what I actually think is the |
| 0:23.4 | biggest storyline of the 2023 Finnish football season. |
| 0:28.2 | Is there still a dead zone at running back and if not or if so, how to adjust to the changing |
| 0:33.4 | way the field is viewing the running back position because that is clearly changing. |
| 0:38.2 | For this episode I am joined by two members of our team Michael Leoni, director of analytics |
| 0:42.8 | Jack Miller, who is part of our NFL projections and props team as well Leoni, how's it going |
| 0:47.6 | today? |
| 0:48.6 | It's going pretty well. |
| 0:49.6 | How about yourself? |
| 0:50.6 | Good. |
| 0:51.6 | Sylva has retired to vacation. |
| 0:55.6 | We hope he comes back after Leoni eviscerated him in man versus machine. |
| 0:59.2 | We hope to have Sylva back soon. |
| 1:01.2 | Jack, how's it going? |
| 1:02.2 | It's going well. |
| 1:03.2 | I'm excited to talk about the dead zone because I agree with you that it's pretty interesting |
| 1:07.9 | this year with how the market is changing. |
| 1:09.9 | Yes, for sure. |
| 1:10.9 | For those of you who are actually going to the website, which I hope you all are, Jack has |
| 1:14.5 | written many articles already about the dead zone and all this. |
| 1:17.2 | We're here to contextualize it a bit for you today. |
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