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Running backs remain king in fantasy football. While it feels like there are more elite quarterbacks and wide receivers than ever before, the amount of consistent, dependable running backs is dwindling. This makes it all the more important to find value at running back in fantasy football. In order to help you do that, I will be taking a look at a few backfields each week that stick out based on recent trends or new information we learned.
We had our first set of bye weeks in Week 5 — a sign that the NFL season is flying by. Bye weeks are always an interesting variable in fantasy; you never want to base your draft strategy off bye weeks, but you could still find yourself starting some seemingly random players over the next month or two. This has heavy implications at the running back position specifically, as the RB2s on certain teams can be the ideal spot starters during a particularly impactful bye week. With that in mind, let’s get into some of my top team takeaways and trends to monitor heading into Week 6.
Jacksonville Jaguars
Should this be Tank Bigsby’s backfield? The dynamic second-year back has now out-produced starter Travis Etienne in all three games he has played at least 15% of snaps, and it isn’t particularly close. Bigsby has 42 more rushing yards on 19 fewer carries than Etienne, which actually sells him a bit short — Bigsby has been the single most efficient running back in football this season.
Bigsby already entered Week 5 ranking first among running backs yards per attempt, yards after contact attempt, and breakaway run percentage, and then ripped off two electric scores in the Jaguars’ first win of the season from 65 and 19 yards out to stay at the top of those stats. Bigsby out-snapped Etienne for the first time, playing 40% of snaps to Etienne’s 39%. Bigsby also saw carries from the four and seven-yard line while Etienne was not used on the goal line at all. Jaguars head coach Doug Pederson insisted after the game that Bigsby would…
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Publish date : 2024-10-09 14:37:29
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