This post is for any of you who are hurting at running back.
Wipe your tears and (wo)man up.
Jo-Jo makes excuses. Dirk finds answers. Jo-Jo accepts his fate. Dirk shapes his destiny.
Did you know that 18 Week 1 starting or co-starting RBs have missed at least one game this season? Or that 12 Week 1 starting or co-starting RBs will not be starting when their team next plays?
Yesterday was a brutal day for fantasy RBs. A week after Arian Foster was knocked out for the year, Carlos Hyde was expected to be sidelined, and Dion Lewis sat out, the NFL watched Le'Veon Bell, Matt Forte, and Khiry Robinson go down (I'm not counting Reggie Bush because he was, quite simply, unstartable to begin with). To many, it's chaos.
And yet our job is to seize control of the chaos. Last week on Twitter I urged people to pick up Jerick McKinnon and/or Jeremy Langford. The theory is that a high-upside RB handcuff is far more valuable than a WR4/5, or than a top 16 TE when you have a top 5 TE starting every week. Lightning strikes early and often in fantasy football, particularly at the high-turnover RB position.
Whenever possible, I follow my own advice. Last week I picked up McKinnon and Langford in my 20-team league, Orleans Darkwa and Ryan Mathews in another, and David Cobb and Thomas Rawls in a third. Some of these pickups won't work out. Others (like Langford) will.
I've never won a league title or a national competition without taking many risks. Stashing one, two, or even three RB handcuffs creates the potential for fantasy dominance. That's the kind of risk worth taking.
Wipe your tears and (wo)man up.
Jo-Jo makes excuses. Dirk finds answers. Jo-Jo accepts his fate. Dirk shapes his destiny.
Did you know that 18 Week 1 starting or co-starting RBs have missed at least one game this season? Or that 12 Week 1 starting or co-starting RBs will not be starting when their team next plays?
Yesterday was a brutal day for fantasy RBs. A week after Arian Foster was knocked out for the year, Carlos Hyde was expected to be sidelined, and Dion Lewis sat out, the NFL watched Le'Veon Bell, Matt Forte, and Khiry Robinson go down (I'm not counting Reggie Bush because he was, quite simply, unstartable to begin with). To many, it's chaos.
And yet our job is to seize control of the chaos. Last week on Twitter I urged people to pick up Jerick McKinnon and/or Jeremy Langford. The theory is that a high-upside RB handcuff is far more valuable than a WR4/5, or than a top 16 TE when you have a top 5 TE starting every week. Lightning strikes early and often in fantasy football, particularly at the high-turnover RB position.
Whenever possible, I follow my own advice. Last week I picked up McKinnon and Langford in my 20-team league, Orleans Darkwa and Ryan Mathews in another, and David Cobb and Thomas Rawls in a third. Some of these pickups won't work out. Others (like Langford) will.
I've never won a league title or a national competition without taking many risks. Stashing one, two, or even three RB handcuffs creates the potential for fantasy dominance. That's the kind of risk worth taking.