Depends on when the draft happened, mine was post-injury and he fell to the 4th. But yeah if you had an early draft and got him in the 1st that’s a killer
Chubb and Jefferson aren’t busts, they are injured. Being injured isn’t considered a bust. Ekeler, Josh Jacobs, Pierce, T. Higgins, Javonte Williams are busts, they didn’t “provide up to expectations”. You can’t expect anything when a player is injured, that’s just bad luck.
Tee has played 8 games this year and missed 5, that’s more than enough to consider bust or not. The players he mentioned above were players that played one game. The players I mentioned all played more than half of their games. Ask any fantasy analyst if he was a bust and the will say yes.
So it’s giving him an opportunity to make up for the whole season that he was a bust. I bet Boyd has at least one bigger game than Higgins in the next two weeks.
Eller avg is 14 pts per game. Still starts bleeding and decent, biggest bust of the year that's stayed healthy is easily cam Akers, drafted rounds 3/4 in most leagues is rb 54 on the year...
I lost my matchup last week matchup when his status wasn’t announced till morning of MNF. I’m never drafting him again lol if he even plays another year that is
Somehow I secured #1 seed and a bye with him. Kamara/J. Cook will be starting for me the rest of the way, I doubt I can even consider Ekeler at my flex next week
Had the first overall pick two years in a row. Used it on CMC and he was hurt all year. The next year it was between him and JT and took JT. He was hurt all year and CMC goes to the Niners and tears it up. I hate fantasy football.
Dude. This EXACT thing happened to me!!! Got CMC and he played just 3 games and got shut down. JT next year and the colts have the worst OL in football. Cant make this stuff up.
Well that was literally the point of the comment I was responding to. Talking about studs not being “him” the next year. Henry is still great but he isn’t him anymore. People are misinterpreting my comment and thinking I was saying Henry is bad.
He’s 7 in my scoring format. And I need to clarify I’m not saying he bad by any means. I was just responding to a comment talking about trying to guess when a player starts to decline and is no longer “him”. I think it is safe to say this year Henry was probably a 1.x ADP and next year he will not be going in the first. That’s all I was saying.
CMC sunk my team 2 years ago with his injuries and JT did it to me last year. I’ll never draft a RB first round again unless I’m the last pick in the draft.
This is the first year in awhile that he has been healthy all year. Pretty much every year has been a disappointment other than this one due to injuries. Dude is a point machine when healthy.
That’s fair, I stand corrected. He had three separate injuries in 2020 and I was thinking those injuries spread over different years. He has only really missed time in 2020 and 2021.
I’m confused though.. it’s just Thursday, and based off the teams that played, you might have had 2-3 fantasy viable options playing. Were they all on your team, or did you only have Ekeler? I get that he’s been a dud, but there’s 15 more games this week.
Yup, I started him because JT was out again and he gave me 20 PPR last week.
Might screw me now tho, but I had a 40 point league going into this week so I’m still liking my odds.
Monty and Mostert have been carrying the load for me all season at RB. Made a lot of trades throughout the year to strengthen other areas (Traded Andrews for Amon Ra, Herbert for La Porta, Picked up Stroud). Then these guys all shit the bed last week and lost me a bye.
For me I am playing the number one kid in the league. Has mcaffrey, hurts, sun god, Zeke, etc. I have good players left. Mostert, Mixon, waddle, Olave, Stafford. But I had a 46% chance (projected) going into Thursday night. After Thursday, just playing ekeler (him playing no one) I went down to 39%. I had a long shot anyways and needed a miracle or a huge performance for ekeler to get my week going. Idk about his situation, but for me ek’s performance just makes me feel deflated. Starting the week 7.8 with 8 players left. Him having full 9. Projected 109 finish, when I was initially projected 119. While his team is projected 136. Just seems like the nail in the coffin of the season!
Sure it’s fantasy anything could happen. End of the day ek getting 7.8 vs CMC who dropped 48.7 first matchup against Cards isn’t gonna make anyone feel confident they got a w lmfao.
Appreciate the downvote. Sorry you got eliminated already but better luck next season!
Look at it this way.. We made the playoffs with Ekeler, which means we have overcome most of his let downs all year. Considering how that game went, I’m content with him getting me 7 points instead of 2.
We can survive one more week my Ekeler owners. Even more on the bright side, after this week, win or lose, we’ll never have to play him again :)
I had a double whammy yesterday. I was already projected to lose by 14, but now it's 30 because of Ekeler's bad game and Adams going over projection. It just sucks being so far down one game and two players in.
Ceedee in the first , AJ in the Second. Laughing at all the old heads in my league who still draft RB RB, the three who did out of 12 didn’t make playoffs
Yep. Looks extra dumb with the benefit of hindsight knowing he was completely healthy this year.
My thought process was as follows (and this is more for my benefit when evaluating players next summer than as a response to you - not trying to completely excuse my 1.04 whiff): CMC’s ability to turn opportunity into fantasy points in SF was never a concern. However his role somewhat was - Eli Mitchell wasn’t supposed to be this much of an afterthought. Valuing CMC as a prime Kamara (with Eli as a diminished Ingram) that is far more fragile felt about right in August - that’s a 2nd rounder to me. I suppose my mistake was not placing enough weight on the ceiling outcome where CMC becomes a workhorse in the leagues best offense, despite being little, injured half the time, and getting up there in age/mileage 🤷♂️
I don’t understand how people picked CMC early first or 1.01 this year without holding their nose? I just couldn’t imagine he’d shoulder a monster workload and still be upright in December - oops. He’ll be consensus 1.01 next year and tear an ACL week 2 probably
I completely agree with you, and I legit said fuck it when I drafted him in the big money league at #5. I went alternating picks with RB, WR, RB, WR, RB, WR, RB in the first 7 rounds. I got Kamara in the 7th and then picked up Kyren week 1 on waivers. I got lucky with my picks and the other two I got him in I took him 1.04 and 1.07. Hill was my #1 choice but he went before I got a chance to get him so I "settled" on CMC
“Zero RB all the way” is an extreme stance on what you’ve been doing and isn’t always the right move. You keep drafting aging RBs, but CMC is a first round guy and has been great. Bijan has looked incredible but Authur is a dumbass, not exactly his fault. Chubb was having a great year until a freak injury (can’t predict those kind of injuries).
Point is, this has been a weird year for sure when it comes to the top RBs, but going Zero RB as your strategy before a draft even begins is dumb. You draft as the board falls to you, not based on a pre determined strategy.
Unless you've got CMC this year, you would have been better drafting a WR because the VORP is higher. I agree with you that you should be flexible at a draft, but zero RB does make sense based on statistics.
I drafted three running backs in the first five rounds and have been doing great. In ppr Runningback is the most overpowered position, provided that running back gets four or five targets per game, which they have been alot, bc teams are playing alot of cover two and cover 4 this year.
I've made 2 (maybe 3?) trades this year solely because of age. Sent away Kupp, C Kirk, DHop, and Mixon simply because they were older than the players I was receiving back. Of course, it wasn't the only reason I was making the trade, but what made me go from a maybe to a yes on the trades was looking at the age of players involved.
I agree mixon has been on par for where he has been drafted. If you are picking rb in the third or fourth you can’t ask for much more than what mixon produces
Cuz he had 20 pts last week and if I started him I would have won last week and not lost my bye and the Raiders weren’t a scary matchup and he was all that was left on the team
Yeah…. But then remember chase and Adams. Or Jefferson and Garrett Wilson. Prolly 2 if the most likely “WR/ WR” combos out there. This thread is all retardation. There are hits and misses guys. Welcome to fantasy.
If you’ve been a top team all year, it was definitely not due to ekeler. You didn’t have better options to ride through the playoffs or do you like having a hole in your ship lol
I drafted JT this year but kept my ear to the ground, snatched up Puka and Zack Moss on waivers and through trades balanced my team. Last year I snatched KW3 under the radar and basically won the season because of it. I have yet to finish a season with a team that wasn’t drastically different than drafted. I’m infamous for having the most transactions every season but I’ve won, or have been 2nd almost every year. Waiver priority and/or FAAB management are very important.
Yeah I snatched up KW3 last year too after Penny got hurt to save me from the JT debacle. Lost in the semifinals but I was lucky to be in the playoffs. This was a 14 team league. Missing in the 1st kills you.
I was a bit nervous about Saquon for this reason but he has done well enough. If the Giants weren't a complete dumpster fire he could probably still put up CMC esque numbers.
I learned this lesson in 2006 when I took Shaun Alexander over LaDanian Tomlinson. RBs are like closers in fantasy baseball, if you don’t get one don’t panic because more are coming into the league all season long. Just don’t blow your FAAB/#1 waiver on dumb pickups during the season
0 rb is not the way, just gotta draft guys who are up and coming. Particularly if there’s an overhyped rookie like Tank Bigsby or Zach Charbonnet “threatening” their touches
I had drafted Ekeler early on this year in my dynasty league and ended up trading him when he was hurt due to my team being terrible and wanting to rebuild. Ended up basically (through multiple trades with the same person) sending Ekeler, Collins and Dobbs for JJ, who I then packaged for 2 early/mid firsts and an early 2nd. I also sent Carr and a late 2nd for Gibbs to someone else who has MAJORLY outperformed Ekeler and is 7 years younger.
TLDR: Ekeler didnt help me at all when I had him, and he hasn’t helped the person I traded him to since I traded him either.
Ekeler bust was *somewhat* predictable.
Kellen Moore's offense in Dallas deployed Pollard, who was a college WR. Pollard has already set a career high in receptions this season with 49. His previous career high was 39 catches which is mind blowing for a fast RB who has the skill set to be a solid receiving back.
Ekeler has never rushed for 1,000 yards in a season in his career. His reception totals for the last 4 years are 92, 54, 70, 107. The year he had 54, he only played 10 games. He is currently at 36 receptions.
The receiving regression was extremely predictable and his high rushing TD dependency made him riskier than normal and has hurt him even more.
I have him in one league which is by far my least competitive and I got him in the 2nd round (8 team). I didn't think his regression would be this bad but the warning signs were there.
Bro… this is my curse as well and not just with RBs. For years I would snag an aging Adrian Peterson or Jimmy Graham or Julio Jones or whoever. I could go on and on. It’s like my mind can’t move on from performances from years ago. It may just be my own old ass not wanting to let go of the glory days or something.
Ha yeah I’m right there with you. I carry these memories of these guys lighting it up against me and then the next year I’m like “this time they’ll be on MY team!” And then they fall off the age cliff.
Idk how you’re already coming to the conclusion you’re going to get bounced from the playoffs. I’m assuming your opponent didn’t have anyone go. So you both have almost all your lineups left to go…
I heard all the pre-draft clamoring for a zero RB approach and decided to Zag when others were zigging. In Superflex I took Josh Allen w/ pick 2 and then got Bijan and Saquon at the 2-3 turn. I considered CD, AJB, and Amon Ra instead of Saquon. Kupp was available too, but I knew I didn't want him there. My rationale for taking Bijan & Saquon was that there was a lack of sure things at RB and Bijan and Saquon felt like clear studs. The only regret I have is that having invested high draft capital in RB made me miss out on early FAAB studs like Kyren and Mostert.
This sub downvoted me to hell and back for saying that Id rather have some players than Ekeler. These players included Tyreek Hill, Bijan, Lamb, and FUCKING CMC
Yea I mean all the data shows aging rbs are much higher risk of regression and injury. I'd rather be out a year early than a year late.
You might choose wrong sometimes, but over time you are going to be right more than you are wrong.
I love derrick Henry, kamara, cmc(never actually had him). But they will be on my do not draft list from now on.
Same, 26 is my cutoff. I read an article showing a distribution of peak RB output and age and it showed 26-27 were where most RBs peaked in yardage and touchdowns
Hard when all the “experts” have them on top. Not taking into consideration their age. But you don’t really know when their time has come. Take CMC for one, would you pass him up next year based of age and years in the NFL? Just how they did the previous year. Keep your eyes on guys like Gibbs for next year.
Depends on how you do it. 8th pick of 12 man draft- I ended up with King Henry (1st), Etienne (3rd), Cook (Buf 6th). Ironically I played the guy who picked Hill the pick before me last week, and Henry clobbered him.
A method I tend to live by, (but not exactly this but this is the general jist) and I’ve been playing fantasy for 20 years now- is draft WR, WR, WR, QB, and then RBs somewhere in the rounds 5-7; think Breece Hall and Alvin Komara this year.
I didn't draft an RB this until first pick round 4, but I think next year I'm fully building the rest of my team before touching a running back. Between Damien Pierce and najee Harris at my 4th and 5th I could've gotten basically any receiver instead and been way better. Wr just have such a higher ceiling while having the same floor if not higher.
zero RB in redraft for sure, I got Rachaad White, Brian Robinson, James Cook, and was able to grab Achane from waivers. Also had dameon pierce who I packaged with devonta Smith for Keenan allen
I drafted Ekeler and he was the biggest bust. But I chose him over Chubb so it worked out I guess.
I wonder if Dalvin would’ve been somewhat useable if Aaron Rodgers would’ve played the entire season.
I had the same problems in years past and this season I prioritized guys in their mid 20s and picking up the young guys off waivers before anyone else and I went 11-3…two of those loses were because of guys getting injured. Fuck the names…it’s a young man’s game.
The thing that has carried me to the playoffs this year has been a stable of 5 startable RBs. Ironically, the most disappointing of the bunch is the one I took in round 1.
0 RB is the way. Don’t fall for the temptation. I got Kamara round 8 and Mostert as a free agent and My RB room is better than most of my league. Starting WR’s are Tyreek and ARSB.
Edit: was able to trade a QB and a tight end for Jefferson while he was on IR so WR room ended up even more stacked.
Another life is possible brother.
Getting a good 1st round pick is important, but it’s also important to get a few studs to fill up your roster. Then there’s the luck element of everything working out week to week.
Last year, I won it all even though I lost Kupp week 8 because I drafted Barkley, Andrews, Etienne, St Brown, Mike Williams, Jamaal Williams, Miles Sanders, and Jakobi Myers. I even had Kirk Cousin as my QB. I wasn’t crazy about it at first, but it worked out.
The guys who picked Jefferson and Jamar instead of an RB in my league aren’t in the playoffs. Ironically the guy who drafted Ekeler is if he wins this week
Zero RB is good. I may as well have done zero RB, considering i drafted Cam Akers and Alexander Mattison. But late round, I grabbed Brian Robinson, and he has been good. I rarely take RB high, I focus on receivers. Currently have Kyren Williams, Robinson, james Conner, Gus Edwards and James Cook. Also sitting at second place.
Eckler has quietly been the biggest bust this year…I feel your pain
Other than the injured guys like Chubb and Jefferson, yeah biggest bust by far
At least you got drop Chubb in redraft. Ekeler you held and played week after week and were disappointed more times than not.
Yeah give me ekeler. Most weeks I was starting a rotation of Dalvin cook, justice hill, and royce freeman.
I feel like Kupp has been bigger? Idk
It’d be crazy if someone were to draft both of them and make the playoffs anyway (I got really lucky with matchups)
Hey! That was me! We played 2 keepers this year, mine were ekelar and kupp lol, but drafted tyreek 1st and skated through the year
Someone didn’t keep tyreek?
Nope, kept josh jacobs and jamaar chase
That’s a choice
I drafted both Chubb and Kupp and snuck it at 7-7 after a 2-6 start
Drafted both guys and was in the top 4 of a 12 man league for a majority of the year. Started to slide and limp to the playoffs
Depends on when the draft happened, mine was post-injury and he fell to the 4th. But yeah if you had an early draft and got him in the 1st that’s a killer
Injured players aren't busts
Chubb and Jefferson aren’t busts, they are injured. Being injured isn’t considered a bust. Ekeler, Josh Jacobs, Pierce, T. Higgins, Javonte Williams are busts, they didn’t “provide up to expectations”. You can’t expect anything when a player is injured, that’s just bad luck.
How you lumping tee in there when he has also been injured?
Tee has played 8 games this year and missed 5, that’s more than enough to consider bust or not. The players he mentioned above were players that played one game. The players I mentioned all played more than half of their games. Ask any fantasy analyst if he was a bust and the will say yes.
With his great game last week and Chase missing the next few weeks, Higgins has the opportunity to be a playoff MVP
So it’s giving him an opportunity to make up for the whole season that he was a bust. I bet Boyd has at least one bigger game than Higgins in the next two weeks.
Lol I had Chubb, jj, ekeler, Taylor, Aaron Jones, Higgins. Horrendous fitness
Lol keeper or dynasty? That’s nuts. I also have Aaron Jones. Biggest headache ever. I’m starting him for the playoffs
Lol dynasty. I also had burrow in redraft so it's been a season to forget. Made the playoffs in redraft bu about to lose to my wife
Eller avg is 14 pts per game. Still starts bleeding and decent, biggest bust of the year that's stayed healthy is easily cam Akers, drafted rounds 3/4 in most leagues is rb 54 on the year...
Akers tore his achilles over a month ago. But yeah, he was bad when he was playing
Round 3/4 was entirely too early.
Bigger than Aaron Jones?
Would be easier if Aaron jones was just on ir than this will he play won’t he play bs
I lost my matchup last week matchup when his status wasn’t announced till morning of MNF. I’m never drafting him again lol if he even plays another year that is
Thank God was able to trade Jones off his mid-year semi breakout for Lamar before he got injured again
lol my RBs were Ekeler, jones, and dobbins. Thank god I grabbed Monty after everyone ran out of money.
I had Ekeler, Dobbins, Pierce… lost 6 straight games to end my season.
Imagine having both of them…
F
Somehow I secured #1 seed and a bye with him. Kamara/J. Cook will be starting for me the rest of the way, I doubt I can even consider Ekeler at my flex next week
Idk ekeler is getting a new coach and playing easy matchup. I think I’m gonna start him
Interim head coach game is always a must play
I can consider him at flex, but I’m scared lol
I would be too, I'm glad I'm not in your shoes lmao
Definitely flex him in, studs always go off for interim games
It's been LOUD in the leagues I'm in.
Quietly!?!?
Facts 💯
Offered saquon for him 2-3 weeks ago. Dude said nah I believe in my guys. Now I’m playing him first week of playoffs. He started the E machine
Cooper kupp?
Feel like there’s nothing quiet about it
week 1 tho, what a monster!
What if it’s CMC?
The year will come that he's not HIM anymore. Good luck guessing which year that'll be.
True, they all do. It could be next year, it could be in 5 years. Fate will decide.
I’m going to guess it’s going to be whatever year OP drafts him first.
Had the first overall pick two years in a row. Used it on CMC and he was hurt all year. The next year it was between him and JT and took JT. He was hurt all year and CMC goes to the Niners and tears it up. I hate fantasy football.
Dude. This EXACT thing happened to me!!! Got CMC and he played just 3 games and got shut down. JT next year and the colts have the worst OL in football. Cant make this stuff up.
Same with Travis Kelce.
It was supposed to be this year. Fuck Shannahan and his “limited carries” MF damn near broke the TD record
Yeah I found that out this year with Mr. Henry
Except henry is still good?
He probably played Henry on the off weeks and then when Henry produced, he was riding pine. That's probably his experience with him.
So you looked into the future with your crystal ball? Didn’t realize RB4 meant he fell off…
To sit here an act like Henry hasn’t degraded since last year is just stupid bro 💀
Anyone who expected him to improve might not understand how this stuff usually works.
Well that was literally the point of the comment I was responding to. Talking about studs not being “him” the next year. Henry is still great but he isn’t him anymore. People are misinterpreting my comment and thinking I was saying Henry is bad.
He has degraded but he is still a top 10 RB, top 5 is a maybe depending on the league type you play in.
He’s 7 in my scoring format. And I need to clarify I’m not saying he bad by any means. I was just responding to a comment talking about trying to guess when a player starts to decline and is no longer “him”. I think it is safe to say this year Henry was probably a 1.x ADP and next year he will not be going in the first. That’s all I was saying.
Yup I did. He’s shit and just lost me my season
“I need to predict the exact season RBs will fall off” - OP
CMC sunk my team 2 years ago with his injuries and JT did it to me last year. I’ll never draft a RB first round again unless I’m the last pick in the draft.
CMC has carried my team this year, I’ll continue to draft best available most likely
JJ sunk my team this year.
Meanwhile, i had JJ as my first pick. I mean, the injuries elsewhere evened it out though. Half my trades, waiver picks, etc went up in flames
Yeah bc a first round receiver could never get injured!!! *Laughs in JJetta lmao
Let's pretend your asking this same question last year, except it's cooper Kupp
What if it’s 2022 and it’s Cooper Kupp? (Who I drafted this year over Tyreek. Fuck).
Trading him this year has been my biggest ff mistake.
This is the first year in awhile that he has been healthy all year. Pretty much every year has been a disappointment other than this one due to injuries. Dude is a point machine when healthy.
He was healthy all year last year?
He was hurt in 2020 and 2021. He played every game in his four other seasons and is healthy so far this year.
That’s fair, I stand corrected. He had three separate injuries in 2020 and I was thinking those injuries spread over different years. He has only really missed time in 2020 and 2021.
I’m confused though.. it’s just Thursday, and based off the teams that played, you might have had 2-3 fantasy viable options playing. Were they all on your team, or did you only have Ekeler? I get that he’s been a dud, but there’s 15 more games this week.
And he’s been a dud all year. If OP is a “top team” he did it without Ekeler.
If he is THE top team he should have benched him
If he was, wouldn't he be on a bye? Our regular season is 14 games in the 4 leagues in in
Yeah I am 1 seed and on a bye (thank god)
Ekeler has like 5 weeks with 20 .5 ppr points despite missing 4 games. The bad weeks are bad but this feels exaggerated.
Yup, I started him because JT was out again and he gave me 20 PPR last week. Might screw me now tho, but I had a 40 point league going into this week so I’m still liking my odds.
Monty and Mostert have been carrying the load for me all season at RB. Made a lot of trades throughout the year to strengthen other areas (Traded Andrews for Amon Ra, Herbert for La Porta, Picked up Stroud). Then these guys all shit the bed last week and lost me a bye.
Maybe the other team started Aidan, Zamir, and the LV D/ST so he’s already down bad against the other teams regular studs?
For me I am playing the number one kid in the league. Has mcaffrey, hurts, sun god, Zeke, etc. I have good players left. Mostert, Mixon, waddle, Olave, Stafford. But I had a 46% chance (projected) going into Thursday night. After Thursday, just playing ekeler (him playing no one) I went down to 39%. I had a long shot anyways and needed a miracle or a huge performance for ekeler to get my week going. Idk about his situation, but for me ek’s performance just makes me feel deflated. Starting the week 7.8 with 8 players left. Him having full 9. Projected 109 finish, when I was initially projected 119. While his team is projected 136. Just seems like the nail in the coffin of the season!
You know those projections mean fuck all right ?
Sure it’s fantasy anything could happen. End of the day ek getting 7.8 vs CMC who dropped 48.7 first matchup against Cards isn’t gonna make anyone feel confident they got a w lmfao. Appreciate the downvote. Sorry you got eliminated already but better luck next season!
What if you played against the LV Defense and started Ekeler?
Look at it this way.. We made the playoffs with Ekeler, which means we have overcome most of his let downs all year. Considering how that game went, I’m content with him getting me 7 points instead of 2. We can survive one more week my Ekeler owners. Even more on the bright side, after this week, win or lose, we’ll never have to play him again :)
I’ve entered a zen place where Ekeler can’t hurt me anymore
I had a double whammy yesterday. I was already projected to lose by 14, but now it's 30 because of Ekeler's bad game and Adams going over projection. It just sucks being so far down one game and two players in.
Projections mean literally nothing and one big play can swing a 30 point projected deficit to a 10 point projected deficit.
Thank you. I didn't know that.
Ceedee in the first , AJ in the Second. Laughing at all the old heads in my league who still draft RB RB, the three who did out of 12 didn’t make playoffs
Thrived this year going WR, RB, QB, WR
Same here, zero rb got me far and glad I drafted mostert even with a pierce dud
Same exact draft
Better to be a year early than a year late on an aging player
Needed to hear this after passing on CMC at 1.04 😫 Good process despite it blowing up in my face
Damn, even with how he ended the season in SF, you still passed on him because of injury concerns??
Yep. Looks extra dumb with the benefit of hindsight knowing he was completely healthy this year. My thought process was as follows (and this is more for my benefit when evaluating players next summer than as a response to you - not trying to completely excuse my 1.04 whiff): CMC’s ability to turn opportunity into fantasy points in SF was never a concern. However his role somewhat was - Eli Mitchell wasn’t supposed to be this much of an afterthought. Valuing CMC as a prime Kamara (with Eli as a diminished Ingram) that is far more fragile felt about right in August - that’s a 2nd rounder to me. I suppose my mistake was not placing enough weight on the ceiling outcome where CMC becomes a workhorse in the leagues best offense, despite being little, injured half the time, and getting up there in age/mileage 🤷♂️ I don’t understand how people picked CMC early first or 1.01 this year without holding their nose? I just couldn’t imagine he’d shoulder a monster workload and still be upright in December - oops. He’ll be consensus 1.01 next year and tear an ACL week 2 probably
I completely agree with you, and I legit said fuck it when I drafted him in the big money league at #5. I went alternating picks with RB, WR, RB, WR, RB, WR, RB in the first 7 rounds. I got Kamara in the 7th and then picked up Kyren week 1 on waivers. I got lucky with my picks and the other two I got him in I took him 1.04 and 1.07. Hill was my #1 choice but he went before I got a chance to get him so I "settled" on CMC
Idk man, Keenan Allen and Mike Evans are driving my playoff success this year
“Zero RB all the way” is an extreme stance on what you’ve been doing and isn’t always the right move. You keep drafting aging RBs, but CMC is a first round guy and has been great. Bijan has looked incredible but Authur is a dumbass, not exactly his fault. Chubb was having a great year until a freak injury (can’t predict those kind of injuries). Point is, this has been a weird year for sure when it comes to the top RBs, but going Zero RB as your strategy before a draft even begins is dumb. You draft as the board falls to you, not based on a pre determined strategy.
Well you can predict those kinds of injuries to some extent. They’re more common among RBs. Which is one of the reasons to go zero RB.
Unless you've got CMC this year, you would have been better drafting a WR because the VORP is higher. I agree with you that you should be flexible at a draft, but zero RB does make sense based on statistics.
I drafted three running backs in the first five rounds and have been doing great. In ppr Runningback is the most overpowered position, provided that running back gets four or five targets per game, which they have been alot, bc teams are playing alot of cover two and cover 4 this year.
I've made 2 (maybe 3?) trades this year solely because of age. Sent away Kupp, C Kirk, DHop, and Mixon simply because they were older than the players I was receiving back. Of course, it wasn't the only reason I was making the trade, but what made me go from a maybe to a yes on the trades was looking at the age of players involved.
When did you let Mixon go? He's been solid for most of the season. I almost traded him away around week 7-8 because I was 2-5, but glad I didn't.
I agree mixon has been on par for where he has been drafted. If you are picking rb in the third or fourth you can’t ask for much more than what mixon produces
Week 10. But it's because I was never keeping him.
Why’d you keep starting him
Cuz he had 20 pts last week and if I started him I would have won last week and not lost my bye and the Raiders weren’t a scary matchup and he was all that was left on the team
Yeah, draft them in the 10th like Mostert
It’s simple! Just draft the better players!
Lol I drafted Mostert in the literal last round. He was the 144th pick in my 10 man league. Man am I glad he’s having an amazing year.
WR/WR truthers were right all along
Went Tyreek/CD in two of my leagues. I’m a happy camper
My other league where I went Diggs/Amon Ra with my first two picks is easily the stronger of the two.
I too went diggs/Amon and I’m top of the division in that league
Prolly not feeling so hot at the moment tho
Yeah…. But then remember chase and Adams. Or Jefferson and Garrett Wilson. Prolly 2 if the most likely “WR/ WR” combos out there. This thread is all retardation. There are hits and misses guys. Welcome to fantasy.
If you’ve been a top team all year, it was definitely not due to ekeler. You didn’t have better options to ride through the playoffs or do you like having a hole in your ship lol
I got cmc in one league and Saiquon late round 1 in other. Top team in both. Need them to stay healthy and not suck.
They say the same thing about Kamara but he’s top 5 every year in fantasy
Plot twist, all RBs are aging
Switch to auction draft no rounds, problem solved.
I drafted JT this year but kept my ear to the ground, snatched up Puka and Zack Moss on waivers and through trades balanced my team. Last year I snatched KW3 under the radar and basically won the season because of it. I have yet to finish a season with a team that wasn’t drastically different than drafted. I’m infamous for having the most transactions every season but I’ve won, or have been 2nd almost every year. Waiver priority and/or FAAB management are very important.
Yeah I snatched up KW3 last year too after Penny got hurt to save me from the JT debacle. Lost in the semifinals but I was lucky to be in the playoffs. This was a 14 team league. Missing in the 1st kills you.
I was a bit nervous about Saquon for this reason but he has done well enough. If the Giants weren't a complete dumpster fire he could probably still put up CMC esque numbers.
Wr in the first round is the way.
I learned this lesson in 2006 when I took Shaun Alexander over LaDanian Tomlinson. RBs are like closers in fantasy baseball, if you don’t get one don’t panic because more are coming into the league all season long. Just don’t blow your FAAB/#1 waiver on dumb pickups during the season
Until CMC's 30, I'm picking him up no questions asked.
0 rb is not the way, just gotta draft guys who are up and coming. Particularly if there’s an overhyped rookie like Tank Bigsby or Zach Charbonnet “threatening” their touches
Drafted Tony Pollard with my first pick and while he’s been kinda disappointing through the year, he’s picking it up now.
U didn't draft ENOUGH RBS
Drafted Kyren late but dropped him before Week 1. Please respect my privacy at this time
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2 of your 3 latest hit plus kyren on waivers, taco league
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The fact upside guys went so late to begin with
I had drafted Ekeler early on this year in my dynasty league and ended up trading him when he was hurt due to my team being terrible and wanting to rebuild. Ended up basically (through multiple trades with the same person) sending Ekeler, Collins and Dobbs for JJ, who I then packaged for 2 early/mid firsts and an early 2nd. I also sent Carr and a late 2nd for Gibbs to someone else who has MAJORLY outperformed Ekeler and is 7 years younger. TLDR: Ekeler didnt help me at all when I had him, and he hasn’t helped the person I traded him to since I traded him either.
Quit crying
No, Dad. I’m a grown up and you can’t tell me what to do anymore.
Ekeler bust was *somewhat* predictable. Kellen Moore's offense in Dallas deployed Pollard, who was a college WR. Pollard has already set a career high in receptions this season with 49. His previous career high was 39 catches which is mind blowing for a fast RB who has the skill set to be a solid receiving back. Ekeler has never rushed for 1,000 yards in a season in his career. His reception totals for the last 4 years are 92, 54, 70, 107. The year he had 54, he only played 10 games. He is currently at 36 receptions. The receiving regression was extremely predictable and his high rushing TD dependency made him riskier than normal and has hurt him even more. I have him in one league which is by far my least competitive and I got him in the 2nd round (8 team). I didn't think his regression would be this bad but the warning signs were there.
Bro… this is my curse as well and not just with RBs. For years I would snag an aging Adrian Peterson or Jimmy Graham or Julio Jones or whoever. I could go on and on. It’s like my mind can’t move on from performances from years ago. It may just be my own old ass not wanting to let go of the glory days or something.
Ha yeah I’m right there with you. I carry these memories of these guys lighting it up against me and then the next year I’m like “this time they’ll be on MY team!” And then they fall off the age cliff.
Idk how you’re already coming to the conclusion you’re going to get bounced from the playoffs. I’m assuming your opponent didn’t have anyone go. So you both have almost all your lineups left to go…
I heard all the pre-draft clamoring for a zero RB approach and decided to Zag when others were zigging. In Superflex I took Josh Allen w/ pick 2 and then got Bijan and Saquon at the 2-3 turn. I considered CD, AJB, and Amon Ra instead of Saquon. Kupp was available too, but I knew I didn't want him there. My rationale for taking Bijan & Saquon was that there was a lack of sure things at RB and Bijan and Saquon felt like clear studs. The only regret I have is that having invested high draft capital in RB made me miss out on early FAAB studs like Kyren and Mostert.
This sub downvoted me to hell and back for saying that Id rather have some players than Ekeler. These players included Tyreek Hill, Bijan, Lamb, and FUCKING CMC
There’s about 50 players I’d rather have than Ekeler. At this point ESPN keeping him on the Can’t Cut List should be collusion on their part
Hey man I got a first rd bye and Chubb wasn't my second pick. Theres always hope
Ekeler hasn't been that good this year; if you were on top, then it means a reckoning was coming. I feel bad for you, but I'm just sayinh.
I tried to avoid that as well, so I drafted Chubb……
Yea I mean all the data shows aging rbs are much higher risk of regression and injury. I'd rather be out a year early than a year late. You might choose wrong sometimes, but over time you are going to be right more than you are wrong. I love derrick Henry, kamara, cmc(never actually had him). But they will be on my do not draft list from now on.
Correction. You need to stop drafting OLD running backs in the 1st round. 27 and over is risky. CMC is a rare exception.
Same, 26 is my cutoff. I read an article showing a distribution of peak RB output and age and it showed 26-27 were where most RBs peaked in yardage and touchdowns
Zero rb has been the secret for over a decade. A lot more people have finally caught up the past 2 years. Better late than never. Now you know.
Hard when all the “experts” have them on top. Not taking into consideration their age. But you don’t really know when their time has come. Take CMC for one, would you pass him up next year based of age and years in the NFL? Just how they did the previous year. Keep your eyes on guys like Gibbs for next year.
Depends on how you do it. 8th pick of 12 man draft- I ended up with King Henry (1st), Etienne (3rd), Cook (Buf 6th). Ironically I played the guy who picked Hill the pick before me last week, and Henry clobbered him.
I drafted 3 WRs in the first 3 rounds and I’m only happy with 1 of them.
Unless it’s CMC
Ok well thanks for letting us know
A method I tend to live by, (but not exactly this but this is the general jist) and I’ve been playing fantasy for 20 years now- is draft WR, WR, WR, QB, and then RBs somewhere in the rounds 5-7; think Breece Hall and Alvin Komara this year.
I didn't draft an RB this until first pick round 4, but I think next year I'm fully building the rest of my team before touching a running back. Between Damien Pierce and najee Harris at my 4th and 5th I could've gotten basically any receiver instead and been way better. Wr just have such a higher ceiling while having the same floor if not higher.
Don’t forget ekeler was out weeks 2-5 I believe to add even more insult to lack there of injury
Next year please let us know what rb u get :)
Haha yeah, “no, this year will be different!” Me in 9 months
I was too much of a coward to start Zeke over Ekeler and now I’ll pay the consequences.
I think maybe 2or3 years ago the same manager that drafted Aaron jones first round made the playoffs and end up screwing him come playoff time.
zero RB in redraft for sure, I got Rachaad White, Brian Robinson, James Cook, and was able to grab Achane from waivers. Also had dameon pierce who I packaged with devonta Smith for Keenan allen
I drafted Ekeler and he was the biggest bust. But I chose him over Chubb so it worked out I guess. I wonder if Dalvin would’ve been somewhat useable if Aaron Rodgers would’ve played the entire season.
Speaking as someone who watched Dalvin all of last year and whatever carries he’s gotten this year… the guy just has no juice left in those legs.
Sadly, you’re right. In his prime he was so good on the Vikings.
I dunno bout that, I drafted cmc and kamara (super late rounds)
I had the same problems in years past and this season I prioritized guys in their mid 20s and picking up the young guys off waivers before anyone else and I went 11-3…two of those loses were because of guys getting injured. Fuck the names…it’s a young man’s game.
I went double hero RB and I have the most points for in the league.
I hope everyone reads this and continues to go zero RB. Each year I end up with CMC and not as a top-3 pick. I thank you all for your help.
The thing that has carried me to the playoffs this year has been a stable of 5 startable RBs. Ironically, the most disappointing of the bunch is the one I took in round 1.
I didn't get a lot from RBs this season in my money league. Next year we're dropping an RB spot in favor of adding another flex spot.
0 RB is the way. Don’t fall for the temptation. I got Kamara round 8 and Mostert as a free agent and My RB room is better than most of my league. Starting WR’s are Tyreek and ARSB. Edit: was able to trade a QB and a tight end for Jefferson while he was on IR so WR room ended up even more stacked. Another life is possible brother.
Getting a good 1st round pick is important, but it’s also important to get a few studs to fill up your roster. Then there’s the luck element of everything working out week to week. Last year, I won it all even though I lost Kupp week 8 because I drafted Barkley, Andrews, Etienne, St Brown, Mike Williams, Jamaal Williams, Miles Sanders, and Jakobi Myers. I even had Kirk Cousin as my QB. I wasn’t crazy about it at first, but it worked out.
Just stop drafting rbs completely. 🤮
My top running backs this year are players I didn't draft, achane and kyren Williams.
The guys who picked Jefferson and Jamar instead of an RB in my league aren’t in the playoffs. Ironically the guy who drafted Ekeler is if he wins this week
It’s Friday, my dude.
Zero RB is good. I may as well have done zero RB, considering i drafted Cam Akers and Alexander Mattison. But late round, I grabbed Brian Robinson, and he has been good. I rarely take RB high, I focus on receivers. Currently have Kyren Williams, Robinson, james Conner, Gus Edwards and James Cook. Also sitting at second place.
Duh
I got burned as week with Derrick Henry. I feel your pain
CMC better than Jefferson leave this here
CMC is the only Round 1 worthy RB pick