FANTASY FOOTBALL RB STRATEGY VOL 1 By Muntradamus RB RANKINGS & ANALYSIS RB. You need to draft RB. It is too thin this year, paper thin. Preseason will be important to judge the Rookies and see if players improved, but this is where we are. First thing is first. We are not drafting Mark Ingram after closer examination, only unless you draft Kamara at #8. 1. Shane Vereen now added to the roster to go along with Terrance West. While one of them might be waived, if those guys are both on the roster with Kamara and Ingram, even one of them. Not a pretty committee where all of them can be great players in that offense. AVOID. Also Ingram opens up with 4 tough matchups after his Week 6 Bye. @BAL/@MIN/vs.LAR/@CIN/vs.PHI. Alvin Kamara who was already on the bottom of the Rankings of the Top guys, will stay there. 1st ROUND PICK RB TODD GURLEY #1 LE'VEON BELL #2 ZEKE ELLIOT #3 DAVID JOHNSON #4 IF YOU DID NOT LAND ONE OF THESE 4 GUYS. YOU STILL HAVE TO DRAFT RB ROUND 1 from list below. FIELD IS THAT SLIM. If any of these guys available Grab them Round 2 over Gronk. MELVIN GORDON #5 LEONARD FOURNETTE #6 SAQUON BARKELY #7 ALVIN KAMARA #8 GRAB GRONK IN ROUND 2 RB IN ROUND 3 JOE MIXON. IF HE IS GONE. LESEAN MCCOY IF BOTH ARE GONE. DALVIN COOK. JOE MIXON You can safely start Joe Mixon as a RB1 type of player all year. Some weeks he will perform like a RB2, some like a RB3, but for the most part you should get RB1 production all year and the schedule is nice as well as no real competition for PT. No to Derrick Henry and his impossible schedule, no to Jay Ajayi who could find himself against the Rams and Texans in Week 15 & 16 making it so you have to find a bench option. Grab the star WR in Round 3 if any of those RBs are gone. NEXT RB TARGET TEVIN COLEMAN Round 4, grab Julian Edelman or Star WR, we have seen Edelman available in Round 5, Tevin Coleman is great value in Round 6 for a 12 man league, Round 5 is the safe place to take Tevin, but it does not feel like great value for a backup RB. Round 6 is where we want Tevin. Let us see how WR Strategy goes before giving Edelman/Coleman their final placement. If you miss Tevin Coleman, Royce Freeman has big potential in Denver. I do like Devontae Booker to win the job and be the steal of the draft at ADP #120, but Freeman is great insurance to Devontae as it should be just them touching the ball. I want to be wowed by someone I did not expect instead of settling with Royce Freeman, but if Royce is the guy and looks to be special. He could be the pick over Tevin Coleman or we figure out how to get both. You should have 3 RBs at this point. Time to grab 1 more. DEVONTAE BOOKER (ADP #120) Sleeper of the Draft. Booker should easily win the job in Denver, the guy is a BEAST and nobody in the NFL runs with more aggression. A couple fumbles from Freeman or big hits for the little guy, Booker is goign to pave the way. -- ROUND 1: RB ROUND 2: GRONK ROUND 3: Joe Mixon/Lesean McCoy/Dalvin Cook or WR ROUND 4: TBD ROUND 5: JULIAN EDELMAN ROUND 6: TEVIN COLEMAN/ROYCE FREEMAN ROUND 7: RANDALL COBB ROUND 8: BIG BEN ROUND 9: JARED GOFF ROUND 10: DEVONTAE BOOKER ROUND 11: DEREK CARR/PHILLIP RIVERS
