Legendary RBs
Legendary Upside in the Dead Zone
Last week I published legendary RB scenarios for each of the RBs being drafted in the first two rounds. Since then, Josh Jacobs signed with the Raiders and has returned to being a 2nd-round pick... which meant I needed to take another trip to the future. Below you'll
2023 Legendary RB Scenarios
There's a reason this site is called Legendary Upside. Two years ago, I published an article on Rotoworld titled Don't Draft an Early Round RB Without Legendary Upside. The article made the case for strongly prioritizing RB upside if diving into the high-risk early-RB waters. To
RB Success Rate Small Sample Scrubs
This article is Part 4 of a four-part series analyzing RBs through the lens of NFL Next Gen's success rate metric. So far, I've covered the metric's high-volume stars and scrubs, as well as small sample stars. Now it's time to cover
RB Success Rate Small Sample Stars
This is my third article profiling RBs through the lens of NFL Next Gen's success rate metric. This metric has had an intriguing correlation with goal line carries the following season... provided the sample size is big enough. I've already covered the stars and scrubs in
RB Success Rate Scrubs
NFL Next Gen's success rate metric can help identify running backs with upside for big-time goal-line workloads. It can also help us avoid RBs whose teams are less likely to trust them in high-leverage situations. NFL Next Gen's Rushing Metrics As I covered in Part 1
RB Success Rate Stars
No matter which form of fantasy football we're talking about, touchdowns are massively important. This is especially true for running backs, whose ability to consolidate goal-line touches creates upside for huge TD totals. Those high-end TD outcomes can alter the fantasy landscape. In 2021, I looked at the
Coming This Summer: Early Round RB Targets and Legendary Upside Scenarios
In 2021, I published an article on NBC Sports Edge that dug into a fantasy football trend I'd been thinking a lot about – only one or two running backs in a given season were emerging as true difference-makers. This created two issues. First, drafters were ruining a lot