A few second year running backs can make a big impact on your fantasy team this season.
A few second year running backs can make a big impact on your fantasy team this season. Corey Parson breaks down which second year running backs to target in your fantasy draft, and which ones might not pan out.
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Kaitlin O'Toole: Sports Illustrated is taking you inside the world of fantasy sports. Joining me now is SI's fantasy and gambling analyst Corey Parson. Corey, who are the second year running backs that fantasy owners should be going after this season.
Corey Parson: The second year running backs have a tendency to be sometimes overlooked, but they really can determine how your season ends up. So let's start with Los Vegas Raiders running back Josh Jacobs. Last season, he actually led all rookies in rushing yards, running for over 1100 yards on 4.8 yards per carry. Right now in early drafts, he's going off the board in the second round. He's a true bell cow back. Now you have Miles Sanders of the Philadelphia Eagles. Last year, Sanders started off slow, but he finished very strong. As a matter of fact in the fantasy playoffs, he was excellent, scoring double figures over 20 points in each of those games in PPR formats. This year in some early drafts, he is going as hight as a top 10 pick. So I think he will be locked into that first round, and I don't disagree, especially with reports that the Eagles plan on using Sanders like the Panthers use Christian McCaffrey.
Kaitlin O'Toole: There's some second year running backs that we're just not sure about yet. Who are those question marks we need to look out for?
Corey Parson: Well, let's start in Chicago with the Bears and David Montgomery. Montgomery carried the ball 242 times last season, but he averaged only 3.7 yards per carry. Now listen, the Bears offensive line and offensive scheme were both terrible. Coming into this season, an advantage that he does have is if Nick Foles wins that starting job to be the quarterback. Nick Foles likes to dunk it to the back out of the backfield, but it's still a little shaky on David Montgomery. Also, Devon Singletary. He was banged up for the Buffalo Bills at times last season, Kaitlin. But one of the things that he did do, he did flash and show some potential when he finally got healthy. The Bills drafted Utah's Zach Moss in the draft and that kid can really play. So I think Singletary will be in that timeshare with Moss, I think Moss will end up taking over that one. Singetary is a guy that's not on my board.
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