By Dan O’Shea
I’ve never experienced a fantasy football season in which so many running backs who started the season off the fantasy radar have become extremely relevant so early in the schedule.
Some of this is due to RBs like Adrian Peterson and Ray Rice getting into off-the-field trouble, but injuries to the likes of Jamaal Charles, Ben Tate and Doug Martin have played a role, too. Then, you also have the just plain weirdness of a season in which RBs that seem to have everything going for them – put Matt Forte, Eddie Lacy and LeSean McCoy in this group – are vastly underperforming.
It all adds up to RBs who were once assumed to be no more than handcuffs suddenly making the grade as fantasy RB-1s, and third-stringers and other heretofore complete unknowns getting a look as possible bye-week replacements.
So, are we seeing a new class of top tier RBs emerging, or is their current production just a matter of quickly passing circumstances? That and more in our review of Week 4:
Posted on October 2, 2014