Over the last three years, there have been only 15 instances of a running back getting 250 or more carries in a season. Other candidates for beefy workloads include Breece Hall, Cam Akers, Joe Mixon and Alexander Mattison.īut the numbers say there won’t be nearly as many high-volume runners as there were in the robust-RB era. Jonathan Taylor, Christian McCaffrey, Nick Chubb, Saquon Barkley, Bijan Robinson, Josh Jacobs and Najee Harris all have a chance to be high-volume RBs. Beyond that? Good luck finding a workhorse. Which running backs can we turn to for reliably high touch volume in 2023? Derrick Henry is probably a lock for heavy volume if healthy. In the ’90s and early aughts, taking running backs early in fantasy drafts made sense because it was a safe bet that Emmitt Smith, Barry Sanders, LaDainian Tomlinson, Marshall Faulk, Priest Holmes, Shaun Alexander, Edgerrin James, et al. The robust-RB approach doesn’t work as well these days because modern running backs aren’t as robust themselves. In 2022, three running backs had 300 or more regular-season carries, and eight running backs had 245 or more carries. In 1998, 11 running backs had 300 or more regular-season carries (led by Jamal Anderson’s 410), and 20 running backs had 245 or more carries. RB-by-committee is the asteroid killing off robust-RB drafters.
They are struggling to adapt to a radically altered environment.Īn asteroid was responsible for killing the dinosaurs. Those who survive are no longer the fearsome hunters who terrorized the fantasy landscape a quarter century ago. But the climate has changed in fantasy football over the last 20 years, thinning the herd of robust-RB drafters.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, robust-RB drafters who chose the right running backs rampaged through their leagues like velociraptors, devouring the weak.
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