Top 10 RB Rankings + Best Ball Breakdown - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/7

Dalvin Cook, very close in percentage of carries inside the five turning into touchdown. Zeke much higher, Henry much higher. So the actual success inside the five is not outlandish. Perhaps it's the 13 carries that do come down like we saw with Camara, where he dropped from 13 down to 8, I think is what I just said. But the 10th most touches at the running back position. I still think Aaron Jones is the main guy. I like AJ Dylan. He's a...

If you're not familiar who AJ Dylan is, he comps very similarly size, build, athleticism to Derek Henry. So, look, I am not calling him Derek Henry by any means, but you shouldn't be shocked if he turns out to be a Derek Henry type player. But for now, Aaron Jones is the guy. I still believe that the Packers will be a...

solid team. He's one of the easiest to doubt, but that could cost you. Yes. You know, when you find an argument, we're talking top 10 running back. So he is, he does carry risk, higher risk than he is a lot of players. He has fallen in a draft to where I, he's, he's.

Easy to grab. The aforementioned league where I was the number two pick and I took Ezekiel Elliott. I was able to grab Aaron Jones. That is perfect. At the end of the second round. That's outstanding. There are such polar opposites of Aaron Jones being inconsistent but high ceiling games. That would be an incredible start. That's probably the best combo you could imagine ending up with because.

You did it, Jason. Congratulations. That's right, I did it. Christian McCaffrey, Ezekiel Elliott, Sequin Barclay, Dalvin Cook, Clyde Edwards, Alvin Camara, Derek Henry, Josh Jacobs, Miles Sanders, and Aaron Jones. And we will have another running backs rankings show on Monday. Bestball Breakdown, presented by Underdog Fantasy. Super.

Yeah, it is time for our first underdog fantasy bestball breakdown segment. As we head into 2020, we're going to be bringing you a weekly strategy segment for best ball players. Because best ball is back. It's very fun to you. It's all about the draft, which is what the offseason of mock drafting, all that stuff.

And this, you know, just adds the element of, look, you might win some money. You can play on Underdog Fantasy. You can sign up today, enter their best ball mania for a chance at $1 million in prizes. You just go to underdog fantasy.com or search for Underdog Fantasy app in the app store. Jason will be bringing us. The tip of the week, except hold up. Wait a minute. Oh, is it a chopper? I'm going to go with two today. Two tips. Before you do, Jake, get into the tips. Just want to elaborate a little bit more for Underdog.

People have asked us, draft is gone. I used to play all my best ball on draft. I'm sad. What do I do? If you play it on draft, you will like underdog fantasy. Trust me. The app is amazing. I mean, it really, like, it really is great. It's the best place to play. And that's a genuine heartfelt truth from me. So here is my...

First of all, tip number one, do these. It makes you better at fantasy. It lets you see where people are taking people in real life. You're not drafting a mock draft against a computer that's just drafting based on ADP that's drafting based on a circular logic of computers drafting that same ADP. This is real people taking the players where they will in a real draft. So my first tip here, and this is very different. We don't usually, maybe with the COVID year, we don't usually draft.

backup running backs. In draft season in your home leagues and your redraft leagues, you're just going to hold on to them for a couple of weeks, need a roster spot, end up dropping them, and then picking them up later off of waivers when and if the starter goes down. But in best ball, you've got a very deep league and very often these insurance options for great teams are best ball league winners. All of a sudden, you're, you know,

20th round pick can, or your 10th round pick, can all of a sudden become your highest scoring player on a week. But here is what you don't want to do. You draft Zeke. Don't draft Tony Pollard. Don't do it. Here's why. In basketball, you have to win. There's no playoffs. You're not trying to be in the top half or the... You have to win the league. One of the six best teams. You're trying to win the league. If Zeke goes down...

Yes, Pollard gets better, but your team overall got worse. So, yay, you finished fourth out of 12. You did your best. You survived. You dreaded the water. Good job. Great. Good job, champ. What you want to do is if you draft Zeke or if you draft, whoever you draft, grab other people's insurance policies, other people's backup running backs.

If you've got Zeke and Saquan, grab Alexander Madison and Chase Edwards. Then all of a sudden win... Edmonds. What did I say? Edwards? You did. Chase Edmonds. Then if those... You almost convinced me it was Edwards. Sure. You know, then if those starters go down, your team just gets better and it becomes elite. So don't draft your own team's backup running backs. Do draft other teams backup running backs. And here's the other tip.

The secret tip. If you're playing on Underdog, you could play like, you know, three-man leagues. They're not all 12-man rosters. If you're in a three-man league, the elite, here's the players that really matter. A lot. Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Travis Kelsey, George Kittle, those guys matter. Everyone's going to be stacked at running back-in-wide receiver. And sometimes you'll find yourself in a three-person league where...

The other people are just constantly loading up on these running backs and wide receivers and letting you snag these quarterbacks that they're like, oh, I'm late-round quarterback. Well, yeah, but there's so few. There's only three teams. So the difference between the truly elite at the position make a difference. I'll give you an example. I just did a draft where I was the first pick, got Christian McCaffrey. I have Dalvin Cook and Clyde Edwards Aller. You know, the running backs are good. Wow, you drafted pretty well. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. I also have Lamar Jackson and Patrick. Did he get Chase Edwards?

I can't find them in the system. But, you know, after a couple of picks, they weren't, I was shocked to see them there. So I just hit Pat Mahomes and Lamar Jackson. And then the next round got Travis Kelsey and Zach Ertz. Those players at those positions, the other two teams can't compete with me at those positions now.

Thank you, Jay. You're welcome. That was very energetic as well. Underdog Fantasy.com if you want to play some basketball. By the way, do you know who Chase Edwards is friends with? Darnel Anderson! That'll do it for this episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Do us a favor. Leave us a review on Apple Podcast. It helps the show a lot. We'll talk to you on Monday. See you next week. Goodbye. For listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast.

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