Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - The TRUTH About Fantasy RB's in 2015, Part 1

in the second half of the year because he was not the same guy. All right, number 10 on the list is Latavius Murray. And by the way, I'm really excited about the Thursday show and getting to some of these tweener names because they're just so many question marks around them. It'll probably be a very interesting show. But number 10 is Latavius Murray, 266 carries over 1,000 yards, only six touchdowns. He was targeted quite a bit in the passing game, 53 targets, 41 catches. That's...

Very nice. You'll take that. Yes. And then he was 10th inconsistency. He had 10 performances in the top 25. He didn't have any top five performances. And that's what you feel as a fantasy owner when you see Latavis Murray. You felt nothing that gave you an auto win. He was a very much, a very reliable type of guy, and he only had one Dudwig. So what are your guys' thoughts on Latavius Murray now heading in next year? I love Latavius Murray. Say that again? I love.

Latavius Murray. He is one of my favorite guys on this list. Would you get on one knee and marry him? I would love to Murray, Latavius Murray. He is, he's young.

He is a big boy. He's got great size, which helps him hold up. He played all 16 games. There was a lot made about the fact that he was able to take that workload and run with it. Through the full year, he had 64% of the snaps. The last four weeks of the year, he had 76% of the snaps. Del Rio is a running coach. This is an Oakland Raiders team that looked to be getting better.

You know, if it wasn't for Amari Cooper's injury, I think they get a couple more Ws and they were closer to the playoffs. This is a team, I think, that's going to be better next year. They left a lot. Latavis Murray left a lot on the field this year. Remember those games where, you know, he fumbled the ball and was not used. But coming into next year, if they don't make, you know, if they don't go out and sign Matt Forte in some weird, wacky situation that flubs everything up there, Latavius Murray is a guy to me who,

is going to get the ball, is used in the past catching game, is on an up-and-coming team, is a young guy. I like just about everything with him. He left a lot of the field. Hello. Hello. Sorry, Roy Hulu will not be on the Raiders next year. But I bet Mike will pimp whatever guy gets signed behind Latavius Murray. No, no, no. Wherever Hulu goes. Oh, you better believe. I love Roy Hulu. So to me, Latavis Murray has a lot.

to look forward to. And the fact that he had low touchdown counts is kind of a good thing for me. Because I don't think it was an unwillingness. It wasn't an unwillingness to use him at the goal line and put in another back. That's not what we saw. We just saw the unpredictability of touchdowns. And a team that's growing into its offense and their offensive players. I mean, you looked up an interesting stat finding out of Mari Cooper. It dropped the 12 most balls in the league. You know, this is a 12 percentage, right?

12th highest drop percentage. He was the 11th highest with enough receptions, yeah. He was not good. They're a team that at times their offense looked gangbusters and at times they were figuring it out. So I think it's a good point. And the touchdown number, that jumps out to me because if a guy's on the field as much as he was, you know, the percentages say he'll get more opportunities around the goal line. They'll just happen. So that's a good take. And if you had ivory back in the same position and you had Latavius Murray, who would you take? I would take Latavius Murray.

All right. Yeah, I think I would take Latavius at this point. And versus top half defenses versus bottom, he averaged 66 yards against both. So those are the type of consistency numbers you want to see.

All right, that does it for today's show. That was the top 10. Our next show on Thursday, we'll cover 11 and to as many as we can get to. And we will also make our predictions for the conference championship rounds. So you guys get your thinking caps on, start to ponder, as you will, and we'll see. I'm thinking right now. We'll talk about the playoff challenge, too. See how you guys are doing.

Yeah. Mixed results. See you. Bye. For listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast, join our fantasy football community on Jointhefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter at theFF ballers.

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