In today’s NFL, we know the vast majority of teams are favoring a 2 or 3-back system.
We project only 4 RBs to hit 250 carries this season: Jonathan Taylor, Najee Harris, Joe Mixon and Derrick Henry.
While games missed plays a role, we’ve still seen no more than a quarter of the league feature a 250-carry RB in recent memory. Starting in 2017, the past 5 years have turned up 8, 6, 8, 3 and 4 250-carry rushers.
Of course, the league moved to 17 games last season. If anything, the extra game has coaches thinking more about “load management.”
So which of these high-volume, high-end options are we targeting? And what about the mid and lower-tier guys?
Let’s review, beginning up top.
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