5 Heavily Discounted RBs With the Star Potential to be 2021 Smash Plays

Shawn Siegele
August 20, 2021

Shawn Siegele looks at five heavily discounted RBs who were much better than advertised in 2020.

Dave Caban has just finished the new Advanced Stats Explorer which provides a wealth of charting data for our 2021 subs.

Accuracy percentages for QBs from clean and pressured pockets
Broken tackles, yards after contact, and evasion rates for RBs
A wealth of route data for WRs and TEs, plus catchable target percentages and drops

With the 2021 Zero RB Top-15 Candidates List on the horizon, I’m going to go under the hood of the advanced RB stats and look at five inexpensive draft options that were far better than the common perception.

5 RBs Who Dominated in 2020 and Should Be on Your Fantasy Radar

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Shawn Siegele

Author of the original Zero RB article and 2013 NFFC Primetime Grand Champion. 11-time main event league winner. 2015, 2017, 2018 titles in MFL10 of Death.

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