Shawn Siegele provides an early look at inexpensive RB tactics for fantasy football and teases the mid-August Zero RB Candidates Countdown.

I always receive quite a bit of correspondence around the Zero RB Candidates Countdown in mid-August as subscribers prepare for their most important drafts. This article is both an early camp state-of-the-position and a lookahead to the Countdown itself.

Last year we hit on Chase Brown, Bucky Irving, and Tyrone Tracy to help Zero RB managers, but if you landed a couple of early-round stars and played those late-season champions in your Flexes you were golden as well.

The list’s success reflects the impact late-round RBs have in fantasy and our consistent ability to land them by simply targeting strong profiles in better-than-described situations. Camp provides a lot of additional context for RB depth charts, so this exercise helps create a bit of a baseline.

You can use the RB draft plan in concert with the Big Gorilla Bible and the FFPC Superflex Blueprint to attack your favorite redraft and best ball formats.

Leverage Shawn’s strategies, rankings, and the Zero-RB Countdowns for your chance at $1 million in the FFPC’s Big Gorilla! Get $25 off your first team at the FFPC with the code 25ROTOVIZ!

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