Alex Collins

New Orleans Saints’ rookie running back Alvin Kamara finished as the weekly RB1 once again in Week 12, despite touching the ball just 11 times. We are running out of superlatives to try to describe the dynamic young phenom. Kamara has carried fantasy teams down the stretch much in the same manner that Kareem Hunt did early in the season. Unfortunately for Hunt owners, his tremendous start feels like it was years ago. Hunt’s fantasy stock has dropped precipitously as the season has gone on, and he bottomed out in a prime…

Among the many stories coming out of Week 11 was the continued emergence of Vikings’ running back Latavius Murray. Murray began the preseason on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list with an ankle injury. He quickly fell down the depth chart behind dynamic rookie Dalvin Cook and saw just seven touches in September. Once Cook was lost for the season with a torn ACL, Jerick McKinnon dominated fantasy headlines, but Murray’s role slowly increased as well. Murray’s weekly touches increased in every game from Week 4 through…

Week 5 is the first of the NFL season to incorporate scheduled byes, and could not come at a worse time for many fantasy owners who were dealt significant injury blows to their running backs in Week 4. Vikings’ running back Dalvin Cook tore his ACL and is out for the season, ending what started out as a spectacular rookie year. Chris Carson suffered a fractured leg and high ankle sprain and was placed on injured reserve. (True story - I dropped Cam Newton and picked up Carson last week. Sigh.) Ty Montgomery barely played in…