Latavius Murray

The NFC Championship will feature the Minnesota Vikings, fresh off last week’s Minneapolis Miracle, traveling east to take on the No. 1 seed in the NFC, the Philadelphia Eagles. Opposing quarterbacks Case Keenum and Nick Foles led the 2015 St. Louis Rams to a 7-9 finish while averaging just 17.5 points per game, which was 29th in the NFL that season. The duo started all 16 games for the Rams that year and combined to throw 11 touchdown passes. Fast forward to present day, and one of them will be starting in Super Bowl LII.…

This Sunday’s games are the only playoff games to this point which will feature division winners facing each other. In each instance, the conference’s South division champion will travel to face the North division winner. Both games are also rematches of early-season contests. Here we break down the players who should be given serious consideration in your weekly lineups. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS AT PITTSBURGH STEELERS JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS: IMPLIED VEGAS TOTAL - 17 POINTS The first game on Sunday will feature the Jacksonville…

There were a lot of exceptional running back performances in Week 14. Nine running backs eclipsed the 20-point plateau, the most in any week since Week 3 in 2016. Among those who hit that mark last week was Green Bay Packers’ rookie runner Jamaal Williams. Williams has filled in admirably following the losses of Ty Montgomery and Aaron Jones to injuries. Williams has posted three consecutive top-seven fantasy performances and is third among running backs in fantasy points over the last four weeks. It will be interesting to…

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…