Marshawn Lynch

Todd Gurley almost single-handedly won his owners championship berths last week. Gurley totaled 42.00 fantasy points against the Seattle Seahawks, the most any running back has had in any game since Week 14 of 2016. The Rams are one of the best stories of the season, but they are not the only NFC team to make a dramatic turnaround in 2017. The Minnesota Vikings have clinched the NFC North and are poised to earn a first-round bye in the playoffs. Their offense has survived multiple injuries, and players have really stepped…

Thank god we finally saw the return of a little smashmouth football in Week 6. Many of the game's elite RB's shone brightly on Sunday, but Le'Veon Bell was once again among the standouts, rushing for 179 yards and a TD. If I could somehow show the same kind of patience whilst driving as Bell does waiting for a hole to open up in the backfield, my blood pressure would be several points lower. Seriously though, Bell's 28.1 fantasy points against the Chiefs D/ST was widely unexpected. Then again, you can't assume anything this…

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…

What will happen in Week 4? It was another strong week for the running back position in Week 3. Once again, there were 21 running backs who scored at least 10 fantasy points in standard scoring. Four of the top seven running backs in Week 2 (Todd Gurley, Kareem Hunt, Chris Thompson, and Devonta Freeman) repeated the feat in Week 3. Hunt and Gurley are the only backs to be an RB1 in each of the first three weeks of the 2017 season. Le’Veon Bell, Ezekiel Elliott, and Jordan Howard showed that rumors of their demises have been…

Usually, you should not get too cute when making your lineup decisions in Week 1. However, we’ve already been thrown a couple of curveballs by the football gods. Hurricane Irma has postponed the Miami Dolphins-Tampa Bay Buccaneers game, and the Ezekiel Elliott saga seems to take a new turn each day. If you’re playing in a standard league here on Fantrax, you must start two running backs. You also have the option to use a third as your Flex. The weekly rankings are more in flux this week than in your typical Week 1. You may…