10 RB sleepers to target for fantasy football Week 13
By Alex Wolfe
Use these recommendations for a little last-minute pep in your fantasy football lineup or an investment for the future.
In this series, I’ll try to help find some fantasy football running back diamonds in the rough to help you for this week and beyond. Some will be better suited as bye week fill-ins, others will be wait-and-see bench stashes, and hopefully, some will be stars in the making.
I’m shooting for under 50 percent ownership in ESPN and Yahoo! leagues to make this column, but there will occasionally be exceptions. Here are some previous weeks’ picks:
Week 9: 10. TJ Yeldon, 9. CJ Prosise, 8. Damien Williams, 7. DeAndre Washington, 6. D’Onta Foreman, 5. Andre Ellington, 4. Matt Breida, 3. Orleans Darkwa, 2. Kenyan Drake, 1. Marlon Mack
Week 10: 10. Lance Dunbar, 9. Rex Burkhead, 8. Chris Ivory, 7. Alfred Morris and Darren McFadden, 6. Dion Lewis, 5. Damien Williams, 4. Danny Woodhead, 3. Latavius Murray, 2. Kenyan Drake, 1. Orleans Darkwa
Week 11: 10. Damien Williams, 9. Corey Clement, 8. Austin Ekeler, 7. Matt Forte, 6. Tarik Cohen, 5. TJ Yeldon, 4. Giovani Bernard, 3. Semaje Perine, 2. Rex Burkhead, 1. Danny Woodhead
With 32 teams and (at most) two fantasy options at running back on any given team, my goal here is to not give you the same player two weeks in a row unless there’s a significant breakthrough in their status. Let’s try to find some guys to propel a lot of you into the fantasy playoffs:
Devontae Booker
RB, Broncos
I’m not going to sugarcoat this: Booker is not an ideal option, because the Broncos have seriously imploded on offense. That said, he’s shown flashes this season, and there’s reason to believe he could bring a decent performance this weekend.
The Broncos’ opponent this weekend, the Dolphins, have been mostly dreadful against the run this season. The Fins have allowed the ninth-most rushing yards so far this season with 1,295, and the 10th-most yards per attempt at 4.3. They’ve also allowed nine scores on the ground, good for 10th in the league.
Booker has been getting more or less a 50/50 split with CJ Anderson for weeks now, and has quietly out-touched Anderson in the last two weeks. Unfortunately, the Broncos’ offense has been pretty garbagio for almost the whole season, so half of a crappy situation equals… well, not much. But, with a cushy matchup, maybe Booker can get something closer to his 98-yard performance against the Bengals two weeks ago than his 33-yard effort last week.