Fantasy Football: 5 bold predictions for Week 4
By Dustin Baker
1. James Robinson torments the Bengals for an RB1-type day
A few weeks ago, the Jacksonville Jaguars looked like doofuses for releasing their offense-anchoring running back, Leonard Fournette. Slowly but surely, it’s turning into a smartest-guy-in-the-room move.
James Robinson, an undrafted 22-year-old, has strung together three terrific games as the team’s choice for RB1. For fantasy and real-life, three straight games of production are long enough for the man to put the keys to the ground attack in his turquoise pocket. Robinson has more yards from scrimmage in 2020 than Dalvin Cook, Josh Jacobs, Nick Chubb, Ezekiel Elliott, Joe Mixon, Todd Gurley, and Melvin Gordon. Sometime soon, you will be putting the clown makeup on for disregarding his existence on your waiver wire. Be prepared.
This week, Robinson sets his sights on an 0-2-1 Cincinnati Bengals football team that is bumbling out of the gate — per usual –with a rookie quarterback and a diseased offensive line. The Bengals also rank 31st in rushing yards allowed and 28th in rushing touchdowns allowed. The Joe Burrow Era will probably be profitable once Cincinnati’s management realizes that offensive lines are helpful, but it’s anybody’s ballgame as to when that epiphany hits.
Start Robinson on the road versus the Bengals and make the rest of your league it.