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Fantasy Running Back Rankings 45-41
#45 Chris Ivory
| Year | Age | Team | G | R-Att | Yards | TD | Avg | Rec | Yards | Avg | TD | Tar | Fum | Fum lost |
| 2011 | 23 | NO | 6 | 79 | 374 | 1 | 4.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 24 | NO | 6 | 40 | 217 | 2 | 5.4 | 2 | 15 | 7.5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 25 | NYJ | 15 | 182 | 833 | 3 | 4.6 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 |
Chris Ivory will be a nice handcuff to Chris Johnson this year. Chris Johnson has played in all but one game in his career. This does not help Ivory’s outlook for this year. On the other note Johnson was down to 3.9 YPC last season. If that numbers trends down at all the Jets may look to Ivory who has never had less than 4.6 YPC in a season. On the other hand, unlike the Iron man Johnson Ivory has never played all 16 games in a season.
Chuck Amspacher – @Captain_LWOS
#44 Devonta Freeman – R
If some how you missed the last couple years of football and haven’t seen how rookie running backs are making an immediate impact, let me tell you why Freeman will have an impact. He is the back up for a 31 year old running back that spent most of last year on the sidelines with injuries. Freeman averaged nearly six yards a carry for his last two year at Florida State University. He also rushed for over 1,000 yards last year as the main back. Last preseason game he averaged 5.2 yards per carry versus the Houston Texans defense, which most have crowned one of the league’s best defenses already. This will be a classic case of where opportunity meets talent and Devonta Freeman will become a house hold name.
Mike Fabber – @Coach_Mikefx
#43 Jonathan Stewart
| Year | Age | Team | G | R-Att | Yards | TD | Avg | Rec | Yards | Avg | TD | Tar | Fum | Fum lost |
| 2011 | 24 | Car | 16 | 142 | 761 | 4 | 5.4 | 47 | 413 | 8.8 | 1 | 61 | 1 | 0 |
| 2012 | 25 | Car | 9 | 93 | 336 | 1 | 3.6 | 17 | 157 | 9.2 | 1 | 23 | 2 | 0 |
| 2013 | 26 | Car | 6 | 48 | 180 | 0 | 3.8 | 7 | 44 | 6.3 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
Playing in a combined 15 games over the last two seasons, Jonathan Stewart is a major injury risk. He is already nursing a hamstring injury this preseason that has sidelined him for a few weeks. As someone highly touted coming into the league, Stewart has only surpassed the 1,000 yard mark once. Mike Tolbert will likely see the goal line work while Stewart and DeAngelo Williams split carries on early downs. Stewart’s ceiling is low, as is his floor. Owners should only give serious consideration to drafting Stewart in very deep leagues or leagues which require an unusually high number or running backs.
Nick Ercolano – @RickyJohnstein
#42 Bernard Pierce
| Year | Age | Team | G | R-Att | Yards | TD | Avg | Rec | Yards | Avg | TD | Tar | Fum | Fum lost |
| 2012 | 22 | Bal | 16 | 108 | 532 | 1 | 4.9 | 7 | 47 | 6.7 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 23 | Bal | 16 | 152 | 436 | 2 | 2.9 | 20 | 104 | 5.2 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
With Ray Rice’s two-game suspension looming, Pierce figures to assume lead back duties in the meantime and has been looking good in preseason contests. Problem is, so has Rice. We were hoping that Pierce would pull away, and he still can, but Rice is making it increasingly difficult. If Pierce impresses in the two games he’s given the nod, he can argue his way into a shared workload and that’s the best that we can hope for out of the Ravens backfield until Rice deems himself irrelevant or ineffective. Pierce is definitely worth the late round flier that he’s been tagged with this year.
Casey Bowman – @LWOSCaseyBow
#41 Donald Brown
| Year | Age | Team | G | R-Att | Yards | TD | Avg | Rec | Yards | Avg | TD | Tar | Fum | Fum lost |
| 2011 | 24 | Ind | 16 | 134 | 645 | 5 | 4.8 | 16 | 86 | 5.4 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 25 | Ind | 10 | 108 | 417 | 1 | 3.9 | 9 | 93 | 10 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 26 | Ind | 16 | 102 | 537 | 6 | 5.3 | 27 | 214 | 7.9 | 2 | 35 | 0 | 0 |
Officially a part of the three headed Charger’s monster, Brown will firmly be entrenched behind Ryan Matthews and Danny Woodhead. Not that it’s a testament to him, but he was taking carries away from Trent Richardson and was pretty productive with the doses he was given. Unless Matthews and Woodhead go down with injuries, we can’t really endorse adding Donald Brown to your roster. But, he is potential waiver wire flier.
Casey Bowman – @LWOSCaseyBow
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