{"id":49588,"date":"2018-09-18T06:02:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T10:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=49588"},"modified":"2018-09-18T06:12:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T10:12:38","slug":"phillip-lindsay-matt-breida-highlight-week-three-running-back-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2018\/09\/18\/phillip-lindsay-matt-breida-highlight-week-three-running-back-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillip Lindsay, Matt Breida Highlight Week Three Running Back Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fantasy football landscape has drastically changed just after just two short weeks. Several players like Phillip Lindsay entered the season with limited expectations yet have already earned starting spots. With the running back position being arguably the most important in all of fantasy football, let&#8217;s take a look at the top running back waiver claims you should be making.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/2018\/09\/18\/john-brown-calvin-ridley-highlight-week-three-wide-receiver-waiver-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Top Week Three Wide Receiver Waiver Targets<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/2018\/09\/18\/blake-bortles-derek-carr-highlight-week-three-quarterback-waiver-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Top Week Three Quarterback Waiver Targets<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/2018\/09\/18\/chicago-bears-seattle-seahawks-highlight-fantasy-football-week-three-defenses\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Top Week Three Fantasy Defenses<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Phillip Lindsay, Matt Brieda Top Week Three Running Back Waiver Targets<\/h1>\n<h2>Phillip Lindsay<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/broncos\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Denver Broncos<\/a> rookie running back has taken the league by storm, just not the one everyone expected. Undrafted rookie <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/L\/LindPh00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phillip Lindsay<\/a><\/strong> is one of the biggest surprises of the 2018 season and is a must-own on your fantasy team. Through two weeks, Lindsay has recorded 178 rushing yards, 35 receiving yards, and one touchdown. He\u2019s the first undrafted rookie to record 100 or more yards in each of his first two games.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay is still splitting carries with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/F\/FreeRo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Royce Freeman<\/a><\/strong>, and Freeman is seeing the majority of the goal line carries. While this does limit Lindsay\u2019s ceiling, that\u2019s still no reason to shy away from the promising rookie. As long as he can produce like this, he\u2019ll keep seeing more and more time in the offense.<\/p>\n<h2>Matt Breida<\/h2>\n<p>Once again, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/49ers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> running back <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BreiMa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Breida<\/a> <\/strong>makes this list. After performing adequately in a tough matchup against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/vikings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a>, Breida established himself as the lead back against the Detroit Lions. Breida finished his night with 138 rushing yards and a touchdown while adding another 21 yards in the passing game. Moving forward, he is the clear lead back over <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MorrAl00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alfred Morris<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Breida and the 49ers face off against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/chiefs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> in Week Three. Kansas City has one of the worst defenses in all of football, so Bredia should be able to collect a lot of yardage. Even if that game turns into a shootout, Breida should still see a good amount of snaps. He\u2019s the best receiving back the 49ers have, so he\u2019ll remain on the field regardless of the score.<\/p>\n<h2>Giovani Bernard<\/h2>\n<p>With <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MixoJo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Mixon<\/a> <\/strong>sidelined, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/bengals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> running back <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BernGi00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giovani Bernard<\/a><\/strong> is set to take over as the teams starting running back. Bernard has shown the ability to be a strong starter in the league. We already <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/2018\/09\/15\/fantasy-football-add-giovani-bernard-to-replace-joe-mixon\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">profiled Bernard\u2019s role in the Bengals offense<\/a> forward, so we won\u2019t waste words doing so here. If you play in a league where Bernard is unclaimed, make sure you pick him up for this week.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"7nh_m_TRT8d9l76aMA9CNw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1034542962\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'7nh_m_TRT8d9l76aMA9CNw',sig:'JQc0l_KKskMH1obDoQOmKi88eBp7f8EGzKQx_HAfBak=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1034542962',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running backs like Phillip Lindsay and Matt Brieda will have big roles in the 2018 NFL season, but are still mostly unclaimed in fantasy football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":49589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7,54,59,2,31],"tags":[294,61,565,3259,40,4348],"class_list":["post-49588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broncos","category-bengals","category-editorials","category-fantasy","category-featured","category-49ers","tag-fantasy-football","tag-football","tag-giovani-bernard","tag-matt-breida","tag-nfl","tag-phillip-lindsay"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}