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This one is a little easier to figure out. I hope that you guessed in correctly. They were all rookies in those respective seasons. In eight of the 10 seasons a rookie finished in the top 13 RB’s and seven of the 10 seasons one finished in the top nine.
What does this mean for your 2009 draft? Draft as many rookies as you can because these guys are hard to figure out sometimes. Knowshon Moreno usually comes off the board first. He is followed by Chris Wells, Donald Brown, LeSean McCoy, and Shonn Greene. That would probably be the order I would try to draft them in at least.
You should be able to pick up most of these backs in these two theories in the third round or later in your draft so draft as many of the above listed backs as you can. This enables you to get some of the two best WR’s on the board.
If you are in an auction style draft(which if you are not you don’t know what you are missing), you could probably easily pick up a backfield of Derrick Ward, Fred Taylor, Knowshon Moreno, Chris Wells, Donald Brown and LeSean McCoy all for less than the price of what you pay for two heavy hitters at the position.
I know what you are thinking. Man, I really don’t want my running back corp. to look like the group above at all. You have to think outside the box on this one and trust the research and 10 years of statistics that prove the theories. I am going to personally test out this strategy in several of my drafts this season.
I hope some of you will too. If it turns out to be a winner please remember where you heard it first. If it’s a loser, well I don’t think Monty Python ever found the Holy Grail in his movie either, so it could have just merely been a mirage.
Jeff Sock is a contributor to http://www.chinstrapninjas.com
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