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12 Players to Avoid in Fantasy Football Drafts This Year

JJ Zachariason  —  @LateRoundQB Aug 11th, 2016
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Thomas Rawls, RB, Seattle Seahawks

By Anthony Amico

Fantasy owners are investing a fourth-round pick right now in an undrafted free agent who started seven games as a rookie, and now has to deal with three rookie running backs as well as Christine Michael for 2016. Here is the complete list of teams to draft three running backs in the same year since 2000:

Seattle Seahawks, 2015

Thomas Rawls is being drafted as though he is a lock to start or even just get a majority of the workload in Seattle. Given all of the evidence, I don’t see how anyone could project that with confidence. Especially since Rawls still isn’t fully recovered from the ankle injury that ended his 2015 season, and he isn’t expected to appear much during preseason.

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