There are backup running backs that are worth rostering and there are those that belong on the waiver wire. Fantasy Football Expert Jack Delaney takes a look at Lorenzo Taliaferro of the Baltimore Ravens and James Starks of the Green Bay Packers.
In theory, handcuffing a backup running back to your starter makes a lot of sense. In practice, however, you normally don’t receive the results you expected.
There were already a ton of people drafting Alfred Blue on the assumption that Arian Foster would not complete a 16-game season, and Blue’s stock is climbing higher still now that Foster is out of the picture for at least the first half of the season.