It’s the first thing you learn as you cut your teeth in fantasy football.
Real football is all about the quarterback. Fantasy football is all about the running back.
Drafting running backs was relatively painless a decade or so ago. Bell cows were easy to find; backfield platoons were far less common. No matter where you fell on the draft order, you could probably draft into something you’d be confident in.
And then 2020 happened. A scant four backs reached the 300-touch marker. Come back, bell cows, we miss you. (Back in 2010, 11 different runners got to that plateau.