Name top 15 RBs drafted in the NFL after the 3rd... (1 Viewer)

[Tillmanisahero]

For Fantasy football purposes.... what RBs were taken after the 3 round of the NFL draft have made it into the to the top 15 RBs using FBGs scoring.

The clearest example I can think of wasTerrel Davis 6th round to the Broncos.

 

[switz]

For Fantasy football purposes.... what RBs were taken after the 3 round of the NFL draft have made it into the to the top 15 RBs using FBGs scoring.The clearest example I can think of wasTerrel Davis 6th round to the Broncos.

Curtis Martin?

 

[The Hank]

ummm... Priest Holmes? Undrafted FA

 

[Banger]

For Fantasy football purposes.... what RBs were taken after the 3 round of the NFL draft have made it into the to the top 15 RBs using FBGs scoring.The clearest example I can think of wasTerrel Davis 6th round to the Broncos.

Parker UDFA, Priest UDFA, M. Anderson (6th) are a few off the top. There's gonna be tons of them...

 

[IM666]

FWP

 

[Banger]

For Fantasy football purposes.... what RBs were taken after the 3 round of the NFL draft have made it into the to the top 15 RBs using FBGs scoring.The clearest example I can think of wasTerrel Davis 6th round to the Broncos.

Curtis Martin?

I think he was taken in the 3rd.

 

[ShaqAttaq]

oops

 

[dgreen]

Stephen Davis.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

Curtis Martin

Stephen Davis

Rudi Johnson

Domanick Davis (I think?)

Priest Holmes

off the top of my head

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

Since you said drafted, does that specifically exclude UDFA who by definition are not drafted or did you mean anyone taken after the 3rd round in some fashion?

Also Willie Parker if the latter is true.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

Mike Anderson

Christian Okoye?

 

[Spartans Rule]

You can look this up pretty easily at pro-football-reference.com.

I'll add to the list as I go back:

Willie Parker

Rudi Johnson

Chester Taylor

Marion Barber III

Mike Anderson

Domanick Williams

Priest Holmes

Stephen Davis

Dominic Rhodes

Dorsey Levens

Olandis Gary

Terrell Davis

Jamal Anderson

Adrian Murrell

Raymont Harris

Terry Allen

Larry Centers

Chris Warren

Derek Loville

Bernie Parmalee

Lewis Tillman

Gary Brown

Johnny Johnson

Erric Pegram

Herschel Walker (This is pretty cheap, he'd have been a Top 5 overall pick if not for the USFL situation)

Ron Moore

Barry Foster

Earnest Byner

Mark Higgs

Robert Delpino

Brad Baxter

Derrick Fenner

Merril Hoge

Marion Butts

That's everyone who was Top 15 since 1990.

 

[dgreen]

Terry Allen

Earnest Byner

Mike Thomas

Larry Brown

Those, along with Stephen Davis, are just some Redskins that I found.

 

[IM666]

Herschel Walker in the 5th by Dallas while in the USFL. Was he a top 15 ever?

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

Michael Pittman finished 16th one year. Close enough for govt work.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

Olandis Gary

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

So is this thread about Brandon Jacobs?

 

[coolnerd]

For Fantasy football purposes.... what RBs were taken after the 3 round of the NFL draft have made it into the to the top 15 RBs using FBGs scoring.

The clearest example I can think of wasTerrel Davis 6th round to the Broncos.

Parker UDFA, Priest UDFA, M. Anderson (6th) are a few off the top. There's gonna be tons of them...

that's the myth, I looked up the draft position in the past year or so and on average there is not more than 1 NFL starter per class who is a 2nd day draft pick or UDFA. You will have short term fill-in guys who are of fantasy help during a year, but very few significant and consistent players.http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft...Running%20Backs

 

[1huskerfan]

Chris Warren

Barry Foster

 

[switz]

For Fantasy football purposes.... what RBs were taken after the 3 round of the NFL draft have made it into the to the top 15 RBs using FBGs scoring.

The clearest example I can think of wasTerrel Davis 6th round to the Broncos.

Parker UDFA, Priest UDFA, M. Anderson (6th) are a few off the top. There's gonna be tons of them...

that's the myth, I looked up the draft position in the past year or so and on average there is not more than 1 NFL starter per class who is a 2nd day draft pick or UDFA. You will have a short term fill-in guys who are of fantasy help during a year, but very few significant and consistent players.http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft...Running%20Backs

And the implication is that draft position DOES matter in evaluating talent

 

[FBGPoker]

For Fantasy football purposes.... what RBs were taken after the 3 round of the NFL draft have made it into the to the top 15 RBs using FBGs scoring.

The clearest example I can think of wasTerrel Davis 6th round to the Broncos.

Parker UDFA, Priest UDFA, M. Anderson (6th) are a few off the top. There's gonna be tons of them...

that's the myth, I looked up the draft position in the past year or so and on average there is not more than 1 NFL starter per class who is a 2nd day draft pick or UDFA. You will have a short term fill-in guys who are of fantasy help during a year, but very few significant and consistent players.http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft...Running%20Backs

And the implication is that draft position DOES matter in evaluating talent

Did anyone actually doubt this? I would hope not.Of course some will fall through the cracks, but for the most part these professional scouts are pretty damn good.

 

[stbugs]

For Fantasy football purposes.... what RBs were taken after the 3 round of the NFL draft have made it into the to the top 15 RBs using FBGs scoring.

The clearest example I can think of wasTerrel Davis 6th round to the Broncos.

Parker UDFA, Priest UDFA, M. Anderson (6th) are a few off the top. There's gonna be tons of them...

that's the myth, I looked up the draft position in the past year or so and on average there is not more than 1 NFL starter per class who is a 2nd day draft pick or UDFA. You will have a short term fill-in guys who are of fantasy help during a year, but very few significant and consistent players.http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft...Running%20Backs

And the implication is that draft position DOES matter in evaluating talent

Did anyone actually doubt this? I would hope not.Of course some will fall through the cracks, but for the most part these professional scouts are pretty damn good.

You would be amazed how it comes up every year. People talk about Tom Brady, Delhomme, Hasselbeck, etc. as reasons to not take QBs in the 1st round, yet seemingly ignore all of the HOFers taken with the first pick overall (Peyton - will be HOF, Aikman, Elway, etc.) or in the first round (Marino, Kelly, Bradshaw, etc.).I think I took a look and it seemed to me than almost half the starters at key positions were 1st rounders. Sure, there are exceptions to the rule, but that is what they are, exceptions.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

I always find it weird when someone starts a thread and isn't there to finish it.

 

[coolnerd]

For Fantasy football purposes.... what RBs were taken after the 3 round of the NFL draft have made it into the to the top 15 RBs using FBGs scoring.

The clearest example I can think of wasTerrel Davis 6th round to the Broncos.

Parker UDFA, Priest UDFA, M. Anderson (6th) are a few off the top. There's gonna be tons of them...

that's the myth, I looked up the draft position in the past year or so and on average there is not more than 1 NFL starter per class who is a 2nd day draft pick or UDFA. You will have a short term fill-in guys who are of fantasy help during a year, but very few significant and consistent players.http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft...Running%20Backs

And the implication is that draft position DOES matter in evaluating talent

Did anyone actually doubt this? I would hope not.Of course some will fall through the cracks, but for the most part these professional scouts are pretty damn good.

I know that Denver's ability to find players late and Priest Holmes having one great 3 year or so run had people on various message boards believing that teams could find RBs throughout the draft. The other thing that happens is every year there is a player or two who for some reason bunches of people fall in love with and don't realize how much of a long shot it is for the late rounder to ever truly matter.

 

[stevegamer]

Teams have different strengths & weaknesses at talent evaluation.

Denver has success with later round backs. does everyone? no.

Detroit has trouble drafting top-10 overall WR' s - which is actually kind of scary.

What this says is that while talent matters, one cannot overlook opportunity, and that talent evaluators miss some.

Rhodes got his shot due to Edge going down. Opportunity trumped talent, as the guys who got drafted, but had less opportunity couldn't do it that year. Holmes found his opportunity away from Balt, and ran with it.

 

[dgreen]

I always find it weird when someone starts a thread and isn't there to finish it.

I agree. I also hate when someone starts a post and

 

[Tillmanisahero]

I always find it weird when someone starts a thread and isn't there to finish it.

I am reading....what would you like me to say?

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

I always find it weird when someone starts a thread and isn't there to finish it.

I am reading....what would you like me to say?

I thought you had a point you wanted to share with all of us.

 

[JayMan]

For Fantasy football purposes.... what RBs were taken after the 3 round of the NFL draft have made it into the to the top 15 RBs using FBGs scoring.

The clearest example I can think of wasTerrel Davis 6th round to the Broncos.

Parker UDFA, Priest UDFA, M. Anderson (6th) are a few off the top. There's gonna be tons of them...

that's the myth, I looked up the draft position in the past year or so and on average there is not more than 1 NFL starter per class who is a 2nd day draft pick or UDFA. You will have a short term fill-in guys who are of fantasy help during a year, but very few significant and consistent players.http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft...Running%20Backs

And the implication is that draft position DOES matter in evaluating talent

switz & coolnerd are both correct here... I had the chance of writing a freelance article last year for FBG link that looks at FF-eliteness, NFL draft round and NFL experience to find out if there is a correlation in regards to dynasty leagues...Interesting enough, 33 out of 60 'elite seasons' (last ten years prior to '06 - feel free to add the '06 results) for RBs came from players drafted in the 1st round of the NFL draft... Even more, 47 out of 60 were 1st day picks...

 

[David Yudkin]

Running through this pretty quickly for guys that were actually drafted in the past 20 years or so . . .

Dom Davis 4-4

Rudi Johnson 4-5

Mike Anderson 6-23

Olandis Gary 4-32

Stephen Davis 4-7

James Stewart 5-23

Terrell Davis 6-25

Raymont Harris 6-25

Jamal Anderson 7-7

Adrian Murrell 5-8

Edgar Bennett 4-19

Erric Pegram 6-6

Gary Brown 8-19

Larry Centers 5-6

Barry Foster 5-19

Terry Allen 9-21

Marion Butts 7-16

Derrick Fenner 10-17

There may be more, but those are the ones I could find quickly.

 

[switz]

For Fantasy football purposes.... what RBs were taken after the 3 round of the NFL draft have made it into the to the top 15 RBs using FBGs scoring.

The clearest example I can think of wasTerrel Davis 6th round to the Broncos.

Parker UDFA, Priest UDFA, M. Anderson (6th) are a few off the top. There's gonna be tons of them...

that's the myth, I looked up the draft position in the past year or so and on average there is not more than 1 NFL starter per class who is a 2nd day draft pick or UDFA. You will have a short term fill-in guys who are of fantasy help during a year, but very few significant and consistent players.http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft...Running%20Backs

And the implication is that draft position DOES matter in evaluating talent

switz & coolnerd are both correct here... I had the chance of writing a freelance article last year for FBG link that looks at FF-eliteness, NFL draft round and NFL experience to find out if there is a correlation in regards to dynasty leagues...Interesting enough, 33 out of 60 'elite seasons' (last ten years prior to '06 - feel free to add the '06 results) for RBs came from players drafted in the 1st round of the NFL draft... Even more, 47 out of 60 were 1st day picks...

Was there any doubt? coolnerd knows his stuff

 

[Tillmanisahero]

I always find it weird when someone starts a thread and isn't there to finish it.

I am reading....what would you like me to say?

I thought you had a point you wanted to share with all of us.

I was digesting what I read and was trying to figure out what the chance of any of the later RB picks turning out

 

[Sleeper 43]

Wow I forgot about Chris Warren.............

 

[coolnerd]

For Fantasy football purposes.... what RBs were taken after the 3 round of the NFL draft have made it into the to the top 15 RBs using FBGs scoring.

The clearest example I can think of wasTerrel Davis 6th round to the Broncos.

Parker UDFA, Priest UDFA, M. Anderson (6th) are a few off the top. There's gonna be tons of them...

that's the myth, I looked up the draft position in the past year or so and on average there is not more than 1 NFL starter per class who is a 2nd day draft pick or UDFA. You will have a short term fill-in guys who are of fantasy help during a year, but very few significant and consistent players.http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft...Running%20Backs

And the implication is that draft position DOES matter in evaluating talent

switz & coolnerd are both correct here... I had the chance of writing a freelance article last year for FBG link that looks at FF-eliteness, NFL draft round and NFL experience to find out if there is a correlation in regards to dynasty leagues...Interesting enough, 33 out of 60 'elite seasons' (last ten years prior to '06 - feel free to add the '06 results) for RBs came from players drafted in the 1st round of the NFL draft... Even more, 47 out of 60 were 1st day picks...

Was there any doubt? coolnerd knows his stuff

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