Any Achane owners feel they had to also grab Mostert later?
I'd prefer
either Achane or Mostert (not both), then target Jaylen Wright late.
This is what I did. Achane at 22 and Wright at 174 (lol). And was more than happy to cheaply fill out the rest of my RB room with Conner in the 7th, Brooks in the 8th (who went in IR and gave me an extra "free" player right after the draft), Brian Robinson in the 10th, and Dobbins in the 11th. I wouldn't take a risk on a guy like Achane that high in some previous years, but this year was the perfect time with how other RBs were being valued to do it IMO. Not to mention, in that middle part of the draft the top 6 TEs were already gone, and I was a fan of very few WRs in that range.
For those on Team Achane, does it matter to you that last year he was essentially a backup running back? Achane played in 12 games (counting the playoffs), and 5 of them were blowouts (28 points or more). That left only 6 games where both RM and DA played where the score wasn't essentially decided by halftime. Here were his game logs for those games:
NEP: 1-5-0 | 1-4-0
NYG: 11-151-1 | 1-14-0 (had a 76-yard TD run)
LVR: 1-1-0 | 1-4-0
TEN: 7-47-0 | 5-24-0
DAL: 7-24-0 | 1-7-0
KCC: 6-9-0 | 3-21-0
That's an average of 5.5-39.5-0.17 |2.2-12.3-0 . . . or an average of 8.38 ppg in 1 PPR leagues. Sure, I get that he's unlikely to have games with 1 carry. But I am not so sure he will have many games with 10 carries.
Pages and pages ago, I posted that the huge majority of Achane's production came in situations that didn't matter and the Dolphins were either up a ton or down a ton. Some would call that garbage time. (It technically wasn't because it wasn't in the final 2 minutes of games.) But when it actually mattered the most, Mostert got the ball.
There are a lot of variables that people on Team Achane will point to. There could be just as many blowouts and Achane could get a ton of fantasy production in a mop up role. There could be just as many TD opportunities and Achane will get them this year instead. Mostert could get hurt. Mostert could start playing like an old man. Achane could get half the workload. Mostert could take a backseat to Achane. Achane could have a half dozen 50-yard TD. All those things COULD happen, but as far as I can tell, Mostert is still slated to be the primary ball carrier.
Maybe I'm just stubborn, old school, and obstinate. But I have yet to see a set of Week 1 rankings with Mostert ranked ahead of Achane. And I've seen Achane ranked as a Top 5 back for Week 1. No matter what, this will be an interesting situation to follow each week.