Ultimate Zero RB Watch List: NFC Week 14 – Is Ezekiel Elliott Toast?

Blair Andrews
December 9, 2020

Blair Andrews explores the changing backfield situations in the NFC ahead of Week 14 in the Ultimate Zero RB Watch List. Is it time to move on from Ezekiel Elliott?

You don’t have to draft a Zero RB team to win at fantasy football, but it helps. Whether you did go Zero RB or not, all teams can benefit from finding some waiver wire RB stars. This weekly column will help you unearth waiver wire gems before they start to shine. Along the way we’ll also look at changing depth chart situations to help you find trade targets and make informed start/sit decisions.

We’ll focus on opportunity (snaps, carries, and targets), expected points (EP), and fantasy points over expectation (FPOE), using RotoViz apps like the RotoViz Screener, the Weekly Stat Explorer, and the NFL Stat Explorer to find key trends and insights.

Be sure to check out Shawn Siegele’s companion piece on the AFC.

Atlanta Falcons

Even though no one was particularly good in Atlanta’s backfield, it’s notable that Ito Smith had the most valuable workload among the three backs. He’s coming off the first RB1 performance of his career, but wasn’t able to follow it up.

Still, it’s not at all a given that this is Todd Gurley’s backfield.

Chicago Bears

David Montgomery, on the other hand, was able to follow up his performance from last week. Each of his last two games has been a new career high in both PPR …

and FPOE.

Shawn Siegele noted weeks ago that Montgomery’s schedule would be favorable, and we might see him turn his season around. Hopefully you listened.

Dallas Cowboys

We already know Benny Snell was the least efficient RB of the week. Yesterday I said it wasn’t particularly close, but that was before the Tuesday night game. Ezekiel Elliott gave Snell some competition.

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Blair Andrews

Managing Editor, Author of The Wrong Read, Occasional Fantasy Football League Winner. All opinions are someone else's.

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