Fantasy Football Week 10 Running Back Preview: Injury Replacements, Waivers, Throws & More

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It’s another week of uncertainty at running back in Fantasy football. David Johnson and David Montgomery are in the concussion protocol, Christian McCaffrey and Kenyan Drake are day-to-day and a handful of running backs are trying to come back from extended absences.

As of Tuesday, we expect Nick Chubb and Miles Sanders back, but we’re still uncertain about Joe Mixon and Raheem Mostert. We don’t know about Mark Ingram or Devonta Freeman either, I’m just not sure how much you care.

That leaves us in a place where I’m only sure of about 12 starting running backs early in the week. That means that no matter how frustrating Jonathan Taylor has been, I’m sticking with him yet another week. Coach Frank Reich has offered the dreaded vote of confidence this week while also extolling the virtues of a committee approach. While that’s obviously awful for Taylor’s ceiling, it does make it likely he’s still a big part of the game plan on a short week against a mediocre run defense. I still believe he’s a better runner than Jordan Wilkins and Nyheim Hines, and frankly there aren’t enough backs to feel good enough about to start over Taylor. Certainly Mike Davis and Giovani Bernard, but you may not know if either is starting when Taylor’s game kicks off. Same goes for Jerrick McKinnon and Duke Johnson.

As frustrating as Taylor has been the past month, he has still managed to give you a flex-worthy finish in all but one week. You can stomach his floor with the upside of him eventually figuring it out against this matchup.

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