RADIO
BALLER MOVE: Target Around ~100 Overall
CURRENT ADP: ~131
ANALYSIS: A starting running back (for at least four weeks) is available in the double-digit rounds. That rarely happens.
Rookie second-round pick Jonathon Brooks is beginning the season on the PUP list, securing the starting role for Chuba Hubbard. Veteran Miles Sanders will mix in.
Hubbard doesn't possess game-breaking speed, but most other aspects of his game are respectable. He is a threat in the passing game and proved he can carry the load when called upon.
Volume is the key to Hubbard being a fantasy asset. He averaged a hair under 17 carries a game in his starts last season. In that stretch (Week 6 through the end of the season), Hubbard was the RB19 in PPR formats. Once again, it's nothing flashy, but great value for the final rounds of fantasy drafts.
Reminder that Chuba Hubbard did this in his last seven games:
19 touches, 92 YDS, 1 TD
25 touches, 104 YDS, 2 TD
25 touches, 96 YDS
24 touches, 103 YDS
17 touches, 51 YDS, 1 TD
15 touches, 71 YDS
25 touches, 91 YDSWorkhorse for AT LEAST W1-4, likely committee late season.
— Frank Ammirante (@FAmmiranteTFJ) August 27, 2024
Hubbard caught 39 passes (21st among RBs) for Carolina last season. While the season-long total may come down once Brooks returns, he could easily surpass 2.3 receptions per game early on. Rachaad White averaged 3.8 in a Dave Canales-led offense last season.
The Panthers offense as a whole should also improve under Canales. Bryce Young is in Year 2 and the team added Diontae Johnson and first-round rookie Xavier Legette to his wide receiver corps. Canales has reinvented the careers of Geno Smith and Baker Mayfield. Young may be next in line. That will open more running lanes for Hubbard, who saw a stacked box almost as much as any runner in the league a year ago.
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