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Unfortunately, sometimes you have to deal with depleted rosters in some of your fantasy football leagues. You might be looking at backup running backs as your best options due to injuries, bye weeks, and the like.
Missing players due to ailments sucks, but with plenty of teams having BYEs in Week 14, the effect of injuries is even more pronounced.
Let's dive into three backup running backs and if they're good starts this week.
Should I Start Kimani Vidal for Fantasy Football?
Probably not. Los Angeles Chargers running back Kimani Vidal still hasn't had enough opportunities to make us comfortable with starting him. We'd like to see a bigger workload, and the presence of current starting RB Gus Edwards makes that hard to envision yet.
Kimani Vidal just had a 16-yard run. That's longer than any Gus Edwards or Hassan Haskins run this year.
— Hayden Winks (@HaydenWinks) December 1, 2024
That's not to say he isn't better than Edwards. He clearly is. But sometimes coaches aren't in a hurry to give enough touches to rookies to make them fantasy-relevant. This particular rookie had just four carries in Week 13. Don't start him yet, but it's fine to stash him.
He's the RB34 in our half-PPR consensus staff rankings.
Should I Start Braelon Allen for Fantasy Football?
New York Jets running back Braelon Allen would be a solid player to start if the team's RB1, Breece Hall (knee) isn't able to go. And Hall has now missed three consecutive practices, and has been downgraded to doubtful, making it seem likely that the rookie will get his first crack as the clear RB1.
Breece Hall (knee) and Sauce Gardner (hamstring) are doubtful for Sunday at Miami per Ulbrich and C.J. Mosley (neck) is headed to injured reserve.
— Andy Vasquez (@andy_vasquez) December 6, 2024
There's another freshman RB on the team, though. Running back Isaiah Davis carried once for four yards and caught three passes for 28 yards and a touchdown. Perhaps the team views him as a good receiving back. Now-fired former general manager Joe Douglas made some head-scratching draft decisions because Hall is elite when healthy. Allen is still a risky start, but with a huge bye-week crunch and plenty of expected volume he's an understandable start for Week 14.
Should I Start Blake Corum for Fantasy Football?
Los Angeles Rams running back Blake Corum carried the ball eight times for 42 yards, averaging just under 5.3 yards per carry, in Week 13. It was easily his highest rushing total and carry count outside of garbage time this season. Still, lead back Kyren Williams takes too much work for Corum to be fantasy startable.
Really nice first carry from Rams rookie RB Blake Corum.
Displays good vision and hits the hole.
Beaux Limmer does an awesome job getting to the second level. Havenstein and Dotson with key blocks as well. pic.twitter.com/X8qbeiNAHM
— Blaine Grisak 💭 (@bgrisakTST) December 4, 2024
Corum is simply better than Williams athletically, and it looks like he's making great strides in the mental part of his game. Some of us at RotoBaller wouldn't be surprised to see Corum take over the starting job... next year.
He's the RB44 in our half-PPR consensus staff rankings.
Popular Week 14 Searches - Start/Sit Comparisons
Below are some popular Week 14 searches and comparisons from our Who To Start tool for Braelon Allen, Kimani Vidal, Blake Corum compared to others. You can also use the free Who Should I Start tool to run your own start/sit comparisons, up to four players at once:
Gus Edwards or Kimani Vidal
Trey Benson or Braelon Allen
Alexander Mattison or Kimani Vidal
Ameer Abdullah or Kimani Vidal
Tyjae Spears or Braelon Allen
Jerome Ford or Kimani Vidal
Isaac Guerendo or Kimani Vidal
Kareem Hunt or Kimani Vidal
Gus Edwards or Braelon Allen
Jerome Ford or Braelon Allen
Kimani Vidal or Kimani Vidal
Ray Davis or Kimani Vidal
Tank Bigsby or Braelon Allen
Tank Bigsby or Kimani Vidal
Tyjae Spears or Kimani Vidal
Alexander Mattison or Blake Corum
Ameer Abdullah or Braelon Allen
Blake Corum or Kimani Vidal
Cam Akers or Blake Corum
Cam Akers or Blake Corum
Cam Akers or Blake Corum
Cam Akers or Braelon Allen
Cedric Tillman or Kimani Vidal
Dandre Swift or Kimani Vidal
Ezekiel Elliott or Blake Corum
Jonathon Brooks or Kimani Vidal
Kareem Hunt or Blake Corum
Kimani Vidal or Blake Corum
Sincere Mccormick or Kimani Vidal
Sterling Shepard or Blake Corum
Trey Benson or Kimani Vidal
Wandale Robinson or Kimani Vidal
Zach Charbonnet or Kimani Vidal
Amari Cooper or Blake Corum
Ameer Abdullah or Blake Corum
Ameer Abdullah or Braelon Allen
Ameer Abdullah or Kimani Vidal
Blake Corum or Kimani Vidal
Braelon Allen or Kimani Vidal
Cedric Tillman or Braelon Allen
Chuba Hubbard or Braelon Allen
Dandre Swift or Kimani Vidal
Devin Singletary or Kimani Vidal
Devin Singletary or Kimani Vidal
Dj Moore or Kimani Vidal
Gus Edwards or Blake Corum
Gus Edwards or Blake Corum
Gus Edwards or Braelon Allen
Gus Edwards or Kimani Vidal
Gus Edwards or Kimani Vidal
Gus Edwards or Kimani Vidal
Isaac Guerendo or Blake Corum
Isaac Guerendo or Braelon Allen
Isaac Guerendo or Kimani Vidal
Isaiah Davis or Blake Corum
Isaiah Davis or Braelon Allen
Jaleel Mclaughlin or Kimani Vidal
Jameson Williams or Kimani Vidal
Javonte Williams or Kimani Vidal
Jonathon Brooks or Kimani Vidal
Justice Hill or Kimani Vidal
Kareem Hunt or Braelon Allen
Kareem Hunt or Kimani Vidal
Kareem Hunt or Kimani Vidal
Kenneth Gainwell or Blake Corum
Khalil Shakir or Kimani Vidal
Kimani Vidal or Blake Corum
Kimani Vidal or Blake Corum
Kimani Vidal or Braelon Allen
Michael Wilson or Blake Corum
Michael Wilson or Kimani Vidal
Patrick Taylorjr or Kimani Vidal
Raheem Mostert or Braelon Allen
Raheem Mostert or Kimani Vidal
Ray Davis or Blake Corum
Ray Davis or Kimani Vidal
Sincere Mccormick or Braelon Allen
Tank Bigsby or Kimani Vidal
Tank Bigsby or Kimani Vidal
Trey Benson or Kimani Vidal
Tyjae Spears or Braelon Allen
Tyjae Spears or Kimani Vidal
Tyler Allgeier or Braelon Allen
Tyler Allgeier or Braelon Allen
Zach Charbonnet or Blake Corum
Zach Charbonnet or Braelon Allen
Zamir White or Kimani Vidal
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