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ANALYSIS: In case you have missed the breaking news: the Carolina Panthers traded their no. 1 rusher (and fourth-best fantasy RB in PPR leagues) Christian McCaffrey to the San Francisco 49ers for a handful of draft picks before Week 7 games. The aftermath is, obviously, a Panthers backfield featuring a committee in which both Chuba Hubbard and D'Onta Foreman will get split chances weekly.
This past Sunday, facing Tampa Bay, it was Foreman who got the larger workload carrying the ball 15 times in comparison to Hubbard's 9 carries. Foreman edged Hubbard in yardage too (118 to 63 yards on the ground) although it was Hubbard who ended up scoring the only rushing touchdown of the Panthers on the day.
Foreman was able to catch his two targets for 27 yards, which was nice to see considering he's never been too much of a pass-play factor earlier in his career. Hubbard went 2-of-3 on the receiving end although he could only rack up 10 yards. Don't get it twisted, though: Foreman is the preternatural rusher and he will just be tasked with carrying the ball forward, full stop.
Foreman should be a better fantasy option for those in standard leagues or just looking at bulkier workloads in terms of rushing plays and short-but-always-there yardage gains. Foreman should take on the RB1 role and get fantasy points just on pure brute force (that is, carrying the ball more often than not and putting up rushing yardage, even if low).
In any case, Foreman and Chubbard seem to be part of a committee that might turn into a weekly frustration for GMs with shares of one of the two Panthers rushers.
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