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New Orleans Saints running back (RB) Latavius Murray is a fantasy football sleeper and ADP value for the 2019 season. Justin Carter breaks down Murray's value in fantasy drafts.
BALLER MOVE: Target Around ~90 Overall
Current ADP: ~100
Former Vikings back Latavius Murray has taken Mark Ingram's role in what was the NFL's best running back committee over the past two years, when the Ingram and Alvin Kamara duo was an incredibly lethal duo in real life and fantasy.
But people have...well, they've just seemed to ignore Murray all offseason, despite the fact that all of the worries about Alvin Kamara seeing a full workload and the Saints needing to save him to help him be more efficient are still worries. They're still worries, people! Do we think Sean Payton is really going to just run Kamara into the ground all of a sudden?
You can argue that Murray's not as good as Ingram, but situation and opportunity still matter a ton. Ingram had 159 touches in 12 games last year, so let's estimate that Murray ends up at 200 touches over 16 games. Murray with that level of touches is a top-25 fantasy back with the upside of being somewhere in the high range of RB2s. Last year, he finished as the RB35 in standard scoring, but he had just 162 touches. When he's had at least 200, he's never finished worse than RB20 in standard. Last year was a down year for Murray, but the level of usage and the offensive scheme in New Orleans is going to get him numbers.
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