Here are my fantasy football rankings and tiers for Week 9. As always, feel free to use these tiered rankings as a tiebreaker for your difficult lineup decisions. Beneath the tiers, I’ll offer a few brief thoughts on some of the borderline start/sit guys and some other interesting cases.
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Jerome Ford toughed it out last week with a high-ankle sprain and had 9-37-0 rushing and 1-2-0 receiving. Cleveland used a three-headed approach at running back, giving 27 snaps to Kareem Hunt, 26 to Ford and 24 to Pierre Strong. But as Josh Norris of Underdog noted, 22 of Ford’s 26 snaps came in the second half of the Browns’ 24-20 loss to the Seahawks, while Hunt and Strong combined for just 16 second-half snaps. So basically, the Browns were trying to give Ford a light day of work, but they ramped up his usage late in a close game. I’m still regarding Ford as the lead back in Cleveland, and even though his ankle still can’t be 100%, I think he’s a reasonably solid play this week against the squishy Arizona run defense.
Darrell Henderson‘s Week 9 ECR is RB22. I have him at RB26 and worry that I might still be too high on him. Henderson had 12-31-0 rushing and 3-54 rushing last week against the Cowboys, but he was out-snapped by Royce Freeman 33-29, and Freeman ran more pass routes even though he didn’t have a catch. This is a split backfield, and the Rams’ offensive output might be limited in Green Bay this Sunday if QB Matthew Stafford (thumb) can’t play and the Rams have to roll out Brett Rypien at quarterback. I find it hard to get excited about using a time-share back who’s tethered to a backup QB.
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