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Kenyan Drake locked into another RBBC?

Fantasy Football, NFL News
August 1, 2019

Kalen Ballage has “real chance” to be starter

A lot will be made over who will be the Dolphins starter – and make no mistake, Kalen Ballage has a real chance to earn that role. He has run with the starters more than Kenyan Drake through four days of training camp, which depending on who you ask holds somewhere between no significance and a little significance. So how should we project the Dolphins backfield? Think New England Patriots-style running-back-by-committee and possibly a less-extreme version of how James White and Sony Michel shared that backfield. An early timeshare prediction could be 45/40/15 touch split for Drake, Ballage and the Dolphins secondary backs. (ESPN – Cameron Wolfe)

Nerdy Football Analysis: The irony of the Dolphins pumping up Ballage as a potential starter (or lead back) is that the position coach (Eric Studesville) suggests Ballage needs to remember to utilize his size and strength, which is a problem when a coach talks that way about a 230-pound back. A committee backfield was always the most likely outcome given the new regime’s ties to New England, but Drake remains the heavy favorite to be the best fantasy option. He is very much in the RB2 discussion.

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