Fantasy Football: 5 sleeper running backs to target for PPR leagues

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2. Chase Edmonds

There’s probably a number of you reading this saying, “Chase Edmonds was my starter for three or four weeks last season, how on earth is he a sleeper?” That’a fair question and here’s the answer: He literally fell off the face of the earth in the closing weeks of the regular season — which are the most important in fantasy, by the way — after the Arizona Cardinals acquired Kenyan Drake in a trade with the Miami Dolphins. 

After being a waiver wire hero from Weeks 5 through 7, the undrafted Fordham product logged nine carries for 16 yards for the rest of the season. Though he was battling injuries, what made Edmonds fall from grace so maddening was that the Cardinals made him active for seemingly every game.

However, the 24-year-old will have a clean slate in 2020. Not only is David Johnson out of the picture, but Drake, as well as he performed after arriving in Arizona, has yet to start all 16 games across his four-year career. 

Edmonds erupted for 126 yards and three touchdowns in the only game he played more than 65% of the offensive snaps. We’re still on the former fourth-round pick’s bandwagon and wouldn’t hesitate to draft him in the middle rounds as a flex option with potential to reach RB2 status pretty early in the campaign if he outperforms his running mate.

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