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No. 3 Fournettteflix and Chill
You may have heard of "Netflix and Chill", but this fantasy name from Sports Feel Good plays homage to Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette. Fantasy owners are hoping that a trimmer Fournette can be even more productive in his second season. Fournette has always been known as a bruising back, but he lost 15 pounds this off-season which could lead to more involvement in the passing game. Fournette rushed for 1,040 yards and nine touchdowns in his rookie season. The Jaguars running back also had some involvement in the passing game with 36 receptions for 302 yards and a touchdown.
According to Fantasy Pros, many fans are high on Fournette this season as he has an ADP of ninth overall, putting him firmly in the first round as the seventh running back off the board. As the numbers show, Fournette was already sneakily involved in the passing game, and it is reasonable to expect to see an uptick in this category in 2018. Fournette told ESPN that taking care of his body is a big point of emphasis for him in his second NFL season.
"I feel healthier," Fournette explained to ESPN. "I would say it is probably one of my first years feeling healthier than I ever did before...If the out of bounds is right there, I have to take it. It comes with the experience of your game. I think we practice that a lot more. Also, that is what our OC [Hackett] wanted, for me to save my body."
Count Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles as one of the players impressed with how Fournette came into camp.
"Obviously the season he had last year was awesome as a rookie," Bortles told ESPN. "I think what has been impressive is that I think it is easy in that situation to take an offseason off. He just went through a whole [season]. That is the longest year of your life when you come from college and you train for the combine and then you go right into rookie minicamp and [training] camp. That is a really long year. I think it is easy to kind of get lazy in the offseason. That is not what he did."
Fournette is one of several young running backs going in the first round of most fantasy drafts. Saquon Barkley, Alvin Kamara and Kareem Hunt are all backs that will be entering their first or second season that are going in the first two rounds.
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