Is Kyren Williams the lead running back for the Rams?
Yahoo Fantasy's Josh Norris and Hayden Winks discuss if Kyren Williams is the lead running back in Los Angeles or if Blake Corum will challenge him for snaps. Check out the full conversation on "Yahoo Fantasy Football with Josh and Hayden" - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you listen .
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In the final four games of the year, including the NFL playoffs, Kyren Williams played between 50% and 63% of the snaps.
In the game that they got eliminated, he was at 50% of the snaps, a near coin flip here.
Keep in mind that most of his games when he was, like, the locked in top five, top 10 fantasy running back, he was, like, at 85%.
What happens is Blake Corum just starts offering something, that the Rams really appreciate, and we just have to wonder how good the Rams are gonna be.
Obviously, they're gonna be good, but last year they were number one in points per game, yards per game, and success rate last year.
It was one of the highest success rate rushing offenses of the decade.
And even with that, he was kind of where he is in, in ADP RB8, RB12 usage in half PPR.
In previous seasons, he would've been in the mix for, like, an RB3 type of finish.
So I'm expecting the Rams to still be very good, but maybe not be quite as good as they were last season.
They have a left tackle, possibly can get suspended.
They're just like, it's a kind of a fragile team, one that we expect to go all the way, and I don't think that the Blake Corum stuff is going away.
It's probably gonna be 60/40, somewhere in that range, but I'm just looking at the last four games of the season when they're trying to win the Super Bowl, and that was a drive-for-drive rotation.
That's okay when you average 30 points per game.
If we're averaging 25, 26 points per game, that's where I think he gets a little bit trickier inside, like, the top 25.
Interesting.
You said the last four games of the season.
Obviously, three of those were wins, one of them was a loss, a very close one, a narrow one.
Mm-hmm.
Overall though, Kyren Williams has played 75% of the snaps when the Rams have been tied or trailing, compared to Blake Corum's 24.4%.
So while I understand that there were moments, and some of them happened towards the end of the season, again when they were three and one, that it was drive for drive.
I do believe that just overall, when the Rams And it isn't very often when they are trailing or even close to the scoreboard as maybe their opponents.
I think Sean McVay leans more on Kyren Williams, and he's gonna continue to do that.
Now, 73% of the Rams touchdowns last year were passing, the fourth highest rate in the league.
So I think that that could naturally get back to more rushing scores, and that would be incredibly advantageous for someone like Kyren Williams because despite that number, Kyren Williams finished as the running back 11 in points per game.
And right now he's being drafted on Yahoo as the running back 14, and he tied for the third most red zone rushing scores on the fifth most rushing carries inside of the 10 yard line
