If you played fantasy football during the 2018 season, you’re probably familiar with the exploits of Saquon Barkley. The New York Giants rookie Phenom clocked in at more than 2,000 yards of total offense, with oodles of touchdowns to boot. If you drafted him, you probably congratulated yourself for your savvy decision making.
You also probably didn’t win your league.
See, in week 15, when most fantasy football leagues were into playoffs Barkley laid an egg. That’s the way the ball bounces. Better luck next year. But was it luck? Not so fast.
To be clear, he was the smart choice come draft time. When NFL teams use their first-round draft pick on a running back, they do so with the intention of giving them a heavy workload. He’s a great receiver at a position that is increasingly part of a team’s passing attack. The scouting reports were glowing. You had done your research.
And through the first half of the season, your research paid off. He was one of the top performers in all of fantasy, and just kept getting better, racking up 229 yards against the Eagles in week 6.
But there were...
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