Chuck Cook-USA TODAY Sports New Orleans Saints running back Latavius Murray is the player you need on all of your fantasy football rosters. Stop stealing our stuff and ripping off our features, please. Murray closes out his first year as a Saint with 872 total yards and six total touchdowns.Murray carried seven times for 14 yards and secured two of three targets for 11 yards in the Saints' 38-28 win over the Titans on Sunday. Murray is no exception. It could even be a combination of both. We will look to answer those questions today as we take a look back at Murray’s 2019 season and project what we can expect from him in 2020. Even if his workload increases a bit in 2020, it likely won’t increase his value much.
However, this includes his 2 massive fantasy performances as a starter where he saw over 20 carries and 100 rushing yards in each contest.
You don’t need to be a Kamara owner to have value in Murray. If Kamara goes down at any point, Murray becomes an easy RB2 on a weekly basis.Murray is not a sexy player to draft, but he is what I like to call essential for fantasy football. Murray actually saw his workload increase on average after Kamara was back.
Murray will hold good value this upcoming season, but it will be of the handcuff variety. Below are Murray’s per game averages for last season.For basically a full season as a backup, this is a fairly good per game average line. Perhaps the Saints could also find more ways to get both running backs on the field together, too, since they have such a dearth of pass-catchers behind Michael Thomas.
Over 725.5 yards -110
Murray pointed out that he's experienced plenty of coaching staff turnover in his time with the Oakland Raiders and the Minnesota Vikings, and that the consistency of the coaching staff with the Saints from last season has allowed him play faster. Aside from two huge starts in Kamara's stead, Murray managed just 590 total yards and two total touchdowns in 14 regular-season games played.Murray carried 17 times for 61 yards, adding a 14-yard reception in the Saints' 42-10 win over the Panthers on Sunday. He earned it,” said Brees, who leaned on Murray quite a bit in the Murray was admittedly “pretty hyped up” about the TD, which came on the 150th catch of his career.Before that, according to ESPN Stats & Information, the only player in NFL history with more receptions without a receiving TD was former Falcons RB Gerald Riggs with 201.“I knew the minute I caught it, ‘Oh, this is gonna be it,’” said Murray, who caught a short pass from Brees around the 12-yard line and had to keep his balance on the way into the end zone to avoid being shoved out of bounds.
After nagging injuries kept Alvin Kamara sidelined, Murray stepped into a larger role for the Saints during the early goings of 2019.
Kamara clearly is the lead back right now, and Murray has logged just under eight touches per game across his last five contests. A player that is drafted more as insurance rather than a weekly asset giving you weekly value is rare. He out-touched Alvin Kamara by a comfortable margin, though most of his work came with the game well in hand for New Orleans.
He's a fantastic teammate.
You can look into this one of two ways.
Murray was brought in to be the bigger back for goal line packages when Kamara is healthy, and to be the workhorse when if or when he goes down.
The Saints will continue to employ the 2 back system especially with Kamara struggling with injury last year.
We saw the upside and the downside of Murray's role last year. Fantasy Football Analysis.
Overview; Just about every team utilizies the dreaded 'running backs by comittee' policy.
Latavius Murray, RB, New Orleans Saints, stats and updates at CBSSports.com. He saw goal line work even when Kamara was healthy and was the full time starter when Kamara went down a few games. “That’s all his.
The receiving Touchdown was the first of his career up to this point, but he did see his lowest rushing Touchdown total since his rookie season.
In the next game, he earned his first NFL start against the Chiefs and had 12 rushing attempts for 59 yards. Murray accounted for his most yards from scrimmage since Week 8 when he was still the starter. site: fantasynews | arena: nfl | pageType: profiles | )As stated above, Murray was more of a change of pace back for the Saints last season.