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Fantasy Football RB Handcuff Rankings: 2025 Depth charts, draft sleepers, key backups, waiver wire pickups

Many fantasy football drafters continue to fade the top options at running back in the early rounds, instead opting to deploy strategies including Zero-RB, where you punt the position for at least four rounds or through the top 20 or so options at average draft position (ADP).

Regardless of whether you're trying Zero-RB, Hero RB (one major RB drafted in the first half of the draft), or Robust RB (old-school approach of going heavy on the position), knowing the backups to chase and stash in your draft and on the waiver wire is a necessary step.

Enter the fantasy RB handcuff grid, where we track depth chart movement among every NFL backfield and itemize how it

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