You like certainty. I like certainty. We all love certainty.

That search for certainty translates to fantasy football in one particular, predictable way: We want running backs who are guaranteed a decent weekly workload. We don’t want to guess whether a running back will see eight touches or twelve or sixteen or none at all. We want to know. So we gravitate toward backfields that offer us at least some certainty.

We take the backs who have the primary back job locked down. We turn up our noses at the uncertainty of backfields that may or may not feature one guy, or maybe split the workload between two guys, or worse yet, do the three-headed backfield monster thing -- the stuff of nightmares for those who like to pretend they can predict the future.

But ambiguity creates opportunity. You

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