Over the past few years, there have been several very popular articles written by myself and our very own Chase Stuart that look at an interesting approach to building a fantasy team with late value picks. Based upon the theory of using both Strength of Schedule ("SOS") and taking two players as a combination to build one very good player, Chase has discussed both Team Defense by Committee ("TDBC") and Quarterback by Committee ("QBBC") as a general fantasy league strategy. In general, I think that this is a wise move because very early on in fantasy drafts there are a ton of RB and WR prospects to go after to build a great team. While there are a few studs at quarterback and also a few choice defenses, I do not see a huge need in leagues to pursue either too hard in the beginning stages of a fantasy draft.

So with this in mind, I started to think about what else can be done with the committee approach. Tight end? Perhaps. Wide receiver? A possibility, but it might be better to look at third wide receiver options than any other option. What about running back? Hmmm, that's really intriguing. What if you could grab two running backs later in the draft that could combine to perform on an RB2 - or even RB1 - level, based solely on their current projections and their schedule? Now we're talking. This really got my attention, so I went after this one first. Let's take a look at how I went about this and then we can digest and discuss the results.

THE GROUND(GAME) RULES

So how to begin? Defenses and quarterbacks are relatively easy to committee together. There's usually only one quarterback and certainly only one team defense per NFL club, so the approach is pretty simple as far as picking out which players/teams to try and pair up. When it comes to running backs, the line is not quite so easy to draw, but I needed some basis to pick which players it made sense to try and combine for a decent committee. I decided that I would use the following criteria to decide which players to start with for evaluating:

CRITERIA #1 - RB25 AND BEYOND

This seems pretty simple. If we want to have a duo that puts up RB2 numbers, that means we want RB24 or better production - else we would just draft RB24 (Mark Ingram) or higher and forget the whole idea. So here is the list of players with which I started, based on their Average Draft Position (ADP):

Table 1: Running Backs RB25-RB50 Based on PPR ADP

Great, now we have 26 guys to pair up and see how they do. That makes 325 potential committees, so there had better be a decent one (or several, we hope) out of all of those couplets. Now, before I go over the method of how to pair them up and the results, we need one more rule:

CRITERIA #2 - NO MORE THAN ONE RB FROM ROUND 5 AND ONE FROM ROUND 6

This could get tricky here, but understand the overall goal. The point of RB2BC is to free up the first four rounds of your fantasy draft to pursue three receivers after grabbing a stud running back in Round 1. This also gives you the flexibility of grabbing two receivers and a stud quarterback or tight end, depending on your personal preference, or even to get RB2 and have the RB2BC be your RB3. Flexibility is the name of the game here. We all want value in our drafts, and having the ability to grab two running backs in Rounds 5 and 6 to act as our RB2BC gives us that ability.

Here is the good news - nearly all the running backs on the list above has an ADP that is Round 6 or higher (later), but several backs fall in the Round 5-6 range that will be of interest. We will have to keep that in mind when we look at the results because it would not make sense to expect to get two Round 5 or Round 6 running backs in one of these combinations based on their ADP.

So what do we do now to figure out some running back pairs?

CRITERIA #3 - USE FOOTBALLGUYS' RB STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE

This sounds pretty simple, doesn't it? Just take the running back strength of schedule to figure out when certain players are more likely to score well. What I did is similar to what the Projections Dominator and Draft Dominator do for you - take the projected fantasy points and slice them up over 16 weeks based on the strength of schedule. I call this result the distributed fantasy points for each back.

After I had all 26 running backs with distributed fantasy points on a weekly basis, I just compared all of the possible running back pairs to find the best duos for RB2BC. So here we are - time for some results.

Rank	Running Back 1	Running Back 2	Value
1	Sony Michel	Jamaal Williams	186.9
2	Carlos Hyde	Jamaal Williams	186.4
3	Ronald Jones II II	Tevin Coleman	185.4
4	Tevin Coleman	Carlos Hyde	185.1
5	Sony Michel	Tevin Coleman	184.2
6	Ronald Jones II II	Jamaal Williams	184.1
7	Chris Thompson	Jamaal Williams	183.9
8	Tevin Coleman	Chris Thompson	183.3
9	Tevin Coleman	Rex Burkhead	183.2
10	Dion Lewis	Sony Michel	182.2
11	Rex Burkhead	Jamaal Williams	182.2
12	Jamaal Williams	Isaiah Crowell	182.2
13	Dion Lewis	Chris Thompson	182.1
14	Royce Freeman	Jamaal Williams	182.0
15	Dion Lewis	Carlos Hyde	181.6
16	Tarik Cohen	Jamaal Williams	181.6
17	Tevin Coleman	Isaiah Crowell	181.6
18	Royce Freeman	Tevin Coleman	181.5
19	Ronald Jones II II	Carlos Hyde	181.4
20	Tevin Coleman	Tarik Cohen	181.2
21	Chris Thompson	Carlos Hyde	181.1
22	Ronald Jones II II	Dion Lewis	180.9
23	Dion Lewis	Royce Freeman	180.8
24	Dion Lewis	Jamaal Williams	180.8
25	Sony Michel	Tarik Cohen	180.2
26	Royce Freeman	Sony Michel	180.1
27	Dion Lewis	Isaiah Crowell	180.1
28	Ronald Jones II II	Sony Michel	180.0
29	Tevin Coleman	Jamaal Williams	180.0
30	Marlon Mack	Jamaal Williams	180.0
31	Tarik Cohen	Chris Thompson	180.0
32	Ronald Jones II II	Chris Thompson	179.9
33	Tarik Cohen	Carlos Hyde	179.7
34	Dion Lewis	Tarik Cohen	179.6
35	Duke Johnson Jr	Jamaal Williams	179.5
36	Ronald Jones II II	Isaiah Crowell	179.4
37	Kerryon Johnson	Jamaal Williams	179.4
38	Tarik Cohen	Rex Burkhead	179.3
39	Royce Freeman	Carlos Hyde	179.1
40	Tevin Coleman	Marlon Mack	178.9
41	Tevin Coleman	Duke Johnson Jr	178.9
42	Dion Lewis	Rex Burkhead	178.5
43	Tevin Coleman	Giovani Bernard	178.0
44	Tevin Coleman	Kerryon Johnson	177.9
45	Sony Michel	Chris Thompson	177.8
46	Ronald Jones II II	Royce Freeman	177.7
47	Sony Michel	Marlon Mack	177.3
48	Chris Thompson	Isaiah Crowell	177.3
49	Jamaal Williams	Devontae Booker	176.9
50	Jamaal Williams	Giovani Bernard	176.8
51	Royce Freeman	Tarik Cohen	176.8
52	Royce Freeman	Rex Burkhead	176.8
53	Tevin Coleman	Devontae Booker	176.7
54	Dion Lewis	Marlon Mack	176.5
55	Royce Freeman	Chris Thompson	176.4
56	Tarik Cohen	Isaiah Crowell	176.3
57	Chris Thompson	Rex Burkhead	176.3
58	Ronald Jones II II	Rex Burkhead	176.2
59	Dion Lewis	Devontae Booker	176.0
60	Chris Thompson	Giovani Bernard	175.8
61	Dion Lewis	Duke Johnson Jr	175.7
62	Dion Lewis	Kerryon Johnson	175.0
63	Dion Lewis	Giovani Bernard	175.0
64	Ronald Jones II II	Marlon Mack	174.9
65	Sony Michel	Giovani Bernard	174.9
66	Marlon Mack	Carlos Hyde	174.9
67	Royce Freeman	Isaiah Crowell	174.8
68	Carlos Hyde	Devontae Booker	174.8
69	Marshawn Lynch	Carlos Hyde	174.5
70	Marlon Mack	Isaiah Crowell	174.5
71	Tarik Cohen	Kerryon Johnson	174.4
72	Tarik Cohen	Giovani Bernard	174.4
73	Marlon Mack	Rex Burkhead	174.4
74	Tarik Cohen	Marlon Mack	174.3
75	Tevin Coleman	Marshawn Lynch	174.1
76	Carlos Hyde	Giovani Bernard	174.1
77	Chris Thompson	Marlon Mack	174.1
78	Chris Thompson	Marshawn Lynch	174.1
79	Dion Lewis	Marshawn Lynch	173.9
80	Chris Thompson	Duke Johnson Jr	173.7
81	Tevin Coleman	Nick Chubb	173.6
82	Tevin Coleman	Theo Riddick	173.5
83	Jamaal Williams	Theo Riddick	173.5
84	Ronald Jones II II	Devontae Booker	173.4
85	Sony Michel	Devontae Booker	173.3
86	Jamaal Williams	Nick Chubb	173.2
87	Jamaal Williams	Nyheim Hines	173.1
88	Sony Michel	Carlos Hyde	173.0
89	Tevin Coleman	C.J. Anderson	172.9
90	Isaiah Crowell	Giovani Bernard	172.9
91	Ronald Jones II II	Giovani Bernard	172.8
92	Ronald Jones II II	Kerryon Johnson	172.7
93	Jamaal Williams	C.J. Anderson	172.7
94	Ronald Jones II II	Duke Johnson Jr	172.6
95	Tevin Coleman	D'Onta Foreman	172.6
96	Chris Thompson	Kerryon Johnson	172.6
97	Kerryon Johnson	Isaiah Crowell	172.4
98	Chris Thompson	Devontae Booker	172.4
99	Rex Burkhead	Giovani Bernard	172.4
100	Tarik Cohen	Duke Johnson Jr	172.4
101	Kerryon Johnson	Carlos Hyde	172.3
102	Dion Lewis	Theo Riddick	172.3
103	Tarik Cohen	Marshawn Lynch	172.3
104	Dion Lewis	Nick Chubb	172.2
105	Ronald Jones II II	Marshawn Lynch	172.1
106	Jamaal Williams	D'Onta Foreman	172.1
107	Tevin Coleman	Nyheim Hines	171.9
108	Dion Lewis	C.J. Anderson	171.7
109	Dion Lewis	D'Onta Foreman	171.4
110	Rex Burkhead	Devontae Booker	171.4
111	Chris Thompson	Ty Montgomery	171.3
112	Jamaal Williams	Corey Clement	171.1
113	Ronald Jones II II	Tarik Cohen	171.0
114	Marshawn Lynch	Isaiah Crowell	170.8
115	Dion Lewis	Nyheim Hines	170.7
116	Chris Thompson	Aaron Jones	170.7
117	Dion Lewis	Tevin Coleman	170.6
118	Chris Thompson	Theo Riddick	170.6
119	Royce Freeman	Giovani Bernard	170.5
120	Tevin Coleman	Ty Montgomery	170.3
121	Carlos Hyde	Isaiah Crowell	170.3
122	Tevin Coleman	Aaron Jones	170.2
123	Rex Burkhead	Carlos Hyde	170.1
124	Isaiah Crowell	Devontae Booker	170.1
125	Tarik Cohen	Devontae Booker	170.0
126	Royce Freeman	Kerryon Johnson	169.8
127	Royce Freeman	Marlon Mack	169.7
128	Royce Freeman	Marshawn Lynch	169.6
129	Sony Michel	Isaiah Crowell	169.6
130	Carlos Hyde	C.J. Anderson	169.6
131	Royce Freeman	Duke Johnson Jr	169.5
132	Ronald Jones II II	Ty Montgomery	169.4
133	Ronald Jones II II	Theo Riddick	169.2
134	Chris Thompson	D'Onta Foreman	169.2
135	Carlos Hyde	Ty Montgomery	169.2
136	Dion Lewis	Ty Montgomery	169.1
137	Dion Lewis	Aaron Jones	169.0
138	Chris Thompson	Nyheim Hines	169.0
139	Carlos Hyde	Corey Clement	168.9
140	Ronald Jones II II	C.J. Anderson	168.8
141	Ronald Jones II II	Aaron Jones	168.8
142	Ronald Jones II II	Nyheim Hines	168.8
143	Carlos Hyde	D'Onta Foreman	168.8
144	Rex Burkhead	Isaiah Crowell	168.7
145	Carlos Hyde	Aaron Jones	168.6
146	Carlos Hyde	Nyheim Hines	168.5
147	Chris Thompson	Nick Chubb	168.2
148	Ronald Jones II II	D'Onta Foreman	167.9
149	Isaiah Crowell	C.J. Anderson	167.9
150	Ronald Jones II II	Nick Chubb	167.7
151	Tarik Cohen	Corey Clement	167.7
152	Sony Michel	Marshawn Lynch	167.5
153	Isaiah Crowell	Ty Montgomery	167.5
154	Tarik Cohen	Ty Montgomery	167.5
155	Marshawn Lynch	Jamaal Williams	167.3 Photos provided by Imagn Images Share This Article Copy Featured Articles   9 Deep Dynasty Sleepers To Pick Up Rachel Tootsiepop Wood, Bloom, Kantzabedian, Kashuba, Blaylock, Zacharias, Hicks, Tootsiepop, and Papworth discuss deep dynasty sleepers. 03/26/25 Read More   9 Lower-Priced Players to Target in Your Dynasty League Rachel Tootsiepop 03/25/25 Read More   11 High-Priced Players to Target in Your Dynasty Leagues Rachel Tootsiepop 03/24/25 Read More   Fantasy Outlooks: Tracking the Important 2025 NFL Free Agency Moves 03/26/25 Read More   IDP Free-Agency Winners and Losers: The Guru and the Godfather Gary Davenport 03/26/25 Read More More Featured Articles More by Jeff Pasquino   Eliminator Pool: 2020-2021 Season FInal Results Jeff Pasquino 01/08/21 Read More   Eliminator Pool: Week 17 Jeff Pasquino 12/31/20 Read More   Eliminator Pool: Week 16 Jeff Pasquino 12/23/20 Read More   Eliminator Pool: Week 15 Jeff Pasquino 12/17/20 Read More   Eliminator Pool: Week 14 Jeff Pasquino 12/09/20 Read More   Eliminator Pool: Week 13 Jeff Pasquino 12/03/20 Read More Latest Features   9 Deep Dynasty Sleepers To Pick Up Rachel Tootsiepop 03/26/25 Read More   9 Lower-Priced Players to Target in Your Dynasty League Rachel Tootsiepop 03/25/25 Read More   11 High-Priced Players to Target in Your Dynasty Leagues Rachel Tootsiepop 03/24/25 Read More   Fantasy Outlooks: Tracking the Important 2025 NFL Free Agency Moves 03/26/25 Read More   IDP Free-Agency Winners and Losers: The Guru and the Godfather Gary Davenport 03/26/25 Read More More Features