Fantasy Football: One Running Back to Target in Each Round of Your Draft

Alex Collins, Baltimore Ravens

ADP: 3.08 (RB17)

You can poke holes in almost every running back once you move past the first few tiers, but with volume being the name of the game, Alex Collins offers a pretty dope floor as the clear top dog in the Ravens' backfield.

Collins was really darn good last season, and he showed he could be efficient even while seeing a big workload. Per our metrics, his 44.81% Success Rate -- the percentage of his carries which resulted in positive expected points -- was tops among the 18 backs with at least 200 carries. He rode that to an overall RB21 finish in PPR formats.

The efficiency is all well and good, but Collins' volume is what makes him especailly attractive. After not getting double-digit carries in a game until Week 5 last year, Collins averaged 15.58 carries per contest the rest of the season. His per-game workload over that 11-game span would've tied him for the 10th-most attempts per contest in 2017.

Collins' upside is dinged a bit by the Ravens' lackluster offense, a unit which we project to be the league's eighth-worst offense this season. If it's pure upside you're after, you can peep Jerick McKinnon (3.04) earlier in the third.

But Collins is a solid floor play who should see good volume -- we project him for 221 carries -- and any running back who is expected to see that many rushing attempts is a player we should be interested in, especially when they're available late in the third.