Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and NFL writer Nate Tice explain how Isiah Pacheco’s upcoming return could boost fantasy managers’ chances of winning their leagues. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Isaiah Pacheco had his 21 day, you know, window activated uh and sounds like he could be back maybe, you know, within the next few weeks, the run game is one of the best in the NFL without using a QB.
Very traditional.
It’s just hyper, hyper efficient.
They get to a lot of third manageable.
And then Mahomes just as Mahomes gets over there gets the first down and the cosmic ballet goes on.
Pacheco’s vision has always been a little e to me and a little like, you know, his tempo of runs a little e but he runs freaking hard and he is more explosive than anybody else that’s in that backfield right now runs where he reaches 15 miles an hour or more.
Last year, Pacheco had 14.1% of his runs.
He reached that this year.
I think the leader for the Chiefs is at 6%.
So almost no more than double of those types of runs, explosive runs.
Uh He had 20 last year, the Chiefs up until a few weeks ago and he had one going in throughout the entire year, but he had 9.8% of his runs went for 10 yards or more last year.
Uh, this year, I think Kareem Hunt leads their team with four explosive runs.
It might be three.
but it’s just another drop off that they’ve had this year.
So that’s what he’s going to bring.
It’s all been singles, it’s all been singles getting on base singles, getting on base.
All right, somebody’s gonna get us extra bases.
All right.
And honestly, just having hunt in there too is gonna be good too because it’s just take a couple of breaths.
You can ease back into it.
He doesn’t have to always have the load.
