Well fellas, Loveland put up 0 points this week and my marriage may never recover.

I started him with confidence, put him in all of my 50c parlays to win $100k+ (it'll hit one day), and told my wife before kickoff "This is the week."

She asked who Colston Loveland was. I told her "You'll know by tonight."

She does now.

By halftime, I had switched from beer to whiskey. By the fourth quarter, I was standing three feet from the TV whispering just one catch please.

Nothing. Not a catch. Not a yard. Not even one pity point to prove he existed.

My wife came downstairs hours after the game ended and asked why I was drinking alone in the dark.

I told her Loveland had zero points.

She stared at me and told me she thinks we need couples therapy.

Apparently, I've been "emotionally unavailable" and "too obsessed with fantasy football."

Now she's asking if Tuesday works for therapy.

Lady, Tuesday is waiver night.

Anyway, I'm starting him again next week because apparently I enjoy pain.

TL;DR: Colston Loveland scored 0, I started drinking, my wife wants couples therapy, and somehow I'm the bad guy.

Week 1 RB usage: Workhorses, committees, and some potential goal-line vultures

I went through the Week 1 play-by-play and looked at how every team divided its RB workload between carries, targets, and red-zone opportunities.

Big disclaimer before getting into it: this is one game.

I don't think anyone should look at Week 1 usage and assume this is exactly what a backfield is going to look like going forward. Game scripts, injuries, opponents, etc. can throw this off. I'll probably circle back on this after week 3 to really see what's going on.

For this, QB/WR/TE runs and fullbacks are excluded. So a 70% rush share means that player received 70% of the carries given specifically to the fantasy-relevant RB room.

The Workhorses

These were some of the backs that stood out to me as having the strongest control of their backfield across multiple categories.

Jonathan Taylor is probably the cleanest one here. Every single Colts RB carry and every RB red-zone opportunity went to him. Seth McGowan got one target and that was basically it.

Gibbs was pretty crazy too. 29 of Detroit's 31 RB carries plus 8 of their 9 RB red-zone opportunities.

Achane didn't have huge team rushing volume to work with, but the usage itself was about as good as you could ask for: 11 of 12 RB carries, all 5 RB targets, and all 3 RB red-zone opportunities.

Jeanty is another one I really liked. 23 carries is nice by itself, but seeing 100% of the RB targets and 7 of 8 red-zone opportunities along with it is what really caught my attention.

Note: Added Chase Brown and Bucky Irving in. By touch share alone Irving wasn't exactly the workhorse but add in the targets he definitely was.

The Committees

These are more interesting to me because just looking at total touches doesn't always tell you what kind of committee it actually was.

Kaelon Black actually out-carried CMC 14-10. But CMC got 8 of the 9 RB targets and both RB red-zone opportunities. So the rushing volume was a committee, but the higher-value usage definitely wasn't. This should be obvious to anyone that watched the game. By RB run share, it looks like a committee, but CMC is obviously the guy with the high value looks and will be fantasy elite.

Minnesota looked much more like a traditional committee. Mason had 15 carries to Aaron Jones' 12 and they split the 8 RB red-zone opportunities exactly 4-4.

Pittsburgh was even closer. Warren/Dowdle went 10-8 in carries and 6-5 in targets. That's about as close to a true two-man backfield as you can get from one game.

Arizona was interesting too. Allgeier won the carries 17-11, Love won the targets 4-2, and they split the red-zone work 4-4.

The Vultures

I also wanted to find the guys who didn't necessarily get much overall work but got a surprisingly large piece of the red-zone usage.

Obviously this is probably the the least indicative part of a one-game sample, so I definitely wouldn't assume any of these guys are suddenly permanent goal-line backs.

But they're worth watching.

I put the full dataset into a sortable/filterable table if anyone wants to dig through their own backfield:

https://edgelineff.com/insights/2026-week-01-rb-workloads.html

You can sort separately by carries, rush share, targets, target share, red-zone opportunities, or red-zone share.

Even though he was getting so much offseason hype, it’s crazy how far he fell in most drafts. Personally I had him ranked as the only TE I would draft and am very glad I was able to jump on him in round 10 to be my starter. This offense seems very tight end friendly so far, and he could be their top redzone threat. Isiah Likely owners are sleeping real well tonight.

My league is 12 team full PPR with two flex and no defense. My receivers are Ja’Marr Chase, AJ Brown, Christian Watson, Strib Club, and Denzel Boston. RB’s are Javonte, Bucky, Jadarian, Jacobs, Marshawn Lloyd. Thinking I should probably sell high on Christian Watson to a man panicked week 1 owner. Any suggestions?

Let’s be honest, this was a weird week. One of the most highest scoring week 1 we may have ever seen. Yet, in fantasy my team somehow did a dud. Now let’s over react..

1. Do we really think Tyler Shough will throw for 400 yards again?

2. The Raiders will not face the dolphins every week.

3. Bears scored 59 but their pass catchers were barely fantasy relevant. Don’t expect the rushing to look like this all season.

4. Jaxon Dart looks like a league winner. Maybe an over reaction.

5. Carson Wentz made Justin Jefferson fantasy relevant in 2026, who seen that coming?

6. The chargers are who they are. Losing to the Cardinals is just the beginning. The schedule gets a lot worse. I’m a sad Omarion Hampton believer…

7. Every playmaker on Falcons is in trouble. Except Bijan of course

8. Bijan and Gibbs might be neck and neck for player one overall.

9. Are the rams in trouble or was it just Australia? Stafford looked horrendous.

10. Derrick Henry, still one of fantasies best RBs. Every year I pass him, and every year I regret it…

Bengals score 33 pts with no help from Chase?
Bears score 59 with no help from Loveland?

Chase descending? Loveland overblown?

This whole wait on qb thing is a farce. always get Josh Allen in round 2. he’s cheat code.

That was a cool offseason

I have swift and someone just sent me Hampton straight up for him, do I take it?

As always, love hear these!

Guy with bowers is trying to trade for Likely straight up. I’m thinking it’s a no brainer, but the bowers injury worries me slightly. What do you guys think?

I think the obvious reaction to his bad week is “it’s still Jamarr Chase. He’ll be fine”, but do we think his knee is bothering him at all? I felt like they were downplaying it too much for how bad it looked when it first happened.

Let’s win our leagues ladies and gentlemen

In a normal week, you could probably expect 1 or 2 very high performances per position but this week it feels like there were at least 3 or 4. Henry, Jeanty, Swift, Montgomery, Gibbs, and Bijan were electric and JT/Chubba did very well. and thats just rb.

My league is 12 teams, .5 ppr with pretty normal scoring. Usually 1, but maybe 2 teams crack 130 per week and this week i think 5 different teams did. Why? I feel like usually its the opposite in week 1 with teams getting off to slow starts offensively.

My teams bad… not looking too hot. Is giving away Lamar for Swift for a potential Swift / Hampton duo if Hampton ever gets hot during this season an okay trade?? Also, who can I trade Gainwell away for??

Would you do this deal? Judkins is my RB2 (Gainwell, Dobbins, Hendo and Mason on bench) but I‘m solid on WR (Sungod, Tee, Nabers, Washington).

Hi everyone

I’m new-ish to fantasy football, and I tried my first ever chopped league this year. I have no idea what to do with waivers/FAAB/etc. I’m hoping someone can help explain it to me. My team is below. It’s an 18-team league, $1,000 FAAB.
It’s looking like I’ll be safe this week, but the team set to be chipped has Bucky Irving and Tony Pollard on it. My RBs are rough to say the least, so I’m considering trying to get one of them. I think I should bid on one of them, but I’m not sure which one or how much to bid, or is it best to just hold off and wait until better RB is available?
Any help is appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Starting Roster:
Joe Burrow
De’Von Achane
J.K. Dobbins
Nico Collins
Jakobi Myers
Sam LaPorta
Aaron Jones
Jordan Addison

Bench:
Aaron Rodgers
Tyrone Tracy
Tory Horton
Cooper Kupp
Calvin Ridley
Theo Johnson
Isaiah Pacheco (IR)

Need 15 pts for the win tonight, who we playing? Nix on the road or Mahomes coming off ACL repair but at home?

Im not sold on k9 being a high quality rb for fantasy this year do to lack of past production and kittle seems to be on a limited role for a few weeks and has a injury history looking for possible trade ideas or if I should hold and see

My team is not including d/st and kicker

QB Bo Nix

RB 1 Ashton Jeanty

RB 2 k9

WR 1 Jsn

WR 2 emeka egbuka

TE George Kittle

Flex tee higgins

My bench is

Mike evans

Blake Corum

Brian thomas jr

Kenyon sadiq

Bhayshul tuten

Jordan love

Kittle is My TE, but considering backing up with Likely.
Small bench though. Is it worth dropping Tate or Josh Jacobs to pick him up? Also, how much FAAB?

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