By Matt Price
Welcome to part two of Land Mines and Gold Mines. If you missed out on part one, you can find it here. This week we continue swinging that pickaxe seeking fantasy gold and looking to avoid players with the potential to blow up our teams in 2015 and beyond.
Let’s get into it!
Round Four Land Mine
Carlos Hyde, RB SF (current ADP 47 overall, RB15)
No team in recent memory has had a worse off-season than the San Francisco 49ers. The retirements of Justin Smith, Patrick Willis and Chris Borland, plus losing Dan Skuta in free agency have gutted the middle of a once mighty defense. The bleeding didn’t stop there, though. On the offensive side of the ball, the team lost former first round guard and running game road grader Mike Iupati to the division rival Arizona Cardinals and right tackle Anthony Davis to retirement.
All that combined with the loss of coach Jim Harbaugh points to a down year for the Niners. At his current ADP, I have a very uneasy feeling about Hyde in 2015 and for the foreseeable future and it seems I’m not alone. Reggie Bush was added in the offseason and you have to think he is going to get most of the passing down work. Two down running backs with little PPR upside are not players I generally want to spend a fourth round pick on and at this point that is exactly what Hyde is. The team also drafted Mike Davis, who from a talent standpoint, isn’t far off from Hyde. Kendall Hunter is also healthy again so there is competition for carries everywhere you look. If Hyde doesn’t play well out of the gate he could find himself in a full blown RBBC timeshare situation. The Niners also play in the toughest division …read more
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