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Malcolm Brown Week 4 Outlook -

By Mike Tagliere (FantasyPros), Thu, Oct 1st 2020, 9:41am EDT

If you've watched any Rams game this year, you can see that Henderson should be the lead back. He's run like he's a man that knows he can lose the job at any moment and has played extremely well in back-to-back tough matchups. In games against the Bills and Eagles, he's amassed 201 rushing yards on 35 carries (5.7 yards per carry) with two touchdowns, and then chipped in with another three catches for 46 yards. He's been the No. 10 running back in fantasy over the last two weeks. We don't know if Akers will be back this week, but it shouldn't matter all that much if he is active, as Henderson would need to screw something up to lose his lead role. The Giants have allowed three different running backs to finish as top-15 options over the last two weeks, and they've allowed points in a variety of different ways, as they allowed 124 rushing yards in Week 1, then 119 rushing yards in Week 2, but then held the 49ers running backs to just 62 rushing yards in Week 3. Still, they've allowed 170 receiving yards to running backs over the last two weeks. Opposing running backs have averaged just over 30 touches per game against them this year, so even if we see Brown mixed in, it should be another 16-plus touch game for Henderson. Similar to Ronald Jones, Henderson may be on a short leash, but it had to have gotten longer after his performances the last few weeks. Consider him a mid-tier RB2 who may come with more risk with most in that range, but it should be worth it. Brown will mix in and will likely get 8-10 touches in this game, but with the way Henderson is playing, you can't trust him as anything more than an emergency RB4. If you have Akers rostered, you just have to wait it out and consider him as a handcuff right now.

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