The best part about fantasy football is that everyone has an opinion about the player pool. I went to my mother’s house the other day. She said to me, “You better not draft that Jonathan Taylor this year. That damn Colts head coach isn’t going to give him the ball 350 times like last year.” Mind you, my mother is 82 in a wheel and legally blind. She has no idea what fantasy football is, and the extent of her football fandom is limited to when the Patriots are in the Super Bowl. Occasionally, she might have some juice in a game with a football square.
I don’t know where she heard that information, but it is something that has been floated out about Taylor over the past couple of weeks after a comment by Frank Reich.
Colts head coach Frank Reich told ESPN’s Stephen Holder that the goal is to win a championship, not to make Taylor the MVP or rushing leader. If they need to cut back on his volume in order to accomplish that, so be it. “You don’t see teams that have this ground-and-pound run game win championships,” he said. “Our best formula is to be balanced. I’m not saying he won’t lead the league in touches, because you never know how things are going to play out. But I almost don’t want him to.”
