NFL Week 9 FTN Staff Bets
FTN Staff
The Buffalo Bills are expected to sign RB Matt Breida to a one-year deal, per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
The #Bills are expected to sign former #Dolphins RB Matt Breida, source said, as the speedster stays in the division. He gets a 1-year deal.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 25, 2021
The 26-year-old Breida spent 2020 in Miami after playing his first three years for the 49ers. He struggled with injuries as a Dolphin, getting only 59 carries and gaining 254 yards across 12 games. His best season came in 2018 for the 49ers, when he totaled 1,075 scrimmage yards and scored 5 times to finish as the PPR RB26.
Bills at RB help, sign Matt Breida
Fantasy slant: The key takeaway from this move probably isn’t anything positive for fantasy managers. The main lesson is just that the current threesome in the Buffalo backfield — in some order, Devin Singletary, Zack Moss and Breida — is now more likely to be the threesome that opens the season for the team. In other words, the addition of Breida probably (but not definitively) means the Bills aren’t going to draft a starting back. For fantasy purposes, that means we aren’t likely to wring much value out of this situation, with all three battling for the main carries, Singletary and Breida catching passes and Moss getting goal-line work. You’ll see these guys on waiver reports all year long in 2021, because they’re good enough for us to care about sometimes, but not good enough for anyone to ever both rostering them for long. — Daniel Kelley
