Fantasy Football: 3 Players You Can Drop After Week 9

Jamaal Charles, RB, Denver Broncos

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Jamaal Charles will go down in history as perhaps the most efficient running back to ever step on a football field. His 5.4 yards per carry over his career leads all running backs in NFL history with at least 750 career rushing attempts.

There have been 458 individual seasons compiled among running backs with at least 175 carries since 2000. Charles claims 3 of the top 25 seasons in that cohort in terms of Rushing Net Expected Points (NEP) per rush, which measures the degree to which a player performs above-or-under expectation on a per-carry basis. Only three other running backs have two such seasons in this special grouping.

He's even been good in a limited capacity this season. His -0.16 Rushing NEP per rush isn't very encouraging, but it's a bit misleading. If you remove two costly fumbles from his record, he'd be logging a 0.09 Rushing NEP per rush, compared to C.J. Anderson's -0.09 mark.

But the Denver Broncos' staff seems intent on running a committee in which Charles serves second fiddle, with Anderson logging over twice as many attempts as Charles on the season. With the return of Devontae Booker to the team's backfield stable, Charles is getting even less work, compiling only 25 combined targets and rush attempts over the last three games. That's only three more than Booker.

Charles can still get it done when he gets his chances, but it's impossible for him to be a viable fantasy asset when getting fewer than 10 opportunities to touch the ball per game. Drop Charles for Thomas Rawls, who may get the chance to lead the Seattle Seahawks' backfield once again in Week 10.