Honestly, all these terms and the philosophies behind them can be exhausting to keep up with, however, that doesn’t mean they’re not worth employing in fantasy drafts.
The term Anchor RB or Hero RB has become en vogue recently as a replacement for Modified Zero RB. I first heard the term Modified Zero RB ushered back in 2016 by on Twitter, using it as a way to describe an offshoot of the Zero RB draft strategy-which is to take a running back early and then forget about the position for a while as you stockpile assets in the mid rounds. There’s been plenty of debates over the validity behind the philosophy of Zero RB, for example, but this offseason’s debate club has zeroed in on how much they loathe the term Modified Zero RB.
What’s in a name? Everything, if you ask #FantasyTwitter.
