Peyton Barber or Ito

[Tennisbuck]

Who do you like better long term ?

[Mbf1028]

I like both somewhat. Obviously we haven’t seen much of Ito yet but I’d go w/ him

[jenkins.math]

Long term has to be Ito. Barber had 2 years in TB to show he was a feature back and obviously TB didn't think he was; so they took Rojo this year. Barber has still been the lead back and hasn't done anything to make me think he has long term upside.

At least with Ito you have a plausible scenario that Tevin Coleman is gone next season, and I would love to have the 2nd back in the Falcons offense. Not only have both Atlanta backs been fantasy relevant the last few season, Freeman is going to miss a couple games every year.

RB isn't really a wait and see position like QB, WR, or TE. If they are getting touches, they typically make an impact early, or are busts. Mark Ingram is the only guy I can think of that has had years of fantasy relevance after a pretty rough start at RB.

[ninotoreS]

Barber is a starting running-back, and too much has been made of the Week 1-4 box-scores without awareness that all four of those defenses are elite against the run.

Ito is a soon-to-be third-string RB that can only hope to be a 2nd-string RB next year. And even beyond that, he's a satellite-back.

Seems to me Barber is the easy choice here. He showed today that he can deliver when the match-up isn't awful.

Barber had 2 years in TB to show he was a feature back and obviously TB didn't think he was; so they took Rojo this year.

- Barber was an undrafted special-teams player to start his NFL career; it's ridiculous to say he was given "two years to show he's a feature-back" when he wasn't even getting carries until the last third of '17's season.

- Yeah, they took RoJo, and then Barber took his job.

- Barber is a RFA this offseason, which in of itself enhances his dynasty prospects relative to Ito, who's guaranteed to be stuck behind Freeman at best, Freeman and Coleman at worst.