Since Miles Sanders appears to be the club leader for this week’s most talked about player — my six tweet thread worth of input:

The committee concern with Pederson was always a little overblown. Sanders actually garnered the highest percentage of running back touches amongst Pederson-led teams, with 48% in 2019. That was while sharing the field with Howard for half a season, and B Scott to an extent

Beginning in Week 11, Sanders handled 63% of the touches out of the backfield. A 7 game sample is pretty strong to close out the season, and any competition concerns have thus far been put to rest. No FAs of note, no draft picks. Just Sanders, Scott, Clement

If the Eagles provide ~450 running back touches as has been the average in Doug Pederson’s tenure, and Sanders receives 62-63% of those touches (like we saw to close the season), he would be in line for 280 touches. Why’s 280 significant?

Since 2015, 47 RBs have seen 275+ touches in a season. 83% were fantasy RB1s. Those that failed to be RB1s had a couple things in common. They didn’t catch the ball much and/or were inefficient.

After catching 50 balls as a rookie, and avg 5.8 yards per touch, it is very unlikely that a 275-touch Sanders would fail to be an RB1.

Even if efficiency drops a bit, he showed in the final 7 weeks 2019 that with more touches, he can maintain a solid yards per touch (5.2).

So - do you think Pederson moves away from giving his RBs touches? Or Scott and Clement take 40% of the RB touches? Or Sanders stops catching the ball and becomes extremely inefficient?

There’s not much reason at this point to believe Miles Sanders will not be top-12 in 2020