Fantasy football forecast: The handcuff running back to embrace, avoid

Handcuffing running backs in fantasy football is a popular strategy.

The idea is: If you like the running game for a particular team, regardless of who the RB might be, you should grab the starter earlier in the draft then snap up his backup later.

The Madman prefers to draft five RBs who we feel could be worthy to start any given week .

But there are times when cuffing makes sense.

Indianapolis Colts starter: Jonathan Taylor , Trey Sermon , Travis Etienne Jr. Cuff : Tank Bigsby Cuff status: Probably our favorite handcuff situation.

Denver Broncos starter: Javonte Williams , Jaleel McLaughlin , J. McLaughlin likely will be mostly a passing-down option rather than absorb a full workload if Williams goes down.

Green Bay Packers starter Josh Jacobs Cuff : AJ Dillon Cuff status: Too murky.

Atlanta Falcons starter Bijan Robinson Cuff is cheap, and he showed last season he is at least serviceable, even if he did not deserve equal billing with Robinson .

Tampa Bay Buccaneers starter Rachaad White had one of the dullest yet productive fantasy seasons in recent memory.