One of the many questions people have about the 2020 NFL Draft is will a running back be taken in the first round and if so, who will it be? The general consensus has been the Georgia\u2019s D\u2019Andre Swift is going to be the top back selected but it really depends on team needs. Wisconsin\u2019s Jonathan Taylor showed surprising speed at the combine, which might lead a team to call his name before Swift\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BetOnline has posted a prop<\/a> on who\u2019ll be first taken. Let\u2019s take a closer look at the options and the odds associated with each player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n D\u2019ANDRE SWIFT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n ODDS: -140<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Georgia running back is highly-rated because of his footwork. Swift makes exceptionally crisp cuts and displays noticeably effective lateral movements which enable him to hit the hole and elude the first tackler. Swift can get past the point of attack and slip away from defenders, which enables him to reach the second level and create big gains with regularity. Swift\u2019s light feet and overall agility also make him the kind of NFL back who can catch passes out of the backfield and therefore become a weapon on every down. He can take handoffs on first and second down but then catch a screen pass on third down to move the chains. He has usefulness and versatility which will be very attractive to NFL teams. If you wanted to pick a first running back in this upcoming draft, it\u2019s very hard to argue against Swift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n JONATHAN TAYLOR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n ODDS: +160<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n One man who could displace Swift is Taylor, the Wisconsin running back who caught everyone\u2019s attention with a 4.39 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. Keep in mind that Taylor is 226 pounds, a muscular and physically developed back. He is not a 180-pound lightweight, but a bruiser who is used to pounding the ball between the tackles within a highly physical running game at Wisconsin in the Big Ten. Taylor is a hard-nosed and punishing runner. The idea that he had elite speed really didn\u2019t occur to a lot of people before the combine, but the 4.39 time in the 40-yard dash changed a lot of minds and clearly made Taylor a lot of additional money. The one big problem with Taylor is that he fumbled at lot in the 2019 season. Everything else about his profile is extremely strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n J.K. DOBBINS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n ODDS: +700<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The reality with Dobbins \u2013 who played a great game against Clemson in the Fiesta Bowl last December \u2013 is that he probably has the talent to be the first running back taken\u2026 and that it won\u2019t matter. Why is this the case? Dobbins suffered an ankle injury in that Clemson game and has conceded that he is still not fully healthy. For a running back to enter a draft with a significant, long-term injury is the last thing teams want to see or hear. He just won\u2019t be able to be picked higher than Swift or Taylor with this injury. That\u2019s the bottom line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE FIELD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n ODDS: +1000<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The technique of Swift plus the 40-yard dash by Taylor should prevent any other running back from becoming a surprise selection as the first running back off the board at the upcoming draft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow our BetOnline Twitter account<\/a> for the latest sports news and betting odds, and stay tuned on the Instagram feed<\/a> for more good information too.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the many questions people have about the 2020 NFL Draft is will a running back be taken in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10348,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions\/10348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}