According to ESPN.com’s Dan Graziano, if healthy, Tim Hightower will be the Redskins’ starting running back next season. This is notable because Graziano is the reporter who first predicted Hightower would start last year and he did. Hightower rushed for 321 yards and a score on 84 carries last season in 5 games before getting hurt. In his absence, both Evan Royster and Roy Helu played well and exceeded Hightower’s mere 3.8 YPC, but Shanahan seems to have a thing for Hightower, though Graziano admitted that Helu and Royster will see carries.

Mike Shanahan is notoriously inconsistent with his running backs and can change them up on a weekly basis depending on the opponent, with no warning to the public. It’s a smart football move, but it’s incredibly frustrating for fantasy football owners so stay away from Washington’s entire backfield this year. Let them be someone else’s problem. Even 6^th round rookie Alfred Morris could be in the mix and don’t rule out Shanahan calling up his old pal Ryan Torain, who really struggled down the stretch last season.

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