RSJ’s Jackson Barrett created a value-based drafting Excel tool to create the preseason values for this Fantasy Football Trade Value Chart. The tool uses the FantasyPros consensus projections to assign values based on a 12-team, full PPR league.
Each week throughout the season, these values will be altered to reflect the player’s value for the rest of the season. Changes made to player’s value will be based on FantasyPros Rest of Season ECR, results from the season thus far, and The Wolf’s Rest of Season Rankings. But for the most part, the below values should generally reflect consensus rankings. The values provided also allow for comparing player values across positions, not just within one positional group.
For more information on how to make successful deals, check out our strategies for negotiating trades.
Be sure to tune back each week throughout the season. We’ll be adjusting the chart, discussing risers & fallers, and pinpointing trade targets.
The trade value chart for each position is linked below.
Fantasy Football Week 2 Trade Value Chart: Tight Ends
Tight End Riser
The “generational TE prospect” took two games to solidify himself among the elite options at the position. Brock Bowers currently ranks top-3 among TEs in receiving yards, target share, targets per route run, yards per route run, first read rate, and first downs per route run. Just to name a few metrics.
Bowers is the real deal and he’s here to stay. He makes a strong one-two punch with Davante Adams and Gardner Minshew seems capable enough to sustain both of them in fantasy. It doesn’t hurt that Las Vegas currently leads the league in pass rate.
The talent is clearly there and it appears that the offensive environment will be just strong (and concentrated) enough to support a pair of high-end weapons. It’s wheels up for Bowers.
Tight End Faller
Dalton Kincaid was drafted as the TE5 in anticipation of an enormous breakout as Josh Allen’s top target. Things aren’t exactly going according to plan.
When I was researching the tight end metrics to put together this chart, I filtered the data to include tight ends with at least six targets so that only the “truly fantasy-relevant” tight ends would show up in the results. Well, Kincaid wasn’t shown in those results because he has five targets through two games. That should tell you exactly how things are going.
Kincaid has a 12 percent target share on the year and has somehow accumulated -2 air yards on his five targets. Nothing about this is pretty and Kincaid will have to turn things around quickly if he wants to have any hope of paying off his ADP. For the time being, he’s slipping down our TE ranks.
Tight End Trade Target
Trey McBride was our trade target last week and provides a strong buying opportunity. His production has been respectable and he currently comes in as the TE4.
Some may peg his 18.8 PPR points as lucky due to his fumble recovery for a touchdown. This is fair, but McBride’s underlying usage metrics are those of a tight end who will be a high-end producer.
McBride has gone out and posted a 29 percent target share in two straight games. McBride ranks first among tight ends in this metric. He is a cornerstone piece of an ascending offense. He should be valued up there with the top TEs and it won’t be long before he solidifies himself as one of the best TEs in football.
Tier 1: Elite TEs (Hopefully)
Tier 2: Elite TE on Their Best Day
Tier 3: Other Starters and Injured Options
Tier 4: The Rest
