Players to Trade For & Trade Away - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/30

very good for George Pickens. His target share, his targets per route run, his yards per route run, those are all up compared to three weeks into the season for last year for the Dallas Cowboys. It's just that the production is lagging a little bit. You know, no touchdowns. George Pickens is going to start scoring touchdowns. It's like, like, it will bounce back. And so he just, the volume is still completely there for him. The schedule?

I mean, the upcoming schedule is actually fantastic for him. Dallas faces, Dallas wide receivers as of right now, face the third easiest rest of season schedule. That, of course, rest of season is a little bit tricky right now because we'll leave the three weeks of data. But the early outlook is it's going to be great for the Dallas passing game. And C.D. Lamb, you're not going to be able to trade for C.D. Lamb, because he's been performing. But if you still want a piece of that.

Dallas passing offense than George Pickens. I think you can get him cheaper than he is going to be in just a couple weeks. I think you can get him cheaper than what the perceived value of him was before the season two. I think maybe there's been a tier change in people's minds. I don't mind the suggestion at all. I will say the only thing that I think has been definitive through three weeks that was a question in people's minds with the pick and selection was whether.

Is C.D. Lamb still the dude? Is he still that guy? Is he still elite? I think we've had that answer pretty definitively in three weeks. One of the concerns that I had around C.D. Lamb, as somebody who has them on his roster, was that this team would kind of do with C.D. Lamb what the Arizona Cardinals eventually did with Larry Fitzgerald, which is you had players that came in, John Brown, Steve Breston. They became downfield threats, and you saw underneath.

as kind of the prime like you stopped they stopped going deep to larry after a while sure my biggest worry was like are we going to get all bombs go to pickens and all underneath goes to lamb lambs had the downfield shots in multiple weeks so i was happy to see that as a lamb manager but i think with the zero touchdown numbers what jumps out and that's going to change and targets cd lamb um 26 george pickens 25 yeah i mean it's it's really everything is neck and neck between the two of them

Lamb has just been, George Pickens had a couple nasty drops. And then this past week, C.D. Lamb had that, like, the freebie, reminiscent of championship week a couple years ago where the Cowboys are back on what they're two-yard line. Oh, yeah, he almost had like a 90-yard touchdown. And he was a shoestring away from, but like that hit, that hit for Cid Lane. That hasn't hit yet for George Pickens. And it's definitely going to. I think Lamb has a couple touchdowns so far. Yes. And, yeah, no, I.

I think Pickens is, nothing on the field tells me Pickens isn't one B. I saw a tweet that was talking about the most missed opportunities so far in the league and who's basically underperforming the expectation based on the opportunities they've received. And it was a list of a bunch of bad players, which makes sense. Like, oh, they've gotten opportunities, they've failed. And then.

There was George Pickens, who is not a bad player at all. And he was leading, you know, he's the largest gap. So I think this is a good trade for a candidate. His good games are coming. He is not the archetype of a every week consistent player. At the end of the year, you're going to have a handful of bad games. Remember last year at the end of the year, it was unfortunate timing. I think it was fantasy playoffs or right before it was like he had a couple games in a row where.

Oh, he just disappeared. Oh, his effort is, you know, it's like he will have bad games. And he will also probably finish the year as the wide receiver 15 or better. And so if he hasn't had those games yet, they're coming. I like, I like trading for him. Last year, he never had a three game stretch where he didn't have a 20-yard catch. And that's how he started the year. He hasn't had the big play yet. So.

You know, that's kind of wild. Three games in, George Pickens doesn't have a 20-yard catch. He's had tons of opportunities for him. Oh, yeah. And he's also had a couple pass interference penalties that he's drawn. Amazing. He is. Him and Matthew Golden, just drawing P-I's. Yeah, yeah, no, he's good at that. I think we all agree that Pickens is a nice target right now. You can get him at a value that will not be the same in a few weeks. So we'll take a quick break and come back with a couple more trade-for candidates, Jason and myself, and then we'll get into some tradeaways.

All right, coming back into our trade talk segment, Mike sharing George Pickens as his trade four candidate. And I am going to bring up Jeremiah Love. I think Jeremiah Love, the moment is now. The time is now. If you had the opportunity in years past to pick up Ezekia Elliott in week three of his rookie season or Saquine Barclay or Christian McCaffrey.

Bijon Robinson. This is your moment with Jeremiah Love. And so I think you would only have hesitation. This is a top five draft pick. This is one of the greatest, best graded running backs that we've seen heading into the NFL. And you're sitting here three weeks into the season and the breakout is coming. The big play is coming. And it's on an offense that's pretty darn good on a week-to-week basis. Like the Cardinals defense is.

Like by every metric is terrible. Yes. They're going to be down in a ton of ball games. Jeremiah Love is the past catching back. Jeremiah Love got 19, he had 19.4 fantasy points and 26 opportunities last week. You could argue that it happened. The usage breakout definitely happened last week. Which was, it was surprising. The way that they handled the first two weeks. Oh, this was like a concerted, like we just made this decision and it's happening. Yeah, it felt like, oh boy, here we go. The Cardinals are just going to be.

as stupid as possible with their with their draft pick they paid tyler alger now just jeremiah love you know it seems like forever ago now he did have the ankle injury in preseason so perhaps that the plan was just a hey we're going to make sure he's healthy and ready to go so usage this usage spike in week three this should be sticky like for for the top five draft pick you gotta you have to do this

I think there's some interesting trades that I know you could get done. I don't know if you would say yes or no to them, but I would be looking at like some of these players that maybe are out. Like would you trade DeAndre Swift straight up for Jeremiah Love. Yeah, I would. So DeAndre Swift is the sixth running back right now in terms of fantasy output. So that trade on paper, I think you might be able to get done depending on the league that you're in. But.

You know, would you trade Ashton Gentie for Jeremiah Love? That maybe is a bigger conversation, but I think it would be wise. I think I would. I think that would be a smart one. Man, that one's tough. I don't, I don't. I have Gentile above, or I'm sorry, I have Jeremiah Love above both Swift and Gentie. For rest of the season? Yeah. I don't think I would. I mean, I, you know, it's like the Cardinals' offense might be good, but the Raiders' offense might be good, too. Yeah, I think that that one's really, really close for sure.

But if you could go take Kyran, or you could take Chuba and put other pieces with it. I think Kyran is the perfect name where I would move Kyran or Tutin to Jeremiah Love. I mean, you know, they're in good situations. They're good fantasy assets. They aren't some sort of generational talent. That's what Jeremiah Love is. So if you don't have an absolute top tier fantasy back, if you've got a really good fantasy back,

a low-end RB1. I think you try to take the chance that Jeremiah Love is a top five running back rest of season and in trade form. But I also view, like, that is what I think Ashton Genti is as well. Yeah, I think love, I think your time is now to move on Jeremiah Love. And I think the Cardinals will be in a lot of games at the offense. We saw them move it. They put up 30 against San Francisco last week. They had a good week one against the Chargers. They slowed down against Seattle's defense. That's not too.

Everybody. Surprising. I mean, Washington didn't. No, everybody but Marcus Mariotta, of course. But, yeah, I think that this is the moment for Jeremiah Love. If you can take advantage, and maybe this last week doesn't let you do it, but that's my target. Yeah, I'm going to go with a back that's in, I think, the same tier. I wouldn't trade him for Jeremiah Love, but I would trade for him because he is coming off of a down week. And that is Chase Brown. Chase Brown has gotten off to a...

a decently slow start. He was running back 14, 22, 30. He's not been bad. No, just good. Yeah, but he hasn't been great yet. However, the opportunity is completely there. He's tied for seventh in routes wrong among running backs. He's eighth in targets. He's ninth in total opportunities. And the Bengals, for some reason, I don't know, they always every year get off to a slow start.

This happened last year with Chase Brown with the Bengals. I mean, it happens every year. I think extremely bright days are coming for Chase Brown. What we know is he is the dude for this team. Yes. He is talented. He's getting all the work. And this is an offense we want a part of. There's just been some weird outlier stuff. Here's just some crazy thing that's just happenstance. It's just randomness. Cincinnati has six.

total snaps inside the 20 yard line in the last two weeks combined. That is 31st in the NFL. And for context, the NFL average, the average team gets 10 a game. And they have six in the last two weeks combined. That's where fantasy points are scored. And so I just think he is one of these guys, it's like he's a top 10 fantasy running back. And you're not going to have to pay most top 10 fantasy running backs you just can't acquire.

You just can't, like, people aren't willing to let go of them. I think right now you can make a trade for Chase Brown. And last year in the League of Record, because I went to look for Chase Brown. He was on Mike's team. Yeah, that's correct. From your cold dead hands, I'm sure. Yeah. So, you know, to me, I think he is a great trade for candidate. And I'll just throw out quickly two other names that I think the opportunity is beyond what the fantasy production has been.

Cam Scataboo, who I just traded for in one league and Josh Downs, who I just ironically traded away in League of Record. I think those two guys have... Downs is like my favorite target right now. Yeah, so the opportunity ahead appears really, really good for both of those players, too. Yeah, I think Josh Downs is about to cook, and Jason had sent some offers out. He's not... He's not acquiring to win, so he's shipping and shopping Josh Downs, and I was like,

He wanted like a third round pick in our league, our keeper league, but you can't trade above a second. And a third is, it's pretty good. And I was like, man, I can't do that right now. But I bet you could get it. And I bet even in a couple weeks the value might go up if he stays healthy. But no, I love that one. Absolutely. Now let's talk about trade away players, Mike. Why don't you kick us off? All right. The player, I'm looking to trade away. And this is not a...

necessarily an overperformer where I'm like, I got to get out. It's Brock Purdy. And I only bring him... Oh, you did say you were going to say stupid stuff. I don't mind this, actually. Your argument for this guy is the same argument I'm going to have for my guy, just so you understand. Right, but my argument for Brock Purdy is that there are other teams who are desperate for quarterbacks and they...

I think they might have big eyes where like if you have, you know, we've brought it up, but Drake May, Herbert, or you have one of the injured guys, my recommendation for the most part would just be figure it out streaming off of the waiver wire because players are there. Matchups are there to be had. We have a weekly segment every single week. But that's not how everyone likes to play fantasy football. Some people just want to have their stud quarterback. And I think that you can trade Brock Purdy.

get a bunch and then you can still be okay at the quarterback position. That's where I think he truly is overperforming. He's not going to be the number two quarterback rest of season. Let's put it that way. Not with the amount of injuries they have at the wide receiver position. Brock Purdy is an easy, to me, an easy top 10 guy. Top 5 is not outrageous to me. I really like Brock Purdy. I just think that this is a good strategic move with what has happened to the quarterback landscape. Fix the rest of your roster.

for a position that you can more easily replace off of the waiver wire. I just don't know if people, like we see Brock Purdy as an elite quarterback. He is great. I don't think most people do. I mean, you look at where he was in drafts before the season. I'm not sure people are going to pay up. Like, in general, what you're saying, I agree with. He's the quarterback two. He's not going to finish as a quarterback two. He's got injuries around him. He's far more expendable to me.

I agree with that. I just don't know that. Drake May's manager might want him. Anybody is paying number two quarterback prices for Brock Purdy. Also, it's worth noting they got positive news, but Trent Williams, when Trent Williams, their all generational left tackle went down. I was like, oh, trade away these guys. He had a neck stinger. It was checked out. It's not serious. He should be back, but at the same time, he's dealt with that a few times. He's missed games for that before. So that would be very scary.