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

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.

you know, all of their injuries. I mean, they don't have any wide receivers left if Mike Evans does not get back and get healthy. At some point, that does come to call. You're not going to get the same plays out of Jordan Watkins that you're going to get out of Mike Evans. And so I'm just agreeing with you that, like, I think party's going to be fantastic. Like, Kittles there. Yeah. And Debo's there who caught zero passes this last week. How dare you? But he had 80-yard.

Um, yeah, Purdy's the only quarterback in the NFL that has not been sacked one time. He's a, he is a very good quarterback. And you could be right, Jay, that. The value. Name wise, he doesn't. He's not Lamar. He's not one of those types of players. But to get into the negotiations, show the, show the fantasy points. I don't know. I think you can sell Brock Purdy and be all right. I,

The name that Mike says is stupid to bring up in this segment is. I get both sides of it. Is currently the wide receiver four in fantasy. And Mike, of course, is going to take this personally because this is Mike's my guy. Because I said draft him. He's going to be awesome. And he's been awesome. Trade him away. So Christian Watson is, look, trading in fantasy is all about value. It's about what do you get for the player? And do I believe?

that Christian Watson is going to score 23 touchdowns. Oh, no. Do you? I don't think that. No, no, no, no. He's on pace for 23 touchdowns. Do I think he passes 1,600 receiving years? Maybe. I don't think that's going to happen. Near 100 catches, I don't think that's going to happen. Now, it could. My point with the tradeaway candidate of Christian Watson is not you trade at all costs. It's the same argument you just made with Brock Purdy. It is trade if you have the opportunity.

to take advantage of where he's positioned. He has four touchdowns through three weeks. You have a team that has not been able to run the football that would like the identity of this team to be able to run the football. I think they signed two different offensive linemen this week. We'll see what happens with Josh Jacobs. I think Watson, is he the number four overall receiver at the end of the year? I think there's no chance of that. Is he top 10? Probably. But if I can go out and I can turn Christian Watson into Chris Oliva in a trade, if I can turn Christian Watson into...

Garrett Wilson in a trade. Those are situations, and I might even get a little bit more depending on the names that you pick there. That's something I'm going to look into because I think he's the inverse of Pickens right now. Like Pickens has no touchdowns. He is overproducing. For a target perspective, like you look at the top players in fantasy right now, target wise, 36 for JSN, 35 for Amman Ross St. Brown, 36 for Crystal Lave. Watson's at 29. It's not a bad number.

Golden has more targets than he does on the season. So, you know, and Golden has one touchdown. Like from a, you know, statistical standpoint, they're pretty comparable. He's just scored four times. And he's going to score a lot of touchdowns. He's probably going to be a 10 touchdown guy. I don't think he's a 23 touchdown guy. So I'm just saying you may be able to take advantage of this window where everyone's bought in. He is an injury risk. He just is. That's just the nature of Christian Watson. If I could get out of Christian Watson for a less.

Injury risk player. Maybe a lobby is not the answer to that question. But he could, he could currently be injured. Like that practice, I was still waiting. I was pulling up the Packers practice report. I'm, I'm going to be surprised if I see full participant this week for Christian Watson. And hopefully he is. I think Mike mentioned at the end of yesterday's show, but it was like the last play of the game, he kind of looked like you pulled this hand me a little. But it was, it was.

not reported, you know, who knows? Maybe it's absolutely nothing. We just are always worried about Christian Watson's hamstrings. I love Christian Watson. He looks like he's going to be the clear wide receiver one for a team that can pass the ball. He is always good for fantasy points when he's on the field. I want him on my team. If I had him on my team, I would be trying to trade high because it's not, you know, Mike.

You loved where he was in the draft. You thought he was going to be great. He's been great. He's been a great pick. You know, succeed on your mind guy. If you then trade him at the value that he deserves, if you're trading him at a top tier value, it's a guaranteed win. Your draft pick was a great pick no matter what, even if he does well. Can I just, I'll just like Jackknife, a trade four candidate in there. I think Matthew Golden is a trade four candidate. I totally agree.

If you look at the numbers outside of touchdowns exclusively, they're almost identical seasons for these two players. 17 catches on 29 targets for Watson for 284 yards. 15 catches on 30 targets for 253 yards for Golden. They're very similar production. They're being used in similar ways down the field. Their yards per catch, 16.9 for Golden, 16.7 for Watson. Go trade for Golden if people don't buy in. They were burned all rookie year. Golden.

I think is a great one. Because Watson is, we're soaring with the Eagles. With Christian Watson. People may not realize how close Matthew Golden is. The target share is going to be split. Now you have Jayden Reed probably out for the year. Yeah, Sky Moore. Yeah. So now it's Skymore as the slot wide receiver. Yeah, it's crazy. That concerns me even less than Jane Reed when it comes to a target competition. Where I am at with.

I think the touchdowns may start to, sorry, to just say, like Tucker Kraft getting acclimated to the offense, that could be where some touchdowns end up. It's the, where it's difficult for me is like, if you guys want to look at your rest of season, like I have Watson right now at wide receiver 10, rest of year. So it's like there's not a. Not a lot of room. There's not a lot of room. Olavee, maybe. I mean, definitely I'd prefer Olave. I don't know if you'd be able to get him. Would you trade Watson for Nico Collins?

No. No, I would not. So I have Nico one spot higher in rest of the season rankings. Would you trade Devante Adams? Would you trade for Devante Adams? I would prefer Christian Watson. Jefferson? Jefferson is the, that was the name I was going to bring up where it's like, it sounds insane at the, would even bring up the discussion, but just truly think about it. Like where the Minnesota Vikings are, we still have no evidence of Kyler Murray being able to get it done for Justin Jefferson. We know how bad it can go.

for Jefferson if they don't have proper quarterback play yeah the second week for Jefferson was not good with no proper quarterback play um would you trade if somebody sent you an offer right now mike do you have christian Watson anywhere uh in a couple spots yeah somebody sent you an offer for pukkahua

Oh, you would have to take that. I mean, you would probably want to take it, but you could find out tomorrow he's having surgery. I thought that was maybe the most agonizing. Holy moly. Yeah. Buka is. What do you even do? Buka's the hardest one. I don't know, because Buka could go out this week. Or he could play this week. That's what I mean. I'm saying he could play this week and you're like, okay, everything is in the- 64 targets. It's in the mirror. Bucca is still great for the race. Not a crazy question. All right.

Let's say, now let's make Puka the tradeaway kid. Would you, if you had Puka, would you trade him away right now for Parker, Washington? No. I was looking at them in my rest of season. These are the kind of sound bites that come back on Twitter in six weeks. I have Parker at 11. I got Parker at seven. Oh, dude, I have Parker at seven as well. Behind Puka by one. Same. Yeah, I. Oh.

I mean, would you trade Puka for Zay flowers? Mike.

I feel like Puka, the answer to this question, if you have Puka, hold him. If he's somewhere else, don't trade for him. I feel like that's the recipe for Pucca. How much risk do you want to take? Flowers has his own hamstring risk. And that's the thing is that like to win a championship, you usually need. I was talking about this with Andy this morning. So in our main dynasty league where Mike is the champion there as well, he has a sensational team. I've got a very, very good team. I lost two of my three running backs.

Um, I was, I, I, I look at my team and I've got a lot of really good players. I've got a Lave and I've got London, uh, Rashi Rice, Devante Smith, but I don't have the like the guys that are going to go out there and put up 30 points of back to back weeks in the playoffs. Like a Jamar Chase, a JSN. Kyle Pooke. I just remembered last year's playoffs. I'm sorry. But it's like those players when it comes like I'm going to make the playoffs great, but once you're there.

Do you have those nuclear players? You need a Josh Allen or Jamir Gibbs or a JSN or a Brock Bowers, a training. You have to have some of those guys. And so trading Puka is such a trade for a tradeaway conundrum. Because right now, he's your biggest bet in either direction. Yeah. And honestly, if you sometimes when you're playing fantasy, you've got to think about just pure upside. And there is not much higher upside than Puka. And if you could trade for Puka right now and then it turns out.

He doesn't get surgery. People are afraid of surgery. And you turn Christian Watson and Apuka. That could be a championship type of move. But it is a gamble. I disagree with one of the guys you said. I mean, that too. But Olave, I think Olave can be a guy who like he could just go. That's who I told you this morning. That was the one name. I think he's a monster. He's so high on my rest of the season ranking. Yeah, he's at number four for me. But at number five right now for me is Drake London. Like Michael Pennix.

Michael Pennings, Drake London games equals fantasy domination. Like you can look at Michael Pennix and the end of the stat line for Michael Pennix is not going to be great for him to be a fantasy quarterback. But all he does is throw it to Drake London. PSA to Sucky quarterbacks. Throw it to the really good guys every play you can and it works out way better than you think. Yep. So I'm with Drake London. As long as it stays Michael Pennix, which that's a.

It wasn't, it wasn't Keenom that was in Houston that just hyper-chucked it at Hopkins, was it? I'm trying to remember when they did. Oh, maybe it was Osweiler? Yeah. Was it Osweiler? Because Keenum played in Houston, right? I think so. I mean, Keenom's had 16 careers, but T.J. Yates, maybe. I don't know.

Jason, you've got to give us a tradeaway candidate. It comes from the same team as Mike's. Yeah, it's another 49er. I mean, obviously the injuries there. Last man standing. But honestly, it works almost in his favor. The injury issues and worries about Mike Evans says that the last guy there is Debo Samuel, who has been good. He's a man. It took you too long to get there. I know. I know. How did he not get a target last week?

Well, see, this is, I think this is already the last man standing. It lends itself to Jason's argument. I'm not sure. I think Debo's current abilities are all gadgetry. Oh, 100% and not wide receivery. Basically 50% of his routes this year are running back routes. There you go. There are screens, flats, backfield. I mean, he is, his average depth of target is 3.4 yards.

Which defense against position do you look at for Brock for? Oh, to stop him? Is it like, do you look at the wide receiver? Do you look at the running backs? Right, the matchup. You know, it's one of those things where there are teams that have lost a lot of players. Wide receiver, you know, go look at the Jefferson, the Mike Evans team, Jalen Koch or the Puka manager who's.

struggling, Nico, you know, there's a lot of teams out there that are like, man, I really need a guy. And I think this isn't someone that you're selling super high. You're not getting a star back. But you can get someone who is maybe a struggling young wide receiver back or a middle link package debo to a wide receiver needy team with someone else to get like a Chuba Hubbard who's like, I don't know. I'm not super excited about him. I don't know that that's going to happen. You know, they're two kind of.

older seeming players if you need a running back. Or, you know, Jordan Tyson, that manager who's held on to Jordan Tyson for three weeks, if he has another wide receiver injury, he might just have to make a move and can't hold injured wide receivers. Carnell Tate, who's been super disappointing. People might be like, should I drop him? Who do I start? I got to get a win this week. Like, try to flip Debo for some of these other struggling young guys like Roma Dunez, who,