Fantasy
Mailbag - To Trade or Not to Trade?
by Paul Eide
Fantasy Football Director
10/14/09
Hey Paul,
I am in my PPR league...In a QB/WR/WR/RB/RB/WR or RB format...My
starters are:
Cutler/Wayne/Welker/MJD/Rice/V.Jax with Run DMC, Nicks, Charles, and
Hester on
the Bench...I have just been offered TO & Lynch for V.Jax - what do
you
think??? In week 7 Rice and MJD have a bye.....
Thank you
Jason Kay
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Hey
Jason!
Excellent
lineup especially for a PPR league. Now that Welker is back you should
be
looking pretty good. The question is, how much do you like the Bills'
offense?
But the other glaring issue is obviously the RB position with the
bye
nipping at your heels a week away and McFadden still injured for at
least that
long. Obviously you wouldn’t want to start Charles because the Chiefs
offense
as a whole is so inconsistent and you just can’t count on him to be
involved
every week. Look at his game log-every other week he has posted a zero,
so you
cannot rely on him.
I
make the trade because of the emergence of Hakeem Nicks, which makes
Vincent
Jackson expendable. Nicks is the Giants WR of the future and is the
perfect
redzone target for Manning, and a nice compliment to Steve Smith. With
2 TUDS
in two weeks, he is really beginning to look like the player he was at North Carolina
a year
ago.
TO
is not the guy he has been historically, but he has been severely
limited
thanks to Trent Edwards overall inability to get the ball deep and
Buffalo's
run first approach. The big rumor today is that a TO trade is in the
works,
which only helps his value especially if he goes to Chicago or any city with a big armed
QB. Even
if he stays in Buffalo,
he would essentially be your 4th or at best 3rd WR. But if you trade
for
Marshawn, you would never need to start more than 2 WR.
Marshawn
Lynch is obviously the workhorse for the Bills and has carried that
team on his
back at certain points in his young career. Fred Jackson will always be
looming
in the background, but not as significantly as was initially feared.
And
because the Bills passing attack has been so wretched, the Bills will
look to
feed Lynch as much as possible to keep games close. Also, he catches a
lot of
passes with 11 thru two games this year and 47 a year ago.
After
writing this, Id make the trade without hesitation. Are there any
decent RB's
on your waiver wire in case McFadden takes longer to heal than
anticipated?
I’d
make this trade ASAP!
