0:00What's going on, guys? It's Nick here back with another video. Going to start off with my three favorite trade targets this week. Then we'll talk about some
0:05murky situations, what I'd be doing in those spots. So, number one trade target for me is Amecha Igbuka. Industry right now has him as the wide receiver 36. Uh,
0:15that's like, you know, low-end wide receiver three, high-end, wide receiver 4. At that cost, I don't know. I feel like how can you not take a shot on him?
0:22Um, just completely disregard the last two weeks for Tampa Bay. Um, two weeks ago, they destroy the Panthers. They win by 30 points. They have over 250 rushing
0:32yards. Uh they don't need to throw the ball at all. I think they had 11 total pass attempts. Then last week, they
0:37completely shut out the Falcons. They run for an insane 324 yards and they pass for zero. Obviously, these are two very, very outlier situations. They're
0:48probably not going to repeat again this season. U Baker, let's be honest, should be fully healthy at this point. He comes
0:55back from injury. He's got two weeks where he just does not need to do anything. He's not taking any hits. He's
1:01not throwing the ball. He's not doing anything. So, he should be fully good to go. Um, you know, having the ground game
1:07also producing so well. I mean, Buckyy's been fantastic. Gainwell is doing well.
1:11Like, this ground game is looking awesome. That's a positive for the passing attack because people have to respect it and, you know, utilizing play
1:18action. Those are going to be the big plays for me. And I just feel like it's been a kind of a tough season for him.
1:23He gets hurt in training camp. He has a little bit of a setback. He's working with backup quarterback play. Like all
1:28these things happening, but underlying for Ibuka, he's a great wide receiver.
1:33He's by far the most important player on the passing offense. Like he is the focal point of the passing attack.
1:40Everything flows through him. Uh seems like he was closer to 50/50 last week.
1:44I'd imagine this week it's maybe like 75 80%. Like he probably is going to go out there and play this week, but we'll
1:51watch the practice reports. Um really the only risk here is a setback like as the wide receiver 36 if he's actually
1:56out there healthy. There's simply no way that he underperforms that spot. He's ranked right ahead of Trey Tucker, Jacobe Meyers, Josh DS. Like that's like
2:06the range he's sort of in. Those guys are fine. Maybe DS gets traded somewhere and he can produce towards the end of
2:13the season. Meyers is okay. He's going to get you some points every week.
2:17Randomly Trey Tucker is going to do well and then he's going to go back to having zero the following week. These are not
2:21players where you're sitting there in a championship team being like, "Yep, loving them at wide receiver 2." But there's actually a chance in the back
2:27half of the year that you are sitting there as a championship team in the playoffs with him at wide receiver 2.
2:34Very pleased with that. And it's not going to cost you wide receiver 2. It's barely going to cost you wide receiver
2:38three value. You can maybe get him where's your four value. I don't know. I just feel like he's in a range where
2:44there's close to a 0% chance these guys are difference makers. But if he doesn't suffer a setback, he could return this
2:49week and next week be talking about him as like a weekly wide receiver, too. I don't know. I just feel like whenever
2:54I've said this before, whenever you can find players who are the focal point of the passing attack and they're just being disregarded by the fantasy
3:01community, you want to be going after them. Uh it's just a long-term positive mood. Number two, uh Parker Washington.
3:09Now, people aren't going to be giving away Parker Washington, but two weeks ago, four receptions, 64 yards, no touchdowns. Last week, one reception, 16
3:18yards, no touchdown. So, at least his value has cooled off a little bit. Uh, we do want to start thinking ahead a
3:25little bit to the fantasy playoffs. You know, try and target some players we know are very good who also have very
3:31good playoff matchups. Um, and when their value is slightly suppressed as well, then we should be taking notice, kind of taking advantage of that
3:38situation. Jaguars play the Cowboys in the semi-finals. Obviously, that's a fantastic spot. Uh, then the Commanders in the finals. Those are just two
3:46matchups where the Jaguars should score plenty of points, should move the ball pretty freely. Um, not really imposing from a matchup standpoint for wide
3:54receivers. Uh, in week 15, the first week of the fantasy playoffs, they do play the Texans. That's a tough spot, but uh, Parker just had that matchup.
4:02That was the the four for 64, but he was really close to bigger day. So, it was only 4 for 64. You're not like super
4:08upset. Like, if he did that in the first week of the playoffs, you're like, I missed out on a potentially big game,
4:13but that didn't like sink your chances of moving on. Uh but, you know, that was on 11 targets. He had multiple shots
4:20downfield that were just misses, like very close um to to hitting there. And that should be a good game. I mean, the
4:27Texans are a team that is ascending right now. um if they can get their run game going at least in any way and maybe
4:35you know for the Texans side like maybe the the passing attack having so many weapons now maybe that opens something up for the ground game and I don't know
4:42I mean two pretty good offenses both could score into the 30s yet again and Parker could have easily had like six
4:49for 100 in that game against the Jaguars and you know what if he does that in the fantasy playoffs you're more happy and
4:55then after that it's you know again uh the Cowboys and the commanders so good matchups good player, suppress value, take advantage. Uh the number three,
5:03also wide receiver, uh it's Carnell Tate. Apologies for all the wide receivers at the top end this week, but that's just kind of how the chips fall
5:10this week. Um there really are no clear buy lows at running back, and typically, you know, we have options at tight end,
5:16options at quarterback, but they're not usually going to make the top of the list. Um if you want quarterback and tight end options, I think, uh Trevor
5:23Lawrence and CJ Strad are the two quarterbacks I go after. Um kind of differing values there. Trevor Lawrence if you're looking to spend up a little
5:29bit more, CJ Strad if you're kind of on a budget, and then Isaiah likely at tight end would be my top tight end
5:35target this week. And then for running backs, we'll go over a lot more of those in the next section. But with Carnell
5:41Tate, um the Titans have the fifth best remaining strength of schedule for wide receivers. And that does include a very strong close to the season weeks 14
5:50plus. So that's the week heading into like the week right before the fantasy playoffs through the fantasy playoffs.
5:55uh they get at the Lions verse the Colts, at the Raiders versus the Steelers. Those are some really awesome matchups for wide receivers. And we'd be
6:04getting a star wide receiver at the tail end of their rookie season, which is typically uh when they have a much
6:09higher chance of breaking out. Uh the Titans are uh one of two teams on buy this week as well. And that could work
6:15into your advantage. uh if you are a really solid team um you know you you think you've got maybe like an 80%
6:22chance of making playoffs like you're you're a playoff bound team and you look at the Carnell Tate team and they're struggling you know they've got Tate on
6:29by maybe they have some injuries and they're like wow I'm starting an absolute scrub right now at wide receiver two maybe you can take
6:35advantage because maybe they do feel like they're kind of in must uh win territory right now the market has him valued as a high-end wide receiver three
6:42I think that's super fair I don't think that's like way undervalued right I don't have him as like a low-end one or
6:47a high-end two, right? I think he like is a wide receiver three. Um maybe like a like a flex viable player, you know,
6:53in that general lowend two to highend three range. Um so I think the value in the market is fair, but you know, he's
7:01done well this season, but it's not like people who drafted him have just been dominating. If the team is 500, a game
7:07below 500, they don't have him this week, they really need that spot, maybe you can uh buy a little bit low and get
7:14him. Also, uh I mentioned the close to this season. Really strong for the Titans, but really again really strong um strength of schedule all the way
7:22through. I think people will look at the Jaguars. They have two Jaguars matchups in the 3 weeks after their buy and be
7:29like, "Oh, that's tough." It's really not. No one can run the ball against the Jaguars and especially if the Titans end
7:34up trading away Tony Pard, they're certainly not going to be able to run the ball against the Jaguars. Uh but teams throw it to wide receivers a lot.
7:40So, top 10 matchup for wide receivers.
7:42So they have a good matchup for Tate against the Jaguars, then the Cowboys, then the Jaguars again. So it's like really again remaining once he comes
7:50back from buy, he should be healthy.
7:52He's a star wide receiver. He's going to have like a 27% target share. Hey, Cam Wis coming off a game where he actually
7:59looked pretty solid and the strength of schedule is really good. So um I think just good opportunity to buy low on a
8:04player that you know could really break out in the second half. So again, Ibuka, Parker Washington, Carninal Tate, kind of three value levels, all wide
8:12receivers I'd go after. So, uh, five murky situations to go over now. We'll start off with Jonathan Taylor. I think it's pretty likely he does get traded by
8:22the Tuesday deadline. Uh, and if you're looking at his market, what you want to happen, I do think his value increases.
8:29Um, we have to remember back to remember Christian McCaffrey the 49ers. It's like, well, that was obviously an upgrade, right? But it still even took
8:36Christian McCaffrey, who was clearly the best running back on that team. It took him a couple weeks to learn a playbook
8:42and kind of get going. So there is still a chance that you have someone of the talent level of Jonathan Taylor, take a
8:47couple weeks, get going, start crushing in the fantasy playoffs. And so that's one thing to keep in mind is, well, if
8:52you're a really good team, you can afford maybe down production right now.
8:55That's a positive. Um, but understanding that in his value that if he's traded, it's not instant. He's not instantly going to have a 90% snapshare. It's
9:04possible he has to ramp up, but you do want him to be traded because the Colts are tanking. They're really bad offense
9:09and pretty much anyone he gets traded to, uh, there's a number of teams out there that might trade for him, but
9:14really anyone he gets traded to is going to score more points in the Colts rest the season. So, it'll be uh an upgrade
9:19there for the season. So, I don't know.
9:20I think I'd be more on the buy side and I'd especially buy again like I said if the team that has Jonathan Taylor needs
9:27to win and they rule him out because that's the one thing like maybe they're working on a deal this weekend but they
9:32kind of don't get anything done and they plan on getting a deal done on Monday or Tuesday before the deadline. Well, if
9:38that happens they're probably not going to play Jonathan Taylor this weekend.
9:41And so if he's declared out with the trade pending, well now the team might be like, "Holy cow, I'm like, you know,
9:49three and five now. I don't have Jonathan Taylor and maybe I have like, I don't know, Warren on buy or something
9:55like that and I have nothing to play at running back." Maybe they'll be desperate and you'll be able to execute a trade for lower value for John Taylor.
10:02Uh he will be a running back winner a season. I'd say he's like a top seven running back no matter where he ends up
10:07going. So that'd be the situation I'd do. Um, I don't think I would try to be a seller unless you're in that situation
10:13where you're super desperate. Uh, but you'd be losing value long term. So, more on the buy side for Jonathan Taylor. Uh, for Genty, uh, he was out
10:21carried 25-2 by Mike Washington this last week. Uh, betting markets right now because I was kind of curious like what does the market kind of expect right now
10:30this week for the slip two and two. It has Mike Washington at 42 and a half yards and Genty at 27 and a half rushing
10:37yards against the 49ers. Uh and then Gent is also at 34 and a half receiving yard. So the market is saying, okay,
10:42probably some more gets pushed into Gent's direction, but the Mike Washington still is used as that lead early down running back with Genty used
10:49as a receiving back. Longterm for the season, like I think I'd be a little bit worried about Genty if Mike had gone out
10:55there and averaged like five yards per carry on his 25 touches. But like he had 25 carries, no targets, and it was 3.3
11:01yards per carry. I don't know. I mean, like, I don't think the Raiders are going back after 3.3 yards per carry and
11:07being like, "That's our guy." Like, "H how do we bench him at this point?" It's like, "It's 3.3 yards per carry." Like,
11:12most running backs, like they're they're basically getting replaceable production from the running backs right now. So, it's not like he was that amazing in
11:19that game. Uh, the market right now has Genty as the running back 22. I have him as a running back 18. So, that suggests
11:26I'm more on the buy side. I don't know.
11:29I have one league where I do have Genty.
11:31I'm holding for right now. I don't think my league mates are like willing to give up a ton of value for him. I don't think
11:36anyone views him as like a high-end running back, too. So, for me, if the market and my league is going to value
11:42him roughly as the running back 22, I don't really see a point in selling like if you look at ECR, uh the running backs
11:48ranked directly behind Genty Russ season are Judkins, Blake Cororm, Seaquan, uh Jordan Mason. I don't know if like if if we're actually valuing him in that
11:58range, I just feel like I would rather hang on to him, see if anything changes, see if he does overtake Mikeington early
12:06downs at some point. Like there's still a possibility that's doesn't hold long term. Um, and if you're looking to try and buy low on a star player, I don't
12:17hate sending like one of those running backs and a flexible wide receiver, something like that for like some sort of upgrade to take a shot. Uh, but for
12:24the most part, I don't know that I'd buy or sell. I feel like I would just hold Genty, not trade for him. Uh, because
12:30he's still Genty, like he still has that name value. And so, for his value to really tank and for your league mates to
12:36be more like dumping him, I think you're going to need another week. Like, you're going to need one more week of Genty
12:41going out there having like four carries for 16 yards, three receptions, 30 yards, no touchdown, and after back-toback performances as the backup
12:50running back, then I think maybe you can buy low. I think right now people just kind of don't know what's going to
12:55happen and so they're not really willing to dump him for nothing. So I would just hold personally. Jonah Coleman up next.
13:01This is a really tough one. Like truly because he's obviously the Broncos best running back, right? Um but the Broncos are apparently in the market for running
13:10back by the trade deadline. It's a little surprising, but I guess when you consider that Harvey is on IR, so they
13:16don't have him right now, and Dobbins has been terrible. Well, maybe Shawn Payeyton just really wants to utilize two running backs. And he looks at
13:23Dobbins just being really bad. 3.3 yards per carry. You can't use Harvey. And he's like, well, like I like Coleman, but I don't Maybe he doesn't want to
13:30give Coleman like 20 plus touches every Like maybe that's the situation. Um it'll really come down to like who do they trade for? Do they go after JT? Do
13:39they go after Pard? I just don't really know what's going to happen. um could end up where like if you sold him this
13:45week, uh right now ECR has him as running back 20, so low on running back two. If you did sell him as that and
13:50they did trade for JT, obviously you're going to look back and be like, "Wow, that was a great a great selling
13:56opportunity." But on the flip side, like the Broncos have the number one remaining strength of schedule for running backs. They do have a good
14:02offensive line. Coleman is far and away their best running back. He's coming off 104 yards and a touchdown, you know, as
14:08a rookie who we were excited about in camp because he was a good running back.
14:12Like all these factors indicate if they do not do a trade, he's going to be awesome rest of season. He might be, you
14:18know, a weekly high-end running back two. He might put together low-end running back one production, and that's pretty darn valuable in fantasy. And if
14:26you sell him at a low-end running back two price tag, then you might look back at this and be like, "Wow, that was a
14:30terrible selling opportunity." So, there's just a lot of unknowns. We don't know what they're going to do in the trade market. So, I don't know that like
14:38I again I have him in a league. I'm not going to look to actively sell him this week, but I'm also not super pumped
14:45about the idea of trading for him and then the next day they have a chance to trade for Jonathan Taylor. Like, I just
14:52I don't know. I feel like it's another kind of hold situation. I wouldn't do anything. But if you're super nervous and you really do think they end up
15:00trading for one of JT or Tony Pard, then this could be a nice selling opportunity, the value is clearly high, the sentiment is clearly high. And if
15:08someone in your league is just pumped about Jonah Coleman and doesn't even know about the trade potential and is going to value him as more of a mid
15:15high-end running back to the rest of the season, sure, then then maybe you can trade him away. Uh, for the most part, I
15:21think because he could be so valuable and because there's still absolutely a chance they don't trade for running back, I'm going to be holding him in my
15:28league. Judkins, after him, uh, I would for sure be on the sell side. If you get anything from Judkins, I would just do
15:35it. I've been pretty consistent recently that like, you know, when Dylan Samson is back, which he is back now, then he's
15:40a huge threat to receiving production.
15:42Um, we talked about in the the rankings video last week. I was like, I don't understand why the industry is ranking
15:47him so high, especially from a receiving standpoint because Dolan Samson is back.
15:51Um, it's worth noting that Judkins has 21 games in his career now. He has less than four yards per carry in 76% of
15:59those games. You are getting an inefficient early down running back right now. And when you have Dylan Samson running like three times as many
16:06routes as him on the fourth lowest scoring team in the NFL, do you really want early down grinder with a minimal
16:12receiving role on a bad offense? Like the the Browns are still a very bad offense. Um the one saving grace here is
16:19that like we did just have a game where they got destroyed. They didn't do anything on offense. They were trailing for the whole game and he did have like
16:26every single carry. So we do know he's getting all the carries and we do know championship weekend they do play the
16:31Colts. That is the one silver lining is if you could get Judkins to the playoffs and they are still featuring him on the
16:37ground and they do play the Colts, he legitimately could have a 100 yards and two touchdowns in that game and that
16:44could literally win you a championship.
16:46So that's the one saving grace there. Uh but I have him as a highend running back three rest of the season. Um if you were
16:50looking for like a wide receiver swap, I definitely prefer like a Rashid Rice, a DJ Moore, a Carnell Tate, I'd prefer
16:56those wide receivers over him. But I always want to stress, I don't like talking about those flips in this video because you can have some leagues where
17:04that's amazing, where trading away Judkins for Carninal Tate is an amazing move to do. And you can have some of your teams out there where that's a
17:11terrible move to make. Like it just truly comes down to what do you have?
17:15What's your surplus? What are you good at? What are you bad at? And then your league mates as well. What does their
17:20team look like on the Judkins or the Carnell Tate side? So, I don't want to just make a blanket statement that you
17:26should trade away Judkins for Cornell Tate because for some of you that's great and for some of you that's terrible. That's why I really like the
17:31trade calculator, the trade suggest on the website. It'll take both of those teams into account, but I don't like talking about that too much in this
17:38video because I don't want to lead you astray. But in a vacuum, those are kind of the wide receivers I would definitely
17:44prefer over Judkins. All right. Uh, last player we go over today is Z Flowers.
17:49Market has him as a wide receiver 18. I am 16th. Again, that kind of indicates I lean more towards buy. The biggest
17:57reason why I would lean in that direction is that Baltimore right now, they're four and four. They're two games back on the division. Uh, and Pittsburgh
18:05first in the division there. They still have their two games against Pittsburgh.
18:08So, we don't know who's winning this division, right? If I had to guess right now, it's probably the Bengals, but like
18:14Baltimore is sitting there very live to win the division and go to the playoffs.
18:18Now, Lamar's probably done for the season. We know Huntley's done for the season. So, you've got Joe Fanano as their starting quarterback who's also
18:26injured right now. He is going to start on Thursday night. That's probably going to be terrible. I would not trade for
18:31Zay Flowers before Thursday night. No way I'll do that. But probably going to have a really bad day on Thursday night.
18:38They're probably going to be horrible the whole um Ravens offense here. If that happens, we're going to have a better buy low opportunity on like
18:45Friday, Saturday, Sunday. That's when I would look to make a deal hopefully before the Ravens do. So, we're trying to time this one perfectly, but my guess
18:55and why I brought up the division is they'll trade for someone. I don't know who it's going to be. You know, it could
19:00be um Daniel Jones. It could be Bean. It could be Brassette feels most likely, but like it could be one of these
19:07quarterbacks where, you know, they're not amazing. They're not Lamar Jackson, but they're also not Joe Fernano. And so if we have a terrible day for the
19:16offense for the Ravens, you have two back-to-back games of Flowers doing nothing. People watch that game because everyone watches those Island games and
19:23they see horrible quarterback play and they're like, "Wow, this offense is cooked rest of season. Maybe you can get Z Flowers at like flex value." and at
19:31flex value. If you can execute that trade and then they end up trading for one of those quarterbacks I mentioned again like a Brassette, um a Begent, a
19:39Daniel Jones, he he like rest season he's not flex. He is still the centerpiece of this passing attack.
19:45They'll have to throw the ball at a higher rate. They are scheming him open a ton. He is a very talented wide
19:51receiver. Like he will still be a wide receiver too each week with those three at quarterback. And so maybe you can
19:57have just a very small window of bad game, people want to dump him, but then they trade for quarterback once like if
20:04they traded for uh Brousette soon as that news drops, you're probably not trading for Z Flowers because I think the value kind of goes right back up to
20:12mid-range wire two, but who knows? I don't know how your league is going to value him. But again, I'd be more on the
20:17buy side after the game if he plays poorly, which again, I think the Ravens going to be terrible on Thursday night.
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