0:00Week four fantasy football trade targets. And I wanted to get this video out to you earlier this week. Usually been dropping this like Thursday,
0:09Friday, but this is a tilting week. We got a lot of injuries. There's going to be a lot of roster shuffling out there.
0:15And there's a lot of you out there that have started out one and two. Couple of you out there started 0 and3. We're not
0:22throwing in the towel. We are looking to win games. This is a weekly game and we're going to get after it. I'm Theo
0:28Greinger, lead fantas fantasy analyst right here at Rotoire, dropping shows that can help you win in fantasy football almost every single day during
0:37the during the week. Uh let's get it started right off the top. There's an awesome trade candidate for you right now and it's Z Flowers. Zlowers. The the
0:48Zflowers experience, this is a player that started off red-hot in week one. It looked like it was going to be a generational week for
0:57Z Flowers.
0:59Starts off the season just red-hot.
1:01First half, it's just dominating Indianapolis.
1:06Then you have him leave the game with six minutes to go in the second quarter.
1:11And the time he left the game, he had five catches for 150 yards and a touchdown, 26 PPR points. Misses week
1:19two against the New Orleans Saints. And then we think he's gonna miss week three against Dallas. It's it's the games in
1:27Brazil. You've got the sort of choppy turf narrative all week long and then we get the Sunday morning news drop that Z
1:35Flowers is actually going to play. For me, this is a signal that Z Flowers is perfectly fine. This was not something
1:42where they were going to risk their star- wide receiver, especially after losing Jacobe Lane if this was something shaky. So, Flowers is fine. He didn't
1:52even really practice this week. This was like the ramp up was very slow here. Uh again, didn't want to risk it on the
2:00turf in the in the during the week. They were very cautious with him during the week, but during the game, uh he ends up
2:05producing fine on sort of a limited sample size of snaps. Z Flowers ends up producing in a major way. only played a
2:14limited amount that this past week, 21 of 64 snaps and gets five catches for 84 yards. He's the best weapon on the
2:24Baltimore Ravens, including Derrick Henry. And Henry's got his own thing.
2:28This is not a shade at Derrick Henry, but this offense is becoming more and more of a Z Flowers centric offense with
2:36a ton of King Henry as well. I think Zay Flowers has a chance to be a top five wide receiver for the rest of the
2:43season. He's averaging 20 points per game. So, this is not some like red-hot take, but when we look at Z Flowers
2:52analytically, he's just jumping off the chart here. You have Flowers with a 9.36 yards per route run average. That's
3:02insane. To put that in into perspective, Jackson Smith and Jigba has a 4.35 yards per route run. So analytically speaking,
3:12Flowers is just absolutely going nuts here. Number three on that list is Drake London, who had a tremendous week. We had him on the trade show uh for a
3:21couple times, and I'm I hope you bought low on Drake London. Still was a very difficult player to trade for, but if
3:27you bought low on him, you're feeling great after last week. Z Flowers is 10th among all wide receivers in receiving yards and he's 115th in routes run.
3:37That's a stat from Data Rama. Really good follow on X. I mean analytically speaking Z Flowers is right there. Now how do you get to Z Flowers in terms of
3:48trades? I think if you're in a league where people are really really locked in, they're going to understand what they're holding. But I do think you're
3:54going to have, if you're in a little bit more of a casual league, you're going to have fantasy managers who look at the
4:01five catches for 84 yards and say, "This was a big disappointment based on how red-hot he was in week one. Therefore,
4:09this is maybe an opportunity to sell high on Z Flowers." Now, who would I trade for Zay Flowers? I I think that
4:16and this one again, if you're holding him, he's a great asset to have. And it's really hard for me to say this one,
4:24but rest of the because I have some Devonte Adams. I've got some Devonte Adams shares and I'm absolutely loving life right now. 15 catches uh for well
4:33over 300 yards the last two weeks, two touchdowns in week two, but I would try to pivot from like an Adams to a
4:40Flowers. I think that's the way to do it. You know, you've got Pukanakua eventually coming back. Z Flowers, I think, is a lockedin asset. I think he's
4:48an elite asset. I think when we look back at the season and sort of where guys should have been ranked uh in terms
4:54of where we were drafting him, Flowers probably should have been a midsec round pick based on where he's at. I think he
5:00can be a top five wide receiver for us rest of the season. I think he is a great trade target this week. Another
5:08player to consider uh trading for and I'm sort of speaking to you Devon Achan managers out there. I think Cam Scataboo
5:16is a player that we want to buy into right now. Now, Scataboo, the runout for him early in the season was a little bit
5:24frustrating where in week one, Cam Scataboo had the rushing volume, but they didn't use him as a receiver at all, like whatsoever. You had Devin
5:34Singleary involved as a receiver. And I think that this is more of a narrative shift with the offense where Jackson Dart goes down for the season and I
5:45think it was a little bit of uh rational coaching, some soularching in the building and how can we make this thing
5:51work and we sort of saw it where the game was incredibly ugly against Tennessee, incredibly ugly. Now the team traded for JJ McCarthy. I don't know if
6:00that's going to be the answer, but I think that when we're looking at what Scataboo was able to accomplish this past week, 23 touches, he gets to 100
6:09yards from scrimmage. You compare that to week one where in week one, he had zero targets, zero receiving yards in and now in week three, uh, we end up
6:20with this strong three catches for 40 yards. And the underlying metrics were there for Scataboo where he had an 80% snap share, 22% target share, which is
6:30elite for a running back, and a 24% targets per route run. So Scataboo is on the field a ton. The snap share is
6:38elite. The target share has started to be there. Then I look at the New York schedule upcoming where it feels like
6:45like the the Giants are like a sinking ship. Uh Brian Burns goes down with an injury now. And of course, this offense
6:53just squeaked by Tennessee like 12-7 win. Ugly. But if we look at the next three weeks, these are winnable games for New York. And I think they're going
7:00to lean into Scataboo more and more.
7:02You've got Arizona, you've got at the Washington Commanders, and then you got the New Orleans Saints. So, the Saints game, tough one. Arizona in New York.
7:12That's a game that they really feel like they can win, which would push New York to three in one start. And I think
7:17they're going to do do that behind Scataboo. The offensive line's playing well in New York. We'll give them credit for that. And again, Devin Singleary
7:25inactive. They're trying to ramp up Naji Harris, which I think is actually a positive for Scataboo. If they're leaning into Scataboo this much, we
7:32don't want him to take on too many hits.
7:34So, Harris absorbing some work is actually going to help Scaboo, I think, in the long run. So, I'm looking to trade for Cam Scaboo. I think he's a top
7:4315 running back rest of the way with a chance to be an RB1 based on the volume, based on the work in the passing game.
7:50Another running back I'm looking to buy high on. And a lot of times buy highs in fantasy football, they can get us in
7:58trouble sometimes. But I think if you understand the pedigree of the player and the public perception of the player, I don't think that most people are
8:07viewing the Jaylen Warren game as anything more than sort of a oneweek sample size Smash week. Everybody knows Rico Dattle didn't play, but this game
8:17sort of feels real and different. We know Jaylen Warren last year had his highest rushing total as a pro. Uh really impressive stuff. didn't crack a
8:26thousand, but he was in the the mid n like the 950 plus range last year.
8:31Warren has always been a player we viewed as a talented player. Remember what he was able to do to Naji Harris as
8:39a rookie where Harris was terrific as a as a rookie in his own right. And then in year two, Harris's role in as a
8:47receiver out of the backfield took a big backseat to Warren. Uh and it hurt Naji's overall stats that year. Warren's been a guy that's been like a slow drip
8:56that each and every year seems to gain a little bit more uh trust of the coaching staff and usage and this year sort of
9:02feels like a perfect storm. They beat the Cincinnati Bengals a huge win for the Steelers this past week. And Jaylen Warren with no Rico Dattle played 90%
9:13plus of snaps, 127 rushing yards and 49 receiving yards. He also had an 87yard run called back. So, this was an elite
9:23game for Jaylen Warren, and I could see this becoming a thing where Pittsburgh continues to lean into him as their offensive focal point. He has the trust
9:33of Aaron Rodgers. We saw Aaron Rodgers last year just targeting Kenneth Gainwell over and over again down the stretch. Warren has the passing game
9:41role, and I think he has a chance to put a little bit more cushion between him and Rico Dattle with Dattle banged up.
9:47the narrative that this would be a split backfield. Maybe that's the the thought process heading into the season, but I don't think that that's where we're
9:54going to be when we get to like week six, uh, week five, all these upcoming weeks. I think that there's a chance
10:00that when by the time we get to week six, Jaylen Warren has rattled off a few more 15 plus point weeks. Now, we're not
10:07going to get this sort of performance every week. And I don't think Warren is a guy that's going to threaten to be
10:12something like a RB5 overall. But I do think a top 15 running back season for him is very much in the range of
10:19outcomes and I don't think he's going to cost you that much. They play at the Cleveland Browns in week four and then
10:26Indianapolis in week five. Indianapolis has been very generous to opposing running backs for multiple games this year. Uh obviously Houston's got got
10:34some issues offensively, but uh two decent matchups for Warren upcoming. I feel like he is a buy right now. A buy
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11:03conversation, trade candidates, and just a little bit of trade strategy. Let's take a quick aside. A lot of times in fantasy football, you get into these
11:12conversations about two for one deals, three for one deals. Can I somehow pivot my team and go get an elite asset? A lot
11:22of times that's the best way to play fantasy. But I do think there's some of you out there that need to consider two
11:28for ones the other way. Understand where the market is on certain players. Can I turn one player into two very good
11:35players? I think for some of you who are dealing with injuries, this might be the way to go about things. Now, ideally, in
11:42a perfect world, you are trading for the elite asset whenever you can. But at times in fantasy football, it's about survival mode and it's about getting
11:51through the next couple of weeks. This is a weekly game. So, for some of you that lost to Devon Achan, based on the
11:56draft capital you spent on him, this was probably your RB2 if you went running back running back. And for some of you
12:03who started out with a wide receiver in round one, hopefully a JSN type, uh, Han could have been your running back one.
12:11So, this is a tough sledding. Again, you know, your roster. Um, but we want to make strategic trades whenever we can.
12:18And it's not something where it's a dogmatic thing where we have to be getting the one and the two for one or
12:24we have to be getting the one and the three for one. I think you can leverage maybe your league mates who are not
12:31quite as knowledgeable as you are about player values and turn some players into maybe two. Some of the players I'm talking about on this show are perfect
12:40opportunity candidates to add in a two for one the other way. Some of these running backs are valued as running back
12:45twos. Can I get them as sort of a quote unquote throw in in like a massive trade? A lot of these other players you
12:52can sort some of these exact same players you can leverage and attack in two for one. So a lot of sites out there
12:58a lot of trade analysts are telling you you got to do it a certain way. I think be open-minded but don't be opposed to
13:05taking that two for one on the flip side if it benefits your team. The idea of trades in reddraft is to benefit our
13:13team for this season. Dynasty, it's another beast. But in reddraft, it's about getting your team better by any means necessary. Keeping this
13:22conversation going, talking about trade targets.
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13:54Now, I'm seeing a lot of people mentioning Brock Party as a sell high candidate, and I think this is kind of
14:00crazy. Uh Brock Party to me looks like a player that's going to have the best season he's ever had as a pro. And I
14:08trust the 49ers more so than other franchises to sort of figure things out.
14:14You've got the elite play calling. You have George KD heating up. You've got a healthy Christian McAffrey. You have Kalin Black as a potential chain mover.
14:23And you've got Perty sitting at QB2 overall. So this is not really an action where um we we're saying, you know, you
14:30have to trade for Perty. He's expensive right now. Now, if you can go get Perty, I think that will help your team. But
14:38he's a difficult player to get. But I think it's just the the knowledge here is I don't want to trade away Brock Pery
14:45just because he's off to a red-hot start. He's the mobility is there for him. He's got 93 rushing yards. He had a
14:52long rushing touchdown called back. So, I think Brock Pury is absolutely either a hold or a player you trade for, not a
15:00player you trade away. Just a little bit of PSA because I'm seeing people talking about Brock Party as a sell high because
15:07Mike Evans is a little bit banged up. I think Perty again is a hold or a trade target, not a sell right now. He's
15:14playing at a truly elite level and he can end up being a top three scorer at the quarterback position this year.
15:20Fantastic pick. A player to buy low on is Tedo McMillan. Now McMillan's production was terrible uh this past week. this Cleveland was really getting
15:31to Bryce Young and we end up seeing McMillan really struggle. Uh now Jaylen Coker a little bit banged up. Um so
15:40Coker's dealing dealing with some things. Coker might play this week against Detroit. It's it's been called a minor quadriceps strain and he could be
15:52able to play in Sunday's game against the Lions. So do they rush Coker and try to get him in that game? We'll we'll
15:58check out the practice reports all week long here, but Tedaro McMillan, it's a perfect time to trade for him. Week one,
16:04he was badly outproduced by Jaylen Coker, but he still had eight targets, five catches for 75 yards. Week two was really good. He had 15 points scored,
16:14five catches for 101 yards, and his targets went up to 10. This past week, only 3.7 PPR points. We saw what Garrett
16:23Wilson was able to accomplish against this Lion secondary. I've talked about this continually on a lot of shows. The Lions are a defense we want to attack
16:32right now. And I think McMillan is in a great spot to put up a smash week.
16:36Again, look at what Garrett Wilson was able to do last week. Then we factor in that Jaylen Coker at the very least is
16:43going to play this game banged up and potentially not play this game at all.
16:47This is a huge opportunity for Detroit.
16:49Uh this is a national television game. I think McMillan is going to have a really, really strong week. I would like
16:55to trade for him before this game. One other player we've talked about each and every week here, uh, Daltton Concaid. He
17:04is still a trade candidate. Awful game for King Kade. The Bills had five turnovers, including the King Kaid fumble. So, he didn't help himself out
17:12here. Things are going to get a lot better for him. When we look at King Kade, I mean, off to a red-hot start to
17:18the season. Unbelievable production in week one, unbelievable production in week two.
17:24uh 20.7% target share on the season uh from Josh Allen. Just awesome awesome stuff from Concaid. Yards per route run 3.76.
17:36Very good number for a tight end. To put that in perspective, Trey McBride at 1.9, George KD at 3.05. So Kaid
17:45analytically right there, the production in week one and week two. But I do think you're going to have some managers with
17:50King Kaid who are like, "Okay, I probably should have sold after week two. Uh, every everything's sort of falling apart and I want to get out of
17:57dodge here and get somebody to pay pay me for what they saw in week one and week two. I'm a little bit scared after
18:03week three." So, if you find any sort of league mates who are open-minded to trading concade after one poor game, I
18:10think you go ahead and you try to uh try to leverage that one. one other player to buy high on. Really, we could talk
18:18about multiple Cleveland Browns here.
18:20Um, I think that Casey Conpsion is a buy low candidate. I think that the smash week for Casey is coming based on the
18:27usage we're seeing in Cleveland. Uh, and the fact that they're trying to get him manufactured touches. But the player that I want to talk about as a potential
18:36buy is Harold Fannon Jr. We've talked about him in previous weeks as a player that's ascending and we finally saw it
18:43in week three where he had two touchdown catches. Now Deshun Watson, there's some mixed bag there, but he's been a QB1 in
18:52back-to-back weeks, low-end QB1. Harold Fannon Jr. when you get outside of the of the like Bowers and the Bowers and
19:03obviously Trey McBride tier, there's a lot of like indecision as to how people rank these guys. Now, King Kade, George KD, those two guys need to sort of be
19:13right there. I think that Harold Fannon Jr. and then also Sam Leaporta right after that. So, I'm looking to try to
19:20kick the tires and try to upgrade my tight end room and get some Harold Fannon Jr. I think he's in a really good
19:27spot right now rest of the season. It's a buy high, but again, you're getting the discount where people still are fading this Cleveland Browns offense
19:35like it's the preseason and like we're still drafting out there. The fear out there in in the community that Deshun Watson was going to tank Harold Fannon
19:44Jr. That ship has sailed. Two touchdown catches this past week. Fannon also had a solid uh week two as well. So, I think
19:51he's trending upwards.
19:54looking at a potential buy low candidate. I'm going to mention Chase Brown because I just think with this sort of usage on this sort of offense,
20:03it's getting to be a little absurd. And the Chase Brown manager was really kind of annoyed at how things were going in
20:10terms of full-on production based on using a first round pick on him. And now they might be a little more open-minded
20:17to, hey, I I'd be willing to have that conversation about a trade. Chase Brown started out slowly last year as well,
20:25but week three a major disappointment. I thought Chase Brown was going to have a really big week. But 11.2 points scored
20:32in week 2 against Houston and 8.9 points scored against Pittsburgh in week three.
20:38Really bad stuff in terms of the overall production. We did see the 18.8 point score in week one against Tampa. I think
20:45we're going to see a lot more scoring weeks like that. Only one rushing touchdown on the year. Now, Chase Brown and the Bengals in week five have the
20:54Miami Dolphins. They've got a difficult matchup this week against a Jacksonville defense that just completely shut out New England, but the game is in
21:02Cincinnati. I think this might be the best possible time to go and trade for Chase Brown. I know it sound a little
21:09repetitive and I was on Chase Brown last week and I'll take the L on that one, but we're going to continue to try to
21:14trade for Brown. Brown has averaged 16 points per game in back-to-back years. I think that's sort of what we're looking at rest of the way. Look for Chase Brown
21:23to get back to normal with things. Now, one other player who is a buy candidate is Jacobe Meyers. And Meyers had a very
21:33strong week in week three. Uh again, this is probably the cheapest guy I've talked about on this show. BTJ is looking like a nothing right now. and
21:42Jacobe Myers had seven catches for 64 yards and a touchdown. So, I think we've talked about Bashel Tutin as a trade
21:49candidate in multiple weeks. Scored a touchdown last week. He's becoming more difficult to obtain. I think people understand what they have. Tuton's up to
21:57like 13.7 points per game right now. And then everybody knows what Parker Washington is. Washington is just awesome. Uh playing well each and every
22:05week. But Jacobe Myers, I think there's a window to go trade for him. and you're getting access to a really good offense
22:12that I think is ascending. And Jacksonville moves to two and one. And the only team that they struggled against was the Denver Broncos, a
22:23defense that we saw also give the LA Rams some problems. So, I think that when we look at Jacksonville, Jacksonville's in a really good spot.
22:31And we talked about could we this week against Cincinnati be a Jacobe Meyers week? Cincinnati is going to try to key
22:38in on Parker Washington. You've got Jacobe Meyers a chance to put up another 15 type point week. And then you've got
22:44Philly in week five, another matchup where it's in Jacksonville. And I think Meyers could put up good numbers. So 14 points in week two, 17 in week three.
22:54It's a buy high, but again it's perception of the player and I don't think people are valuing Meyers where they should be. If we sort of were able
23:03to project BTJ being this bad on the season, then we would have been drafting Jacobe Meyers a lot higher. I think that
23:10was a player that was mispriced for a lot of reddraft managers. So, there's going to be managers out there who have
23:16him as like an extra wide receiver on builds where he's like their wide receiver four, their wide receiver five even, and they might be open-minded to
23:25trading you Jacobe Meyers. a perfect player for you to get when we talk about getting these two for ons, getting these
23:32three for ones. If your team needs a boost, Myers is the kind of player that I'm able to plug into my wide receiver
23:38three or my flex spot and feel really good about where things currently are with this Jacksonville offense. So, go and trade for Jacobe Meyers. He's a
23:47player that really should be a buy high, but I think there's still a no one really knows how to value him type
23:52player. Now, sell candidates. We mentioned David Montgomery for a couple of weeks. We mentioned him after the week one performance when he had all the
24:00touchdowns. Well, we're back here. And I think what David Montgomery has been unable to accomplish without Nico Collins is very telling. Montgomery is
24:12inefficient right now. He's getting double-digit runs and all that sort of stuff. He's getting okay volume and he's getting bad efficiency and bad
24:21production. the David Montgomery uh week one is like an oasis that saves his overall counting stats. I think you're going to have a lot of fantasy managers
24:31who are scrambling to add a running back this week and if I can profit off of that and get someone better for David
24:37Montgomery, I'm looking to do it.
24:39Montgomery just I don't like the vibes I'm seeing here. They really tried to use him this past week and and the
24:44production was poor. You've also got the threat of Woody Marx and and Woody Marx's role sort of potentially growing uh is out there. So, I am looking to
24:53move David Montgomery. After week one, it was like a no-brainer. Now, now it's like you're going to have to get a
24:59little bit creative with Montgomery because things are just not great there.
25:04And Nico Collins will eventually be back. He becomes the focal point of the offense. Uh Montgomery is really a touchdownbased guy and that's that's it.
25:13So, touchdown dependent running back. We saw how good that can be in week one, but I think it's going to be uh very
25:19difficult to predict when the big weeks are coming for Montgomery and I think they're going to be view very very few
25:24of them. I think he's a player to move off before the market sort of really adjusts to what his actual value is.
25:31Another player or players we should talk about are the LA Chargers and I think it's time to sell low on Omari and
25:39Hampton. Hampton feels like a player that could get not overtaken, but the Katon Mitchell, Omari, and Hampton splits are going to continue to be
25:49really, really annoying. Hampton scored 10 PPR points this past week against Buffalo. Excuse me, five PPR points against Buffalo, 3.7 yards per carry,
26:00and the touchdowns have really saved him this year. He has two scores this year, both on the ground, but two of his three
26:07games have been sub four yards per carry. and his game against Vegas, which was his best game of the year, was 4.1.
26:15So, you're talking about an inefficient runner who's touchdown dependent who only has two catches on the season. I mean, things are really bad for Omari
26:25and Hampton, but you still have sort of the name brand equity. You still have uh the two rushing scores, and you've got
26:33the big week two to lean on. Could we end up in a si situation where Katon Mitchell, it becomes like a true 50-50
26:41split? Mitchell looked good against Buffalo. Mitchell had eight carries for 52 yards. He also had three catches.
26:48Didn't do anything with him, but he looked way more explosive and like way a better fit in this LA offense. Another
26:55player to kind of look to trade is Lad Makanki. Lad Mani right now, I mean, this is the this is sort of where we
27:02were at last year. He's the third leading target among all wide receivers in LA right now. He had the really big
27:08week one with 19 points scored and then these past two weeks 6.5 points and 10.6 points. He's been outtargeted this year
27:18by Quentyn Johnston who's been awful. QJ is averaging four points a game and he has 17 targets to Maki's 15. And then
27:25you've got Trey Harris who had 16 targets. And Harris is the one where Harris this past week, six catches for 76 yards, seven targets. I think Harris
27:35is going to trend up a little bit. We know Maki's been a little bit banged up with the ribs, but this is sort of more
27:41of the same. Lad Maki, if you look at his stats to end last year in terms of the catch totals each and every week,
27:47they're looking like this year. It's another name brand that I can try to trade. And I think this is an awful
27:53situation for the LA Chargers. And I think this is a get out of dodge. This was a team that I like many people
28:00mispriced this off season and things are looking really poor. Then we talk about the matchups. Makanki is at Seattle this week and then the Denver Broncos in week
28:10five and then at Kansas City in week six and then you've got the by-week to deal with. So I'm looking to get out on Omari
28:17and Hampton. I'm looking to get out on Lad Mani. I am selling low on both of these guys and looking to pivot. Um,
28:23really tough stuff with the LA Chargers.
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