Fantasy Football Week 7: Examining Trade Value for This Year’s Top 100 Players

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, a great fantasy trade is in the eye of the owner pulling the trigger.

Ultimately, a player’s value in fantasy will come down to a number of factors. Some of them should be objective. Is that player producing? Does he have a history of producing? Is he injury prone, stuck in a position platoon or inconsistent?

But some factors are subjective. We’ve all had players who have bombed for us before turning things around the next year. That won’t change the fact that you’ll always be wary of that player now. 

So ultimately, my weekly trade chart should always be treated as a guide, and certainly not as scripture. This is to give you a general idea of how a player should be valued in a trade so you don’t get yourself ripped off. But if a trade doesn’t feel right to you, don’t make it, even if the chart says otherwise. Trust your gut.

OK, now to the chart.

As always, let’s take an in-depth look at one player so we can go over the thought process in determining his trade value, and whether you should be clamoring to trade for him or rushing to sell him.

This week, the question haunting me is this: What to make of Russell Wilson?

The quarterback drafted by many to anchor their fantasy teams is averaging a disappointing 13.8 points per game this year and has exceeded 20 fantasy points in a game just once. Russell isn’t playing particularly poorly—he’s completing 65.9 percent of his passes and has thrown just one interception—but his five touchdown passes on the season and 35 rushing yards have severely minimized his fantasy value.

To put that in context, Wilson threw for five touchdown passes, in a game, twice last season, and rushed for 31 yards in Week 1 alone in 2015.

So what, exactly, is going on? And will Wilson’s value stabilize, or is he going to end up a bust this season?

The first answer is an easy one. As Gregg Bell of the News Tribune wrote: “Wilson has played all but the first two quarters of the first game Sept. 11 with either a sprained right ankle or a sprained ligament in his left knee. That has all but eliminated the quarterback’s running.”

Bell added:

He’s not even running on pass plays this season, partly why Seattle is throwing more passes. He has scrambled for just one first down. Last year he scrambled for 19 first downs. Wilson looked more mobile last weekend against Atlanta and said after the game

“I felt great.” …

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