Fantasy Football Trades You Need To Make Before Week 10

Week 10 Fantasy Football Trades: Top Buys & Sells

If you’re going to win a fantasy football championship, you have to be trying to find ways to make your team better week in and week out. One of the best ways to do that is to shop the trade market. Be active with making trade offers, updating your trade block, and engaging in conversation with your league mates. It’s also important that you make quality trades. The best way to make sure you don’t get taken advantage of by your league mates and that you are offering fair deals is to utilize our fully customizable redraft fantasy football trade calculator. Now here are a few buys and sells to consider building your trades around in Week 10.

More: Fantasy Notebook: Snaps, Targets, Air Yards, & Routes Data From Week 9

Buy Trey McBride 

Trey McBride has been a hot waiver wire add for the last few weeks. That was especially true in Week 9, coming off a huge breakout performance of 10 catches for 95 yards and a touchdown. However, fantasy managers who picked him up after that performance are feeling disappointed after he went just 3-for-22 in Week 9. That opens the buy window for another week because some of those managers are feeling the Week 8 performance was a fluke. However, that game came with Josh Dobbs at quarterback. His disappointing Week 9 was with rookie Clayton Tune. That makes a huge difference.

Now the Cardinals are getting Kyler Murray back for Week 10 which will bring some normalcy back to the quarterback position in Arizona. That’s great news for all Cardinals pass catchers. For McBride, he had been trending up for weeks prior to his big breakout. Then, Zach Ertz went down and things opened up even more. He has now had target shares of 18.2%, 38.9%, and 25% over the last three games. Remember, McBride was a second round pick in 2022 and a quality tight end prospect, so him breaking out is not a surprise. What he did in Week 8 was a legitimate performance. He may not reach 25 fantasy points again, but with Kyler Murray at quarterback, McBride can be a weekly TE1 from here on out.

Buy Bijan Robinson 

Bijan Robinson has been one of the biggest disappointments in fantasy football this season. If only someone had been there to warn you not to draft him so highly. Oh, that’s right…you’re welcome. But here we are in Week 10 and his value has gotten about as low as it can go. His fantasy managers are frustrated, angry, and desperate. They’re also losing matchups because they misused their most precious draft pick and they’re running out of time to turn things around. This is where we swoop in and make an offer.

Now of course this is a buy-low opportunity. We don’t need to pay preseason prices to make it happen. But there is a chance he returns something closer to that preseason value in the second half. We can all agree Bijan Robinson is a super talented running back. That was never a question. His fantasy production has been held down by Arthur Smith’s insistence on playing his inferior running backs far more than he should. 

But we’ve seen with rookie running backs in the past, they often have their best stretch in the second half of the season. They are figuring out the NFL game and their teams unleash them. There’s also a real possibility that the Falcons look for ways to get their offense going as the losses begin to stack up. But maybe that’s giving Arthur Smith more credit than he deserves.

If that happens, though, Bijan Robinson can be a league winner. Like we’ve already mentioned, he’s a very talented runner. He is also one of the best receiving backs in the NFL. He already has five games with at least four receptions. Even in his more suppressed role as of late, Bijan leads all running backs in routes, he’s top-3 in targets, and top-10 in running back receptions. In the run game, Robinson is averaging five yards per carry and he’s top-5 in evaded tackles. 

All he needs is the dials turned up a bit on his usage. If that happens, we could be looking at a true fantasy football league winner with matchups in the fantasy playoffs against the Panthers, Colts, and Bears…oh my!

Buy Aaron Jones 

Aaron Jones has been about as disappointing as any running back in 2023. Most of that has been due to health. His early season hamstring injury lingered for many weeks and the team kept him in a limited role even when he returned. However, in Week 9, Jones was back to a full workload. He carried the ball 20 times for 73 yards and a touchdown. It wasn’t only his first 20 carry game of the season, but it was the first time he’s reached double-digit attempts. He was also targeted six times which equaled a 24% target share. It was his third-straight game of at least five targets. Jones was on the field for a season-high 57% of the snaps as it appeared the team finally felt comfortable to let him loose. 

When he’s healthy, Aaron Jones is one of the most explosive and versatile running backs in football. Even in a bad offense, his involvement in the passing game should keep him as a weekly top-15 option for the rest of the season. Looking ahead to the fantasy playoffs, Jones gets juicy matchups against the Buccaneers, Panthers, and Vikings to finish out the season and help you take home a title.

Buy Josh Jacobs

The coaching and quarterback changes made in Las Vegas last week were good news for Josh Jacobs. I talked about that on Sunday’s start/sit show. It was fair to anticipate a shift in the offense to feature their star running back more than they had in previous weeks. We saw a glimpse of that in Aidan O’Connell’s first start earlier this season when Jacobs took 17 carries and was targeted 11 times. Now, the game script in Week 9, did not allow for Jacobs to get involved in the passing game in the way he had previously, but he handled a season-high 26 rush attempts and found the end zone twice. 

Moving forward, we can anticipate more involvement in the passing game—Jacobs already has three games with five or more targets—while continuing to take a significant number of carries. In an offense that looked far more functional than it had at any point this season, Jacobs will be the biggest beneficiary of the recent changes. He should return high-end RB2/low-end RB1 value for the rest of the season. Then, in the fantasy football championship, he will get to run wild against the Colts who have allowed the fifth most fantasy points per game to the running back position.

Sell Kenneth Walker

When it happened in Week 8, I chalked it up to injury related. But it happened again in Week 9, and we need to have a conversation. I’m talking about the backfield splits between Zach Charbonnet and Kenneth Walker. For the first seven weeks of the season, this was Walker’s backfield. No question, uncontested. Walker was playing so well that he was shutting out Charbonnet more and more every week. But over the last two games, Charbonnet has been on the field for more snaps than Walker. In Week 8, Charbonnet out-snapped Walker 59% to 41%. In Week 9, it was 55% to 49%. Prior to that, Walker had seen a snap share below 60% just once.

While Walker had two targets to Charbonnet’s one, the rookie actually ran 18 routes to Walker’s 13. That’s a major concern for Kenneth Walker fantasy managers. We may be able to chalk some of that up to a 34-point loss, but this has become a situation we have to closely monitor. That’s especially true after how much Pete Carroll talked up Charbonnet heading into Week 9. The good news is, Walker has still been leading in carries, but not by the wide margin he was earlier in the season. Prior to Week 8, Walker had taken 79.6% of the running back rush attempts. That has dipped to 65.4% over the last two weeks (@LateRoundQB on Twitter). Charbonnet has seen three of the team’s four red zone carries over the last two weeks.

I’m not ready to completely panic quite yet, but I’m on high alert and fielding offers if I’m the Kenneth Walker manager. I don’t think Charbonnet will take over the backfield by any means, but it’s trending towards a 50/50 split that could become a headache for fantasy managers.

Bonus Buys

• Alexander Mattison 

• Jonathan Taylor

• Brock Purdy

• David Montgomery 

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