Fantasy Football Trades You Need To Make Before Week 11
Week 11 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 11.
Note: With trade deadlines passing in Week 11 or before in most fantasy football leagues, this will be the last edition of the weekly buys & sells article for 2023. In future weeks, look for the start of my new weekly trends series. Thank you to all who have enjoyed and supported this piece this season.
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Buy Lamar Jackson
Lamar Jackson has underwhelmed from a fantasy football perspective for three straight weeks. He has scored 12, 11.5, and 15 fantasy points over that stretch. Prior to that, he was averaging 21.4 fantasy points per game and had five top-10 finishes. His recent struggles aren’t a product of him playing poorly. And the offense has been good, too, scoring over 30 points in four straight games. It’s just been a fluky stretch that has seen eight of the team’s touchdowns come on running back rush attempts. It also included a 37-3 blowout win in which the starters were pulled early. All Jackson needs is for some of that touchdown luck to swing his way and he’ll be right back to scoring as a top-5 quarterback.
The schedule coming up should allow for Jackson to be that guy, with potential shootouts against the Bengals and Chargers before the bye. Then, they get the Rams, Jaguars, 49ers, and Dolphins. Buy-low on Jackson from the manager in your league who is panicking and enjoy the ride.
Buy James Conner
James Conner returned from injury in Week 10. He played 63% of the snaps and took 16 carries for a modest 73 rushing yards. Kyler Murray also returned to the lineup in Week 10, playing his first game since tearing his ACL in 2022. Murray surprisingly didn’t show many signs of rust and looked like the same spunky quarterback we’ve seen for years. That’s great news for everyone in the Cardinals offense, including Conner. With some stability at quarterback, the offense should operate more efficiently in the second half which will allow Conner to get more opportunities, particularly in the red zone where he has thrived during his time in Arizona.
Conner didn’t catch any passes in Week 10, but his presence in the passing game should return. There is no receiving specialist in the Cardinals backfield to worry about so it feels like the lack of involvement in that area was more of a fluke than anything. Conner averaged nearly four receptions per game last season but has only eight receptions so far in 2022. Those will come now that Murray is back.
Conner has been a top-10 fantasy running back in each of his two previous seasons in Arizona. He has no backfield competition and has a mostly favorable schedule moving forward. Buy low while you can.
Buy All Texans
How about CJ Stroud? Stroud is giving us one of the most impressive rookie seasons of any quarterback we’ve seen ever. He is currently leading the NFL in passing yards per game, he has passed for 15 touchdowns (ran for two others), and has only thrown two interceptions. One of his most impressive feats is how well he has elevated the players around him. One of the biggest critiques of the Texans offense coming into the season was how poor their wide receiver corps was. Nobody is saying that now. Sure, guys like Tank Dell, Nico Collins, and Noah Brown have played well, but Stroud has been a big part of why they are producing at the level they are. Even tight end Dalton Schultz is exceeding expectations and scoring as a TE1.
In fantasy football, we want players in great offenses. Thanks to Stroud, the Texans now belong in that conversation. If I have some holes in my flex spot, or want to add some depth to navigate the next few weeks of byes, I’m targeting players in Houston. The Texans have already had their bye and everyone is eating. I’m prioritizing Dell, Collins, and Schultz, but just about everyone other than Stroud himself can be had at a reasonable cost still. Just give me players in good offenses.
Sell Saquon Barkley
The Giants offense is bad. Like bad bad. Like really, really bad. Historically awful. Yet, I’ve seen several fantasy analysts advising to buy low on Saquon Barkley. I’m here to ask you to please not do that. I get Barkley has the talent and is getting so many touches—I mean, the Giants offense is basically just Saquon at this point—but why would you want any part of this team? Tommy Devito is one of the worst quarterbacks to step on an NFL field in recent seasons and defenses know it. They are going to just key in on Barkley and limit him in every way. The next four matchups (Commanders, Patriots, Packers, and Saints) are going to be 9-6 type of games. Very few yards, very few points, lots of punts. Then the next game is against the Eagles, one of the toughest defenses for running backs in all of football.
We’re seeing the same thing with Breece Hall with the Jets, except this is worse. Hall has had a few moments but he has no ceiling in that dysfunctional offense. When the offense can’t move the ball, that limits the number of plays they run and scoring opportunities. Why go buy a guy in an offense like that? Don’t torture yourself. Avoid and sell.
Bonus Buys
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Josh Downs
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Kyler Murray
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Cooper Kupp
Bonus Sells
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All your Steelers
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