Fantasy Football Trades You Need To Make Before Week 4
Week 4 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 4.
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Buy Christian Watson
Christian Watson managers spent a fourth round pick this summer to get him. I’m sure they were fired up to make that pick after how he finished off his rookie season. Unfortunately, he’s yet to take the field and those teams are probably starting to feel the effects of missing their WR2. This is where we pounce.
The biggest question we had about Christian Watson during draft season was the quarterback situation. Is Jordan Love going to be good enough to propel a downfield guy like Christian Watson to WR2 or better production? Those questions seem to have been answered after three weeks. The answer is yes.
Jordan Love currently ranks first among all quarterbacks in average target distance (10.2 yards). He has had no hesitancy to chuck the ball downfield. He is also third in air yards and third in rate of passes traveling 20 or more yards down the field (Graham Barfield on Twitter).
And we know what Watson is capable of. He scored 20+ fantasy points in four-straight games from Weeks 10-13 last season. He had over 100 air yards in five of his last eight games and finished the season with seven touchdowns—one of them from Jordan Love. Now he will team up with Love again in a surprisingly good Packers pass attack.
Watson appears close to a return from a nagging hamstring injury after the team has exercised an abundance of caution with him to this point. Once he’s back on the field and at 100%, the Watson-Love connection could become one of the most explosive in the NFL.
Buy Jakobi Meyers
Jakobi Meyers has gotten off to a terrific start to begin his Raiders career (concussion aside). In Week 1, he led the team with a 38% target share. He caught 9 of his 10 targets for 81 yards and two touchdowns. He was the WR3 on the week. Meyers missed Week 2, but returned to another high target share. He caught 7 of 12 targets (27% share) for 85 yards and another 15.5 fantasy points. It was obvious the Raiders wanted to get him the ball and establish him as the clear No. 2 behind Davante Adams. Meyers and quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo seemed to have some good chemistry as well.
We know Meyers commands targets and does well with them from his time in New England. He averaged seven targets per game over the last two seasons on a low volume passing offense. He is currently the WR2 overall in fantasy points per game and on track to set career highs across the board in 2023. If you need some consistent wide receiver production in a PPR league, Meyers can be had at a very reasonable price.
Buy Sam LaPorta
On a podcast this summer, I predicted Lions tight end Sam LaPorta would have the most productive season of all the rookie tight ends. I meant that as among the 2023 class. Yet, through three weeks, he’s on pace to have the most productive rookie tight end season ever. He is the first tight end in NFL history to catch at least five passes in his first three NFL games and he currently leads all tight ends in receiving yards (186). His 17 game pace is 102 receptions for over 1,000 yards.
While it’s likely that pace falls off a bit, LaPorta has already established himself as a legit NFL tight end talent and a guy we can trust in fantasy football. He has had target shares of 16%, 18%, and 36%. In an offense without an established no. 2 wide receiver, LaPorta should continue to see a significant number of looks. At a position that is in desperate need for another star, LaPorta is quickly rising up the rankings. He is a top-6 tight end (at worst) for the rest of the season. You should be aggressively trying to acquire him.
Buy Jordan Addison
Jordan Addison has been everything we thought he would be heading into his rookie season. In three games, he has 19 targets, 13 receptions, 185 receiving yards, and two touchdowns. He has scored 16.1, 16.2, and 11.2 fantasy points and is currently inside the top-20 wide receivers in fantasy points per game. He’s done this despite still playing behind veteran wide receiver KJ Osborn in terms of routes and snaps. Addison’s route participation has grown week-over-week, though, up from 66% in Week 1 to 80% in Week 3.
We loved Addison coming out of USC and expected he would thrive as the No. 2 in Minnesota. Now the Vikings are 0-3. They have a terrible defense which puts them in a ton of negative game scripts which naturally create more passing opportunities, and aggressive throws downfield. Kirk Cousins’ is on pace to attempt 782 passes this season. The all-time record is 733 (Tom Brady, 2022). That will only be a good thing as Addison’s role continues to grow and his chemistry and trust with quarterback Kirk Cousins gets stronger. I expect Addison will continue to score as a WR2 in fantasy football for the rest of the season. I’m making trade offers for him with that expectation.
Sell Derrick Henry
Derrick Henry has gotten off to a very concerning start to the 2023 season. For one, he has struggled behind the Titans’ bottom-of-the-league offensive line to a tune of 3.2 yards per carry which would be by far a career low. He has just 163 rushing yards and one touchdown through three games. We’ve seen Henry get off to slow starts in past seasons and then explode in the second half. In fact, through three games last year, his numbers weren’t much better than they are right now. However, things feel different this time around. This Titans team is really bad. The line is bad. The quarterback is bad. The weapons aren’t good.
The biggest worry of all, though, is standing on the sideline more than we’re used to. And it’s not a situation where they’re just giving him a few extra plays off per game. He is being widely out-snapped by rookie Tyjae Spears. In two of three games, Spears was on the field significantly more than Henry. Spears played 56.3% of the snaps in Week 3 while Henry was on the field only 37.5% of the time. That resulted in just 11 carries for 20 yards.
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Maybe it’s just a game script thing, which would make some sense. However, if that’s the case, we still need to be worried because like I mentioned earlier, this Titans team is not good. Not only is it not good, it is actively bad. They’re going to be in a lot of negative game scripts. If that means they’re going to continue to play Spears over Henry in most weeks, then Henry’s fantasy managers are in big trouble. We’re used to a ton of volume from Henry. That’s how he scores as an elite fantasy running back without catching passes. Now we’re being stripped of that heavy workload. It doesn’t look like he will be able to make up for it with efficiency, either, considering how poor the offensive line is.
There are plenty of fantasy gamers who aren’t worried about Henry. They’re chalking it up to a slow start. Maybe they haven’t seen the usage data or maybe they’re just naive to the situation and expect Henry will work his magic to turn things around. I’m not expecting that to happen so I am aggressively shopping him while I can still get a good return.
Bonus Buys
- Rachaad White
- Kenneth Gainwell
- Roschon Johnson
Bonus Sells
- Dameon Pierce
- Jerry Jeudy
- Kyren Williams
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