Trades You Need To Make In Fantasy Football Before Week 4
Trade Targets For Fantasy Football Week 4
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: Ladd McConkey
Other than his touchdown in Week 1, Ladd McConkey has been quiet to begin his rookie season. He has just 10 catches for 109 yards and that one touchdown through three weeks. He’s the WR53, averaging 9.0 fantasy points per game. However, I’m putting in trade offers for Ladd McConkey this week. That’s because, while the production hasn’t been there, the Chargers are involving the rookie pretty heavily in the offense. He leads the team with 17 targets and has had target shares of 27%, 20%, and 30% to begin the season. That indicates to me that the production is coming.
He has very little target competition in the offense and has a top-10 quarterback. Even if the Chargers like to run the ball, there will be plenty of opportunities for McConkey to make plays. He’s excellent after the catch which will only help him maximize his production.
The only asterisk I would put on this trade target is that it’s very possible the Chargers rest quarterback Justin Herbert in Week 4 after he aggravated his ankle injury. Then they’re on a bye in Week 5. It’s possible you could wait a couple weeks and get him even cheaper.
Buy Rashid Shaheed
Rashid Shaheed was the talk of fantasy football after two weeks. He had scored long touchdowns in both games to begin the season and was scoring as a top-15 wide receiver in fantasy football. That all came crashing back down to earth in Week 3 when Shaheed posted a goose egg in the box score. That’s right, zero catches, zero yards, zero touchdowns. However, that wasn’t because Shaheed’s role just suddenly went away. He still ran a route on 89% of Derek Carr’s drop backs and he was targeted five times, good enough for a very respectable 21.7% target share.
And things were so close to being completely different. Shaheed and Carr narrowly missed on another long touchdown. The ball went off of Shaheed’s chest while he battled with the defensive back at the goal line. Despite zero receiving yards, Shaheed ended the week No. 13 in air yards (105) which accounted for 58% of New Orleans’ total team air yards. Air yards, routes run, and target share are all strong indicators of future production. Shaheed continued to check all of those boxes.
We were drafting Shaheed as a boom-bust wide receiver anyway, right? Yet, his role, despite the complete bust in Week 3, is that of a wide receiver who actually might be more of a consistent contributor than originally expected. We could get a major bounce back as early as Week 4 against the Falcons. I’m putting in my trade offers now.
Buy DJ Moore & Rome Odunze
On Sunday morning’s start/sit show on the Yards Per Fantasy Youtube channel, I declared it a “get-right day” for the Bears passing attack. And, oh baby, was I right. I even took things a step further and predicted Week 3 would be the breakout performance we’ve been waiting for from Rome Odunze. Hello! It all happened and it was beautiful. That means DJ Moore and Odunze are buy-highs, and that’s okay. It’s perfectly acceptable to buy-high in fantasy football, especially when we can project these players to ascend even further. Caleb Williams and the Bears offense is only going to get better from here. They didn’t peak in Week 3. This was just a glimpse of what’s to come.
Odunze was especially impressive with his six receptions on 11 targets for 112 yards and a touchdown. He did that on a team-high 22% target share. He ran a route on 98.2% of Caleb Williams’ drop backs and he led all NFL pass catchers with a whopping 245 air yards on the week. It was only a matter of time before we got a performance like this from Odunze who was an incredibly talented prospect coming out of Washington.
For Moore, he wasn’t quite as impressive but he still got there with eight catches for 78 yards on 10 targets.
But, again, we’re buying because this was the start of the Bears passing game getting right. They’re just starting to figure it out with Williams. Things are only going up from here. Looking ahead at the next four weeks, the Bears draw matchups against the Rams, Panthers, Jaguars, and Commanders, all of which have proven susceptible to the pass this season. Buy your Bears and start your Bears.
Buy Jayden Reed
Jayden Reed has been quiet over the last two weeks with performances of 6.6 fantasy points and 10.9 fantasy points. He has six catches for 59 yards over those two games. However, that’s come with Malik Willis at quarterback. While Willis has certainly exceeded expectations and has led the Packers to two victories, his limitations have put a hard cap on the fantasy production coming out of Green Bay. We could get Jordan Love back under center as early as Week 4, though. And the last time we saw Love on the field, Jayden Reed finished as the overall WR1. In fact, if we go back to last season, Reed ended his rookie campaign with seven top-25 fantasy performances in his last eight regular season games. He cracked the top-12 in four of those.
Reed is the most explosive player in the Packers offense and the team wants to get the ball in his hands in a number of different ways. He catches short passes, he catches down the field passes, they get him going on screens, jet sweeps, and even hand it to him out of the backfield. He has continued to be the most targeted player in the offense under Willis, it’s just the volume and quality of the passing game is underwhelming. A healthy Jordan Love would do wonders for the second-year playmaker. I’m buying wherever I can.
Buy Tucker Kraft
Tucker Kraft is the clear top TE in Green Bay. Once Jordan Love is back, he has a chance to emerge as a startable option in a bare tight end landscape.
Buy Brandon Aiyuk
We’re going right back to Brandon Aiyuk after he was overshadowed by Jauan Jennings in Week 3. We know what Aiyuk is, we’ve seen it for years. He still accounted for a third of the team’s targets despite the blowup performance by Jennings. Buy low, buy low, buy low.
Sell Jauan Jennings
Week 3 is not repeatable for Jauan Jennings. He’s usable for a couple more weeks but once the other weapons start making their way back into the lineup, Jennings will fade back into the background. If you don’t need him in your lineup in Week 4, cash out.
Sell Kyren Williams
Maybe it’s take-lock, maybe it’s conviction. Whatever it is, I’m still selling Kyren Williams. Williams just put up the least impressive 30-point game by a running back I’ve ever seen. In a game the Rams were without all of their wide receivers and were in comeback mode, Williams was only targeted twice. He has one carry of more than 10 yards all season (54 attempts) and that one went for 13. The offensive line is a problem and they’re not going to touch 27 points very often without any receivers. That means the touchdown-dependent Williams could become the touchdown-less Williams. And don’t forget…Corum is coming.
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