Trades You Need To Make In Fantasy Football Before Week 6
Trade Targets For Fantasy Football Week 6
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 6
More: Fantasy Notebook: All The Usage Data From Week 5
Buy Breece Hall
The panic alarm is ringing across the fantasy community for everyone who drafted Breece Hall. That’s when those of us who were savvy enough to be drafting guys like Justin Jefferson, Amom-Ra St. Brown, and Ja’Marr Chase ahead of him can swoop in and take advantage. The numbers have been ugly, I know. He’s reached 100 total yards just once in five games and he’s combined for 55 total yards over the last two. Braelon Allen has been a thorn in his side and he’s the RB13 in fantasy points.
However, things are not as bad as they appear. Hall has dipped below a 70% snap share just once this season and that was 69%. His 73.6% snap share in Week 5 was actually his highest since Week 1 (82%). That coincided with Braelon Allen’s 26.4% which was his lowest since Week 1. This is not a backfield shifting towards the rookie. Hall accounted for 65% of the running back opportunities in Week 5 which was right on par with his season-long 67% opportunity share. Hall continues to dominate the passing game work as well which is most important for us in PPR formats. He ran 33 routes to Allen’s 6 and he doubled Allen’s targets.
Looking ahead, the Jets upcoming schedule includes some very favorable matchups for Hall. Eight of their next 11 opponents rank in the top-12 most fantasy points allowed to running backs this season. That includes matchups in the fantasy playoffs against the Jaguars (5th most fpts allowed), the Rams (7th-most), and the Bills (1st-most).
That’s a big improvement from playing the No. 1 and No. 2 defenses in EPA/play over the last two weeks.
Buy-low on Breece Hall from the panicked and struggling manager in your league. We know the league-winning upside is there and you can get him at a major discount.
Buy Kenneth Walker
I know things weren’t quite as rosy against the Giants in Week 4, but the Seahawks offense has been a fantasy points machine through the first month of the season. Kenneth Walker has been a big part of that. The Seahawks have put him in position to be a league-winning running back. He is dominating the work in that backfield with a 69% opportunity share on the season. He is even getting the passing downs work, an area he was limited in over his first two seasons. Walker has 13 targets over the last two weeks. That includes 8 in Week 5 which came on a 20% target share while running a route on 60% of Geno Smith’s drop backs. His route participation on the season is 55.6% which ranks top-7 among all running backs. To put that into perspective he had a route participation of 35% in 2023 and 41% in 2024 (PlayerProfiler).
This added element to his game plus the overall improved efficiency and explosiveness of the Seattle offense could unlock Kenneth Walker and propel him to a top-3 season.
Buy Chuba Hubbard
Just like I warned before the season, Jonathon Brooks’ estimated return to the field continues to get pushed back. I mean, what incentive do the Panthers really have to put him on the field right now anyway? Sure, I do think we will see him by the end of the season, but this was really a 2025 play all along. And Chuba Hubbard is thriving in his absence. Hubbard is the workhorse back who is dominating the between the tackles work, the red zone work, and the passing game work. He is averaging 17 carries per game over the last three weeks with a 6.7 yards per attempt average over that stretch. He also leads all running backs in rushing success rate on the season, according to Marcus Mosher on Twitter.
The Hubbard manager in your league is probably trying to get out while the value is high, fearing a Brooks return could come at any time. I will happily buy because he’s going to be underpriced compared to the production he is providing. He will be incredibly valuable getting through bye weeks and maneuvering through the many injuries plaguing fantasy football right now. I would easily take Hubbard rest of season over guys like Tank Bigsby, Kareem Hunt, Devin Singletary, Chase Brown, and Zack Moss.
Buy De’Von Achane
The value really couldn’t be lower on De’Von Achane right now. He is coming off three-straight weeks with fewer than 10 fantasy points, the Dolphins offense is as bad as any in the NFL right now, the team is on a bye in Week 6, and Achane has a concussion. Whatever team in your league that drafted him is probably sitting below .500 right now and is looking for some immediate help. We can be the hero and save their season while simultaneously setting up our team to win the championship. Tua Tagovailoa is reportedly expected to return in Week 8. That would obviously be a major boost to Achane and is the only reason we are buying. We all know what Achane did last year and in Tua’s two starts in 2024, Achane finished as the RB3 and the RB2. The team was using him all over the field, both as a runner and as a receiver. He reached 100 total yards in both games, caught 14 passes, and scored twice.
Obviously, there is a lot of risk in trading for Achane right now. But the cost is low and the upside is massive. I play fantasy football to win championships and buying Achane right now could be the championship move of the year.
Sell Tank Bigsby
First it was Braelon Allen, then it was Bucky Irving, now it’s Tank Bigsby who is the No. 2 running back grabbing the attention of fantasy gamers. Bigsby ran the ball 13 times for 101 yards and two touchdowns in Jacksonville’s Week 5 win over the Colts. He out-carried Travis Etienne 13 to 6. That’s exciting. However, if we dig deeper this doesn’t seem to be the backfield takeover that many are portraying it as. Firstly, he did this against one of the NFL’s worst defenses. Even D’Andre Swift got going against the Colts a couple weeks ago. Bigsby only played 39.7% of the snaps. Etienne was just behind at 37.9% while D’Ernest Johnson got in the mix for 22.4%. And after the game, head coach Doug Pederson threw some cold water on the Bigsby hype: “Travis is our guy. Tank had a good game. That’s just the way games go. Happy for Tank. Great for the offensive line, obviously, in some of those situations there. Travis is our guy. Tank had a good game today, though.”
Bigsby has gotten a lot of his production from a couple long runs including a 65-yarder against Indianapolis. However, Bigsby is more like a Zack Moss. Sure, Moss broke off a couple long runs last year with the Colts, but these guys profile as between-the-tackles grinders who aren’t typically going to give you those explosive plays. He also loses value in the passing game. Bigsby was not much of a receiver in college and he only has one reception this season. Etienne is going to continue to dominate the passing downs work even if Bigsby eats into the early-downs stuff. Etienne ran 15 routes to Bigsby’s 8 in Week 5. He commanded a 21% target share to Bigsby’s 3%.
I’m going to trust the words of Doug Pederson and I’m going to trust what I have seen from these two running backs in the past and sell Tank Bigsby to the fool in my league who thinks he’s about to take over.
Sell Marvin Harrison Jr
Fantasy gamers are still riding the high from Marvin Harrison Jr’s big Week 2 performance. Or should I say the first quarter of Week 2 because he did nothing after that? Since then, Harrison has scored as the WR20, WR26, and the WR59. Outside of Week 2, he has yardage totals of 4, 64, 45, and 36. He is third on the team in receptions behind Trey McBride (who missed Week 4) and Michael Wilson. His catch rate is below 50%, he’s outside the top-30 wide receivers in yards per route run, and outside the top-40 in yards per target. While his dad was a separation specialist, Marvin Harrison Jr has thus far struggled to create any separation at the NFL level. According to PlayerProfiler.com, he ranks No.83 among wide receivers in average target separation and he’s outside the top-100 in route win rate. And using Next Gen Stats, Harrison ranks dead last in average separation rate.
It’s not going to get any easier anytime soon, either. The Cardinals’ next five opponents are the Packers, Chargers, Dolphins, Bears, and Jets.
The alarm bells are starting to ring on Marvin Harrison Jr. He was a great prospect and it’s only been five weeks, but it doesn’t look like we’re going to get the guy who we were drafting in the early second round of fantasy drafts this summer. The fantasy football market has been slow to adjust to that so you should still be able to get a good return in a trade. I would rather have guys like Jayden Reed, Terry McLaurin, Brandon Aiyuk, and even fellow rookie Brian Thomas Jr. rest of season.
Do you have trade questions? Jump in our Discord and join the discussion!
RANKINGS | WEEKLY | DYNASTY | ROS
Fantasy Football Season Is NOW At Underdog. Sign up and draft now! Use Promo-Code: YARDSPER to claim your Special Pick + First Time Deposit offer up to $1,000 in bonus cash!
