Trades You Need To Make In Fantasy Football Before Week 7
Trade Targets For Fantasy Football Week 7
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 7.
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Buy Jahmyr Gibbs
The story of the Lions backfield has been David Montgomery. He’s the RB8 in fantasy points per game and he has scored a touchdown in eight-straight games dating back to last season. But spoiler alert, Jahmyr Gibbs is still the RB1 in Detroit. Gibbs has out-snapped Montgomery in all but one game. That included Week 6 which was the perfect David Montgomery game script with the Lions crushing the Cowboys 47-9. Yet, Gibbs played 54% of the snaps to Montgomery’s 31%. I’m not saying Gibbs is going to be a bell cow, he’s not, this will always be a split, but Gibbs remains the guy we want for fantasy purposes. Eventually the touchdown luck will run out for Montgomery and he’ll settle back into the RB2 range. Gibbs, who by the way is also scoring as a top-10 running back in fantasy football, will remain an RB1. So if the Gibbs manager in your league is feeling a little uneasy about Montgomery’s success, swoop in and get yourself a top-10 back.
Buy Brock Bowers
I talked about Brock Bowers here as a buy after Week 1. It was clear he was going to be a focal point of the Raiders offense this season and we knew how impressive of a prospect he was coming out of Georgia. Five weeks later, that’s looking like one of my best recommendations of the season so far. However, I’m still pushing Bowers as a buy heading into Week 7. That’s because, while Bowers is the TE2 on the season, he has yet to reach his ceiling. That’s right, there’s still more we can get out of this rookie stud. While he leads all tight ends in targets, receptions, and receiving yards, Bowers has only scored one touchdown. Just 7.3% of his fantasy production has come from touchdowns.
Given his targets and receiving production, touchdown regression is going to hit Bowers in such a good way. That’s when the buy window will slam shut. He will be absolutely impossible to acquire at that point and you’ll be filled with regret for not buying when you had the chance.
With Davante Adams off the team, targets are only going to funnel in Bowers’ direction even more. And he’s done it with both quarterbacks. Aidan O’Connell took over in Week 6 and immediately peppered Bowers with targets (27% target share) in the same way Minshew did in the first five.
In a year where tight end production is down across the board, it is such a great advantage to roster the guy who is the locked-in No. 1 at the position. He is not this year’s Sam LaPorta, he is better.
Buy Trey McBride
Trey McBride is another repeat buy. But, like Brock Bowers, McBride is in line for some major touchdown regression (in a good way!). McBride’s only touchdown on the season came on a fumble recovery. Yet, he leads all tight ends in targets per route, and despite missing a game due to a concussion, McBride is No. 2 in targets, target share, and receptions. He also leads all tight ends in air yards and deep targets and is top-5 in receiving yards. This is an elite tight end who picked up right where he left off in 2023. Kyler Murray is going to continue to lean on him whether Marvin Harrison Jr is on the field or not.
I was asked on Twitter this week how I could be touting McBride as a buy when he’s “at the height of his cost,” coming off an eight-catch, 96-yard outing. My answer was one, it’s okay to buy high, but two, we haven’t seen McBride’s ceiling until that touchdown regression comes knocking. Buy, Buy, Buy.
Buy DK Metcalf
DK Metcalf is coming off back-to-back dud performances of 7.8 and 7.5 fantasy points. However, he has 30 targets over the last three weeks, is No. 2 among wide receivers in routes run, and No. 5 in targets on the season. The Seahawks have been a fantasy points factory this season and Metcalf will be a major beneficiary of that moving forward. I mean prior to Week 5, Metcalf had three-straight performances of 28.9, 20.4, and 15.4 fantasy points. Metcalf was incredibly close to having a massive day in Week 6, too. He had a 52-yard touchdown that was called back on a penalty, he just missed a touchdown at the end of the half where his toe was out of bounds, and Geno Smith under threw him on what could have been another long touchdown in the second quarter.
This is not the Seahawks offense from the Pete Carroll days where Metcalf is fighting for every scrap in a low volume offense that oftentimes means Metcalf disappoints. It’s a new era in Seattle. Geno Smith leads all quarterbacks in pass attempts through six weeks and it’s not close. As a result, Metcalf already has three games with more than 10 targets. That happened just twice in all of 2023 and only four times in 2022. He’s top-5 in receiving yards, top-10 in yards after the catch, and No. 7 in air yards. This could end up being an all-time season for DK Metcalf. I’m buying him everywhere right now.
Buy & Stash:
- WR Rome Odunze
- RB Blake Corum
- RB Trey Benson
- RB Jaylen Wright
- RB Kimani Vidal
- Roschon Johnson
Sell Sam LaPorta
Sam LaPorta has been one of the biggest disappointments in fantasy football this season. However, he’s coming off back-to-back top-12 weeks and just scored a season-high 12.2 fantasy points in Week 6. In fact, he gave us an exciting highlight reel 52-yard touchdown against the Cowboys. That has opened up the sell window. That’s because, while the long touchdown was awesome, it came on a trick play and was LaPorta’s only catch and only target of the game. Yes, in a game where Jared Goff threw for 315 yards and the Lions scored 47 points, Sam LaPorta was targeted one time (on a trick play!).
He hasn’t had more than five targets in a game all season, he has just a 10.1% target share, and he has just one catch in the red zone. This is because the offense doesn’t need to throw a ton or play from behind anymore because the Lions defense is actually good this season. And when they do throw, they’re prioritizing target hog Amon-Ra St. Brown, matchup nightmare Jahmyr Gibbs, and breakout playmaker Jameson Williams. That leaves very little for the tight end. LaPorta is going to have his weeks, but he’s not going to give you anything close to what you thought you were getting when you drafted him way too high this summer. What I would be doing is trying to package LaPorta with some other piece(s) to move up to a Bowers or McBride.
Sell Najee Harris
Najee Harris broke through for 20.2 fantasy points in Week 6. It was his best performance since Week 18 of last season. He did it by compiling 122 yards and a touchdown against a poor Raiders defense. Good for him! However, with Jaylen Warren returning to the field, Harris’s big day came on a season-low opportunity share while playing less than 50% of the snaps. Warren is only going to become more involved, considering this was his first game back from a multi-week injury. And up until this point, Harris had shown no signs of being anything more than a ‘three yards and a cloud of dust’ type of runner this season. Maybe this is the start of a turnaround, but I’m not betting on it. If anyone in your league thinks it is, though, let them make an offer. Do it this week before the Steelers run into a tough Jets defense.
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