Fantasy Football Trade Value Chart Week 3

Championships are won with trades.

RSJ’s Jackson Barrett created a value-based drafting Excel tool to create the preseason values for this Fantasy Football Trade Value Chart. The tool uses the FantasyPros consensus projections to assign values based on a 12-team, full PPR league.

Each week throughout the season, these values will be altered to reflect the player’s value for the rest of the season. Changes made to player’s value will be based on FantasyPros Rest of Season ECR, results from the season thus far, and The Wolf’s Rest of Season Rankings. But for the most part, the below values should generally reflect consensus rankings. The values provided also allow for comparing player values across positions, not just within one positional group.

For more information on how to make successful deals, check out our strategies for negotiating trades.

Be sure to tune back each week throughout the season. We’ll be adjusting the chart, discussing risers & fallers, and pinpointing trade targets.

The trade value chart for each position is linked below.

Fantasy Football Week 2 Trade Value Chart: Quarterbacks

Quarterback Riser

One NFL team has scored 40-plus points in two straight games to open the NFL season. No, it’s not the Miami Dolphins or the Kansas City Chiefs. The New Orleans Saints have scored 91 points in two games, the second-highest mark through Week 2 since the turn of the century.

Klint Kubiak has completely transformed the Saints’ offense into something that is completely unlike anything else in the NFL. The Saints rank:

1st in play action rate
5th in motion rate (at the snap)
32nd in usage of formations with three WRs

Kubiak has been putting on a clinic in terms of catering the offensive scheme to the talent on the roster. Rashid Shaheed looks like the league’s best deep threat and Alvin Kamara looks like he’s rolled the clock back by four years.

The Saints are firing on all cylinders and Derek Carr is fantasy’s QB2 as a result. He will inevitably slow down at some point, but Carr could legitimately become a weekly fantasy starter.

Quarterback Faller

It’s become very apparent that Caleb Williams is indeed a rookie quarterback who will take some time to adjust to the NFL, regardless of the weapons by his side. Through two NFL games, Williams is the QB30, has yet to account for a touchdown, and has thrown for just 267 yards.

In Week 2 against the Texans, Williams accounted for 218 total yards, throwing for two picks in the process. It wasn’t a great performance from Williams, but the Bears’ offensive line didn’t give him much help. According to NFL Next Gen Stats, Williams was pressured on 48 percent of his dropbacks on Sunday night. This isn’t an easy environment for any quarterback to succeed in, especially a rookie.

Better days are ahead for Williams, it might just take some time. However, Williams cannot be considered a fantasy starter for the time being and it’s possible that he does not cross the top-12 threshold this season.

Quarterback Trade Target

If you have a suspect option at QB1, now may be the perfect time to trade for Jordan Love. He looked phenomenal in his 2024 debut, which unfortunately ended with a knee injury on the Packers’ final drive.

Love avoided serious injury and was given a preliminary prognosis of a 3-4 week timeline for return. To the delight of Packer fans, Love could be back even earlier than that. Packers beat reporter Rob Demovsky shared this week that Love was legitimately close to taking the field in Week 2. If this was indeed the case, Week 3 could happen for Love although it seems like a stretch. Week 4 seems like it is very much on the table though.

Most importantly, this is an injury that does not impact passing production upon return. Fantasy managers can expect to get one of the league’s stronger pocket passers back in their starting lineup in just a few weeks.