Fantasy Football Trade Value Chart Week 12: Wide Receivers

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 12 Trade Value Chart: Wide Receivers

Wide Receiver Riser

Jauan Jennings was a significant riser last week, but he’s continuing to climb the ranks after Week 11. Whenever Jennings has been given an opportunity this season, he’s taken it and ran with it.

In three games as the 49ers “WR2”:

• 35.1% target share
• 0.32 targets per route run
• 42.0% air yards share
• 0.86 fantasy points per route run

Simply put, Jennings has been an elite wide receiver this season. It’s been confirmed by Kyle Shahan that he’ll be the 49ers’ full-time X receiver, so expect to see plenty of Jennings for the rest of the year.

At this point, Jennings is a weekly WR2 or Flex option depending on your team’s depth at wide receiver. If you aren’t the Jennings manager in your league, consider sending out some feelers. If whoever rosters him doesn’t understand what they have on their hands, you might be able to get a steal on the trading block.

Wide Receiver Faller

It’s incredibly difficult to know where DeAndre Hopkins stands within the Kansas City offense. In four games with the team, Hopkins has hit double-digit points just once. His lone successful outing came against the Buccaneers, who are a top-10 matchup for WRs and rank 30th in passing yards allowed per game.

The overall production is troubling, but the most concerning aspect of his future outlook has to do with the Chiefs’ receiver rotation. With JuJu Smith-Schuster back in action, Hopkins’ route participation was just 53 percent last Sunday. If this usage holds up, Hopkins will be very difficult to trust in fantasy.

My initial thought on the Hopkins trade was that he’d be a high-ceiling WR3. That has proven to be true as he’s proven capable of being a high-end producer but doesn’t have the floor to feel comfortable with him in lineups every week. Monitoring his route share in the coming weeks will be critical.

Wide Receiver Trade Target

It’s been a year of serious ups and downs for Brian Thomas Jr. during his rookie campaign. At one point, it appeared that Thomas would push for a WR1 finish in his first NFL season. Following an injury to Trevor Lawrence and the general implosion of the Jacksonville offense, it seemed that those hopes had all but vanished.

Even though the Jaguars have dealt with a slew of injuries on the offensive side of the ball, Thomas has continued to impress on film.

There’s still hope that Thomas can be a high-end fantasy producer down the stretch. With Christian Kirk and Gabe Davis out for the year, Thomas could realistically draw 25-30 percent of the team’s targets for the rest of the year. If the Jacksonville offense becomes highly concentrated between Thomas and Evan Engram, Thomas has the playmaking ability to deliver WR2 numbers.

Tier 1: The Alphas

Tier 2: High-End Starters

Tier 3: Quality Options

Tier 4: Emergency Starters and Bench Assets