2025 Fantasy Football Week 9 Trade Value Chart

Fantasy Football Championships are won with trades.

These fantasy football trade value charts are based on The Wolf’s Rest Of Season Rankings, who finished 2nd of 172 experts in FantasyPros’ Multi-Year Draft Rankings. These charts adjust values to account for positional need, assigning values based on a 1QB, 12-team, full PPR league, where quarterbacks are generally harder to trade due to a lack of positional need, unlike in Superflex leagues.

Each week throughout the season, these values will be altered to reflect the player’s value for the rest of the season. Be sure to tune back each week throughout the season. We’ll be adjusting the chart, discussing risers & fallers, and other QBs of interest, and providing a refresher on optimal trade strategy. The trade value chart for each position is linked below.

QB | RB | WR | TE

FANTASY FOOTBALL WEEK 9 TRADE VALUE CHART: QUARTERBACKS

Quarterback Riser

For the first time, there’s a new QB in our Rest Of Season top four. Drake Maye surpasses Jalen Hurts, having people mention him in the NFL’s MVP conversation after going 18-for-24 for 282 yards, 3 TDs, 1 INT, and another 50 yards on the ground. He’s completed 75-percent of his passes this season with an impressive 9 yards-per-pass attempt, and is currently fantasy’s QB4 per-game.

Uncle Joe Flacco scored a TD on the ground and two more through the air in a 39-38 loss to the previously winless Jets, which only reinforces the fact that the Bengals’ defense is still bad and the offense is going to have to put up points to remain competitive until Joe Burrow returns to action. In his three games as a starter, Flacco has targeted Ja’Marr Chase an absurd 53(!) times. This is a recipe for fantasy fun and only means Flacco’s high-powered weapons will be featured as long as he’s under center in Cincinnati.

Quarterback Faller

Caleb Williams has now gone without a touchdown in his previous two games, and only two passing TDs the past four games. This is despite good matchups on paper against the Raiders, Commanders, Saints, and Ravens. He’s become unstartable and it’s hard to imagine anyone buying low right now. Early returns with Ben Johnson as Bears’ head coach have now faded and Caleb is quickly becoming unrosterable, let alone untradeable.

Other Quarterbacks Of Interest

Tua Tagovailoa (20-for-26, 205 yards, 4:0 TD:INT, 24.2 FP) and Justin Fields (21-for-32, 244 yards, 1:0 TD:INT, 11 carries for 31 yards, 20.86 FP) should need more than one spike week to convince the fantasy community that they’re worth the time in 1QB leagues. Tua has three weeks under ten fantasy points, Fields has three weeks under five. These are week-losers that still make them too dangerous to roster, but if you do happen to have them, their ceiling weeks (Fields’ ceiling weeks in particular) could make them tradeable as part of a package deal. It’s probably going to take at least 2-3 consecutive weeks of those ceiling weeks before becoming tradeable, but they’re not going to be guys you want to have to start if you’re playing meaningful games in December.

Trade Strategy Reminders

Aim To Fill Holes On Your Roster, And Your Trade Partner’s

In general, trade offers that clearly benefit both teams’ overall value, not just your own, will make a trade partner more cooperative. However, being mindful of depth concerns with all teams involved in a trade will only increase the chance of that cooperation. Be mindful not just of weak positional depth, but a surplus of positional depth, with all your league’s rosters. You might have a shortlist of players you’d love to be able to trade for, but if what you have to offer isn’t what your trade partner needs, your offers will likely fall on deaf ears. Say you’re weak at RB, and have a surplus at WR. Teams that are strong at RB, but weak at WR, are naturally more eager to haggle.

Never Mention The Words “But The Trade Calculator Says”

Charts and calculators are a reference that can help find ideal trades, but they’re not gospel, and trying to make your potential trade partner think otherwise could shut the door on negotiations real quick. Even if your charts/calculators show the trade offer to be in your league mate’s favor, they probably have tools and references of their own, and the next time “But the trade calculator says” changes someone’s mind, may be the first time.

Be Careful How Low-Ball Your Offers Are

Speaking of bad faith, a trade offer that is too clearly in your favor puts you in danger of potential trade partners shutting you out not just for that particular trade negotiation, but any future ones as well. It’s a great feeling to get those kinds of lopsided trade deals, but the ones that are so bad they only go through 1 percent of the time likely aren’t worth hitting the send button to begin with. At their core, fantasy players aren’t complete masochists; they just want to have fun with it, and somebody sending them insulting offers isn’t fun.

WEEK 9 TRADE VALUE CHART: QUARTERBACKS

QB | RB | WR | TE