2026 Fantasy Football Week 2 Trade Value Chart: Running Backs

The 2026 Fantasy Football Week 2 Trade Value Chart is built from The Wolf’s Rest of Season 2026 Fantasy Football Rankings, which finished 2nd out of 172 experts in FantasyPros’ Multi-Year Draft Accuracy rankings from 2022 to 2024. These values are tailored to a 12-team, full-PPR, 1QB league and factor in positional scarcity and real-world trade dynamics. That means quarterbacks typically carry less trade value than they would in Superflex formats, while elite running backs and wide receivers remain premium assets.

Whether you’re trying to buy low, sell high, or pull off a league-winning blockbuster, this Fantasy Football Week 1 Trade Value Chart is designed to help you make smarter deals. We’ll update player values every week based on rest-of-season outlooks, highlight the biggest risers and fallers, break down key trade targets, and share trade strategy tips to help you stay ahead of your league mates. Use the position-specific charts below to find fair trade offers and gain an edge throughout the 2026 fantasy football season.

QB | RB | WR | TE

FANTASY FOOTBALL WEEK 2 TRADE VALUE CHART: RUNNING BACKS

Running Back Risers – Kaelon Black (vs LAR, 14 carries for 65 yards, 1 rec on 1 tgt for 5 yds)

Every season since trading for Christian McCaffrey, the 49ers staff has talked about capping his workload to keep him fresh, and then it never happened. Apparently, until this season, as Kaelon Black outcarried CMC 14-to-10. McCaffrey still dominated in the red zone, but it looks like we’re getting our first season where the RB2 behind McCaffrey isn’t solely a handcuff. Black was trending toward being their RB2 over Jordan James all preseason, and if you’re hurting for depth at the position, there are worse inquiries you can make than seeing what your league mate’s trade value might be for a back who may still have a minimal price tag.

Running Back Faller – Omarion Hampton (vs ARI, 12 carries for 43 yards, 1 TD)

It seems like decades now that the Chargers have sorely fallen short of what their talent and potential looked like going into the season, all the way back to the Philip Rivers era with prime LaDainian Tomlinson, with Super Bowl aspirations, while ultimately struggling to get out of the Wild Card round. This season, seeing Mike McDaniel’s past success running schemes in Miami fueled dreams of what the potential could look like for a back like Hampton.

With the entire Chargers offense struggling to sniff the offseason hype, again, the run and pass game struggled in a 26-14 loss to the Cardinals, who were projected to have an all-around bad defense in ’26. The Chargers only ran 48 plays, so there is encouragement that the other back to see carries was Keaton Mitchell‘s four, despite McDaniel’s alluding to a possible three-headed backfield monster during preseason. But, this, this ain’t it. The Chargers were supposed to come out dominant and swinging and the fact that it was quite the opposite has to drop overall expectations for players like Hampton a little bit.

Fantasy Football Trade Strategy Tips

Trade for Team Needs, Not Just the Best Value

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 also of surplus positional depth across 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.

Why Trade Calculators Aren’t the Final Word

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.

How to Avoid Low-Ball Trade Offers

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 so bad they only go through 1 percent of the time likely aren’t worth hitting the send button in the first place. 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.

FANTASY FOOTBALL WEEK 2 TRADE VALUE CHART: RUNNING BACKS

QB | RB | WR | TE