2026 Fantasy Football Week 4 Trade Value Chart: Running Backs

The 2026 Fantasy Football Week 4 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 4 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 4 TRADE VALUE CHART: RUNNING BACKS

Running Back Risers – Jeremiyah Love (at SF, 21 carries for 90 yards, 5 catches on 5 targets for 19 yards and a score)

Love saw his first week with that coveted workhorse usage, with more carries than his first two weeks combined, and a season-high five targets. Managers will hope to sit back and watch him get RB1 numbers moving forward, as the Cardinals were in a negative game script all day and still gave Love 20+ carries.

After playing the Giants this upcoming week, the schedule is brutal. The Cardinals will see negative game scripts all year, and since that doesn’t appear to cap Love’s involvement, his fantasy managers will be justifiably placing a heavy premium on his trade value.

Running Back Faller – Omarion Hampton (at BUF, 15 carries for 56 yards)

Omarion Hampton‘s running style mixed with Mike McDaniel‘s preference for a zone running scheme is looking like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, and the driver behind Hampton seeing less playing time in week 3 against the Bills. McDaniel’s preseason teasing about using all three backs in the Chargers RB room looked like distracting coach speak until now. Keaton Mitchell had a season-high 8 carries, having 6.5 yards-per-carry to Hampton’s 3.7. Mitchell and Kimani Vidal each had three targets to Hampton’s one.

It’s a frustrating development for a player who’s shown he can produce when catered to his strengths, and can make due when little is there for him. These two things keep his potential high, but a risky buy-low as who knows when/if this offense will start getting in sync.

Other Running Backs Of Interest – Packers RB Room/Josh Jacobs

The Packers OL is objectively the worst in the league, absurdly bad. MarShawn Lloyd‘s struggles continued with just 2.8 yards-per-carry against what should have been a beatable Falcons front at home, and anybody with any remaining Kaleb Johnson hopium watched him log just 1.5 YPC.

Inserting Josh Jacobs back into this lineup doesn’t guarantee anything. It’s a miracle the passing game is staying afloat given what you see on film and all the underlying metrics (which you’ll see in the included X post’s thread) that argue that Jacobs would be coming back to his worst O-Line supporting cast of his career and it’s not close. The only apparent answer is that this unit just has to get better playing beside each other as the season goes along.

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 4 TRADE VALUE CHART: RUNNING BACKS

QB | RB | WR | TE