With our FFNUTHANG Trade Deadline approaching (Saturday, November 22), this week will be the last week for teams to make those final trades to set them up for playoff contention or to avoid Sacko contention. So I’ve included some suggestions for trades in this week’s #PowerRankings to hopefully help facilitate those trade talks. I’ve also started feeling a little verklempt, seemingly being the only one pestering people with trade offers - so please talk amongst yourselves. I’ll give you a topic. FFNUTHANG is neither NU nor is it a THANG. Discuss.
1. Run It Back! (Gabs) (8-3) [2]
Gabs’s team had another strong week, surviving Jonathan Taylor’s bye with the MNF Dak-CeeDee stack to earn his team the win. JT’s bye is now over with, but Indy has a difficult rest-of-season schedule for RBs. Will it matter? Probably not - Taylor’s been on fire this season, and Gabs’s rest-of-season schedule is one of the easier ones, with Andrew, Laura, and Eric to finish the season. Regular Season Champ is Gabs’s to lose.
Trade Away: Nothing
Trade For: Nothing. No need to fix what’s not broken.
2. Just Didn’t Catch D’Achane (Haji) (7-4) [3]
Haji gets Week 11 #HighScore off the back of another monster CMC game and a bold start of Jacoby Brissett. Brissett looks like a solid weekly starter moving forward, and as long as CMC and Achane remain healthy, Haji’s RB room is rock solid and has a very easy playoff schedule for RBs. Davante Adams, Alec Pierce, and Tyler Warren (in spite of being on the same team) make up a solid receiving group, too. Add on the fact that Haji’s got the easiest rest-of-season schedule (Luke, Jeff Lin, Laura), and I think Haji’s got a strong chance at competing for Regular Season Champ.
Trade Away: Purdy or Brissett. Rostering both seems redundant, and it’s possible a QB-needy team will be willing to give up a Flex-worthy WR for one of them. Maybe paired with Loveland or Jayden Reed?
Trade For: WR. Haji lacks start-worthy depth at WRs, as shown by him Flexing Adonai Mitchell this week.
3. Terrific (Taylor’s Version) (David) (8-3) [1]
David had some bad luck with Amon-Ra and Rashee Rice playing poorly on Sunday. As I was afraid of before, Kelce vultured valuable targets from Rice in a lower-scoring game. David’s team still has the pieces to be a threat, but Week 11 showed that his team is still beatable. Abraham might give him another run for his money this week, but David finishes the season playing Aaron and Andrew, which should be winnable matchups.
Trade Away: QB + TE combo. While David doesn’t have any players he can easily part ways with, I think there is a market in our league for a QB + TE combo (such as Baker + Otton or Stafford + Theo Johnson)
Trade For: RB3 / Flex RB. Tony Pollard feels like insufficient insurance for David if something happens to Gibbs or Warren. Finding someone he can flex in a pinch or fill in at RB2 following an injury seems pretty crucial if David’s expecting to withstand any mishaps at RB.
4. Unicorn QueenZ (Tim) (7-4) [5]
My game vs. David ended up being way closer than it needed to be. The week I finally decide to bench TMac is when he decides to explode. Also, what am I doing wasting all of Jameson Williams’s points on the bench these past 3 weeks? I had too many WRs to know what to do, and was shopping them around (probably to people’s annoyance) for a QB. Just yesterday, I would have said I need to trade a WR for a QB or some RB depth. But now thanks to Abraham, I was able to upgrade Jordan Love to Mahomes and build a little depth at RB with Hampton. Yes, I lost the only Carolina Panther I had on my team (and along with that, I lost some WR depth), and I lost the incredible $3 draft value of Cam Skattebo, but hopefully this will set me up well for the playoffs. Maybe I’m already looking too far ahead, but my rest-of-season schedule (Jeff Chen, Luke, Jeff Lin) should hopefully be cush enough to make it to the playoffs.
Trade Away: None anymore..
Trade For: None
5. Spider Pig (Luke) (7-4) [6]
The Josh Allen explosion game finally happened after a seemingly-long hiatus since Week 1. Not that Josh Allen has been terrible, but I would have expected more than three 30+ point games from him as the overall #1 QB. Luke has a tough matchup against Haji this week, followed by me and Abraham to finish the season. Winning one of those games should secure him a spot in the playoffs, but that may be a tough ask. If Allen continues to ball out, then it’s definitely doable, given how strong Luke is at WR with Puka, Waddle, and Olave. But I have some serious doubts about his RB situation.
Trade Away: Saquon. This may seem like crazy talk, but perhaps his name alone (and potential for a 30+ point game) may be enough to get 2 mid-level RBs - kind of like nuclear fission? Split Saquon into two smaller RBs, right? Or even an RB + TE combo.
Trade For: More depth at RB, or RB + TE.
6. ToInfinityandBijan! (Eric) (5-6) [4]
Eric got production from Bijan and Etienne in Week 11, but the rest of his team decided to stay home, adding to his 4-game losing streak. With Herbert and Ladd on bye this week, and Jacobs possibly missing time with injury, Eric’s matchup against Aaron may not be an easy win. Sure, Eric went hard in the paint for Emanuel Wilson and Darnell Mooney, but will that be enough? I wouldn’t be surprised if his losing streak (and decline in rankings) extended even further this week.
Trade Away: Justin Herbert. Eric could make use of Herbert’s decent start to the season and swap him for some usable points this week against Aaron. Herbert is on bye and there may be a playoff-bound team out there willing to keep Herbert on the bench through the bye with the hope that it will improve their QB play come playoff time. This might seem near-sighted, but if Eric loses this week to Aaron, he’ll be 5-7, and finishing the season playing Andrew and Gabs, he may realistically end the season 6-8 and miss the playoffs.
Trade For: WR upgrade. Mooney was a good pickup with London expected to miss time, but who knows what version of Kirk Cousins will be throwing to Mooney? Starting Jakobi Meyers is shaky business, and Khalil Shakir isn’t any better.
7. 第六 (Abraham) (5-6) [8]
Abraham pulled off an impressive win on the back of George Pickens’s MNF explosion. Drake London may miss time, but with Abraham’s trade for TMac (who looks to be on the upswing, and at least has a steady floor) hopefully his team won’t miss a beat. TBD on whether Jordan Love can continue his rebound enough to replace Mahomes, though. Can Abraham make it to the playoffs? Finishing the season against David, Jeff Chen, and Luke makes me think it’ll be an uphill battle, but if Abraham can finish the season 7-7, I think his high Points For will tip the scales in his favor.
Trade Away: Joe Burrow. There may be a team willing to take the risk on Burrow after he returns. But Abraham may also want to keep Burrow in case Love ends up falling flat.
Trade For: WRs. Abraham added depth to his WRs with TMac, but adding another depth piece wouldn’t be a terrible idea.
8. Lamar You Ready? (Jeff Chen) (5-6) [7]
Jeff Chen’s team finally had a strong week, but unfortunately went up against Haji’s team, Week 11’s #HighScore. It’s quite possible that Jeff ends the season with a .500 record and a chance at making the playoffs, with some winnable games against me, Abraham, and Aaron. Nico and Kittle appear to be back and Egbuka should continue to perform. But the biggest question mark will be Lamar. It’ll be hard for Jeff to go far with Lamar scoring single-digit points. I doubt that will happen with Lamar’s easy rest-of-season schedule, but momentum is not in Jeff’s favor, given his team’s 6-game losing streak.
Trade Away: David Montgomery. There are some RB-needy teams in our league that could use Montgomery as an RB2. Jeff has decided to go 2 TEs for the past 2 weeks, which I feel like isn’t a recipe for success if you don’t have 2 elite TEs. Plus, Jeff already has the backups for Javonte and James Cook on his bench, so insurance policies at RB are in place. I would try to upgrade at Flex and maybe add some WR depth by trading Montgomery away.
Trade For: WR2-3
9. chinaballa (Andrew) (5-6) [9]
It wasn’t pretty, but Andrew’s team pulled off a win against Laura’s struggling team. He needed the win, because his rest-of-season schedule is Gabs, Eric, and David (the last game will be Maye-less as well). I think it’s safe to say that Andrew has steered clear from Sacko this season, even if he loses the rest of his games this season. However, his chances of making the playoffs is pretty close to zero with that schedule. Losing JK Dobbins doesn’t help, either.
Trade Away: This is hard, because Andrew has pieces he can trade, but they all have functional value now (to try and win) or later (as a keeper). I can’t see him wanting to depart with any of his players willingly unless it was a no-brainer trade for him.
Trade For: Andrew could use an upgrade at TE, and maybe RB2 (although a wait-and-see approach with Woody Marks isn’t a terrible idea either).
10. The IR-Relevant Team (Jeff Lin) (3-8) [10]
TreyVeyon Henderson’s 2nd big game wasn’t enough to get Jeff Lin the win. And with LaPorta on a last-minute unexpected IR designation, Jeff has aptly renamed his team. Unfortunately, injuries have continued to plague Jeff’s team. But the silver lining is that out of all the bottom-dwelling teams in Sacko contention, Jeff probably has the easiest rest-of-season schedule: Laura, Haji, me. His matchup against Laura this week will determine a lot for Sacko contention.
Trade Away: AJ Brown. You might think Brown wouldn’t get much in return given how disappointing he’s been this season, but his name still carries a lot of weight, and his playoff schedule is one of the more favorable ones for a WR. Perhaps a team in playoff contention is willing to give up some pieces to get a potential league-winner come playoff time. You could argue Jeff would get a lot more in return for TreyVeyon, but TreyVeyon is probably in Keeper contention based on how he’s played recently.
Trade For: QB + WR / Flex Combo. For someone like Brown, I’d expect multiple startable pieces to help provide some insurance if Dart or Flacco can’t be at 100% + a decent WR or Flex start.
11. choubacca (Aaron) (2-9) [11]
I’ll admit, I’ve been impressed with what Aaron’s been able to do with such a trash team to start the season. Rico Dowdle, Kareem Hunt, Rachaad White, Sean Tucker, Devin Singletary, Michael Wilson, Christian Watson were all players that stepped up with the opportunity to (and some of them have been stealthily good adds from the waiver). While Aaron’s team is still last in league standings, he just needs a few wins to get him out of Sacko, given his higher Points For relative to other Sacko-contending teams. Aaron ends the season with matchups against Eric, David, and Jeff Chen. No, I wouldn’t put him as the favorite in any of those matchups, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if he pulled out an upset or two. Unfortunately, Rico will be on bye against Jeff Chen, but stranger things have happened.
Trade Away: Garrett Wilson. If Wilson returns Week 15, he may be a valuable asset for a playoff team. At this point, Wilson has minimal value for Aaron, arguably even as a keeper. Might as well get some value out of him.
Trade For: RB for Week 14. With Rico out Week 14 and Aaron’s matchup against Jeff Chen as the most likely one he’ll win, I’d recommend that Aaron find an RB with a favorable Week 14 matchup and go for him.
12. Maybabyboo (Laura) (4-7) [12]
I was hopeful that JJ McCarthy could return with a bang, but it looks like he couldn’t deliver against a supposedly easier matchup against Chicago. Laura’s rest-of-season schedule is also a tough one: Jeff Lin, Gabs, and Haji. Her best chance at winning might be against Jeff Lin this week, and I feel like she needs to make a big trade in order to upgrade some pieces to have a fighting chance.
Trade Away: Justin Jefferson. This might seem dramatic, but with one more win, Laura can steer clear from Sacko. If she could trade away her most valuable asset for 2 or 3 semi-valuable pieces (the bar being pretty low - i.e. players better than Cedric Tillman and JJ McCarthy), I think she at least gives herself a chance to end the season with a win or two. And I doubt Jefferson would be a great keeper candidate for next season, given his already-high draft capital. Another option would be to try and trade Trey Benson to a playoff-bound team in exchange for some usable assets for the remainder of the FF regular season.
Trade For: Week 12, 13 and 14 favorable matchups at all positions. An upgrade at QB, WR, RB, or TE would all help, but she has to make sure they have favorable matchups in the last 3 weeks. RB is probably the least of her concerns, but I would imagine she could get a haul for Jefferson.
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