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Fantasy Football Trade Advice: Josh Jacobs, Diontae Johnson, Rashee Rice, Alvin Kamara

Fantasy Football Trade Advice: Josh Jacobs, Diontae Johnson, Rashee Rice, Alvin Kamara

We’ll help you navigate the trade waters of your fantasy football leagues all season. Not only is there the ‘Who Should I Trade?’ tool where you can get instant feedback, but you can also sync your league for free using My Playbook in order to get trade advice specific to your team through our Trade Analyzer and Trade Finder tools. Here’s all my fantasy football trade advice for Week 8. Below we dive into a few players to move this week.

Fantasy Football Trade Advice

Diontae Johnson (WR – PIT)

George Pickens led the team with 8 targets (35% target share), followed by Diontae Johnson with 6 targets (26%). Pickens caught 5 passes for 107 yards on the back of 131 air yards (64% air yards share).

Johnson caught 5 passes for 79 yards, averaging 15.8 yards per reception.

A very concentrated target share between the two WRs as long as Pat Freiermuth misses time. Two good upcoming matchups for WRs makes Johnson a buy for any WR-needy teams.

Rashee Rice (WR – KC)

Travis Kelce led the team with 13 targets, while Marquez Valdes-Scantling had 5 targets and Rashee Rice was targeted 6 times (15% target share).

Kelce caught 12 passes for 179 yards and scored 1 TD.

MVS caught 3 passes for 84 yards and also scored. Leader in routes. Don’t fall for it.

Rice caught 5 passes for 60 yards and hit paydirt yet again. But this time the usage ALSO increased. Ran a route on 65% of dropbacks. Season-high in snap share (59%). YLTSI. Buy this MAN.

Alvin Kamara (RB – NO)

I think Thursday night finally showed the fantasy football world what Derek Carr is doing to the offense. He’s a check-down savant that either wants to throw an absolute bomb or dump it off immediately to Alvin Kamara. Kamara caught 12 passes in this game for 91 yards on 14 targets. He also added 17 carries for 62 yards. The efficiency for Kamara remains underwhelming, but his usage – specifically on the receiving side – is out of control elite.

The return of Jamaal Williams has little impact on Kamara, as the former Lion played just 22% of the snaps and earned 5 carries.

Kamara’s a locked-and-loaded RB1 for the rest of the season, but I do worry about how long an older RB can keep up this kind of workload. Again, he leads the NFL in touches per game (26/game). The Saints offense has plenty of issues which were on display Thursday night.

If you can move Kamara for a younger elite RB or an elite WR, I’d make the move. But also, fine holding him while the getting is good, because the schedule suggests his production should stay strong.

Josh Jacobs (RB – LV)

Josh Jacobs carried the ball 11 times for 35 yards, averaging 3.2 yards per carry. He didn’t score a touchdown. Jacobs was targeted 4 times and caught 1 pass for 6 yards. Woof. He’s a bell cow that can’t score fantasy points. Eventually he will have his week, but that likely won’t be against a pissed off Lions team that boasts one of the league’s best run defenses.

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