After a wild Week 9, it’s time to look ahead to Week 10 and see what players we’re moving. Some players saw crazy increases in value while others were more subdued in their decreases. In both situations, trying to exploit these variations can help your team succeed as you make your playoff push. Let’s get into it!
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Fantasy Football Week 10 Trade Values
Trade Value Risers
Stroud has to be the top riser on this list after his Week 9 performance. He finished as the QB1 of the week, 13 points ahead of Dak Prescott at QB2. In a week with lots of fireworks for fantasy, Stroud was the brightest of them all. His 470 yards passing broke a rookie record and his fifth touchdown was the game winner. Stroud and the Texans blew up and his trade value rose because of it.
The real question with Stroud is whether or not he can keep this up. In Week 10, they face the recently-surging Bengals and a defense that forced two turnovers against the Bills. Stroud has only thrown one interception in his young career, so this could be a battle of two unmovable objects. Will Stroud be able to dominate again or was this a flash in the pan? Either way, he’s one of the hottest commodities in fantasy at the moment, so trade wisely.
Finishing the week as the RB1 in both PPR and non-PPR scoring means something went right. White rushed 20 times for 73 yards and scored two touchdowns, plus he caught all four of his targets for 46 yards. The Bucs relied on White to move the ball against the Texans and he did not disappoint. The two teams combined for the third-highest score of the season, and White got his fair share. Moving forward, I would be shocked if the team changed course here, even though they lost. Scoring 37 points is usually enough to win, so I would look for White to continue doing well for fantasy purposes down the stretch.
I could have chosen Texans receivers Tank Dell or Noah Brown for the top WR value riser, but I already covered the Texans with Stroud. I could have picked CeeDee Lamb here too, but in reality, I think he is just finally performing to the level we all expected. Instead, I am going with Diontae Johnson, who finished as WR6 on a week where receivers were going off across the league. Johnson has missed time due to injury and the Steelers haven’t exactly looked dominant, so it was a nice surprise to see Johnson do well. His seven catches for 90 yards and a touchdown – his first touchdown since January 2022, no less – is hopefully a sign of things to come for the fifth-year receiver.
I hesitated picking a second Buccaneers player here, but Otton has been on my radar for weeks already and his TE3 output in Week 9 was just too much for me to ignore. He caught a career-high six passes for 70 yards and two touchdowns on a season-high nine targets. The Bucs offense looked great in that losing effort and it was largely on the backs of Otton and White, not Mike Evans and Chris Godwin as we all expected. I still think you might be able to get Otton for a steal, as some managers will see this week as a fluke. I think this is just the sign of things to come and I am happily targeting him in trades where I just lost TE Darren Waller or if I’m otherwise struggling at the position.
Trade Value Fallers
What a season Justin Herbert has had. His QB26 performance in Week 9 was his worst of the year and the first time all season where he didn’t throw a touchdown pass. I’m not sure if this is the start of a trend or just a fluke week, but the offense has looked a little rudderless of late. The Chargers won the game, so I doubt they’re too upset with Herbert’s performance, but fantasy managers sure are. He’s still QB8 on the year, so don’t give up entirely, but he might be worth shopping if you can still get full value for him on name recognition alone.
Similar to Herbert, Pollard hasn’t exactly looked like himself over the last week or two. His only touchdowns on the season came in Week 1 and including that week, he’s only scored over 10 PPR points four times in eight games. The Cowboys played well against their divisional-rival Eagles in Week 9, but Pollard just didn’t seem to be a difference-maker. Instead, the team leaned on WR CeeDee Lamb to carry them. I’m not selling Pollard for pennies, but he’s let me down more often than I expected given where I drafted him in August.
After an abysmal WR53 finish in Week 9, maybe we should start calling him Puke Nacua. The waiver darling of the season has now put up three bad fantasy performances in the last four weeks, finishing under 8 PPR points in Weeks 6, 8, and 9. It’s hard to bench him since we’ve all seen what he can do, but if he continues to put up numbers like this, you have to consider it. He caught three of seven targets for 32 yards. This is the second week in which he only caught three of seven passes, which is his lowest in each category of the season. I’m giving it one more week, but it might be time to consider moving on from the entire Rams offense if this keeps up.
I don’t like putting the overall TE1 on the trade fallers list, but honestly, it’s hard to ignore him any longer. Since finishing as TE1 in Week 7 against the Chargers, Kelce has been very quiet. Oddly enough, these last two games were without his girlfriend in attendance, whose name I won’t mention for fear of scorn from football fans everywhere. Kelce has been a shell of himself lately. If you can trade for him after these bad weeks, I’d say go for it, but I’m not sending him away just yet. Mahomes hasn’t looked like himself and the team played in Germany last week. I fully expect Kelce to be back to his old self after the bye, but his trade value has still take a small hit.
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