NFL Week 8 Trade Value Chart and Rest of Season Fantasy Football Rankings
We’ll review our rest-of-season rankings every week during the NFL season to assist you in selecting your roster via the waiver wire and thinking through trade possibilities.
The full rest of the season’s ratings from a number of our specialists are provided below. And these are our most recent expert-ranked fantasy football end-of-season lists.
My top-160 rankings for the remainder of the season are listed below, divided into tiers and point values. The complete trade chart, with the four positions (QB, RB, WR, and TE) side by side, is located at the bottom of this article.
If you treat these point values as a trade chart, you’ll be happy to learn that, unlike most trade charts, you can’t deal away three terrible players to make them into Christian McCaffrey.
For standard-structure leagues featuring a starting quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, one tight end, and a flex, the PFF Fantasy Football Trade Value Chart assigns a dollar value to every player over replacement level in an effort to facilitate realistic fantasy trades.
Standard-scoring leagues and PPR leagues are also featured. Superflex is a new column for year that allows any player in a skill position—including quarterbacks—to fill an extra starting spot.
Quarterbacks are becoming increasingly valuable in this league setup, as 12-team leagues hold onto every starting NFL quarterback available.
A premium of 5–10% over the cost of the stud player is usually expected from the side giving over the most players.
For each player’s fantasy outlook, the computation makes use of our rest-of-season fantasy projections.
Players who are barely outside the sphere of possible starts in that specific league type receive a value of zero (-), giving us a replacement-level basis of virtual points for that position.
The rest-of-season forecasts are then used to assign a value to each player over replacement. This appropriately accounts for both future estimates and position scarcity.
The valuations can be used, among other things, to align individual players in trades as well as two-for-one or three-for-two offers.
Hopefully, this can assist some fantasy managers in reaching a consensus on deals that are beneficial to both sides.
The value rankings are applicable to all positions; nevertheless, it is frequently most convenient to compare players within a position before determining their value at other positions.
Please contact me via Twitter if you have any issues or if you would need charts that are specifically tailored to your leagues and/or scoring.
You might find out which player you ought to be able to acquire in return by adding the values of the two players.
But in any trade when one side has a greater number of players than the other, fantasy managers should deduct 10% of the value. A few others are only really valuable in two-QB with full-PPR leagues.
For the 2023 season, this list also serves as a “Rest in Season” rating. Lastly, the worth of any player who is not on the list should not exceed four points.
Before extending or responding to trade proposals, make sure to check out my updated predicted rest-of-season schedule rankings, which will be posted on SportsLine later today.
Adjusted rankings: Starting quarterback Justin Fields of the Chicago Bears appears to be above reproach.
Despite having a difficult September, Fields has now finished in the top five at quarterback for four straight games and has more than 17 PPR points.
To put things in perspective, Aaron Rodgers, a likely Hall of Famer for the Green Bay Packers, has not yet scored 17 points during a game this year.
Fields soars through the rankings, but we wouldn’t exactly describe him as safe for fantasy. Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is surpassed by Miami Dolphins rookie Tua Tagovailoa to enter the top 10. It is difficult to characterize either of them as safe.
Trade for: We add starter Kirk Cousins of the Minnesota Vikings and resurgent Dak Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys to our list of “safe” quarterbacks, which was previously limited to the top seven names.
There are now nine. Trade at your own peril for Tagovailoa. On Sunday, he threw against the Detroit Lions. I still want to see a month’s worth of productivity and wellness. Fields remain far too dangerous.
Be wary: starting Derek Carr of the Las Vegas Raiders scored 1.94 points against New Orleans. Alright, so it’s just one game, but maybe we all overrated Carr since he hasn’t yet achieved 20 fantasy points.
Although it seems silly to switch back, there is still no assurance that Washington Commanders complete starter Taylor Heinicke will continue starting once starter Carson Wentz is well.
There’s still not much fantasy faith in Brady, Rodgers, Los Angeles Rams starting Matthew Stafford, or Denver Broncos starting Russell Wilson.