[TRADE] Give: Stafford, RB2+prospects; Get: Ray Rice
This is my first fantasy season, so I'm still getting the hang of valuing players between positions. Without further ado:
I have Brees starting, he has Romo starting. My first 2 rounds were Charles and Gore, so I feel obliged to try to move Stafford for an RB1.
My question is this: with Ben Tate, Blount and James Starks starting, just how desperate is my RB situation? I don't have much other help off the bench (Charles was my 1st rounder, 2 overall). I was starting Benson who I got for cheap because we drafted while he was in jail, but he's not going to be doing anything for the next three weeks. Through week three I've average about 25 points total from my three RBs, which makes me terribly sad. I have two wins solely because of Wes Welker.
Thanks for any help, comments, criticisms, etc. Reading this sub has been awesome for learning to play.
Posted Sep 29, 2011, 1:43 AM UTC · edited
from what i've seen, you need a better rb, and ray rice would be totally worth this trade. i'll explain.
Stafford is good, but brees is really good too, and new orleans is and has always been a pass first team, and brees will get his points. so my feeling on it is that stafford is expendable.
as for your rb situation, yeah, losing charles and having gore suck has been tough for you, but if you can trade stafford, tate, and someone crappy (not starks, blount, or welker(those are the only people you've said on your team)), then i think you should be more than fine. i also think that trading tate over blount or starks is your best bet, just because foster is going to come back, and just because of last year, they are going to give him alot of the touches. i would definitely do it with stafford, tate, and someone crappy. i would even do it with stafford and starks, but stafford and blount is starting to get up there. but yeah, getting rice would significantly help your team, do it!!
Thanks for the tips!
I updated the original post with screens of both our teams.
no problem. btw, his team is really, really good. that means try to trade as little as possible to get what you need. he needs a qb, and you need a rb. offer stafford and tate, and work up from there. i really dont know how he was able to draft all of those players, because his team is ridiculous, but good luck with the trading!
It's a pretty small league: 8 players who were roommates in college.
All of the teams are pretty stacked, I just seem to have drafted poorly so now I'm playing catch-up.
Ninja edit: Also, I played him this past week and beat him, entirely due to Welker's 35.6 points.