Fantasy Football Trader's Alley Week 6: Players to Buy, Hold, and Sell

Oct 11, 2023

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Trading can be quite a frustrating task in fantasy football. It is seemingly impossible to put together an offer that makes both sides happy, and communicating with other league members can also be difficult. In the Trader’s Alley, I’m going to try and guide you through making trades in your league this season. Using 4for4’s powerful trade evaluator tool, I’ll highlight players to buy, sell, and hold each week, and also create some hypothetical trades based on what the tool tells us.

This article will assume the following starting roster settings: 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 FLEX. Feel free to change the configurations to fit your league in the trade evaluator yourself.

With the fantasy football regular season over a third of the way done, there’s no better time to get trades done than the present. Many leagues have trade deadlines set for the end of October, so you need to start acting quickly if you want to make changes to your team. This week’s area to capitalize on is bye weeks—with bye week season officially upon us, there might be 0-5 or 1-4 teams that simply cannot afford to not have their best player for a week. That means it is a great time for you to try and acquire that player, especially if your team can afford to take a strike or two in exchange for late-season dominance. Let’s get into some of the top buy, hold, and sell candidates in fantasy football after Week 6.

Buy Michael Pittman

Pittman was rather productive to start the season, totaling 230 receiving yards through the first three weeks on 34 targets. His production has tapered off a bit since then, with just 67 receiving yards since then, but I believe he is a buy-low candidate. With starting quarterback Anthony Richardson expected to miss at least a few weeks due to a shoulder injury, the Colts will turn to Gardner Minshew under center. Minshew will likely lead a much more pass-heavy offense than Richardson, which means Pittman’s target numbers should start to creep back up to his early-season marks. This is exacerbated by the fact that the Colts play some of the toughest run defenses in the NFL in the next few weeks—the Jaguars, Browns, and Saints all rank bottom-8 in the NFL in rushing yards allowed per game.

Pittman shouldn’t be too hard to acquire because of his down performances. I’d be looking to trade a running back like Rhamondre Stevenson or Brian Robinson for Pittman and think he will be a low-end WR2 for the rest of the year.