Fantasy Football Week 7: Examining Trade Value for This Year's Top 100 Players

With playoff baseball in full swing, it's hard not to compare of the quirks that make America's Pastime so unique to the whimsies of fantasy football.

That broken-bat looper that drops between three fielders? Well, that's your classic, "I have Russell Wilson and Austin Ekeler in a Monday night game that goes into overtime and I still lose by 0.4 points." (If that sounds extremely specific...well, it was. And it hurt.)

The opposing pitcher who struggled during the regular season but suddenly is painting the corners and can't be touched? That's the player in your league who has a pretty average team but for whatever reason keeps facing opponents who only manage like 65 points total against them.

Fantasy, in other words, can be cruel. Mysterious. Downright painful or utterly joyous. Sometimes, a perfect trade can take you from the former to the latter. That's where we come in with the weekly trade value chart.

The usual disclaimers: This guide is just that, a tool meant to give you a general idea of how to best value your players. You should always take your league format and rules into consideration. It was made with PPR scoring in mind. Any player not listed below has a trade value of one.

And of course, may the fantasy points be with you!

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Trade Value: 15

1. Cooper Kupp, WR, Los Angeles Rams

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Trade Value: 14

2. Austin Ekeler, RB, Los Angeles Chargers

3. Saquon Barkley, RB, New York Giants

4. Nick Chubb, RB, Cleveland Browns

5. Christian McCaffrey, RB, Carolina Panthers

6. Derrick Henry, RB, Tennessee Titans

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Trade Value: 13

7. Travis Kelce, TE, Kansas City Chiefs

8. Stefon Diggs, WR, Buffalo Bills

9. Tyreek Hill, WR, Miami Dolphins

10. Justin Jefferson, WR, Minnesota Vikings

11. Ja'Marr Chase, WR, Cincinnati Bengals

12. Davante Adams, WR, Las Vegas Raiders

13. Deebo Samuel, WR, San Francisco 49ers

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Trade Value: 12

14. Mark Andrews, TE, Baltimore Ravens

15. Dalvin Cook, RB, Minnesota Vikings

16. D'Andre Swift, RB, Detroit Lions

17. Leonard Fournette, RB, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

18. Alvin Kamara, RB, New Orleans Saints

19. Breece Hall, RB, New York Jets

20. Joe Mixon, RB, Cincinnati Bengals

21. Josh Jacobs, RB, Las Vegas Raiders

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Trade Value: 11

22. A.J. Brown, WR, Philadelphia Eagles

23. Jaylen Waddle, WR, Miami Dolphins

24. Michael Pittman Jr., WR, Indianapolis Colts

25. CeeDee Lamb, WR, Dallas Cowboys

26. Amon-Ra St. Brown, WR, Detroit Lions

27. Amari Cooper, WR, Cleveland Browns

28. Mike Evans, WR, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

29. Josh Allen, QB, Buffalo Bills

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Trade Value: 10

30. Jonathan Taylor, RB, Indianapolis Colts

31. Najee Harris, RB, Pittsburgh Steelers

32. DeVonta Smith, WR, Philadelphia Eagles

33. Tyler Lockett, WR, Seattle Seahawks

34. D.K. Metcalf, WR, Seattle Seahawks

35. Mike Williams, WR, Los Angeles Chargers

36. Keenan Allen, WR, Los Angeles Chargers

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Trade Value: 9

37. Dameon Pierce, RB, Houston Texans

38. Kenneth Walker III, RB, Seattle Seahawks

39. David Montgomery, RB, Chicago Bears

40. Miles Sanders, RB, Philadelphia Eagles

41. Ezekiel Elliott, RB, Dallas Cowboys

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Trade Value: 8

42. Lamar Jackson, QB, Baltimore Ravens

43. Jalen Hurts, QB, Philadelphia Eagles

44. Patrick Mahomes, QB, Kansas City Chiefs

45. Zach Ertz, TE, Arizona Cardinals

46. Dallas Goedert, TE, Philadelphia Eagles

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Trade Value: 7

47. Rhamondre Stevenson, RB, New England Patriots

48. Jeff Wilson Jr., RB, San Francisco 49ers

49. Darrell Henderson Jr., RB, Los Angeles Rams

50. Aaron Jones, RB, Green Bay Packers

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Trade Value: 6

51. Chris Olave, WR, New Orleans Saints

52. Courtland Sutton, WR, Denver Broncos

53. Tee Higgins, WR, Cincinnati Bengals

54. Terry McLaurin, WR, Washington Commanders

55. Christian Kirk, WR, Jacksonville Jaguars

56. Gabe Davis, WR, Buffalo Bills

57. Allen Lazard, WR, Green Bay Packers

58. Chris Godwin, WR, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

59. Adam Thielen, WR, Minnesota Vikings

60. Diontae Johnson, WR, Pittsburgh Steelers

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Trade Value: 5

61. Joe Burrow, QB, Cincinnati Bengals

62. Kyler Murray, QB, Arizona Cardinals

63. Justin Herbert, QB, Los Angeles Chargers

64. Darren Waller, TE, Las Vegas Raiders

65. George Kittle, TE, San Francisco 49ers

66. Jamaal Williams, RB, Detroit Lions

67. Clyde Edwards-Helaire, RB, Kansas City Chiefs

68. James Conner, RB, Arizona Cardinals

69. Brian Robinson, RB, Washington Commanders

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Trade Value: 4

70. Brandon Aiyuk, WR, San Francisco 49ers

71. Drake London, WR, Atlanta Falcons

72. Jakobi Meyers, WR, New England Patriots

73. Dak Prescott, QB, Dallas Cowboys

74. Kyle Pitts, TE, Atlanta Falcons

75. Tyler Higbee, TE, Los Angeles Rams

76. David Njoku, TE, Cleveland Browns

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Trade Value: 3

77. James Robinson, RB, Jacksonville Jaguars

78. Devin Singletary, RB, Buffalo Bills

79. Tony Pollard, RB, Dallas Cowboys

80. J.K. Dobbins, RB, Baltimore Ravens

81. Antonio Gibson, RB, Washington Commanders

82. Khalil Herbert, RB, Chicago Bears

83. Kareem Hunt, RB, Cleveland Browns

84. Travis Etienne Jr., RB, Jacksonville Jaguars

85. Curtis Samuel, WR, Washington Commanders

86. Josh Reynolds, WR, Detroit Lions

87. Devin Duvernay, WR, Baltimore Ravens

88. JuJu Smith-Schuster, WR, Kansas City Chiefs

89. D.J. Moore, WR, Carolina Panthers

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Trade Value: 2

90. Jared Goff, QB, Detroit Lions

91. Kirk Cousins, QB, Minnesota Vikings

92. Trevor Lawrence, QB, Jacksonville Jaguars

93. Tom Brady, QB, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

94. T.J. Hockenson, TE, Detroit Lions

95. Gerald Everett, TE, Los Angeles Chargers

96. Michael Carter, RB, New York Jets

97. A.J. Dillon, RB, Green Bay Packers

98. Damien Harris, RB, New England Patriots

99. Corey Davis, WR, New York Jets

100. Tyler Boyd, WR, Cincinnati Bengals

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If you follow this chart each week, well, god bless you. But also, you've probably noticed that Travis Kelce and Mark Andrews keep climbing higher and higher in trade value.

Let's talk about why.

First off, Kelce is averaging 21.8 fantasy points per week in standard PPR leagues. That is sixth among non-quarterbacks. That, alone, is absurd. Andrews, meanwhile is at 19.1 points per week, ranking 10th among non-quarterbacks.

Again, absurd.

But it's even more impressive when you consider that the third tight end in scoring per week this season is Zach Ertz, at an average of 13.2 points. That means that if you have Kelce, you are gaining 8.6 more points per week than managers with Ertz, a huge fluctuation between the Nos. 1 and 3 players at the position. No other position comes close to that level of variance.

Andrews, meanwhile, is gaining you 5.9 extra points per week over Ertz. That's still an enormous swing.

And then if you compare it to, say, the No. 10 player at the position—that is currently Gerald Everett, at 9.7 points per week—Kelce is gaining teams he's on a whopping 12.1 points compared to those where Everett is starting.

Just think about how incredibly valuable that is. In 10-team leagues, Everett should be the worst player that starts on a weekly basis, and the team that has him is conceding 12.1 points, on average, to the team that has Kelce.

That level of variance between the best player at a position and the worst player who should regularly be started is somewhat expected. Josh Allen (28.8 points) holds an 11.9-point advantage over the No. 10 quarterback in points per week, Tua Tagovailoa (16.9 points).

That's a weird example given given that Tua has been injured, but we're purely comparing averages here. If you bump it down to Derek Carr (16.4 points per week) since he's been playing, the difference goes to 12.4 points.

But Kelce—and to a slightly lesser extent, Andrews—even putting significant ground between himself and the No. 3 player at the position is unique. From Ertz to Everettt, you are only seeing a difference of 3.5 points per week. That's not nothing, but the position really drops off a cliff after Kelce and Andrews.

And that's why each is so high on these rankings. Hopefully this offered you another perspective on how you should approach valuing your own players in trades.