Well, friends, this is it. Our final trade value article of the season. Somehow, without warning, our fantasy football regular season has reached its end, and the trade deadline in nearly every league has passed or is upon us.

Hopefully, I will see you back here next year (and, if you’re a fantasy baseball player, we’ll be rolling them out there for both dynasty and season-long formats, so read along). Rest assured, I take seriously all the feedback we receive via email or Twitter, and so I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorites over the last 12 weeks.

• “Why do you value quarterbacks so high? Makes no sense.”
• “Up your quarterback values. I’m not trading Drew Brees for an RB2.”
• “Dude, is Lamar Miller your cousin? He ain’t worth that much.”
• “How can I possibly trust this when it would have me accepting a trade of Evan Engram, Jimmy Graham, Delanie Walker, Charles Clay, and Jared Cook for Gronk? Who would do that?”
• “Does Jamison Crowder have incriminating photos of you or something?”
• “Why this say to trade Haltin for Aphull when ECR is not same?”

I’m not going to lie, I spent four hours trying to figure out what that last one meant. I think it may have been T.Y. Hilton for Ameer Abdullah, but I’m just guessing.

In all seriousness, the feedback, even the negative, that we’ve received on this article throughout the season has been tremendous. There were many extremely insightful and thoughtful comments, and I took them to heart. Thanks for reading along, and I hope everyone’s trades came up smelling like roses.

So, for the final time in the 2017 season – here are your fantasy football trade values.

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Quarterbacks

 
As usual, there’s not all that much change in the quarterback values. Dak Prescott continues to lose trade value in light of his struggles over the last two games. Things should surely get a little better once Tyron Smith returns, but it’s fair to wonder whether the loss of Ezekiel Elliott will significantly downgrade Prescott’s performance. I’d still trade for him without hesitation, but wouldn’t quite value him as the top-five option he had been.

Heading the other way, Marcus Mariota, Ben Roethlisberger, and Philip Rivers all rise in value. If you’re a Mariota owner, this is what you’ve been waiting for – Colts, Texans, Cardinals, 49ers in the next four weeks. Yes, he’s been a disappointment, but if he’s healthy, it’s hard to see him being anything but a strong QB1 play in those matchups. As for Big Ben, it’s not quite as rosey, with a matchup in Cincinnati and against the Ravens. But as a whole, he goes home vs. the Packers, at the Bengals, home vs. the Ravens, home vs. the Patriots, at the Texans. That’s three home matchups and a road matchup against the Texans in the finals of most fantasy weeks (he’s home against the Browns in Week 17 for those whose season continues that long). Unless it’s against the Jaguars, trust home Ben. And Rivers has his full complement of weapons and gets the Cowboys, the Browns, the Redskins, the Chiefs, the Jets, and the Raiders. Hard to argue with that.

As for Jared Goff, his decline in value is mostly just about the increase in value in other quarterbacks. But don’t underestimate the loss of Robert Woods. I’m not panicking if I’m a Goff owner, but I’m not targeting him in any trades.

Running Backs

 
Figures that for our last trade values article of the season, we really don’t have all that much to talk about with the position that usually provides all the goods! But we’ll do our best.

Samaje Perine vaults in value both with his outstanding performance against the Saints and Chris Thompson’s season-ending injury. Opportunity is half the battle for a fantasy-relevant running back, and Perine, if healthy, should see upwards of 25 touches per game going forward. The schedule isn’t overly generous to running backs, but there are few reasons to avoid someone in Perine’s situation. Go forth and buy.

None of Dion Lewis, Latavius Murray, or Orleans Darkwa is a league-winner. But they’re all going to get you 15-20 touches per game and be the man when the team gets close to the goal-line. Take a good, long look at the running back position and you’ll see that things start getting pretty murky very quickly. Guys like the three above, who will rarely if ever give you a total dud and have a decent shot at a touchdown each week, are like offensive linemen – they rarely get the credit they deserve, but they’re integral to a championship team.

I refuse to believe Kenyan Drake is going to be irrelevant. I’ve started keeping track and 7.4 times per Dolphins game, I do this:

I don’t know what Adam Gase is doing most of the time, but I have to imagine that he’ll understand that giving Drake a significant workload is probably his best bet to succeed. With that said, it would be foolish not to downgrade Drake going forward, though I would be more than happy to swap any similarly-valued running back for him.

Finally, J.D. McKissic and Devontae Booker jump into the fray. Like Perine, McKissic is almost the last man standing for Seattle, and he should provide a decent floor with his pass-catching prowess. As for Booker, C.J. Anderson’s late fumble could be costly, especially with Mike McCoy getting fired and Paxton Lynch being named the starter for Week 12. With the Broncos’ season all but over, they may want to see more out of Booker, and it’s worth a gamble to find out.

Wide Receivers

 
As you can see, there is a ton of movement in value among the WR1s and WR2s. With so little time left, the movement is much more about setting tiers, and making sure that receivers who should likely have similar production going forward are deemed relatively close in value. Seriously, there’s little difference at this stage for me in owning Julio Jones, Brandin Cooks, Mike Evans, Doug Baldwin, or Adam Thielen. But you should take all those guys over Golden Tate, Michael Crabtree, Stefon Diggs, Dez Bryant, and Keenan Allen, who are similarly largely interchangeable. With likely only a day or two left to make a deal, thought it was important to make sure the tiers were set, and I’d recommend valuing the elite guys as set forth above.

The only other mover of significance is Corey Coleman who should be valued as a borderline WR3 right now. He has seen 24 targets in the three games he has played, and obviously has a connection with DeShone Kizer. The remaining schedule isn’t friendly (Bengals, Chargers, Packers, Ravens, Bears, Steelers), but the kid just dropped six catches for 80 yards on Jalen Ramsey. Even with Josh Gordon’s return on the horizon, I’d buy Coleman without hesitation.

Tight Ends

 
As usual, there isn’t much to talk about with tight ends. Jordan Reed does not appear (as of this writing) close to returning to action, which makes Vernon Davis a fine trade target at this point, in light of his high floor. But Ryan Fitzpatrick appears to have no interest in throwing the ball to Cameron Brate, which makes him largely irrelevant.

Frankly, you know the deal by now. If you can snag yourself a top-five or top-seven option, go ahead and do it. If not, you’re largely just streaming, as you should be.

And that’s all, my friends. I hope you’ve enjoyed this as much as I have. And, I’ll end our time together in the same way that my old pal George Costanza would do:

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