Believe it or not, we are already nearly 12% of the way through the fantasy football season. While it’s often difficult to make trades after Week 1, Week 2 tends to be a great time to make a deal. Trends have started to emerge, and the 0-2 managers in your league are probably getting antsy.
With that said, two weeks is still a very small sample. At this point in the season, draft rankings are still more predictive of rest of season scoring than current production — don’t get tricked into selling an underperforming stud for a flash in the pan. Instead, here are three reasonable trades to propose in your fantasy football leagues this week. Make sure to also check out our fantasy football trade analyzer.
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3 Fantasy Football Trades to Propose Week 3 (2025)
Emeka Egbuka (WR – TB) for Omarion Hampton (RB – LAC)
According to FantasyCalc.com, Emeka Egbuka and Omarion Hampton are the third and fourth most-traded players as we head into Week 3. (I featured the top two players, A.J. Brown and Brian Thomas Jr., in a deal last week.) These two rookies also happen to rank back-to-back in the same site’s rankings, which are based on real trades. That means this is actually a very realistic trade, featuring two liquid players with near-identical values (Egbuka is actually just ahead).
And to me, it’s an absolute no-brainer to take the Hampton side of this deal. This is a case where we shouldn’t let early-season stats outweigh preseason projections. Hampton was a third-round pick in preseason average draft position (ADP), while Egbuka was a seventh-rounder. That’s a huge gap.
Of course, Egbuka has started the season red-hot, while Hampton has been disappointing. But Egbuka’s underlying numbers are nowhere near as strong as his WR10 ranking in half-PPR, which is largely based on the three touchdowns he has scored. He has just a 19% target share in Tampa Bay’s offense, to go with a 1.20 yards per route run that ranks 50th out of 99 qualified receivers, per Pro Football Focus (PFF).
Meanwhile, Hampton is the Chargers’ clear No. 1 RB, with 23 carries to Najee Harris‘ nine and a 72% snap share through two weeks. He hasn’t been particularly efficient, and it’s certainly not good that he didn’t touch the ball again after a costly fumble against the Raiders. But he was picked in the first round for a reason. Especially because you were likely able to draft Egbuka as a Flex option or even a backup, trading him for a running back with legit RB1 upside is a move I will recommend 10 out of 10 times.
Tyrone Tracy Jr. (RB – NYG) for Jauan Jennings (WR – SF)
This is another simple one-for-one swap of two players who are right next to one another in trade-based rankings. And the logic here is also pretty simple. In Week 2, Cam Skattebo was the Giants’ clear lead back. Tyrone Tracy Jr. played six fewer snaps and had six fewer carries than the rookie. Although he did finish with five targets to Skattebo’s two, he ran one fewer route.
And once a veteran back starts to lose ground to a rookie, it’s exceedingly rare that they manage to pull things back in the other direction. It’s even less likely in this case. Tracy is a former seventh-round pick who has never been more than mediocre on the ground, while Skattebo is PFF’s fourth-highest-graded running back so far this season. That means that, at best, Tracy will hold his Week 2 role as the RB1B to Skattebo’s RB1A. And are we really that interested in the RB1B for this Giants offense?
With that in mind, this trade is more about moving Tracy while he still has value than it is about acquiring Jauan Jennings in particular. With that said, I do love Jennings. It’s easy to undersell just how good he was last season, finishing as a top-15 receiver in both PFF grade and yards per route run. Despite dealing with a shoulder injury, he was the 49ers’ clear lead target in Week 2, catching five out of nine looks (a 23% target share) for 89 yards and a touchdown. His own long-term value isn’t 100% certain with the impending returns of George Kittle and Brandon Aiyuk, but I still like his chances of being a fantasy contributor more than Tracy’s.
Courtland Sutton (WR – DEN) for a High-Upside WR
One of the most overlooked stats of Week 2 is that Courtland Sutton posted just a 59% route participation rate in the Broncos’ game against the Colts, per Fantasy Points Data. He averaged a 79% participation rate in 2024, and it never fell below 69%. Meanwhile, while Sutton set new lows in his participation, second-year receiver Troy Franklin set by far his career-high with an 84% participation rate.
Of course, this is a Sean Payton offense we are talking about. There’s every chance that Sutton’s role is back to normal in Week 3, while Franklin finds himself benched for Marvin Mims Jr. The issue is that Sutton was supposed to be the one player who was immune to Sean Payton’s usage rollercoaster. No matter what else was going on, his role as the team’s No. 1 WR wasn’t supposed to be in question.
And the issue is that, before this change, Sutton was still just a low-ceiling WR2. He finished 2024 as the WR23 in half-PPR points per game. That was in a season where he had nearly 2.5 times as many targets as the next Broncos (Devaughn Vele), so it’s not like his role had much room for growth.
In a best-case scenario, Sutton is a borderline WR2 again. In a worst-case scenario, his role is no longer stable, Bo Nix‘s early sophomore struggles continue and he isn’t even a weekly fantasy starter. That’s why I recommend swapping Sutton for any receiver with more theoretical upside.
You may technically “lose” more often than you “win” by turning Suton into players like Jameson Williams, Chris Olave, Xavier Worthy or even Travis Hunter (all of whom are ranked lower than him, some much lower). But Sutton no longer necessarily provides a safe floor, and his ceiling is clearly lower than those of the other options. This is the kind of move that can put you in a league-winning position going forward, and it’s not as risky as it once was if Sutton has indeed lost his stable role.
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Ted Chmyz is a fantasy football contributor for FantasyPros.com. Find him on Twitter and Bluesky @Tchmyz for more fantasy content or to ask questions.
