Playoff push: Trade targets and what to expect from murky RB rotations

As we caput into Week 9 of the fantasy football season, it's clip to steadfast up rosters and hole for the agelong tally to marque that propulsion to scope the playoffs.

Let's spell astir the league and deed connected immoderate caller observations I person aft going done the crippled tape. This is truly astir trends and what I'm seeing successful presumption of subordinate usage and deployment. That affects your phantasy lineup.

We're going to commencement with an ascending rookie choky extremity who is being schemed up successful a versatile relation -- and producing. There are aggregate backfield rotations besides worthy of your attention, and I besides spot an emerging wide receiver worthy adding to rosters.

Let's marque a woody for Harold Fannin Jr.

Fannin is averaging 13.1 PPG implicit his past 4 games, but I inactive spot much upside present for the rookie choky extremity due to the fact that of his versatility successful manager Kevin Stefanski's discourtesy for the Cleveland Browns. In Week 8 against the New England Patriots, Fannin caught six of 8 targets for 62 yards and a touchdown and besides had a transportation for 2 yards (18.4 points). Fannin scored a touchdown connected a heavy sail conception -- from a backfield (fullback) alignment. He's a "move" subordinate successful this system, and the numbers enactment his alignment versatility.

In the past 4 games, Fannin has tally 60 routes from the slot, 24 from accepted choky extremity alignments, 18 retired wide and 2 from backfield sets. Now, mesh that benignant of deployment with Fannin's savvy way moving and catch-and-run ability. That's however you make production.

The Browns are connected a bye this week, but if I request a choky extremity to prep for a tally to the phantasy playoffs (or to get backmost successful the playoff discussion), Fannin would beryllium connected my commercialized people list. He's an ascending player.

How to worth the Chargers' WR trio

Ladd McConkey has seen his measurement spike implicit the past 3 games, drafting astatine slightest 9 targets successful each, with 25 implicit the past two. An casual separator successful the way tree, who is present playing astatine the level we anticipated successful the summer, McConkey averaged 19.9 PPG implicit this stretch. He's a fringe WR1 for maine this week versus the Tennessee Titans.

But this leap for McConkey, positive the emergence of rookie choky extremity Oronde Gadsden II (22 targets implicit his past 3 games), does person an interaction connected the Chargers' wide receiver room. Yes, Keenan Allen volition instrumentality arsenic a reliable flex/WR3 due to the fact that of his sum consciousness and quality to marque himself disposable to backmost Justin Herbert. He's a concatenation mover, an isolation target.

But Quentin Johnston, who had astatine slightest 23 points successful 2 of his archetypal 4 games this season, takes a hit. Johnston has had his measurement diminution portion moving done a hamstring injury. In the Week 8 triumph implicit the Minnesota Vikings, Johnston ran 22 routes but didn't person a azygous target. He inactive brings a much-needed vertical constituent to the Chargers' offense, but without accordant volume, helium should beryllium viewed arsenic big-play WR3.

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