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The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

10 Players About to Explode in Fantasy (Trade For Them Now)

The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Sal Vetri

Sports, Fantasy Sports

5.0783 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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10 Players About to Explode in Fantasy (Trade For Them Now)


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0:00.0

Today we're talking about 10 players that you should trade for in your fantasy league if you want to improve your team before your friends do. Now I'll show you some of the numbers as to why some of these players should be by lows or even by highs. Let's get into it with a wide receiver right now who is skyrocketing up the fantasy rankings. And this man's name is Jalem Waddle who is on an offense with the dolphins that has been for the most part this year pretty underwhelming and disappointing. but we did just see a nice data point this past week with Waddle because Tyreek killed didn't play. Now, before this game in week five of the 2025 season, we only had one game since Tyreek joined the team where he didn't play and Waddle was operating as the number one wide receiver. Now, that game was back in 2023. What did Waddle do in this game? He had eight catches, 142 yards, a touchdown, one of the best games of his career when he was operating as the number one wide receiver in this Mike McDaniel offense. Now, the second time he ever got to do that was this past week, and it was good things once again. Because Waddle went out there, had six catches, once again, topped 100 yards, had a touchdown in this game was operating often downfield

0:54.3

averaging 18.3 yards per reception in a massive massive game for him a spot where he was able to go

1:00.6

out there and see a ton of targets a ton more targets and earn more opportunities as the number

1:05.1

one moving around the formation it wasn't just like him on the outside he's moving into the

1:09.5

slot he's getting put in motion he's operating as a true number one receiver. You can see from this tweet here on Twitter,

1:13.9

this is from PFF, it says Waddle's targets per route run shot up to 27.3% last week once Hill exited the game. I mean, that was a significant increase of about 10% or so. Before this, you were seeing a lot of targets to Tyreek, to even Devon Aachen.

1:27.2

If you date back to last year,

1:28.7

Jonu Smith was above Waddling targets per outrun.

1:31.3

So now Waddle, just like six, seven games ago dating back to last year was fourth in targets per outrun of this team. Now very quickly, he's first without Tyreek and obviously John Hue there. You can see right here it's summed up by Ryan Heats tweet over on Twitter. In two games since Tyreek has missed since coming to Miami, J. LaModel is now averaging nine targets a game, 126 yards per game, and 28.6 fantasy points per game. Now, 28.6 fantasy points per game would be the greatest wide receiver in like the history of fantasy football. So I'm not expecting that to continue, but nine targets per game, why not? Maybe close to 100 yards per game, why not? It's not like this is some journeyman wide receiver receiver. Jalen Waddle is in the prime of his career, where he started his career Miami as the wide receiver 15 as a rookie. Then the wide receiver 12 as he started to get more downfield usage in his second season, posting a career high 1,356 yards. Then Tyree Kill comes into the fray and he's still a top 24 wide receiver. Last year dealing with injuries and just a messy offense, everything fell off. Right now he's back to being a top 24 wide receiver and he won't have Tyree Kill battling for targets the rest of the season. It also helps Jay Lamato that his quarterback to it right now is trending up. At least these last couple of weeks, you can see if we go down to his game logs over on player profiler. The accuracy is starting to hit 75 and 68% completions. These last two weeks, 36 attempts this past week was a season high. You scroll over for two or just in terms of production right now. Second most yards on the year at 256 this past week, averaging over seven yards per attempt, which is slightly above the NFL average as well. So the offense in general, it's had very soft matchups these last two games. I mean, they're going out there and they're losing last week to Carolina. The week before that, a Jets defense that is not that good. So they are beating up on some bad teams. But at least they're beating up on those bad teams. My one concern would be if Mike McDaniel gets fired in like a week or two and the entire offense just goes up in flames, but assuming that's not the case, either way, Jaylam Otto is still the number one on this team. And he's getting scheme production. So I'm willing to pay for Jaylam Waddle off of the big game. Now, these are some of the trades that have happened as of right now today. As of the same recording, I'm recording this on the 7th, the day before it comes out. Jerry Judy's a joke. I don't know why that happened.

3:24.1

Alvin Kamara, yeah yeah i'd trade him for jimaudel bresol that's a pretty fair deal at this point it's like a one for one depending on the position that you need i definitely trade chase brown even with the joe flacco news going to the bengals for jlam waddle um i I would probably trade at this point, A.J. Brown for Jalen Waddle, what we've been seeing there,

3:41.2

although A.J. Brown is also a buy in my opinion. Kenneth Walker, I would trade for Jaila Maudillow, Chubbard, right? So Jailum Wadle, he is right now these past 24, even five hours, the latest deal was an hour ago. You can get him right now for a fair price or even paying up a little bit. Now I'm also willing to go out and trade for Jalen Warren, another Jalen here, because here's the thing.

3:58.4

This is like one of my favorite strategies for fantasy football. The buy weeks you could use. up a little bit. Now, I'm also willing to go out and trade for Jalen Warren, another Jalen here

3:57.6

because here's the thing. This is like one of my favorite strategies for fantasy football. The

4:00.9

buy weeks you could use to your advantage. When a player is coming back from the buy week, people kind of forgot maybe what happened before that by week. When they're going into the buy week, they're obviously going to get zero points because they're on buy, and that's an opportunity to also trade for some guys. We'll mention some of those guys later on. We haven't seen Jaila Maudlin

4:13.8

quite some time because he was on by. In the week before that, he was a late scratch in that game

4:17.5

overseas where you remember Kenneth Gamel goes out there and steals all the hype. Averages five yards per carry. Has 99 rushing yards and multiple scores a career high. Has six catches, also a career high in the NFL. I mean, he went out there and had a monster performance in the Steelers win overseas against the Minnesota Vikings.

4:34.5

So it's very easy for some people to remember Gainwell's role in that game.

4:35.6

Then a week goes by.

4:38.9

We now haven't seen Jaylen Warren play a football game in like 20 days.

4:41.3

So maybe you forget what was happening right before his injury. Well, let me remind you, J. Lamorren was the RB20, the RB13, the RB18.

4:45.7

He was a top 12 running back one in fantasy football during this stretch. And oh, by the way, he really started to become a workhorse, those final couple of games. In week three, week three, if you recall, this was the game that Aaron Rogers came out there and he said he wanted to see Jalen Moore and get more involved in the offense. Aaron Rogers said that basically he's so versatile. He trusts him in past protection

5:04.3

and definitely has a pass catcher. So that goes on. That happens. And then what happens once

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