7 Players You Need to Trade Away Before Week 2
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Sal Vetri
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🗓️ 12 September 2025
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7 Players You Need to Trade Away Before Week 2
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| 0:00.0 | If you play fantasy football, you're in the right place because this is one of the biggest edges you can find in all of fantasy. And that is knowing when to sell the right players after week one because so many people overreact to what happens in week one. So in this video, we're going to break down seven players that you should try and sell high, trade away right now while you still can. And I want to start with Marquise Hollywood Brown and I also want to put this disclaimer out there before we get into all of the breakdown on Hollywood Brown. You're never trying to sell these players low. They're all in this video because they're quality players. They're probably all in my top 150 rankings for the rest of the season for a reason. But if you can trade them for a better player the rest of the year, you should do that off of one hot week when everyone's overreacting. So let's start with Marquis Hollywood Brown. This is a |
| 0:40.7 | quality wide receiver in the NFL. As you can see, last year in 2024, he only played two games. But besides that, in his four previous seasons, over 100 targets, over 100 targets, massive 144, 145 targets when he was a wide receiver won last time with the Ravens, and then 100 targets. He obviously then comes out in week one of the NFL season on Friday night football and an exciting game against the Chargers, and he's supposed to be the wide receiver too with Rashi Rice suspended. Well, just three plays into this game, his teammate Xavier Worthy goes down with injury and very quickly, Hollywood Brown is the wide receiver one. Also, Jalen Royals, a a fourth round rookie wide receiver was out for this game. There wasn't many guys left. So 10 catches, 99 yards on a league high led the entire NFL across all positions, 16 targets from Patrick Mahomes. That's obviously a quality role. And it's why Marquis Hollywood Brown in most leagues was the number one waiver wire ad. I mean, after all, if you look at it, he ended up going out there and he was on the field for 98% of the routes. |
| 1:31.9 | He was there running a route for 46 of 47 dropbacks is what this comes out to. A 40% target share, |
| 1:38.4 | even though he was still playing next to Travis Kelsey Wright, he was still earning 40% of the targets. |
| 1:43.3 | He was truly an every down player. |
| 2:17.6 | He was the first read on a lot of these plays. His biggest competition at the wide receiver position was Juju Smith-Schuster, who at this point, I think a lot of people know is on the downside of his career. Tyquan Thornton, mostly just a deep threat. And then we're getting to the guys like Jason Brownlee, who are mostly practice squad players when there's not this many injuries or suspensions for the chief's wide receiver rotation. And it's also worth mentioning he played over 50% of the snaps out of the slot, the Rashi Rice role, the role that Xavier Worthy played down the stretch last year. This is a very valuable role in the offense. So all these are good things. Why trade him away? Well, I mean, let's be honest here. Xavier Worthy, as of right now, he's not going to get put on the IR. There's a chance he comes back in a few weeks. We know for a fact in five more weeks that Rashi Rice is going to return from a suspension. So this target chair of 16 targets, which is probably going to be the most he sees all year, even if those guys are out, it's definitely going to be shrinking soon, if not right away in week two. And then maybe by week three or week four, Xavier really could return, right? And then we know for a fact by week seven, Rashi Rice will return and resume being the number one receiver on this team. He'll resume going into that key slot role with Marquis Brown getting pushed back to the outside, which will shrink his target chair. So yes, for another, let's just call it one to four, maybe five weeks you're going to get some high upside targets, let's call it six to eight per game out of Marquis, Hollywood Brown. That's solid, but it's not week seven through 18 when you need them for the playoffs, championship push, all that. Here is that confirmation from sports MD analysis on the Xavier Worthy injury. He says that Xavier Worthy is considered day to day as how they're like kind of just treating him. He's not yet practicing this week. Average return is three weeks from this injury with a very high injury rate. There's a chance if he would need surgery, that it would end his season. As of right now, the chiefs are not considering surgery for Xavier Worthy. But here's the thing about this. There's no reason to have him get surgery right now. Let him see in three weeks if it stabilizes. |
| 3:44.3 | If it stabilizes, great he can play with some sort of brace. If it doesn't, then at that point they can decide to get surgery. So we'll know more unworthy in probably a couple of weeks. The other thing here is that Travis Kelsey had a 10% target share in week one, which is pretty gross for Travis Kelsey. It was his lowest since 2017, where you're no longer in the prime of Travis Kelsey's career. I know he had that big, kind of like a busted coverage touchdown in week one, but he wasn't earning targets. I will say, though, he's probably going to earn more than 10% of the targets moving forward, especially when the Chiefs have to game plan in an entire couple of weeks now without Xavier Worthy as well. So I would say that those 16 targets, that Hollywood Brown, if we pull it up right here, |
| 4:01.9 | saw in week one, are obviously coming down just naturally. And I think those targets will probably go somewhere around seven, maybe eight. And Travis Kelsey's will start to go up from him seeing only |
| 4:06.9 | four targets to probably him seeing also seven or eight targets. So everybody right now views Marquis |
| 4:12.0 | Brown as the number one receiver for Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reed and thinks like, oh, is this guy a top 20 fan receiver receiver week in and week out? At the end of the day, I think he's a quality option, but if you can, trade for him right now or trade him away, I should say right now, because look at some of the deals happening. This is as I record this on 9-11, September 11, he was traded one-for-one for Tyler Warren. |
| 4:31.2 | Give me Tyler Warren all day. |
| 4:32.4 | He was traded one-for-one for Roma-Dunes-A. |
| 4:33.9 | Give me Roma Dunes-A all day. |
| 4:35.2 | Somebody, some fool, if you will, traded Brian Thomas off of a down game for Hollywood Brown. Obviously, I want Hollywood Brown there. Hollywood Brown for Calvin-Ridley is a coin flip. I'll probably take Calvinantly at this point. |
| 4:44.4 | For Trey McBride, I obviously want Trey McBride. |
| 4:46.3 | These are a lot of deals happening right now, one-for-one deals. |
| 4:48.7 | You could obviously mix in a couple of package items as well for Hollywood Brown. I would sell high and I actually did sell high in one of my leagues two nights ago. Check this out. I was sitting in the movie theater in Austin, Texas with my cousin John, that is Jay Vetri, his team right here. I am obviously Sal Vetri. And I said, hey, I'll trade you Hollywood Brown for something. I look at his team. My team needs running backs in this league, |
| 5:40.9 | and he had Tyron Tracy. Currently in my top 150 rest of season rankings that you can check out in the blueprint at join the blueprint.com and become a member of over 10,000 other people. I got Tyron Tracy here. I think he's a much better option of workhorse running back in his offense for the rest of the year at least as of right now hollywood Brown is kind of just a plug and play for the next two to four weeks. If I look at actually, if you want to just see this, and I show you my actual team here, you can see I have Josh Jacobs, I have Tyron Tracy. I do have Amarian Hampton as well. So outside of that, though, I didn't really have much running back depth on this team. I'm loaded at wide receiver. I have a quality tight end and then I obviously have a couple of different quarterbacks Brock Purdy's banged up right now in this league. |
| 5:38.3 | Nobody cares about my fantasy league, but those are the types of deals you can make. My cousin needed a wide receiver. I needed some running back depth. It was a perfect trade and I think I got the better player in the deal. Now the next player I think that you can end up going out there and trading away right now and we have to talk about this in depth is garrott wilson Garrett Wilson because last year, Garrett Wilson was one of the biggest target hogs in the NFL. He was playing with Aaron Rogers. Despite having Devante Adams next to him as well, Garrett Wilson last year went out there and had 153 targets, had over 100 receptions in the Jets offense that once again had an older Aaron Rogers who was not as mobile and was playing with Devante Adams for the far majority of the season. So heading into this year, the concern was, okay, now you get a quarterback most likely downgrade from Aaron Rogers, at least a passer, to Justin Fields, but there's no Devante Adams. But how much are they really going to pass the ball? Well, in week one, Justin Fields had one of the best games, I would say, of his career, or in recent memory, and it ended up leading to Garrett Wilson having seven catches, 95 yards, and a touchdown in this game. But the problem was, and here's the deal, this is just not sustainable. Justin Fields had one of the best games of his career, and he still only threw for 218 passing yards, which, by the way, is way more than his career average of like 195 passing yards. |
| 6:44.8 | So I just don't think that moving forward, half of the completions are going to be going to Garrett Wilson in this offense, and like 45% of the receiving yards are going to go to Garrett Wilson in this offense. It's just not sustainable. Defenses are going to be like, oh yeah, that's the only guy out here beating us. Let's shade some more coverage over there. Now, with that said, as expected, |
| 7:01.4 | Garrett Wilson, he was out there every single play. |
| 7:03.2 | 100% of the snaps. |
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