Tuesday Trader: Kapri Bibbs, Matt Jones, Jarvis Landry, Paul Perkins, and Willie Snead

If your mind is elsewhere, fantasy football is unforgiving.  Doing something as short-sighted as getting married during the season (I’m looking at you, Aaron Weaver) or becoming a dad (I learned my lesson on that one), you could miss out on 50 or more nuggets impacting players’ fantasy prospects.

In this edition of the Tuesday Trader, where can we find an edge against an unsuspecting opponent?  And keep in mind: many leagues’ trade deadlines are around the corner.

Yesterday Broncos Head Coach Gary Kubiak hinted that RB backup Kapri Bibbs should get more touches: “He’s done a good job. He deserves some more.”  This is the fluidity of NFL team’s backfields in an impatient world.  Devontae Booker has been the team’s RB handcuff essentially since getting drafted.  After one bad start (out of two), there’s reason to believe that Bibbs is now a threat to Booker’s fantasy relevance.  So what do we do?  Sell high on Booker if you can find a decent buyer (at least RB2-worthy), and sell high on Bibbs to whoever has Booker or whoever is desperate for an RB.

Rob Kelley has officially supplanted Matt Jones on Washington’s depth chart.  So it’s the wrong time to buy Kelley—a guy who has a less than 50-50 shot of being an every-week starter even in deep leagues.  Chris Thompson should still be involved, while Jones (4.6 YPC) is talented enough to re-emerge if he takes care of the ball in whatever limited touches he earns, or if Kelley stumbles.  I’m buying very low on Jones if I can spare the roster spot—like giving up a WR5 if I need the RB depth.

Jarvis Landry is a nothing-to-lose buy-low WR if you can get him for relatively little.  Head Coach Adam Gase said yesterday that the team has “got to do a better job” of feeding Landry.  I was wrong on Ryan Tannehill this preseason.  But there’s enough room for a WR2 on just about every NFL team, and no other Miami receiver is about to jump Landry on the depth chart.

Paul Perkins might have struggled Sunday, but the Giants can’t stick with Rashad Jennings.  This is shaping up to be a Perkins-or-bust backfield.  So if someone has him in your league, there’s still time to get him on the cheap.

Willie Snead is a forgotten man in New Orleans.  He had 226 yards and two TDs in his first two games, but has 249 yards and zero scores in his last five.  I like buying low on forgotten talents.  In five healthy games this season he’s averaging nine targets, which would place him squarely in the top 20 among all WRs/TEs.  The yardage will pick up.  The TDs will be racked up.

I don’t like to mix politics with sports.  But as most people are aware, today’s Election Day.  And politics has become a year-round sport.  So it’s kind of the Super Bowl of political days.  Except the average person observes less than 20 in their lifetime.  I used to work in politics.  So this is a day when I think less about the candidates and more about the thousands of people who’ve put their lives on hold for days or weeks or months—and sometimes for a year or more—to campaign for something/someone they believe in.  I’ve been on the losing side of one of those battles.  It’s hard work, and it’s meaningful work, even when your candidate doesn’t win.