Trade Targets for Week 10 (Fantasy Football)

The NFL trade deadline passed yesterday, and several late transactions made headlines. Most of the big deals were for defensive players (the Jets held a fire sale and made out with a boatload of picks). One fantasy-relevant skilled position deal involved the Saints reuniting Rashid Shaheed with Klint Kubiak in Seattle. FWIW, my opinion is that this probably hurts Shaheed’s value a bit (increased target competition, but much more competent offense and QB play) while muddying the waters a bit for Tory Horton‘s potential breakout. I could see Shaheed taking the top off the defense, catching a few long bombs, and opening up work for JSN. But I personally believe in Horton and think this could take some special teams work off his plate to free him up to unleash in the offense. I’m buying Horton right now.

Another week, another couple of devastating injuries… This week, we lost Jayden Daniels, Tucker Kraft, and Travis Hunter, and it just makes you realize how important your bench/depth players are in fantasy football. In that vein, I’m going to highlight some MUST-OWN RB handcuffs to trade for who will help protect you from losing your season if one of your stars goes down. Not every player has a clear one-for-one handcuff, but a few teams have shown us exactly what would happen if their star RB goes down, and we need to plan accordingly.

Players to Trade For – Handcuff Edition

Sidebar: All three of the handcuff RBs below have already had their bye weeks. This is important because it is much tougher to roster a handcuff through a bye week, losing two valuable roster spots and limiting your options for substitute players. For instance, Brian Robinson Jr. would be an incredibly valuable handcuff to own, due to CMC’s injury history and the RB-friendly Kyle Shanahan scheme. But the 49ers have a Week 14 bye, and at that particular point in the season, you might be in a must-win game and need all options available to you. That said, if your league has really deep benches, I would absolutely be targeting Robinson if I owned CMC.

Tyler Allgeier

Allgeier has had some independent utility this season, but it has been a bit inconsistent. But he is one of the very best backup RBs in the league, and if anything were to happen to Bijan Robinson (don’t fret, Jason has guaranteed that he won’t be injured!), Allgeier could turn into a league winner. If you’ve been hanging on to a bench stash like Bhayshul Tuten (without owning Travis Etienne) or even someone incredibly ineffective like Alvin Kamara, I’d consider making this deal.

Tyler Allgeier is one of the most underrated running backs and most hated nfl players due to fantasy football with Bijan Robinson😂
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— Bachmeier_for_heisman (@mvp30_curry) October 13, 2025

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Blake Corum

We’ve seen Corum shine in spurts this season, and he looks an awful lot like… Kyren Williams… on the field. If Kyren were to sustain an injury, I believe Corum is a direct one-for-one replacement who could produce at a very similar level. The preseason hype surrounding Jarquez Hunter has completely died off (he’s been a healthy scratch recently), and given the similar running style and skillset, I think Corum gets the job mostly to himself if something were to happen to Kyren.

Blake Corum gets loose for 22 yards

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Tank Bigsby

Same arguments above, Bigsby appears to be the new handcuff for Saquon Barkley. And when Saquon went down with a (hopefully) minor groin injury in Week 8, we saw exactly why the Eagles brought in Bigsby. He finished the game against the Giants with nine carries for 104 yards (11.56 YPC!). Since the Eagles were on bye last week, we didn’t get any updates on Barkley’s health, so there is even a chance Bigsby has some utility this week, if the team opts to limit Saquon’s workload, or if he were to re-aggravate the injury.

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Rushing Yards in October

Travis Etienne – 120 yards on 32 attempts
Tank Bigsby – 109 yards on 9 attempts

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— Chuck Bass (@ChuckFBass) October 28, 2025

Players to Trade Away

Jacory Croskey-Merritt (for one of the above handcuffs)

I know it’s been a rough last four weeks for Bill (when Bill jumps into a pool, he doesn’t get wet, the pool gets Billed!), but he still has name value, and he’s getting 10-15 opportunities every week. That’s how you sell it, at least. Bill has been terribly disappointing recently, and with Jayden Daniels out for the foreseeable future, I do not expect it to get any better. If anything, Chris Rodriguez looks to be doing the things we thought Bill was supposed to do. I think the hype train surrounding Bill has come to a screeching halt in most leagues, but you may still be able to get a backup RB for him to help your team in some other way.

Davante Adams

Adams has been an incredible fit in Los Angeles this season, and he has been the red zone threat that Matthew Stafford hasn’t had since Calvin Johnson. If Stafford makes a legitimate run at the MVP this year, I could easily argue it’s because of Adams. Short yardage TDs have belonged almost entirely to Kyren Williams for the last few years, and now Adams is getting hyper-targeted inside the 5-yard line.

To be clear, I don’t think this season is a fluke at all. I’m just looking ahead at schedules and trying to capitalize on Adams getting five TDs in the last two games. The schedule gets tougher over the second half of the season, with only this week’s matchup against the 49ers and a Week 15 game against Detroit considered “favorable” to WRs. This is a “sell high” recommendation, not a panic sell one. If TD regression doesn’t have you convinced, consider that Adams has only cleared 100 receiving yards once this season, and he only has one game with more than five receptions (six). He is only catching about half of his targets (36 receptions on 70 targets), and his TD rate is a career-best 22% (previous best was 16% in 2016 and 2020).

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Courtland Sutton

I drafted Sutton on several teams this year, as I felt that he was one of those forgotten players you could get late in your drafts if you punted on WR depth (similar to Stefon Diggs). And for four of the first five weeks of the season, it looked like a brilliant move. Things started getting a little shaky around Week 6, but Sutton has been serviceable the last few weeks. However, he is starting to lose target share to Troy Franklin, and as mentioned last week, I’m concerned about Bo Nix rest of season.

To be fair, Sutton has two matchups against the Raiders coming up, and one against the Commanders. So his schedule isn’t really the problem, although those could all turn into pretty heavy run scripts early. He also has a Week 12 bye, which I do not love. But more than anything, I just don’t think he is returning top-12 WR numbers for you right now, and that’s where he ranks on the season. When I see someone that high in the season-long rankings who has had a tough couple of weeks, it triggers a sell window for me. I think I would rather have Ladd McConkey, Garrett Wilson, and maybe even Marvin Harrison Jr. or Zay Flowers with a handcuff sprinkled on top. And if there is any way to package him for an upgrade to CeeDee Lamb or Rashee Rice, I’d be all about that.

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