Must-Buy Trade Targets Ahead of Fantasy Football Week 2

League-Winning Players to Target Before They Break Out

Author

Joe Orrico
September 11, 2025

Last Season These Players Started SLOW…

  • Jaxon Smith-Njigba

  • Terry McLaurin

  • Chase Brown

…But Finished as League Winners.

MUST-BUY Trade Targets Ahead of Fantasy Football Week 2:

Reminder:

Any time you can even offer for some normally unobtainable players…

  • Ja’Marr Chase

  • Amon-Ra St. Brown

…give it a shot.

These two combined for 10.1 half-ppr points in Week 1.

But let’s dig deeper!

Best Trade Targets Before Week 2 ↓

TreVeyon Henderson

vs Rhamondre Stevenson in Week 1

  • Yards per Carry: 5.4 vs 2.1

  • Opportunities: 11 vs 10

  • Snaps: 35% vs 65%

  • Targets: 6 vs 3

Advantage TreVeyon.

Scored over 2x Stevenson’s fantasy points on basically half the snaps.

Pats RB1 soon!

Ladd McConkey

Chargers WRs in Week 1

  • McConkey: 13.4 FPts (0 TD)

  • Johnston: 24.9 FPts (2 TDs)

  • Allen: 19.8 FPts (1 TD)

Floor is about 13+ PPR points/game…

Ceiling is what we saw in NFL playoffs last year: 9 Catches, 197 Yards, 1 TD.

Fantasy WR1.

Jahmyr Gibbs

Confirmed his “bulletproof start” status in Week 1.

DET offense couldn’t have looked any worse…

Didn’t matter for Gibbs.

10 targets were Top 10 among ALL players.

Type of floor like prime Alvin Kamara.

ROS RB Rankings

  1. Bijan

  2. Gibbs

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George Pickens

Ran a route on almost every attempt in Week 1.

Multiple big plays (in or around the endzone) either incomplete or DPI.

Cowboys passing attack looked great- Dak was accurate and aggressive with his throws…

Offensive line was also strong.

Tee Higgins

Death, taxes and slow starts for the Bengals…

They always turn it up.

Get any piece of this offense that you can, while you can.

Players to trade FOR Higgins

  • Courtland Sutton

  • Emeka Egbuka

  • Garrett Wilson

  • Mike Evans

  • AJ Brown

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More Trade Targets Ahead of Week 2…

RB

  • Javonte Williams

  • Travis Etienne

  • Chase Brown

WR

  • Tetairoa McMillan

  • Brian Thomas Jr.

  • Rome Odunze

TE

  • Tyler Warren

QB

  • Trevor Lawrence

That’s all for now- see you tomorrow or inside the Discord server.
– Joe 🫡