This season's sixteen deals were all sound transactions when they were made, but some proved to be more beneficial (or detrimental) than others. This season's best trade additions?
- Savannah revives Alshon Jeffery: The team has gone 4-1 since he arrived and he has put up scores of 20.5, 24.9, 17.9, and 14.6 (with his bye week in there as well.) This was the perfect buy at just the right time, and the main reason Savannah's bite backs its bark.
- Binghamton scores Cam Newton: Losing an all time great QB and replacing him seamlessly has really worked out for the Snipers, making them one of the league's scariest teams, one that threatened to drop 300 and has no discernible weakness going into week 13.
- Pawnee nabs Melvin Gordon and Marvin Jones: Both players have been every week starters, giving quality numbers in 80% of their games, while the players they were exchanged for have been suspended or just plain terrible.
- Philadelphia strikes gold in Robby Anderson & Tevin Coleman: have both outshone Marquise Lee since the deal. Each will figure prominently into the Rum Ham consolation bid, as they look to solidify the first pick in the draft for a second year in a row.
- Manitoba Wentz there: The rest of the team fell to shambles, but the trade for Carson Wentz ends up being the sort of move that promises Manitoba should be back in contention in 2018.
Curiously enough, the league's current top seeds of Deputy and Phoenix both appear to have lost substantially on a pair of trades... yet are playoff locks. Just the pitfalls of weekly variance, the benefits of a deep roster, and some really good (or bad) luck.
- Pawnee has to be considered the winners of the trade, simply because Melvin Gordon played all twelve games this season, while Zeke Elliot was suspended for half of them. That said, Deputy is going to the playoffs as the #1 seed, and the Pride are in the consolation bracket so...
- This deal goes to Pawnee, primarily because, but for injury, Chris Carson looked like a legitimate starting RB, while everyone else has proven to be a spare part. Besides...
- Pawnee moved Njoku for Hunter Henry shortly thereafter, while simultaneously buying low on Cam Newton and selling high on Matt Stafford. A small coup.
- A trade of minimal significance, Oliver was merely an un-utilized handcuff, whereas Ellington started a game and scored zero. Advantage Pawnee.
- This deal looked good for Deputy initially as Lee's role grew, but over the long haul Anderson and Coleman both proved to be high value assets that keyed Philadelphia's shortly live resurgence.
- Carson Wentz for two players that were gone before kickoff ended up being a QB1 for nothing. Savannah's greatest lament should they not win it all this year.
- An even deal, where Hill Valley scored a TE2 and South Park got a RB2, plus took a flyer on a failed WR. Made sense for both teams then and now.
- Phoenix bought low on both WRs: Sean Lee and Duke Johnson both suffering injuries made it look shrewder than it actually was. Kearse has had his moments.
- After giving away Carson Wentz, the Petes nabbed Alex Smith at the bargain price of a $2 scratchoff. All things considered, they wish they had Wentz, but this was okay.
- Binghamton lost Aaron Rodgers to injury and responded by adding Cam Newton who immediately guided the team to relevance. Aaron Jones' injury bottomed out the return- Roger Lewis remained bye week flex filler at best.
- Pawnee has turned Marvin Jones into a WR1, reeling off elite numbers in four of five starts- but Pawnee is on the verge of losing all four of them. Still, they would have been far worse off with Jordan Matthews, who looks utterly spent and deserving of his spot on the trash heap.
- Savannah also acquired a Phoenix WR and immediately transformed him into a high end producer, as Alshon Jeffery turned his season around, going from overrated WR3 to sneaky WR1; Frank Gore has continued to be steadily dependable, but ASJ's tumbled following the deal. On the other side Phoenix helped their depth but hurt their top-end, as neither Parker nor Abdullah serve as every week starters. At least they spun off Pryor!
- With the roster number crunch weighing on them, Phoenix turned IR eligible Corey Coleman into cornerback Marcus Peters who scored 27.7 in his Uprising debut. Coleman has looked good in two games since returning to the lineup for Pawnee, but may be too little too late.
- In the same vein, Pawnee's acquisition of Coleman meant saying bon voyage to IR'd Greg Olsen, who was paired with Eddie Lacy on a trip to Manitoba. Both players were hurt in their Moosecrew debut, because that's the season they are having. Theo Riddick has been back end of the bench filler, while Carr was subsequently turned into...
- Terrelle Pryor. Phoenix had already bought bargain basement on the second round pick and was lucky to get anything for him- his value already crashing hard, it bottomed out in Pawnee with a 3.3 point start and a trip to injured reserve in a low risk (but still losing) gamble. Carr stepped in for Phoenix after Deshaun Watson's untimely injury, part of a committee with...
- Kirk Cousins, who Phoenix made their seventh quarterback through ten weeks. Selling Powell was a godsend, as he has struggled mightily with the Grabbers, despite context clues pointing upward for him. Mar-A-Lago's RB troop ends up being one of the worst on the year with only eight of 24 starts to date meeting their projections.
We'll see if any of these long term deals end up paying dividends when it matters most: The Playoffs.
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