TRADE 5: Keep 'Em Moooooving

Phoenix makes their fourth trade of the season, sending away their 1st round pick in a two for two deal with the league's top team.

SOUTH PARK ACQUIRES WR KEENAN ALLEN & WR ROBBY ANDERSON
PHOENIX ACQUIRES WR AMARI COOPER & RB CARLOS HYDE

The Cows have been the league's best team despite their top wide receiver going MIA in two of three weeks; Amari Cooper pulled the same trick in 2017, spending a lot of time being invisible only to pile up points in a select games and maintain his status as a WR1. His inconsistency won't be South Park's problem anymore- they send him back to Phoenix (where he finished 2017) in exchange for the more dependable Keenan Allen. Coming off a down week, Allen is a target monster with soft hands and great body control; As long as he is healthy and in the lineup, he can be counted on to make a difference nearly every week. Lanky Robby Anderson (recently acquired from Philadelphia) will go to the bottom of the depth chart with the Cows, where his Amari-Lite profile will play better as a plausible flex.

Carlos Hyde's stellar start to the year made him expendable; Todd Gurley II is the obvious alpha dog in the pack, while Lamar Miller is a dependable veteran and Kerryon Johnson is the up and coming rookie. With staggered bye weeks, if the trio stay healthy and productive the Cows saw an opportunity to address their weakest point.

For the Uprising the flurry of trades has overhauled the skill positions pretty dramatically after their second straight loss dropped them to 1-2 and twelfth in the standings:

WR KEENAN ALLEN 🠺 WR AMARI COOPER
RB TEVIN COLEMAN 🠺 RB CARLOS HYDE
WR BRANDON MARSHALL 🠺 WR MICHAEL CRABTREE & WR PIERRE GARCON

The team has addressed its depth issues at receiver and upgraded at RB1, while keeping Andrew Luck, AJ Green, and Jordan Reed at the nucleus of their offense. Will it help them get back to .500%? Time will tell. Last season the Uprising started 0-3 before finishing 9-1 and clinching their fourth championship. Carlos Hyde has looked like a bellcow through three weeks, one unlikely to cede touches to his competition as long as he remains healthy;

Amari Cooper is not the team's only enigma at the position: The team retains DeVante Parker and Dez Bryant at the back of their bench, hoping the former can get healthy and deliver on the pedigree he flashed earlier in his career, while the latter needs to sign with a team before he can show if he has anything left.