Fantasy Football Week 5 Tips, Trade Value Rankings for Top 50 Players

Week 4 in fantasy football threw a lot at players. Injuries, eye-popping stat lines (CeeDee Lamb had how many receptions?), Brian Robinson Jr. randomly scoring three touchdowns, etc.

As always, how you navigate the absurdities of fantasy football comes down to the strength of the team you've built. If that team is starting to show its cracks, a timely trade could be gauze you need. And that's why we put together the weekly fantasy football trade value chart, to help you best determine whether your wheelings and dealings represent good business.

Players who would be ranked in the 51-100 range have a trade value between six and two. Players below the top-100 range have a value of one. Trade values are based on PPR scoring, so adjust according to your league's particular scoring settings. May the fantasy points be with you!

After four weeks, Lamb leads all wideouts in receptions (37) and is tied for second in targets (46). Meanwhile George Pickens has just 18 catches on 28 targets. Great news if you have Lamb, tough news if you have Pickens.

Dating back to last season, Lamb and Pickens have played together in 18 games. In the three contests last season without Lamb, Pickens caught 19 passes for 359 yards and four touchdowns. In PPR formats, that's an average of 26.3 fantasy points per game.

With Lamb in the lineup, Pickens has caught 92 passes for 1,295 yards and five touchdowns in 18 games. That's an average of 13.9 fantasy points per contest (if you look at just this season, he's averaged 10.1 fantasy points per game).

It's not a surprise that Pickens' production takes a hit with Lamb soaking up targets—look no further than Davante Adams, who was a monster without Puka Nacua this season and far more pedestrian upon his return—but you have to be realistic about the fact that Pickens is nothing more than a flex option with a healthy Lamb.

That said, he's also probably due a bit more luck in the touchdown department going forward and is still wildly talented, which means you may be able to buy super low on him at the moment and reap the benefits later. He's trending lower this season with Lamb than he did last year and that likely will normalize a bit if he starts finding the end zone.

Anybody who drafted Pickens hoping for last season's production may be incredibly annoyed at the moment. So long as you pay flex prices to land him, you can capitalize on that frustration. And if you need to throw around some of the numbers above to help push down the asking price in negotiations, well, that's what this column is all about.