Fantasy Football Week 3 Trade Value for This Year's Top 50 NFL Players

The 2026 fantasy football season has already been upended by an unfortunate amount of injuries, perhaps leaving your team in tatters—or perhaps giving you the opportunity to strike a favorable deal with an opposing player who suddenly has a huge need you can fill.

Either way, the trade value chart exists to help ensure you don't get ripped off in prospective deals. It may feel early to be wheeling and dealing, but if the injury gods have already been unkind, well, you might not have much of a choice.

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!

We cannot ignore that injuries to players like Jayden Daniels, Jaxson Dart and Caleb Williams will have a ripple effect throughout fantasy football.

You have to immediately downgrade the skill players on the Giants, for instance. Going from Dart to Jameis Winston is a major downgrade, and the Los Angeles Rams were not scared to pack the box and shot down the run game. Cam Skattebo naturally gets a downgrade out of the top 50, while Malik Nabers stays on the chart—Winston has never been afraid to let it rip downfield—but loses some value.

Isaiah Likely didn't quite make the top-50 cut but he's still very much a TE1 going forward. The tight end position tends to weather backup quarterback situations a bit better than other positions and Likely leads the team in literally every receiving category, including targets (18).

Most of Washington's skill players weren't cracking the top 50 anyway, though Stefon Diggs was showing fantastic chemistry with Daniels. He remains more of a flex consideration with Daniels set for what seems likely to be a lengthy stint on the bench.

There's a bit more uncertainty with just how long Williams will be out, so you should be in a bit of a holding pattern when considering trades involving any of Chicago's fantasy options.

As for this week's climbers, keep in mind that we are very early into the season. But boy, does Josh Allen look like a potential fantasy MVP—and NFL MVP, for that matter—after two weeks. Averaging 38.2 points per game is wild work, and while torching Detroit's defense in Week 2 was hardly a surprise, he also put up obscene numbers against an elite Houston unit.

If Allen can sustain anything close to this level of production, he's going to quickly become one of the most valuable players in fantasy, if not most valuabe.

Kenneth Walker has also catapulted himself into the conversation for being one of the five most valuable players in all of fantasy. He currently leads the NFL in carries (47) and rushing yards (290), but it's also promising that Andy Reid and the Chiefs are involving him through the air (nine receptions for 79 yards and a score).

The Chiefs seem likely to keep pounding the rock with Walker, which has opened up the passing game in the process. Players like Jahmyr Gibbs and Bijan Robinson still have higher ceilings considering how involved they'll remain in the passing game, but Walker's usage is extremely promising.