Fantasy Football Week 9 Tips, Trade Value Rankings for Top 50 Players

It's time for the weekly fantasy football trade value chart, as trade deadlines across fantasy football grow closer.

Players who would be ranked in the 51-100 range have a descending 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!

If you have Ashton Jeanty on your roster right now, you are panicking, and that is understandable. But is it possible his fantasy value won't completely crater for you going forward? Or should you be trying to move on, even if it means selling low?

There are mixed opinions and thoughts on Sunday's demotion, though it's not looking great.

There are a few reasons why you should probably lean toward holding onto Jeanty rather than selling low.

The first one is evident enough—you'll be selling at the absolute basement of his value. Unless one of your league mates doesn't pay attention to NFL news, you're not getting back great offers.

There's also the fact that Jeanty has maintained value in a pass-catching role in PPR formats. Even if Sunday's troubling splits continue, Jeanty is probably flex-worthy off his receiving impact alone.

And it's very possible that some of Sunday's platoon splits are about Jeanty not being completely healthy. It's also a positive sign for those rooting for Jeanty to eventually regain his feature-back role that Mike Washington Jr. only rushed for 83 yards despite getting 25 carries. As Bill Barnwell of ESPN noted, Washington "managed zero rush yards over expectation, per NFL Next Gen Stats, suggesting that he got roughly what was blocked without much more."

Not exactly the sort of performance that screams "This is my job now and you aren't getting it back."

But there is a format where you might want to consider cutting ties with Jeanty at this point, even if it means selling low, and that's in dynasty. Consider this from Barnwell: "Jeanty ranks last in EPA per carry and second-to-last in success rate on the ground since entering the league."

Jeanty's done enough in the short term as a pass-catcher this season to avoid selling low in redraft formats if you can come to terms with him potentially having his upside capped at being a flex consideration. In dynasty formats, however, it's possible in the future that his value will crater even further if he can't prove to be a more reliable runner.

The counter-argument to that, of course, is that the Raiders haven't exactly had an elite offensive line in his two seasons and more patience is warranted. That's a fair take, though it presumes the Raiders will successfully draft or sign upgrades to the offensive line in free agency.

But it's evident now, more than ever, that Jeanty has become a long-term gamble in fantasy. His future may be in a platoon, and that isn't what you signed up for when you drafted him. At the moment, however, you probably don't have a great exit strategy.