Just made this trade:
I give:
Dez
Brate
Knile Davis
I get:
Sanders
Mariota
Martin (I have Rodgers too)
Guy has been offering me Sanders for Dez straight up for 3 weeks now. I was able to get Mariota to platoon with Bortles and Martin all while throwing in my backup TE (have Bennett) and the last player on my roster. (I really hyped up McCarthy's "Knile is part of the gameplan this week" comment.
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With Rodgers as my current RB2, If Martin does come back to his original workload, I can just slide him in to my starting lineup like nothing happened instead of going to someone like James White, Asiata or Ivory.
And I think at worst Sanders equals Dez's production the rest of the year.
I'm somehow 3-4 when 4 of my first 5 picks were Peterson, Bryant, Watkins and Woodhead. And the other one who's not injured being Doug Baldwin, who's had like 1 or 2 good games.
Also had Shane Vereen, who's done for the year, Chris Ivory who was in the hospital for 2 weeks, John Brown, who now has sickle cell and my Watkins handfuff/replacement, Robert Woods, missed last week too.
My opening day starting lineup (.5 PPR):
Bortles
Peterson
Woodhead
Bryant
Watkins
Baldwin
Bennett
Vikings
Bailey
vs. last week:
Bortles
Gore
Rodgers
Baldwin
T.Smith
Justin Hunter
Bennett
Vikings
McManus (Bailey on BYE)