My other league (or one of them, anyway)

[Erudite]

In the only league in which I have money at stake, I'm evaluating a trade and I was hoping to get some opinions.

My team is stacked. STACKED. LOADED.

My only QB is McNabb. I traded Carr for some help at WR after McNabb's bye week.

I'm flush with RBs. Martin, Edge, Jamal Lewis (and Chester Taylor currently), Mewelde Moore and Droughns are all on my roster. I can start three of them in any given week.

I have Hines Ward and Javon Walker at WR. Backups there are Drew Bennett, Muhsin Mohammed, and Justin McCariens.

Shockey is my lone TE and Akers is my lone kicker. I don't lose very often. :P (In fact, I've lost once - on a tiebreaker, after racking up 159 points. :x )


The only team that has me worried the rest of the season has Culpepper and Priest Holmes and a bunch of solid but unspectacular starters (Westbrook, Burress, Coles, Santana Moss).

I was approached regarding a trade for Randy Moss, who would provide me with a little bit of Culpepper insurance. In exchange for Moss and Duce Staley, I would have to give up Edge and Droughns. Would you pull the trigger on this deal?

[Raveneye]

Well,

Let's look at who you're getting:

Duce Staley - good production in yardage, not so great in TDs thanks to the vulture that is Bettis. Past 4 games he's averaged just over 100 yards.

Randy Moss - If he's able to play again soon (they're saying only 2 weeks tops he's out) then he's almost a lock for 100 yards and a TD per game at the least (he's averaging nearly 100 and 1.5 TD's over 4 games).

So right there you get every week starters capable of racking up 200 yards and 1.5 TDs per week combined.



You'd be giving up:

Edge - He's all over the board in yardage, from 62-136 in the last 4 games, but that's still an average of 100, plus he's getting a TD a game on average.

Droughns - He's only had two starts, but he's averaged 180+ yards over them. Only 1 TD, so 0.5 is his average.

Total average stats giving up : 280 yards and 1.5 TDs per week.


So on the surface it looks like you're giving up yardage. However, looking at the intangibles the situation becomes different.

Staley and Moss are going to start every week for the rest of the year barring injury. Neither has anyone waiting in the wings to take thier jobs, and both have earned coaches confidence. They are almost gauranteed to take you into the playoffs.

Edge is the same way, no surprises there, but Droughns is the intangeble. He's the starter now, but his big games were at the expense of Carolina and Oakland, two teams not known to have great rushing defenses. He will be a MONSTER this week against the Bengals who give up tons of rushing yards, but after that his life may get tougher as he takes on better defenses. He also has Tatum Bell and Quenten Griffin waiting in the wings to steal carries, one bad week and he could be 2nd or third in the pecking order again. He's a risk play with tons of potential upside. Personally I think he'll be a Top 10 back the rest of the year, but that's because I own him in our league. :D

Bottom Line
I think this is an excellent trade for you. You'll get some much welcome production at WR without giving up anything you can't replace at RB. You lose Droughns for this week (so no monster game vs. Cincy for you) but you can start Martin, Lewis(Taylor) and Staley with confidence every week and ride Moore for the next two weeks until Onterrio Smith comes back to shake up that situation. Even if someone were to get injured, you'd still have 2 prime RBs and 3 prime WRs with a bench full of good matchup fill-in potential.

Go for it.

[Shiz]

What he said. You are deep at RB already and BYE weeks are over.