Last week, I discussed trade targets at quarterback and running back. This week, I will highlight five players (wide receivers and tight ends) who I believe are not being valued correctly. After I discuss my stance on the player and some of the reasons why I am taking that stance, I will use the last paragraph to give readers an idea of who and/or what they should expect in return.

Trade For: Emeka Egbuka

This one may only be for managers in leagues who are very susceptible to recency bias. The fantasy football regular season is only 14 weeks long in most leagues, which means many of us do not have the luxury of waiting things out when a player is playing injured, which is probably the case right now for Egbuka. It also isn't helping the rookie's cause that Baker Mayfield has played two of his worst games since joining the Bucs before the start of the 2023 season.

I am not going to reveal anything revolutionary about Egbuka here. Is it possible the league started figuring him or the offense (under first-year OC Josh Grizzard) out? Sure, it is possible. Is it likely? No.

Let's look at some basic data: Egbuka was a master of efficiency in Weeks 1-5, hauling in 25 of 38 targets (66 percent). He averaged a touchdown catch once every five receptions and 7.6 targets. In the three outings since (including the game he was injured in Week 6), the Ohio State product has nine scoreless catches on 25 targets (36 percent). It seems highly unlikely that a player who has scored the most points by any receiver against the Falcons this season (23.6 in Week 1) and is one of only three wideouts to score a touchdown versus the Texans (Week 2) over his first two career NFL games lost 'it" just over a month later.

Bye weeks are a godsend for any number of players, especially when they come right in the middle of the season. The Bucs needed theirs with injuries piling up - especially at receiver - and also because it gives Grizzard a chance to review what has worked and what hasn't worked through eight weeks. Bye weeks also give teams a chance to self-scout. As this discussion relates to Egbuka, his hamstring should be a non-issue by the time Week 10 rolls around. In the meantime, Grizzard will have had plenty of time to add or tweak his passing game around Egbuka being the primary receiver - which was not the plan to begin the season.

Even with his recent duds (from a fantasy perspective), Egbuka is still the overall WR7. I think I would prefer him to a host of receivers that were drafted in the first or second round this summer, including Justin Jefferson, Nico Collins, Brian Thomas Jr. and A.J. Brown. Chances are that the name value of at least one of those players will get the opposing manager to agree to a trade. If I had the depth at running back to support it, I would jump at the chance to acquire Egbuka in exchange for the likes of Breece Hall or Ashton Jeanty.

Trade For: Jakobi Meyers

The next two recommendations are more for the "I'm willing to be hurt again, but I also recognize the upside" crowd. This season started well enough for Meyers, who easily met the expectations of being a serviceable WR3 in the first two games of the season. Then came Tre Tucker's three-touchdown game in Week 3 and Geno Smith falling apart after that. The timing of Meyer's demise coincides somewhat with Brock Bowers' Week 1 knee injury (Bowers became a shell of himself after Week 2), but I think the reason Meyers has fallen off over the last month has more to do with perhaps falling out of favor with the new regime and, somewhat by extension, Smith.

The primary reason Meyers belongs on this list is due to the likelihood he will be traded before next Tuesday's deadline (Nov. 4). While the recent history of midseason trade acquisitions in the NFL is not great, there are at least a couple of reasons why Meyers could be an exception. Meyers is not merely a slot receiver, but that is where he has typically done his best work. One team (and one play-caller) makes a lot of sense for him and could use his skill set: OC Josh McDaniels and the Patriots. Roughly Meyers' first 1 1/2 seasons in Las Vegas and most of his time in New England came while playing for McDaniels, who cannot seem to find much use for Demario Douglas. Meyers' three 100-target seasons have all happened in seasons that McDaniels coached him for at least part of the season.

Obviously, I cannot recommend a player here based solely on where he MIGHT be traded (and that assumes he is a lock to be dealt). The thing with Meyers is that his game should travel well regardless of where he lands. I presented the upside case. If the upside case hits, we are probably looking at a top-25 receiver over the remainder of the season.

Meyers currently hangs out in an area of fantasy scoring (WR48) where he has no business being. His stock has fallen so far in just over a month that it is difficult to pull off a 1-for-1 trade with another player at his position. He might even be available as a throw-in. Assuming you have some depth at tight end, a 1-for-1 with Kyle Pitts or maybe even Harold Fannin Jr. could be enough. At running back, maybe TreVeyon Henderson or Chuba Hubbard. (I would be leery about trading away Henderson, however, as I believe he will make some moderate noise before the end of the season.)

Trade For: Calvin Ridley

One of the players I have consistently been most wrong about is Ridley. Most of the blame can be placed on the bizarre path his career took since 2020, including a year in which he essentially removed himself from the season for mental health (2021) and a gambling suspension the following season (2022). We then assumed that Trevor Lawrence would be the best quarterback he had ever played with and that Jacksonville would know to use him as a Z receiver. Nope. The 2024 campaign brought the promise of him finally being the clear lead receiver in Tennessee. Oops. We had a Will Levis and Mason Rudolph problem last year. In 2025, Cam Ward would surely change his prospects, right? Wrong again.

So why is he here? Am I ready to be hurt yet again? Not exactly. If you thought Meyers' stock was low right now, try finding out what the trade value is for a soon-to-be 31-year-old receiver who was getting out-produced by a fourth-round rookie in September - the same fourth-round rookie (Elic Ayomanor) who now appears to be taking a backseat to another player drafted in the same round this spring (Chimere Dike). Like Meyers, Ridley has a decent chance to be traded in the next week. Unlike Meyers, there is no natural landing spot in which he could learn (or re-learn) an offense. With that said, Ridley proved in Week 5 (5-131-0) that he still has something left in the tank. He could easily be the field-stretcher Buffalo is seeking, for example. The Giants make some sense, as do the Steelers.

As was the case with Meyers, the price to acquire Ridley at this point is much lower than anyone could have expected when drafting him in the fourth or fifth round two months ago. There is a reason players are selected in that area, and it isn't because managers were hoping the lead receiver on what was expected to be a bad team would dominate in negative game script week after week. Ridley is not much different stylistically from Jaylen Waddle, who appears to be thriving once again as the Dolphins' unquestioned alpha. As far as his price tag, I could easily see Ridley being traded for Sterling Shepard or Alec Pierce. Nick Chubb or an injured Isiah Pacheco could also get it done in a 1-for-1 as well.

Trade For: Jake Ferguson

Personal story: I selected Ferguson in five redraft leagues and traded for him in a dynasty league this summer. One of my biggest instant regrets once drafting season was ending was that I did not have more exposure to him, mostly because I kept playing the cat-and-mouse game with him in the double-digit rounds. Regardless, I would consider something approaching 35 percent exposure in my high-stakes leagues a good thing for me. At any rate, I was able to draft Trey McBride or land someone like Harold Fannin Jr. or Oronde Gadsden II off waivers in most of the leagues in which I had him, so I have attempted to trade him over the last few weeks.

Not a single bite. Imagine that. The overall TE1 did not have a market. I had to start nearly every trade discussion that involved him. Even managers starting Evan Engram and/or Mason Taylor regularly were not interested. I had one manager try to convince me that a Ferguson-for-Kareem Hunt trade was a good idea.

Folks, I will not try to sell you on the idea that Ferguson has been dominant this year. He hasn't. He is averaging 6.5 yards per catch. He has been lucky with six touchdowns in four games. Some of his production was elevated due to the absence of CeeDee Lamb. All of this is mostly indisputable. With that said, where are you going to find a tight end on pace for 125 targets in a good offense? (Mind you, that pace was at 140 targets before last week's disaster against a stingy Denver defense.) This is when it occurred to me that Ferguson is actually a good buy, especially now with the narrative being floated out there that Lamb's return essentially crushes Ferguson's value.

I had no intention of writing about Ferguson until a couple of hours before I finished writing this article. If my leagues with Ferguson are representative of the ones any of you play in, it appears the narrative of Lamb's return is powerful enough to erase what Ferguson did through seven weeks. My guess is that Ferguson - especially after he was shut out in Week 8 - could be had for most WR3s. It would not surprise me if Rachaad White, Chase Brown or Jordan Mason were enough to get a deal done either. At the very least, do a price check in your league. While it is possible - if not likely - that his touchdowns dry up, he is still the preferred check-down option who plays for a quarterback that loves to find his tight end.

Trade For: Harold Fannin Jr.

If you thought my Ferguson experience was interesting, get ready to hear more of the same about Fannin. Across all of my redraft leagues, I have seven shares of Fannin. While I will not say I was ever thrilled about the idea of offering him to another manager, I did it because I appear to have hit the jackpot in just about every league at tight end. In virtually every league, I have McBride, Ferguson, Kraft, Gadsden or Fannin. In one league, I have four of the five. Needless to say, I was motivated to trim my tight end room down to at least three on that team before the league's trade deadline (Oct. 30). No luck.

The case for Fannin is relatively simple. Dillon Gabriel has started four games for the Browns. Even if we include the nasty weather game against the Dolphins in Week 7, Gabriel has attempted 138 passes. He has targeted the tight end position 49 times (35.5 percent). While I am well aware that Fannin would not get every tight end target in Cleveland if David Njoku were traded, he would get the bulk of them. It does not take a fantasy expert to tell you that even a 50 percent catch rate (tight ends are usually over 70) for a tight end averaging 10 targets in a bad offense is likely a TE1 in most fantasy leagues. Fannin's current catch rate is 74.5. He is the overall TE7 in fantasy now while sharing time with Njoku. Do we really expect things to get worse if/when Njoku is no longer around?

Don't let year-to-date production be your only guide to determining if a trade is good or not. Cleveland already seems to be shifting away from Njoku and more toward Fannin as it is. If you are stuck with a player in the Evan Engram/Mason Taylor/T.J. Hockenson tier, go get someone like Fannin. He could legitimately draw 10 targets per game if he did not have to compete with Njoku anymore. I feel better about him than I do Hunter Henry, Zach Ertz and Dalton Kincaid the rest of the way. I don't think it is unrealistic that he outperforms Travis Kelce, especially if Njoku is shipped out.

I think it is entirely possible to acquire Fannin on the cheap, as odd as that is for me to say. The latest offer I made that included Fannin was so I could get some Week 9 bye coverage at running back in Kareem Hunt. Denied. I could easily see Woody Marks, Tyjae Spears or Josh Downs being enough for Fannin's manager to part with him.