Fantasy Football Trader's Alley Week 7: Players to Buy, Hold, or Sell

Oct 15, 2025

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Welcome to the Week 7 edition of Trader's Alley! I'm your weekly tour guide on the bumpy ride that is trading in fantasy football leagues, here to highlight the most notable Buys, Holds, and Sells each week, powered by 4for4's powerful Trade Evaluator tool.

Remember, trading is more of a league- and leaguemates-dependent exercise than anything else in fantasy. What makes a trade "fair" or "feasible" is heavily determined by your league settings, roster constructions, available players, and leaguemate dispositions. So take everything you read here with a grain of salt, and do your best to adjust accordingly! (Or become a 4for4 subscriber of any tier and join the Discord to ask me directly in the weekly Trade Talk AMA on Wednesday evenings!)

This column assumes half-PPR, four-point passing touchdowns, and starting rosters with 1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, and 1 FLEX — but you can also change the configurations on the Trade Evaluator tool to fit your league exactly.

Let's get into it.

Buy Quinshon Judkins

Trade Evaluator: RB22 / 39th overall / 89 Trade Value points

In the second game of the Dillon Gabriel era, Quinshon Judkins had his first “dud” since joining the team and becoming the starter. He scored just 3.6 fantasy points on Sunday, with 36 yards on 12 carries and just one target (which he didn’t catch). However, that came after three straight games with 18+ carries, multiple targets, and at least 80 rushing yards. The first game of the Gabriel era was Judkins’ most productive of the season (23 carries for 110 yards), so I’d be hesitant to suggest that he’s a “post-Joe-Flacco loser” in the offense. Instead, we just have to acknowledge that playing for a very bad offense with very little upside — Cleveland hasn’t scored 20 points in a game yet this year — is going to sometimes come with down weeks.

But hear me out. Next week, Judkins gets the Dolphins (26th in adjusted fantasy points allowed to RBs) and then, following a tough matchup with New England and a Week 9 bye, he starts an absolutely tantalizing stretch that includes the Jets, Ravens, Raiders, Titans, and Bears. Judkins has been extremely effective with opportunity, and he should get plenty of it in those games. He’s hovering in the middle of RB2 range right now, but should be an RB1 for most of the next couple months — if not the rest of the season.