Fantasy Football Trader's Alley Week 8: Players to Buy, Hold, or Sell

Oct 22, 2025

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Welcome to the Week 8 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 D'Andre Swift

Trade Evaluator: RB20 / 36th overall / 91 Trade Value points

As a noted Swiftie entering the 2025 season, the recent breakout for D'Andre (not Taylor) Swift has been a thing of beauty for me. He has 100+ rushing yards in consecutive games, has found the end zone in four of his last five, and has compiled 15+ touches in every single game he’s played this year. Most importantly, he’s averaged 7.0 yards per carry the past two weeks after posting just 3.3 per carry entering the Week 5 bye. Neither the Commanders nor the Saints are particularly soft RB matchups, so I believe this is more about Ben Johnson and the offense clicking into gear than it is about an easy road for Swift.

However, the Ravens, Bengals, and Giants — Swift’s next three opponents — are all soft matchups, as all three are in the bottom quarter of the league in yards per carry surrendered to RBs. Despite being the RB11 in points per game so far in 2025 — and potentially entering an upswing in production — Swift is being valued like a low-end RB2. Call me crazy, but I’d take him over Saquon Barkley for the rest of the season.