Fantasy Football Buy Low, Sell High Week 9: Trade Targets Sell Zay Flowers

Nov 04, 2026

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Last week’s report card was a mixed bag, and I’ll start with the good. Rashee Rice returned from his hamstring injury, caught seven passes and a touchdown, and finished as the WR9. Ollie Gordon was the RB32, and the LaPorta for Kraft swap looked great, with Kraft finishing as the TE6 while LaPorta was the TE25. D’Andre Swift, who I suggested targeting in an Olave deal, scored three touchdowns. Now the bad. Tony Pollard followed up his RB1 week with an RB3 week, and Quinshon Judkins was the RB32 while Dylan Sampson outscored him. I’d still be selling Pollard.

Each week this season, I’ll be here to highlight the most notable players to Buy Low or Sell High, using and referencing the powerful tools and data on 4for4.com, including the Trade Evaluator. Don’t make a deal in your league without consulting this tool. Fantasy football managers are a fickle bunch. Sometimes, it only takes one week’s results to make us change how we value a player.

As thrilling as trading can be in fantasy leagues, it can also be really challenging. It’s the one aspect of the game that varies wildly from league to league. Drafting, setting lineups, submitting waiver picks. These are all pretty standard, but not trading. It is dependent on league settings, roster requirements, available players, and even the attitudes of your competitors. That means everything you’re about to read will need to be translated by you to fit your league settings. Do your best to adjust the advice to your own league and then join me for a weekly Discord chat for 4for4 subscribers, talking trades every Wednesday at 11:00 am EST.

As a baseline, this column will assume PPR scoring, passing touchdowns worth four points, and starting rosters with 1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, and 1 FLEX, but you can adjust the configurations on the Trade Evaluator tool to fit your league exactly.

Sell High

Zay Flowers, WR BAL

Flowers has been one of the best receivers in fantasy this season. He’s the WR10 overall, averaging 17.5 points per game, with three finishes inside the top seven. He followed up a WR7 season in 2025 with an even better start this year, and his managers are rightfully proud of him.

Then Week 8 happened. Lamar Jackson suffered a thumb injury and is likely done for the year, and Flowers caught zero of his five targets. Tyler Huntley, who started three games earlier this season, suffered his own injury and will miss time, and undrafted rookie Joe Fagnano finished out the game, picking up an injury of his own. That’s the offense Flowers will be playing in the rest of the way.

Here’s the counterargument. Flowers was productive with Huntley earlier this season, averaging 18.3 points per game across those three starts, including a WR2 finish in Week 7. That’s fair. But one of those games accounted for half of that production, and Baltimore’s offense in Week 8 showed what can happen when the offense falls apart. Derrick Henry is going to get the ball even more.

Flowers’ trade value is 179, ranked 12th overall. That’s elite pricing for a receiver who just lost his quarterback. Malik Nabers (166) has finished inside the top-15 in each of his last four games, and would be first on my shopping list.