With Fantasy Trade Deadlines Approaching, Dave Richard Gives Some 'Sell High' Options
BOSTON (CBS) - CBS Sports fantasy football guru Dave Richard gave his Week 11 advice Thursday morning on 98.5 The Sports Hub's Toucher & Rich show.
Rich's team is 4-6 -- not quite in the toilet, but definitely not in playoff contention.
Like millions of others, Rich is desperate to make a trade and get back into the fantasy football postseason hunt. So the first chance he got this morning he asked Dave about what he called "sucker trades" -- players that are performing well and will be highly sought after, but maybe are due for a precipitous drop. Or maybe just a simple trade with the league moron.
"Selling high" as it's known in the fantasy world.
Dave Richard gave some potential sell high options on Thursday.
"I just traded Frank Gore this week after his big game and I got Antonio Gates for him. I'd like to think that I sold high on Frank Gore there. I would also sell high on Mark Ingram, who's been playing great for New Orleans. But I don't know if he can keep it up, and I don't know if his injury history is going to let him stay on the field as long as we'd like him to. You could probably sell pretty high on Roddy White right now.
"Greg Olsen is another guy who has some tough matchups coming up. He's been playing great but I don't know if he can keep it up. Trying to trade these guys for Chargers and Lions are the moves I'm trying to make. I like the Lions schedule the rest of the way. Ryan Mathews is somebody you could probably get on the cheap, and a guy like Malcolm Floyd has a very good track record against Oakland, who they're going against this week."
Listen below as Dave answers questions from the callers:
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