Trade Grade 1

Gutman receives Damien Harris and Robby Anderson
Nick receives Stefon Diggs and Joe Burrow

This trade is worthy of more than a blurb in the usual weekly recap, mainly because there are three ways to look at it: the value of players traded, the impact on each team, and the process. As you may have guessed, I have A LOT to say about the process here.

Value
This is pretty straightforward. Draft values don't matter anymore but we're not too far from a literal dollar amount being placed on each of the players involved. Let's take a look:

• Damien Harris - $9
• Robby Anderson - $9
• Stefon Diggs - $50
• Joe Burrow - $4

I know that Sony got traded post-draft, but in order for this trade to be even, Harris would have had to be a top-15 RB. He might end up there, but I'm going to pretty confidently say that Nick got better players here.

Edge: Nick

Impact
In our league RBs are worth more than gold. That's even more true this year, due to both to the relative lack of depth at the RB position in general, as well as the early injuries to a slew of potential starting RBs. On the flipside, receiver is insanely deep. So deep that Gutman could trade a $50 receiver and still get to choose between Terry McLaurin, Chase Claypool, Devonta Smith, and Brandon Aiyuk even if he didn't get Robby Anderson in return. Nick gets a big upgrade from Robby or AB to Diggs, but the upgrade from DeeJay Dallas (now back on the waiver wire!) to Damien Harris is juuuust a little bit more important.
Edge: Gutman

Process

I got receipts:

This started as a pretty standard question about how quickly trades would process, and quickly devolved into what appeared to be Gutman second guessing himself for turning down Damien for Terry straight up. At the same time, I got this:

Assumption confirmed.

After that, whether due to confusion about when trades would process or Gutman getting overwhelmed, the trade didn't happen before Week 1. Terry, Damien, and Ty'Son all looked pretty good over the weekend, though there were some questions about the RBs respective roles moving forward. The one player who didn't look great was Diggs, who not only got looped into the trade, but Nick also got an upgrade at QB. Robby Anderson was a nice consolation WR, but still wasn't really a need for Gutman. 

Once again, I got receipts:

Just a great experience all around.

Grades:

Nick: A-

Gutman: B-