Trade Grades 2-4

 Love the early movement here, including some teams that rarely make moves. Trades at this point in the season are often overreactions unless they're in response to an injury or a clear draft debacle that leaves you starting Deuce Vaughn. Anyway, here are the grades.

Trade 2
Bennet receives Jamaal Williams and Gabe Davis
Weissbard receives Christian Watson and Tutu Atwell

Kind of a weird trade, in that Jamaal has now been ditched twice in two weeks, and both Jamaal and Tutu have their value almost entirely linked to Kamara and Kupp's respective availability. Regardless, Watson has the highest standalone value of any of these players, but he's hurt, so this trade is basically a big shrug. Weissbard has a better WR option in theory, and Bennett gets some much needed RB help, but I would be shocked if any of these players end up starting more than 4 times for the rest of the season.

Bennett Grade: B-
Weissbard Grade: B-

Trade 3
AGD receives Najee Harris and Amari Cooper
Ajay receives Justin Herbert and James Conner

This trade has a lot more substance, and makes a little bit more sense all around. AGD needs WR help desperately with Kupp's injury and JuJu surprisngly being WR5 on the Pats, and Cooper is a much better option than hopping on the Puka train. From an RB perspective, Conner to Harris is a downgrade for sure, but mainly because Harris is unlikely to be the starter in a few weeks, but Conner plays for a Cardinals team that is tanking. I don't love that you upgraded your WRs the week you play me, but it's a good trade for you.

Ajay's logic is a little bit more confusing. Dak and Goff are likely to be fine, though choosing between them weekly is not fun. You responded by...adding another QB to choose between? Herbert is a step above Dak and Goff, but bailing after one week is uncharacteristic of you. I was about to say that ditching Amari also left a massive hole at WR, but that was rectified as I was typing. On pure value, Conner is an upgrade over Najee, and either way it's your third RB so not massively important. Your grade will include the immediate follow-up, but I still don't love it.

AGD Grade: A-
Ajay Grade: C-

Trade 4
Ajay receives Mike Williams
Barnard receives Kyren Williams

Wowowowowow! I don't think we've EVER had this many trades before Week 2, but I love it. As a brief aside, after Mike Williams (Chargers) got a concussion in Week 1, I had a brief moment of panic when I saw that Mike Williams (Bucs) died a few days ago. That's mostly unrelated to this trade, but it's also not great that Ajay traded for a player that I plausibly believed to be dead.

Anyway! As mentioned, Ajay fills a gaping hole at WR2, that I'm assuming Barnard was not aware of when negotiating this trade. Well done by Ajay, getting rid of his RB4 (5?) for a starting WR. There are concussion issues for sure, and Big Mike is insanely frustrating to own, but Herbert to Williams could be fun. 

Barnard's team remains hilarious. He obviously needed to throw assets at his RB situation, but giving up $89 FAAB dollars and Mike Williams and only getting back Justice Hill and Kyren Williams? That can't be how he imagined this season going a month ago when he sat down to draft from the wedding. The fact that he appears to be accumulating the handcuffs to my RBs is funny, not just because of the spite factor, but also because my team is very bad and only won because the Giants are worse. Barnard's roster looks like someone who was wrecked with injuries and had to trade a top RB for scraps, but we're not even in Week 2 yet! As soon as Ajay's first trade went through, you should have cancelled your trade and tried to get Conner or Rachaad because Ajay would have been fucked. Just amazing team management.

Ajay Grade: B+
Barnard Grade: D