Trade Hernandez and Rivers for Eli or Big Ben? WHIR

[Thrasy]

Have Hernandez and Gonzalez in a PPR, thinking about packaging one with Rivers for an upgrade at QB...

Potential targets:
Roethlisberger/RGIII (owns Scott Chandler)
Eli Manning (owns Martellus Bennett)
Stafford (owns Brandon Pettigrew)

Which TE should I trade and would one of those deals be fair?

10-team: 1 PPR, 6pt passing TD, 1 Flex
QB - Rivers, Luck
RB - Foster, Lynch, R. Bush, Spiller, Mendenhall
WR - Green, Harvin, Wallace, Bowe
TE - Gonzalez, Hernandez
DP - Briggs
DST - Bears
K - Walsh

[Thrasy]

Bump

[rasmusDoh]

Go for Eli, Big Ben, Stafford in that order. All are upgrades over Rivers, but mostly Eli

Gonzalez is having a huge season, so you might wanna hold on to him in a best case scenario.

I'd try Hernandez and Rivers for Eli

If he rejects, i'd try some other stuff before moving on to the Big Ben owner:

Luck and Hernandez (depends how the owner's feeling about Luck and Rivers. Personally i like Luck a bit over Rivers)
Rivers / Luck and Gonzalez - i still think Hernandez will have a great season too, and Eli is a big upgrade

Try the same moves in that order with the Big Ben owner, and then the Stafford owner if you keep getting rejected

[Thrasy]

Thanks, great strategy ideas and very comprehensive!

One other idea I had was to add Lynch to the Hernandez/Rivers deal and ask for RGIII and one of Megatron, Reggie Wayne, or Hakeem Nicks (he owns MJD and TRich - ouch).

[JP555]

Honestly I think the only upgrade over Luck is Eli, and fantasy wise right now its not a HUGE difference. Although I think Hernandez and Gonz are top 5 TE. You have enough RB depth to trade Lynch for a top QB like RGIII. Make that deal happen. Or maybe Gonz for RGIII? I think hernandez is a buy low right now