According to the Data: Players You Should Sell High

The first few weeks of the NFL season are a great time to acquire value in fantasy leagues. With naïve owners overreacting to the first couple of games, you can (and should) jump on underperforming studs. Similarly, it's a great time to "sell high" on players that have thus far outperformed their initial projections. Here are a few of Week 1's finest that you should consider moving if the price is right.

Sell High

Andre Johnson, WR, Texans

Johnson is obviously an elite talent and you shouldn't trade him unless you can secure comparable value, but something tells me Johnson isn't going to keep up his dominant Week 1 performance. To be more specific, that 'something' is target rate. Johnson was targeted on 34.5 percent of his pass snaps on Sunday. Even in the 2008 season in which Johnson caught a career-high 115 balls, he was targeted on just 26.9 percent of his pass snaps. The takeaway here is that Johnson probably won't average 10 targets

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