What to do about a bye-week dilemma?

Question

Here's an interesting situation. Let's say you do the auto-pick on a public Yahoo! league (curse my busy schedule that prevents me from doing the live drafts!!!!). Let's say that you end up with RBs with the same BYE week, both defenses with the same bye week, and your QBs with the same bye week. Suck. You try to swing a trade, but no one is biting, except for this one that probably benefits him more than you:

You get David Garrard, Ronnie Brown, and Arizona

He gets Jason Campbell, Jamal Lewis, and New England

Take the trade or wait it out and see if things change by week 4? I hate to get stuck with these guys all on BYE, yet I can't help but wonder if I can get a better deal if someone is desperate later. What would you do?

Answer 1

DEF:  Drop your other defense(not the patriots).  On bye week pick up Carolina off waivers(they play at home against the Falcons)

QB:  Drop Cambell, he is worthless, as he is not good, and shares a bye week with your other guy(who I assume must be better).  You can pick up Warner or Pennington later on.  At least one or both will emerge as a productive starter before your bye week.  In Week 10(your bye week at QB), they both will be playing at home, against the 49ers and Rams respectively, both very poor defenses.

RB: use the 2 free spots you now have on your roster to pick up some guys on waivers, and hope there is an injury to the starter.  I would go with Tatum Bell and Ryan Torain, as they actually still have chances to win the starting job.  Chester Taylor and Chris Henry may also be available.  If it doesn't work itself out by week one, try making a heads up fair trade RB for RB, but note that Jamal Lewis is far better than Ronnie Brown.

Answer 2

Try and pick up some body so that you can swing out of it .

like if you don't have a problem with the WRs then drop your worst one and pick up a RB or a QB or a D. Don't do that trade you are getting ripped off.

Answer 3

There are a couple ways to look at this...

Taking your bye week lumps in a couple of big "whammies" can be a strategic play.  True, it's not ideal but you'll have two weeks in a fourteen game regular season where you are at risk for a loss.

You can try to trade and maneuver around it.  But, I would not deplete my team before the season even starts.  Jamal Lewis is worth more than you imagine.  Guess who lead the NFL in carries inside the 5 yard line last year?  Lewis has the best young O-line in the AFC.

I would sit tight, and start mining the waiver wire for fill-in prospects.  There are enough guys that probably went undrafted that could be helpful, or even win their starting jobs.  Keep an eye on Ryan Torian and Michael Pittman in Denver.  Kevin Smith, Detroit... Ray Rice in Baltimore.

Don't make any bold moves yet.  

EDIT: Even with limited bench spots, you probably could resort to dropping a defense if needed to fill one spot.  Have a look at your opponent's roster for those weeks, and see what your chances are going into it.  If he's full loaded that week, you are still best served by keeping your team intact and riding the wave.