Trading for Brian Quick in Dynasty Leagues

Les Snead and Jeff Fisher have always thought of Brian Quick as their version of Vincent Jackson. A player the Rams drafted as a small-school developmental prospect in 2012, Quick finally started paying dividends last season. Over the seven games Quick participated in, he averaged 11.5 fantasy points per game in PPR leagues and had a scoring median to match. He’d emerged as a fringe-Top 20 receiving option over the first half of the 2014, with a quarterback nobody had ever heard of in Austin Davis. We saw his true potential in the first month of the season when he averaged 18.5 ppg in PPR formats on almost 8 targets per game, while registering as a high-end WR2.

We’ve recently been seeing dynasty league trade offers for Quick flying around for late Round 3 Rookie Draft picks. Likely because Quick owners are frustrated. It took him three years to develop, then he got injured. The depth of this year’s NFL Draft has Quick’s original dynasty owners tired of waiting, and itching to make a move to try something new.

Look, we aren’t head over heels for him, or the Rams offense – but at 6’3” 218 pounds and 25 years old, Quick is turning into a sneaky option for receiver-needy dynasty rosters with Nick Foles now in the mix.

As much as we like the depth of skill players in April’s NFL Draft, we’re hard pressed to believe there are better make-ready fantasy options in Round 3 of Dynasty Rookie Drafts, than a healthy Quick heading into his fourth season. You’d have to bet on scratching a winning lottery ticket.

Quick is recovering from a shoulder surgery that Head Coach Jeff Fisher describes as an “extensive procedure”, and he is entering a contract year. We say look at the bright side, at least it’s not a lower leg injury – and players in contract years often come up big. In fact, barring injury, which has never previously been an issue for Quick – it’s hard for us to see his value decreasing if you are able to buy low enough.

Let’s face it, Brian Quick’s only competition are head-case and rapidly declining Kenny Britt, shrimpy Tavon Austin, and good-but-not-great Stedman Bailey. On a team that wants to run the ball with Tre Mason to set up the play action pass, we like Quick’s big-play ability. He showed multiple flash-plays of over 40 yards last season – in a kind of Alshon Jeffery down-the-field-rebound type of fashion.

If we needed to add receiver depth with upside to a dynasty roster, we’d certainly start sniffing around a bottom-of-the-barrel, dumpster-style deal for Brian Quick.