In a world where NFL players’ ages and contracts are irrelevant, Alvin Kamara and Jaylen Waddle were just traded for each other.
That world is a single-season fantasy football league in which one team needed a running back and the other needed a receiver.
In real life, NFL trades are more nuanced, though every fantasy football team owner just expects real-life general managers of winning teams to trade future draft picks to raid the rosters of losing teams.
For example, Kamara — who has spent his entire nine-year career with the Saints and could be in their Ring of Honor one day — doesn’t want to be traded to chase a Super Bowl ring somewhere else. General manager Mickey Loomis has to determine if maintaining goodwill with a franchise great in a two-way love affair with the city is more valuable than retrieving a mid-round pick.