It's my nature to want to cash out RB's with a few years of use and wear and try to take a shot on a younger player before age devaluation kicks. I always say it's a risk for sure, but it's also usually a one way street of guaranteed declining value the older a RB gets.
Now I own Kamara on 3/8th of my dynasty teams I love him, one of my favorite players in the league. I got nothing anti-Kamara to say. But a lot of things are up in the air with his situation and I'll start by saying I think he's in a perfect offense for what he does and I also think his decline last year was injury related. But I got various levels of concern over what the offense will look like without Brees, which we don't know when that is but I'm preparing for it to be 2021. And I'm specifically worried about Taysom Hill's impact on a player whose value is so tied into the passing game. Not saying Taysom is the future, but like I said a lot of unknowns and even this year I expect his role to grow. Then you got the contract issue which I'm inclined to think will work out but I'm not willing to call it a lock or anything. This year he qualified for a performance based pay which picks his pay up but he just played the last 3 years for about $900K a year and after he completes this season will have earned $5M for 4 years. Might be best bargain in the entire NFL but he's going to want to get paid and I think his and CMC's extensions in particular are going to be very interesting because both operate almost as hybrid RB/WR. Some said that about Bell as well, but Bell was not the route runner these RB's are in my opinion.
But you got me thinking. I usually try and put myself in position of what I'd do when I respond to these trades in this thread. I feel like in a vacuum, if I was in a startup I'd take 1.1 over Kamara for the anticipated 4 year age gap/wear and tear. But on the 3 actual teams I own him, and I won't bore people with the details, I would only deal him for 1.1 in one of those 3 leagues. The other two I might post-draft, but I need to see exactly who I'm buying first.
So maybe in hindsight I should have said 1.1 is more or less equal to me to Kamara, for now.
