And for the "but, Swift was not all the way healthy in those games" he has averaged 14.89 in those games, Deebo coming in at 15.3. For some reason one of them is considered injury prone and the other gets a pass. Bizarre.
The Deebo shareholder in my league balked at the idea of including him in any deal because he's "a game-breaking WR who is capable of being the WR1 based on his rushing/receiving role". I copied that directly from the rejection message.
That's the mentality. I don't think it's right, and I think you make a great point about his injury risk, but people get a narrative in their head & then it's cemented. IMO the same thing is happening with Swift. When I tried to move him before last year I couldn't find a taker - and literally every person I reached out to (in a 16 team league where RBs are very hard to come by!) said the same thing, "he can't stay healthy".
I was very fortunate to get great return on him last month. Until he stays on the field and strings together a couple of months of productivity, he's going to be a difficult player to move. The perception needs to change, and that takes time. And fair or not, the instant he misses even a couple of plays with a bruise, the narrative is reinforced in people's minds & the clock starts over again.
Right now he's either a sell-low or a hold for shareholders. I wouldn't sell him low.
To give a bit of context to the trade, the owner getting the 1.09 finished second last year, doesn't have his 1.11, and is an experienced owner who's won a helluva lot more league championships then I ever will. His WR corp after the trade is Diggs, Higgins, St Brown, and Meyers. Deebo started (bestball) a total of 6 times last season for him. He's decent at RB (Jacobs, Pollard, Gibson, Williams) and great at TE (Andrews). He's only got Cousins at QB, so I'm about 75% sure he's looking to grab the pick of the litter at QB with that 1.09. He might also being thinking about trying to grab another RB given the class. Either way, the league over values QBs, which seems to be a result of it being bestball.
The team getting Deebo had an existing WR corp of Chase, Hollywood, Sutton, and G. Davis. That team is coming to the end of a rebuild with Fields, Lance, Mac at QB, Hall, Walker, Robinson (1.01) at RB, and a motley crew of Muth, Kmet, Dawson, and Duluich at TE.