Think it's too early to get urgent about crucial personnel decisions on your fantasy team? Don't kid yourself: only NFL coaches should be committed to the players on their rosters in September. Fantasy success is based on making intelligent (or lucky) assessments of NFL situations and talent before those assessments become common knowledge.
Sometimes that assessment wisely tells us to do nothing; other times it tells us to trade a player while he still has value. In any case, what you do should be a decision, not just an accident.
The important (though unofficial) deadlines for making these assessments are Week 3 of the preseason (draft prep), the fourth week of the regular season (roster adjustment) and Thanksgiving, when a lot of leagues set their trade deadlines and fantasy teams that are still in the hunt retool for their stretch drives. This means you're coming up on some make-or-break decisions, and we've got the questions after the jump...
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