With 3 weeks remaining in the regular season, the trade deadline is upon us. The Froglickers, Muffdivers, and Big Bang all seem well-positioned to make the playoffs. The Mud has Jonathan Taylor.

After that, two additional teams will make the playoffs and currently the Mustangs (11.25), Beach Dudes (11), Wildcats (11), Griffins (10.25), Armadillos (10), and Longfellows (10) are all within one and a quarter points of each other in the standings.

Throw in all the injuries and scoring volatility we’ve seen this year, and it still feels like a pretty wide open race; and after the playoffs start, anything can happen.

On to the business at hand – this weekend is the trade deadline. Players are locked in at kickoff of their respective games and can be traded up until their Week 12 games kick off (which start tonight!). Players on bye this week can be traded up until kickoff of the Monday night game.

Week 12 also marks a couple other things:

1) Protection cutoff – a player must be on a fantasy team roster continuously starting this week to be eligible for protection for 2026 rosters. In other words, players added after this week will not be eligible to protect for 2026.

2) Transactions revert back to first-come, first-serve. The usual caveats apply to first-come adds: all players involved in the transaction must have completed their games for the week; and CBS keeps players locked every week until Tuesday morning, so transactions remain in-queue with time/date stamps until CBS closes out the previous week, at which point I can process our transactions.