New Delhi, Nov. 5 -- Brian Thomas Jr. catching passes from Drake Maye and Jonathan Taylor carrying Minnesota's running game are appealing fantasy-football possibilities. They are not announced trades. That distinction is central to a new deadline wish list that asks where talented players might become more productive, rather than where NFL executives have agreed to send them.

Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Chris Allen proposed those destinations in a November 4 column, alongside Josh Downs to Cincinnati, George Pickens to Seattle and Adonai Mitchell to Kansas City. His exercise explicitly sets aside salary-cap accounting and acquisition costs. It offers a way to examine offensive fit, not evidence that the five moves are being negotiated....