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There is no way of knowing this now, and it is very team dependent.Exact same issue regardless of the player you trade in? That is, even if the player plays on Clarry's bye week. Point being, the player's bye will likely carry across one of Oliver's injury weeks giving no advantage on those who have held him - virtually cancelling out one of the injury weeks.
The net point gain is there for those weeks Clarry misses, but if it's a 1-2 week injury, the fact you're going to have to burn another trade to bring him back in could offset those points gained. The question is - how much is a single trade worth in terms of points gained by trading Clarry?
Using my team I would trade in Merrett, or if I hold Oliver cover him with one of Wilmot/Simpson/Johnson depending who is selected and if I can loop.
If Oliver misses 3 weeks it's 3 x Merrett (110?) vs 3 x rookie score (anything from 20-80, let's say 60) so that's an extra 150 points. Is that worth a trade? There will be teams that have better rookies for cover, or no rookies. Only time will tell.
If I had the trades I would trade Oliver to Butters then sideways him (or another R15 premo) back to Oliver in R15.