With the NFL trade deadline approaching, are there any deals that will dramatically alter the fantasy perspective? All you have to do is look at the recent past to find out just how much shopping and swapping goes on in the final days and hours of the NFL trade apex.

Last year, you had the trade of . . . well, OK, there was no big trade last year. But the year before . . . Fine, there was no significant trade on deadline that year either. In fact, I can’t remember the last relevant deadline trade.

That doesn’t mean you can’t spin some moves in your fantasy league, where deadlines normally extend to Week 10. You can make, or break, your season with the right deal.

Have any trades, present or past, that are still lodged in your memory? Ever made that deal that required immense foresight, or one when you were in a bye-week bind that paid off in spades? Or have you ever been on the short end of such deals?

Let the FT know. Post your trade story. Here’s one of mine:

YEAR: 2001 The top two fantasy players by far were Marshall Faulk and Edgerrin James. On this particular team, I had one of them — James. My other backs included Warrick Dunn (who I thought was ready for a breakout year in Tampa), Fred Taylor (who some still thought had Marshall Faulk-potential), and some else I can’t remember at the moment, but he was pretty good, too — think James Stewart-level, but it wasn’t James Stewart. I was stocked, so a bye week for James shouldn’t have been a problem.

But it was. My other three backs were all out of action due to injury in Week 4, the same week of James’ bye. My team had started 3-0, and I wanted to keep it going. I couldn’t play a week with no one at running back, so I had to make a deal.

The only guy on my roster that had the juice to pull two decent starting RBs in return was James. That’s the equivalent of trading LaDainian Tomlinson in today’s fantasy terms. But I dealt him, for a couple of second-tier backs. And I even had to downgrade at WR to sell it to the other guy.

Who would have known what I had stumbled onto. He got Edge and WR Marcus Robinson. Robinson was coming off a season-ending injury in 2000 after a blockbuster 1999 campaign. Turns out, he is one of the all-time great one-year wonders.

Robinson didn’t make it out of Week 6, going down to injury again. A week later, Edge suffered his career-changing knee injury — out for the year. What did my trade partner have to show for our deal by midseason? Nothing.

What did I have? Well I got what looked like a one-week wonder — this new back in Kansas City who just shredded the Redskins in Week 3 for his first 100-yard game as a Chief (3 TDs). His name: Priest Holmes. He went on to amass more than 2,000 total yards on the year to go with 10 combined TDs.

The other back? A rookie named LaDainian Tomlinson. Yes youngsters, the same L.T. we know and love today. Back then, though, he was still an unknown commodity — maybe he was the next Emmitt Smith, or he could have been another Ki-Jana Carter. Tomlinson went on to tally more than 1,500 total yards and 10 TDs.

The WR I had to thrown in to close the deal? A second-year guy named Laveranues Coles, who hauled in nearly 900 yards in receptions and seven TDs (still a career high).

My trade partner got two guys that lasted him about three weeks each. I got two of the top 10 fantasy rushers plus a solid WR who had one of the best years of his career.

Result: I lost in Week 4, so all my dealing was for naught in the short term. In the long run, I went 10-3 and advanced to the title game. He went 6-7 and missed the playoffs.

Here’s an update of how my 29 fantasy teams are doing this season:

Overall record: 97-75-2

Winning percentage:.557

Average record: 3.3-2.6

Teams at 5-1: 3

4-2: 11

3-3: 9

2-3-1: 1

2-4: 4

1-4-1: 1

After a mediocre start, I had made up some ground the last couple of weeks, that is until Rex Grossman, Bernard Berrian and bye weeks set me back in Week 6. Still doing OK, but would like to see my win percentage closer to .600.

dloftis@nypost.com