Dynasty Marketplace 2025 – Pre-Combine Trade Targets

Birds are singing, snow is melting, and the Super Bowl is in the history books. It all means one thing: the dynasty offseason is over! Now, the 2025 dynasty season is upon us, and it’s time to talk trade targets! It seems like just yesterday that we were celebrating our championships, but time inexorably marches on, and now we have to go about defending those titles.

With that in mind, let’s take a look at some players that could gain some traction in trade talks leading into the scouting combine. The combine will give us more info on the prospects and how we’ll be valuing the incoming draft class, but the backbone of our championship teams will be the existing players we already know plenty about.

Pre-Combine Dynasty Trade Targets

Buy High

Brian Thomas, Jr.

He’s a wide receiver, he had a tremendous rookie season, and he won’t turn 23 until October. Thomas will not come cheap. But I’ve heard rumblings of “he’s overrated because a big chunk of his production came at the end of the year when he was being hyper-targeted by Mac Jones because everyone else in the Jags offense was hurt…”. If you boil that argument down to “big chunk of his production” and “Mac Jones”. 

He’ll get a (presumably) full season of Trevor Lawrence at QB and a new offensive wunderkind head coach in Liam Coen. If the BTJ manager in your league values him at anything less than a top-five dynasty receiver, pounce.

Buy At Cost

Jerry Jeudy

Oh, what a difference a year makes. I’m not a violent person by any means, but if at this time last year you had told me I’d be preaching the good word of Jerry Jeudy, I may have punched you in the face. But here we are. 

Jeudy was a legit alpha in his first season with the Browns, with some of the worst quarterback play in modern NFL history. He had 90 catches on 145 targets for 1229 yards. With the group of QBs getting him the ball, those numbers are crazy impressive. The only thing keeping him from being an obvious buy is that he only had four touchdowns. Since the team only threw for 19 TDs total, that’s not a bad number in context.

I see Jeudy on a lot of trade block lists. If the Jeudy manager in your league still thinks he’s tainted with the stink of his time in Denver, or didn’t pay attention to how productive he was last year (frankly, you can’t blame them for this, the Browns were legitimately unwatchable), go ahead and see what you have to pay for him.

Buy Low

Anthony Richardson

Yes, there’s a risk you’re buying a zero here, but such is the nature of the buy low. They wouldn’t be available for a reasonable price if there wasn’t a significant risk. 

There’s reporting that the Colts are interested in bringing in Daniel Jones as “competition” for Richardson. Obviously, “reporting” at this time of year needs to be taken with several shakers of salt, but what if this one happens to be true? 

Jones couldn’t throw the ball more than 15 yards down the field last year. He is not legitimate competition for a starting job. At best, he’s a backup with a quasi-similar skill set who you wouldn’t have to drastically alter the offense for in case of injury.

If the Colts do, in fact, bring in Daniel Jones, that’s the best possible sign that they are truly committed to Anthony Richardson as the starter. At the price you can currently acquire him for in most leagues, I’m willing to gamble that either the above report is true or this thinking behind it is reflective of the actual situation.

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Sell High

Jayden Daniels

Hold on, hold on. Put down the pitchforks and hear me out. He’s being valued as the most valuable asset in Superflex leagues after one season. He deserves to be ranked in the top tier of quarterbacks, but he’s also highly unlikely to transcend that group.

Last year around this time, C.J. Stroud was ascending to the position that Daniels occupies now. Stroud and Jordan Love can both tell you there are more ways for this to go south than for it to get better, at least in the immediate aftermath.

I’m not saying if you roster Daniels that you should be putting out the For Sale sign. But if a league mate comes to you with a franchise-altering offer, don’t squeeze the baby bird too tightly. He’s one of the few players that provide a legitimate profit opportunity in today’s dynasty market. 

Sell At Cost 

James Cook

Cook had 300 fewer yards from scrimmage and 12 fewer receptions in 2024 than 2023 but scored 30 more PPR fantasy points. How? He tripled his touchdown total. If the 2024 volume holds and the touchdowns regress, he’s going to be viewed as a disappointment. He’s certainly not a bad or just lucky player, but that 2024 TD total is unsustainable.

Sell Low

Cooper Kupp

In Week 14, Kupp went for 5/92/1 in the infamous Buffalo/LA 44-42 shoot out. In the other six of the Rams’ final seven games, Kupp had 13 catches for 160 yards. 29 fantasy points in six weeks. 

He’ll turn 32 over the summer. If one of your league mates is intrigued by Kupp on another team, move him while you can. It’s over; get out. Get what you can while you can. If that’s a lowly 3rd round pick, take it. If that’s throwing Kupp into another bigger trade as a kicker to get it over the top, do it. This is not a guy you want rotting on the vine and wasting a spot on your roster.

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