The NFL regular season is over, and with it, the fantasy football season. However, now is the time when one of the many great things about my favorite fantasy format, Dynasty, comes into play: The Dynasty season never stops. Champions have just been crowned, and the lucky winner of the Ashton Jeanty sweepstakes is probably still gazing lovingly at their freshly minted 1.01 rookie pick … but that doesn’t mean we can’t hit the trade market! In this article, I will be taking a look at some undervalued Dynasty players to target in your early-offseason trade talks. Let’s get started!
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Dynasty Fantasy Football Players To Buy
Mark Andrews (TE — BAL)
There are a lot of good reasons to be out on Andrews. He is coming off easily his least productive year since 2019, and 2025 will be his age-30 season. Normally, buying into an aging player who is trending in the wrong direction is a losing bet. It’s not too surprising that Andrews has fallen all the way to the TE8 in KeepTradeCut’s crowdsourced Dynasty rankings.
But the Dynasty market has gone too far in writing Andrews off. For one, even in his down year this season, he still finished as the TE5 in Half-PPR points and the TE7 in points per game. And those numbers look even better if we exclude his slow start. In Weeks 1-7, Andrews averaged just 7.0 Half-PPR points per game. From Week 8 onward, that number jumped to 11.2. On a more subjective note, PFF Grades also back up the idea that Andrews started slow, as he averaged a putrid 58.6 Receiving Grade in Weeks 1-4 and an elite 90.9 grade from Week 5 onward.
Of course, we want to be careful when looking at splits like these, as there has to be a reasonable explanation for the change beyond just random variance. For Andrews, we don’t just have one potential explanation — we have three. First of all, he entered the season less than a year after undergoing surgery to repair a broken ankle, a similar procedure to the one that sapped Tony Pollard of his juice for most of the 2023 season. He had also been in a car accident less than a month prior to Week 1. Finally, and perhaps as a result of one or both of the previous two issues (and the resulting dip in his performance), Andrews also played a hugely reduced role to start the season. In Weeks 1-7, his average route participation rate was 53%. From Week 8 onward, he ran a route on 65% of the Ravens’ dropbacks, including four straight weeks above 60% to finish the season.
Of course, it’s still undeniable that Andrews was a smaller piece of the Ravens’ offense in 2024 than he has been in years past. Even his improved route participation rate over the second half of the season was a big downgrade from a 73% average in 2023, while his target share fell from 20.8% to 14.5% … and those 2023 numbers were also well below his peak years.
I’m not here to say that Andrews is going to bounce back as a game-changing fantasy option at the tight end position. But we know that elite receiving tight ends can be productive well into their 30s — look at 35-year-old Travis Kelce and 34-year-old Zach Ertz. For Dynasty formats, it’s worth noting that Andrews has zero guaranteed money in 2025 and becomes a free agent in 2026. But leaving Baltimore, where Isaiah Likely (also a free agent in 2026, by the way) has emerged as another very capable receiving tight end, might not actually be such a bad thing for Andrews’ value. Whether he’s racking up red zone TDs from Lamar Jackson or playing an expanded role on a new team a la Ertz, Andrews should provide a few more years of solid TE1 production, making him undervalued at his current prices.
Xavier Worthy (WR — KC)
He’s been overshadowed by the historic production of some of his fellow rookies, but Xavier Worthy quietly finished his first NFL season on an absolute tear. Over the last four games in which the Chiefs played their starters, he led the team with an 82% route participation rate and a 23% target share. He scored 14.9 Half-PPR points per game over that span, which would have ranked him as the WR6 for the entire season. How is a 21-year-old first-round pick who just put up those stats and is tied to the best quarterback in the league consistently ranked outside the top 20 Dynasty wide receivers?
Of course, there are valid reasons to be skeptical of Worthy. For the season, he averaged a fairly mediocre 9.3 points per game. He ranked 75th out of 110 qualified receivers in PFF Receiving Grade and also 75th (although this time out of 141 WRs) in Fantasy Points Data’s Adjusted Separation Score. His 1.33 yards per route run mark was also very mediocre.
I should also note that Worthy was playing the “Rashee Rice role” in the Chiefs’ offense in his hot finish to the season, with an absurdly high 31% designed target rate and just a 5.6-yard ADOT. Presumably, Worthy will lose that role when the guy it is named after returns next season … or will he? Let’s put aside the fact that Rice will be coming off an ACL tear and might be suspended for his off-the-field issues. Assuming they are both fully available, I’m not so sure the Chiefs will rush to feature the 25-year-old second-rounder over their 2024 first-round pick. If you’re going to scheme up tons of short targets and YAC opportunities for someone, it might as well be the fastest man in NFL history.
Trading for Worthy now is undeniably a risky move. He might not be ranked as a top-20 receiver, but he’s not going to come cheap, either. He is the WR24 on KeepTradeCut (KTC) and WR34 according to FantasyCalc’s trade-based rankings. His overall body of work as an NFL player paints a picture of a below-average receiver, and he’s certainly going to cost more than that. But nothing matters more in fantasy football than truly elite producers, and Worthy has multiple paths to being a dominant fantasy wide receiver. Maybe he simply continues to rack up points on schemed targets and YAC as he did to finish this season. Or maybe he stops just missing on deep touchdowns and becomes the Chiefs’ new Tyreek Hill. With that level of upside on the table, taking a risk and buying Xavier now is worth(y) it.
Tyler Allgeier (RB — ATL)
Allgeier was useless for fantasy purposes this year, averaging just 5.9 Half-PPR points per game. If anything, he became less valuable as the season wore on, as the Falcons leaned more and more on Bijan Robinson down the stretch. As a result, Allgeier’s Dynasty value has plummeted. He is the RB47 on KTC and the RB45 on FantasyCalc. Both sites have him valued just barely above a third-round pick, which is essentially worthless. But if you can get him now for a late second, the former fifth-round pick has a chance to massively outperform that cost.
At the end of the day, my argument for Allgeier revolves around a simple thesis: He’s a good NFL running back. It’s very hard to isolate running back talent, but Allgeier consistently pops in the best measures we’ve got. This season, he ranked 10th out of 57 qualified backs in PFF Rushing Grade. He also ranked fourth in yards after contact per attempt, fourth in Elusiveness Rating, and sixth in missed tackles forced per attempt. According to NextGenStats, he ranked 17th in yards over expected per attempt (right behind Bijan) and second in success rate. None of this is new, either — Allgeier has consistently graded as one of the league’s most efficient rushers since his 1,000-yard season as a rookie.
Now, we all know that being a good running back, especially if your primary value is on the ground, is no guarantee of fantasy success. As a former fifth-round pick, there is a chance that Allgeier will simply never get another shot at leading an NFL backfield. But even if he doesn’t, he is arguably undervalued for his handcuff value alone. If Bijan were to miss time, Allgeier would immediately be a must-start high-end RB2. That makes him a top-tier handcuff, something that plenty of late-second-round rookie picks never even become.
We also can’t entirely dismiss the chance that Allgeier will find himself in a better situation as a free agent after the 2025 season. After all, he’s more talented than guys like Alexander Mattison, Devin Singletary, Zach Moss, and Gus Edwards, all of whom were given the chance to compete for starting roles this year. Once we also take into account his handcuff value, I like buying low on Allgeier as a talented young player coming off a season in which he didn’t get an opportunity.
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Ted Chmyz is a fantasy football contributor for FantasyPros.com. Find him on Twitter @Tchmyz for more fantasy content or to ask questions.
