The dynasty offseason is an excellent time to take a detailed look at your roster to determine your team’s identity and where things are tracking for the 2025 NFL season. While it’s tough in practice, it’s essential to be brutally honest with ourselves regarding overall roster value and individual player values.

Now is the time to make the necessary adjustments to set ourselves up for success next season and beyond. We have to put personal biases aside and be objective about our team from a dynasty perspective.

Today, I’d like to cover three names where you would be best served to cut ties before things get any worse. All of these players I’ll be covering still hold varying levels of dynasty value, but I expect their value to drop either this offseason or during the 2025 season. In dynasty, it’s better to sell a player a year too early than a year too late. Stay ahead of the market and sell these players while you still have time. Use our dynasty trade calculator to gauge player values.

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Dynasty Players To Give Up On

DK Metcalf (WR – SEA)

It seems dynasty managers are still chasing that 2020 season from DK Metcalf but continue to be disappointed year after year. Metcalf posted 17 PPR points per game in his second NFL season, finishing as the WR7 overall. He was a consensus top-five dynasty wide receiver following the 2020 season but hasn’t found that same level of success since. In each of the four seasons following this breakout, Metcalf has failed to hit 15 PPR points per game. He’s now entering his seventh season and is no longer even the top wide receiver on his own team, with Jaxon Smith-Njigba breaking out in 2024.

At age 27, it would take an incredible season for Metcalf to see his dynasty value increase. He’ll have to produce at a fairly high rate just to keep his value from falling, as he is nearing the end of the age apex for wide receivers. I think we have a large enough sample size to say Metcalf is not a league-winner, but he still holds enough value to where you can sell him for a future first. If your team is in the midst of a rebuild, I would recommend moving off Metcalf for this kind of draft capital or a younger ascending wide receiver talent. For contenders, I would advise moving Metcalf for a cheaper veteran who we expect to produce at a higher rate in 2025, like Mike Evans. You’d be able to get a “plus” on top of some sort, possibly a future mid-round pick.

Isiah Pacheco (RB – KC)

Six months ago, Isiah Pacheco was valued as a top-12 running back in dynasty, coming off a tremendous 2023 season where he averaged 15.3 PPR points per game. Pacheco’s early NFL success came as a shock to most of us, seeing as how he nearly went undrafted in the 2022 NFL Draft. It seemed he was primed for another big year in 2024 as Kansas City’s workhorse, but a fibula injury put an end to those aspirations. Pacheco returned in the final third of the season but was far from the player we saw pre-injury. In Weeks 13-17, he averaged just 3.57 yards per carry, 35 rush yards per game and scored zero touchdowns.

Isiah Pacheco is a great reminder of two Dynasty Constants:

1- cashing out on non premium asset RBs when they spike in value.

2- players do not always come back from injury and have the same roles as when they left. Offenses and roles evolve.

— TheOGfantasyfootball (@TheOGfantasy) February 10, 2025

There’s always a chance Pacheco is still getting back to speed post-injury and will enter 2025 as the clear No. 1 RB for Kansas City, but I don’t plan to stick around and find out. Being a late Day 3 draft pick, Pacheco has limited team investment, making it easy for the Chiefs to move on from him if needed. He’s entering the final year of his rookie deal and I expect Kansas City to either bring in a free-agent running back this offseason or draft one to compete with Pacheco for touches. Ultimately, it’s more likely the Chiefs elect not to give Pacheco a second contract. Some rumors were circulating that Pacheco would receive a lucrative extension, but I don’t see that happening. He’s not a difference-making talent. Sell him for a mid-second-round rookie pick and don’t look back.

Dalton Kincaid (TE – BUF)

Dalton Kincaid feels like the most expensive middling tight end in dynasty. If you’re not grabbing Brock Bowers or Trey McBride, there’s a pretty significant drop-off in value. Plenty of cheaper tight end options can provide you with equal or better fantasy production than Kincaid. After a somewhat promising rookie campaign where Kincaid posted 9.4 PPR points per game, Kincaid’s numbers dropped across the board, averaging just 7.1 points per game and finishing as the TE23 from a points-per-game perspective. He saw a significant drop in production despite Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis both leaving Buffalo following the 2023 season.

Kincaid did see a solid target rate of 24.1% in 2024 but failed to do much with the opportunity, finishing 19th amongst tight ends in receiving yards and 16th in yards per route run. This is a guy who only had one year of elite production in college, and that came in his fifth season at age 23. It’s not that I dislike the player; Kincaid is a proven athlete, given his basketball background. I just don’t think his dynasty price is justifiable. I would prefer the incoming rookie trio of Colston Loveland, Tyler Warren and Harold Fannin Jr. to Kincaid, and that may be a reasonable pivot when your rookie drafts come around. Another idea could be moving Kincaid for someone like Cade Otton (who outscored Kincaid in 2024) and getting a future mid-round rookie pick on top.

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