Dynasty Sells: Fantasy Football Players to Trade Away for 2025

August 24, 2025

Jackson Sparks identifies NFL players to sell in fantasy football dynasty leagues for 2025. These are potentially overvalued assets to avoid in keeper formats.

The 2025 fantasy football season is near, but dynasty managers and enthusiasts know the action has never stopped. One of, if not the best, aspects of playing in dynasty leagues is buying and selling players to and from your league mates' teams. Knowing when to sell a player high (or low) is key to cashing in on big performances that are unlikely to be replicated or preventing depreciating assets from expiring on your roster.

Players past the age apex, trending down on the depth chart due to performance or injury, or are fresh off a monster campaign, are usually solid candidates to throw on the trade block. While you should get out of some players by any means necessary (like Aaron Rodgers), that is not the focus of this article. Instead, we're discussing players that you can reasonably get a solid return for.

Below are five players to sell in dynasty leagues ahead of the 2025 campaign. Let's dive in!

Jonathan Taylor, Indianapolis Colts

KeepTradeCut Dynasty Ranking: RB11

Let's start by clarifying something. Do not give Taylor away for chump change. That's not the purpose of this suggestion. However, if you can acquire premium draft capital and/or a collection of rising players, now might be the best time to cash in.

Taylor exploded in the final three weeks of the 2024 season, rushing 95 times for 520 yards and six touchdowns while catching three passes for 14 yards. He was the RB2 in half-PPR leagues over that stretch, averaging a whopping 30.3 fantasy points.

However, we must look at the end-of-season excellence in context. Taylor dominated the Titans, Jaguars, and Giants -- all of whom were bottom-7 defenses against the run. Additionally, all three franchises were firmly out of the playoff race by the time Week 16 rolled around and essentially rolled over on defense.

Before Taylor's insane stretch, the results were disappointing. The then 25-year-old was the RB19 in fantasy points per game from Weeks 1 to 15, and he was the overall RB27 thanks to three missed games, which has become a theme for the Wisconsin product.

End-of-season stats can be misleading, and that's the case with Taylor, who finished as the overall RB9 despite hurting your team for much of the year. If you made it to the postseason with him, he likely won you a championship, but tons of Taylor teams missed postseason action in part due to his lackluster production. Almost 40% of his total fantasy production came in the final three weeks of the 2024 campaign.

Jonathan Taylor

- Missed 16 games over last 3 seasons
- Uncertainty at the QB pos in Indianapolis

However…
- Ended the season on fire (25.6 ppg wks 15-18)
- 1400+ rushing yds in 14 games (2024)
- Former RB1 overall (2021)

High risk, high reward play currently going at… pic.twitter.com/tSicagQcFd

— OTL (@OTLFFootball) July 2, 2025

Entering 2025, his quarterback will be Daniel Jones. Jones has a rushing skill set that can help open up lanes for Taylor, but may not look his way too often in the passing game. If Taylor is going to produce like an RB1, he'll need an abundance of explosive runs and end-zone trips. With Jones or Richardson running the offense, it's difficult to imagine him finding paydirt enough to pay off at his perceived value.

While Taylor is still relatively young, the franchise could be more cautious with him by limiting his touches (at least a little bit). The team brought in Khalil Herbert in free agency and drafted DJ Giddens in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft. With Tyler Goodson still in the roster mix, we should expect Taylor to have a limited receiving role once again.

Now could be the perfect "sell-high" window for the former dynasty darling.

Isiah Pacheco, Kansas City Chiefs

KeepTradeCut Dynasty Ranking: RB31

Pacheco is a former seventh-round NFL Draft pick who was once a waiver-wire hero and solid fantasy football contributor. However, his dynasty stock is in rough shape heading into his fourth professional campaign. His third NFL season was mainly lost due to a fractured fibula, as he appeared in just seven regular-season games, rushed for 310 yards (3.7 YPC), and averaged 7.3 half-PPR fantasy points per game.

In 2023, he didn't live up to expectations following a strong rookie season that got everyone excited. Pacheco saw 205 rushing attempts but averaged just 4.3 true yards per carry (PlayerProfiler.com) and scored just nine total touchdowns in 17 games despite seeing 50 red zone touches.

Over his last full season, he ranked 21st in fantasy points per opportunity (0.84), 36th in yards per reception (5.5), 26th in yards per touch (4.7), 27th in evaded tackles (38), and 18th in yards created per touch (3.59). The fact is -- Pacheco never lived up to the expectations many had for him in Kansas City's offense, even when he was healthy.

Now, Kansas City brought back Kareem Hunt, signed Elijah Mitchell in free agency, and drafted SMU standout running back with excellent pass-catching chops, Brashard Smith. The Chiefs haven't been explosive in the passing game, which has directly limited the team's explosive rushing plays. Now, it looks like K.C. could be headed toward an ugly committee.

Jarquez Hunter and Brashard Smith have insane potential in good offenses that had terrible explosive play rates in the run game last season. pic.twitter.com/roTkgoA3s2

— JohnJohn Analysis (@JohnJohnalytics) June 29, 2025

It's important to remember that Pacheco is on a seventh-round rookie contract, which means the team is not monetarily incentivized to feed him touches. There are just too many red flags here. Get out on Pacheco before it's too late.

Rome Odunze, Chicago Bears

KeepTradeCut Dynasty Ranking: WR19

Rome Odunze was an exciting prospect coming into the NFL via the No. 10 overall pick in last year's draft. He was a prolific producer at Washington, and the pairing with quarterback Caleb Williams sounded promising. But after last year and this offseason's developments, the WR19 value attached to him is a bit steep.

While some of his rookie struggles can be explained by a struggling quarterback and poor offensive environment, there were plenty of worrying signs that are QB-independent. Among Playerprofiler-qualified wideouts, Odunze ranked 98th in route win rate (37.5%), 103rd in route win rate vs. man coverage (24.2%), and 50th in true catch rate (91.5%).

Based on his prospect profile, it would be understandable to chalk his struggles up to a Year 1 learning curve. However, even if Odunze bounces back and becomes a very good player, many things must go right for him to pay off at his current value and cost.

For one, Williams has to turn it around and become the Pro Bowl quarterback he was billed to be coming out of USC. Secondly, he has to hold off the handsomely paid and established alpha, DJ Moore. Then, he must fend off talented rookie pass-catchers Luther Burden III and Colston Loveland. Even if you believe new head Ben Johnson and Williams are the next elite HC-QB pairing in the NFL, there still might not be enough passing volume to support all the talent compiled in the Chicago pass-catching group.

If this offense reaches its ceiling, will Odunze produce a WR1 or WR2-type season? That's a significant question that isn't an easy "yes." So what if Williams is simply a bust, and Johnson isn't the "prince that was promised" for the Bears? In the wide range of outcomes for Odunze, the most likely scenarios are disappointing.

Be careful labeling him the next Jaxon Smith-Njigba. Odunze isn't set to play with a criminally underrated Geno Smith, a checked-out DK Metcalf, and a washed Tyler Lockett.

Dalton Kincaid, Buffalo Bills

KeepTradeCut Dynasty Ranking: TE10

Kincaid has done nothing but disappoint since being selected in the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft. In 29 career games, the Utah product has tallied 117 receptions for 1,121 yards and four touchdowns. His reception total is nothing to scoff at, but his usage and lack of big-play upside are.

Despite ranking eighth among all qualified tight ends in average target distance (7.6) a year ago, he ranked 21st in yards per reception (10.2) and 18th in yards per route run (1.76). He's playing with one of the elite quarterbacks in the NFL, who targets him often, yet he could only muster 7.8 fantasy points per game across 13 contests, and he was outside the top 20 tight ends in true catch rate (89.9%), yards per target (6.0), contested catch rate (40%), and fantasy points per route run (1.34).

Yes, the majority of tight ends take time to develop, but Kincaid was billed as a pro-ready pass-catcher coming out of College. He's older than Kyle Pitts.

GRAPHIC: Bills fans don’t watch this pic.twitter.com/CFpzVOgWFT

— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) January 27, 2025

If Kincaid hasn't been able to find consistent fantasy success with an MVP quarterback in his prime and without daunting target competition, why should we expect anything to change in the future? Buffalo won't go without investing in a legitimate WR1 forever, so Kincaid is getting close to falling off the fantasy football radar. For whatever reason, his explosiveness has not translated to the NFL game. He was unable to participate in the 2023 NFL Combine, so perhaps he's not quite the athlete we thought he'd be.

In dynasty leagues, you should have an elite tight end or a lower-priced dart throw with upside. The tweener types who never break out are a waste of roster space.

Baker Mayfield, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

KeepTradeCut Dynasty Ranking: QB14

Mayfield has one of the better "feel-good" and "comeback" stories in the NFL. The No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft was cast off by Cleveland after they traded for Deshaun Watson, and after a rough year in Carolina, he's found a home as the franchise quarterback of the Buccaneers.

He appears to have completely turned things around, and his 2024 fantasy production was fantastic. That said, a non-rushing quarterback coming off a 44-total-touchdown campaign is a screaming sell candidate. Mayfield's previous career-high for touchdowns was 29 in 2023. Relying on heavy passing volume and an unsustainable touchdown rate year-over-year is not a great process. Last season, Mayfield posted a 7.3% touchdown rate despite ranking 30th in air yards per attempt (7.0). His previous high was 5.4% in 2020.

We're not here to say Mayfield is going to flame out or fall off. He can still be a good NFL quarterback, but not produce big fantasy numbers. Think back to some of Tom Brady's seasons in New England when he wasn't a high-end starter in single-QB setups.

In a weak NFC South and Tampa Bay having the 10th-easiest strength of schedule, will there be as many shootout opportunities for Mayfield? It seems unlikely.

Oh, and nobody likes to talk about it, but there will be a point in time when Father Time finally defeats Mike Evans. It might not be this year, but that's not a guy you easily replace, and Chris Godwin (ankle) could be severely limited to start the season.

The NFL is now littered with dual-threat QBs who score fantasy points in bunches on the ground. If you can acquire a quarterback in a similar range of dynasty rankings with rushing chops like Kyler Murray, pull the trigger.

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Sam Darnold, Seattle Seahawks (QB28)

Darnold flamed out in New York and Carolina, but his 2024 campaign with the Minnesota Vikings has revived his career and given him another shot at being a franchise quarterback. By going to Seattle, he trades one of the league's best offensive minds, a strong offensive line, and one of the best pass-catching units in football for a defensive-minded coach, an abysmal offensive line, and a mid-level pass-catching group. Darnold reeks of "one-year wonder" status.

Stefon Diggs, New England Patriots (WR61)

Diggs looked solid in his limited action with the Houston Texans last season, but an ACL tear ended his season after just eight games. The veteran has already been an offseason distraction, and it's fair to question if he can come back from the major injury at 31 years old. With Mike Vrabel in town, expect low passing volume and a heavy dose of Rhamondre Stevenson and TreVeyon Henderson.

Cooper Kupp, Seattle Seahawks (WR64)

Depending on your league, Kupp might be difficult to move. However, if one of your league mates still believes in the former Triple-Crown winner heading into his age-32 season, let him go. He's set to be the WR2 behind Jaxon Smith-Njigba while catching passes from Sam Darnold, supported by one of the league's worst offensive lines. No good.

J.K. Dobbins, Denver Broncos (RB47)

Many are optimistic about J.K. Dobbins' prospects in Denver. Sean Payton has earned a reputation as being an RB-friendly head coach, and Dobbins had a fun comeback story last season. However, the former Baltimore Raven and Los Angeles Charger signed for just one year and $2.7 million, averaged 3.8 yards per carry after Week 2 last season, and has a lengthy history of career-altering injuries. This should be RJ Harvey's backfield.

Jonathon Brooks, Carolina Panthers (RB56)

If you picked Brooks early in 2024 rookie drafts, you might be tempted to wait it out and hold onto him. However, it's probably best to just get anything you can for the former Texas ball carrier. He now has back-to-back years with ACL tears, and he will not play in 2025. A future third-round rookie pick is all it should take. Cut your losses.

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