Dynasty League Cut List - Top Fantasy Football Drop Candidates for Week 7

Nick's top dynasty fantasy football drop candidates for dynasty leagues heading into Week 7 of 2025. Who is safe to cut in dynasty fantasy football leagues?

This week’s edition of the Dynasty Cut List is making some conclusions on a few once-encouraging prospects, which is, for me, the toughest part of dynasty leagues. When is it time to let go?

The idea that it’s usually better to cut ties with a player a year early rather than a year too late especially applies to dynasty formats, in which your roster should be mostly filled with startable players and a few high-quality handcuffs. Once a player no longer fits into either category, it’s time to go.

We’ll aim to sort through another crop of players who — given what we’ve seen so far — are likely safe to cut loose. As always, thanks for reading.

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Mike Gesicki, TE, Cincinnati Bengals

Things have gone south in a hurry for Gesicki, who was a top-15 fantasy tight end only a year ago. The reality is, though, that he’s now 30 years old, in a poor situation from a team perspective, and is now injured.

The Bengals already roster one of the top receiver tandems in football with Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins, who naturally draw tons of targets. Cincinnati also acquired tight end Noah Fant, which has significantly eaten into Gesicki’s target share.

Even without Fant in Week 4, Gesicki drew all of one target. Through six weeks, he was playing an average of 37% of offensive snaps, which isn’t nearly enough for a pass catcher. 

Now facing a pectoral injury that will keep him off the field for the near future, it’s likely that Gesicki’s time as a fantasy asset is coming due. 

Bengals TE Mike Gesicki, who injured his pectoral Sunday at Green Bay, will be out “a while”, per HC Zac Taylor. pic.twitter.com/IaVmcwUTL0

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 13, 2025

Even if he does return to full health, Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow — with whom Gesicki established chemistry the past two years — is going to miss most of the season, and it’s hard to imagine a world in which the Bengals rush Burrow back if they’re out of it with a few weeks to play. 

For a tight end whose strength was never blocking, the pathway to being a full-time starter again seems pretty bleak.

Jaylen Wright, RB, Miami Dolphins

Let me start this section by admitting my bias: I really wanted Wright to work out in Miami, thought he would be successful, and personally invested in the possibility that it would happen.

He checked a lot of boxes for a dynasty prospect as a 1,000-yard rusher in the SEC who ran a sub-4.4 40-yard dash, had just turned 21 years old before the NFL Draft, and landed with a team that prioritizes the running game. 

As a fourth-round pick, he was seemingly the perfect sleeper — not a household name, but within the range of playing time for a team coming off a playoff berth. I would have told you after the 2024 Draft that he was one of my favorite prospects.

In his fifth NFL game, he rushed for 86 yards, and it seemed like the needle was going up. Even if it took waiting one more year, Wright looked like the heir apparent to the Raheem Mostert role within the Dolphins’ offense, which was fantasy gold in 2023.

That has not been the case, to put it mildly. 

🎥 Mike McDaniel on Jaylen Wright being a healthy scratch today: “It was not something we were totally planning on… it wasn’t an indictment on Jaylen. Had a great conversation with him this morning… I’m expecting him to have an outstanding practice week to prepare and go ahead… pic.twitter.com/fxpHA5L6Q4

— FinsXtra (@FinsXtra) October 5, 2025

Wright’s sophomore breakout season has been anything but, as he is yet to take a carry at any point this year. It’s discouraging that Miami saw a full year of Wright, drafted Ollie Gordon II anyway, and has continued to favor Gordon despite lackluster results. 

The Dolphins are now a long shot to make the playoffs and could be moving on from their coaching staff sooner rather than later, with Wright now the subject of trade conjecture as the deadline approaches. To be sure, things seem awfully dysfunctional in Miami — and yet Wright is still not in the picture.

Given Wright’s age and talent, it’s absolutely possible that he still breaks out, whether with a new staff in Miami or on a new team entirely. Generally, however, most running backs who haven’t played much by the middle of their second NFL season have the odds stacked against them.

Hold and wait for a trade or an injury if you wish, but I’m formally ready to say that I’d like to use this roster spot on somebody else.

Skyy Moore, WR, San Francisco 49ers

To the 12% of people who still roster Moore in Sleeper dynasty formats: What are we waiting for, exactly? How much more data do you need to make the obvious choice?

Moore once caught an unforgettable first touchdown in the Super Bowl as a rookie, and that’s going to be the beginning and the end of the story for his NFL career.

SKYY MOORE!!!! How we feelin' Chiefs Kingdom? 🔥❗️

Watch #SuperBowlLVII on FOX and the FOX Sports App: https://t.co/KhaCw7GmJv 📺📱 pic.twitter.com/mTHV1psSq9

— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) February 13, 2023

Despite every chance to break out with the Kansas City Chiefs, Moore never finished in the top 100 of fantasy receivers, never caught more than 22 passes in a year, and has one career regular-season touchdown. 

Now playing for a 49ers team decimated by injuries at his position, Moore has a total of one catch for 10 yards and is playing fewer offensive snaps than the team’s third tight end. With seemingly another road to playing time last week, Moore didn’t record an offensive touch.

Many times, dropping a player in dynasty comes with the inherent risk that he’ll break out on another team’s roster. In this case, there’s no breakout coming. Moore is closer to being out of the NFL than to being a rosterable fantasy wide receiver.

Hassan Haskins, RB, Los Angeles Chargers

We often cook up this formula in fantasy football, and especially in dynasty formats with thinner waiver wires, where we think Unheralded Player X + Playing Time = Points. 

Playing time obviously holds the keys to fantasy success, but it’s not always that simple to turn an also-ran player into a star overnight. While Omarion Hampton (ankle) is on injured reserve, Haskins became a highly popular waiver-wire addition with the hopes he would get lead-back work in the Chargers’ offense.

The reality is that he looked a lot like the bottom-of-the-roster running back he’s typically been. Haskins, currently the 89th-ranked fantasy running back, has never surpassed 40 yards in an NFL game and is now almost midway through his fourth year. 

Haskins has 27 rushing yards on 11 carries the past two weeks, and worse, Kimani Vidal looks primed to take even more work. Vidal broke out for 138 total yards and a touchdown last week, likely leaving Haskins as merely a change-of-pace back. 

Chargers HC Jim Harbaugh on Kimani Vidal's performance: "His preparation over the last year, year and a half since he's been with us. The attention to detail, the focus, the training, the competitive mindset he has. The shape he's gotten himself into. He's become a real pro. Just…

— Alex Insdorf (@alexinsdorf99) October 13, 2025

While he’ll still factor into the offense — he played 31% of snaps on Sunday — Haskins has never been a trustworthy fantasy starter, and managers who have relied on him have usually been burned. That's not a worthwhile use of a roster spot. 

Jalen Tolbert, WR, Dallas Cowboys

Two things are not looking good here. One, Tolbert just earned a ton of playing time — over 75% of his team’s snaps for a month straight — and did very little with it, catching eight passes in four games.

Second, he’s quickly on his way to becoming the odd man out. CeeDee Lamb (ankle) and KaVontae Turpin (foot) will eventually return, and Ryan Flournoy seems much more likely than Tolbert to stay involved in the offense when that happens. 

The longest reception of Ryan Flournoy’s young career pic.twitter.com/uJSm0CN3Wz

— Nick Harris (@NickHarrisFWST) October 5, 2025

Tolbert is one of the dime-a-dozen receivers who can languish on the waiver wire without much consternation.

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