Five 2023 Draft Class Players To Sell In Dynasty Fantasy Football Leagues

John Johnson of RotoBaller breaks down five players drafted in the 2023 NFL Draft that are overrated and that you should sell in your Dynasty fantasy football leagues.

The players drafted in the 2023 NFL Draft now have two seasons of play under their belts, and we're starting to get a much clearer picture of how good they are at the next level. And for some of them, it hasn't been pretty. And for others, it's not that they're not good, but that they're overrated, that makes them ideal targets to sell.

Whether it's due to a few fluky games to end the season or having benefitted from offensive schemes that are about to change, not every player keeps up the level of play that has been priced into their Dynasty value. And it's always better to sell off assets that are about to go down in value.

Let's break down five players who were drafted two seasons ago that you should put a bow on and ship off before the 2025 season starts.

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QB Bryce Young

The No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young, was benched for his extremely poor play after just two games in 2024. In those contests, he played under replacement level at his position. They were horrendously ugly performances.

So Bryce Young is still a bust… 😂 pic.twitter.com/fxqmQ8seer

— Brady Hamilton (@BradyH_216) September 8, 2024

In Week 1, he completed 13 of his 30 pass attempts for 161 yards and two interceptions. Then, in Week 2, he went 18-for-26 passing, throwing 84 yards and a pick, despite playing all the snaps. It was one of the most atrocious two-game stretches for a second-year quarterback in recent memory. His play improved when he returned.

But were it not for five rushing touchdowns in his last six games, three of which were against the Atlanta Falcons and Tampa Bay Buccaneers' awful pass defenses, his statistical upturn would be viewed less as a huge improvement and more as what it really was, which was a stretch of good fortune, playing against terrible D's.

Oh hey look!

A Heisman-winning, 1st-Overall pick making a good play when he has time to throw!

(Bryce Young is not a bust)pic.twitter.com/WPdCG32Zer

— Ryan Knows Ball (@RyanKnowsBall) November 24, 2024

Legions of X analysts dunked on everyone who said Young wasn't good after he had a solid game against the Kansas City Chiefs because they're the Chiefs, and they're good, ignoring the fact that cornerback Jaylen Watson's injury crushed their pass defense due to lack of depth.

You can capitalize on this by selling off Young while you still have the chance to get a good deal for him.

QB Anthony Richardson

The upside is sky-high for a quarterback with Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson's arm strength and rushing ability. But the most important traits for quarterbacks are typically between the ears, which is how we've seen poor athletes like Drew Brees put together Hall of Fame worthy careers.

Richardson's accuracy is poor, and his ability to complete passes is astonishingly bad. While many blame his receivers for their inability to catch his passes, it's on the QB's shoulders to not make everything a 100 MPH fastball that hinders his pass-catchers' ability to make the catch.

Anthony Richardson really is a fascinating study.

The best way I can describe it is that he can make the plays that no other QB can make, but struggles to make the plays all the other QBs can make.

Both these plays happened in the same game. pic.twitter.com/leqXeKEqzW

— Colts Film Room (@ColtsFilmRoom) February 11, 2025

The above X post encapsulates his game perfectly. He makes inexcusably terrible plays in every game he starts and finishes. It's remarkably difficult to succeed at the next level like this. He didn't seem to improve much after last season, either. What you're selling to other Dynasty managers is hopium.

Yes, it's possible that he fixes these issues, but "fix" is a strong word here for a variety of reasons. It's difficult to make and implement changes to your game that are as fundamental as those ARich needs to make. Even if he doesn't get benched for some time, it's hard to trust him.

Anthony Richardson or Bryce Young in dynasty fantasy football? pic.twitter.com/w2uhy8gYqU

— Dynasty Nerds (@DynastyNerds) January 19, 2025

The lack of improvement of his flaws in 2024 should be of great concern. He spent most of the offseason recovering from his shoulder surgery, but the throws he can make show that it's probably not pain or discomfort holding him back but fundamental problems with his technique that he may be unable to fix.

Not every quarterback can develop into an elite QB1. And his rushing talent and youth should help you get an excellent deal for him.

WR Quentin Johnston

You should sell off Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Quentin Johnston as soon as you can to anyone who thinks that he'll become something at the next level. Quarterback Justin Herbert tried as hard as he could to force him the ball, and while he had a decent number of touchdowns to end the season, the film was still ugly. He still can't catch.

He finished the regular season with 55 catches on 91 targets for 711 yards and eight touchdowns in 15 games.

It's an indictment of his season that he couldn't even average 50 yards per game, and the massive receiving totals he put up against the Las Vegas Raiders (13 catches on 14 targets for 186 yards) could have raised his stock if he hadn't put up goose eggs in the playoff game against the Houston Texans.

Imagine if Quentin Johnston had a good quarterback… pic.twitter.com/BTTby5mQyi

— Barstool TCU (@BarstoolTCU) January 12, 2025

Imagine if he was able to separate down the field and not force his QB to throw it up into coverage because the team's entire group of wideouts, aside from Ladd McConkey, can't play the position well in the NFL. That would be an interesting world to live in.

Yet the TD total and the few good games he put up in the regular season have some fantasy managers convinced that he could develop into something good.

He has bricks for his hands and struggles to separate on deep routes. That's bad. You should sell him off while you can. Los Angeles probably knows their experiment with him has failed and will look to add a good pass-catcher in free agency or through the draft if they know what's good for them.

TE Dalton Kincaid

Buffalo Bills tight end Dalton Kincaid is another example of why you should simply draft the best route-runners at TE rather than pick the guy that analysts rave about for a million other reasons. Kincaid was praised for having elite hands in college and, for some reason, was considered a better prospect than Detroit Lions tight end Sam LaPorta. That's hilarious.

This view of the Dalton Kincaid drop 🫠 pic.twitter.com/PnJTng4tYP

— Underdog (@UnderdogFantasy) January 27, 2025

He was considered to be an elite pick in redraft fantasy football after his uninspiring rookie campaign, which was retroactively found to be inspiring because he got the ball thrown his way a lot because wide receiver Stefon Diggs fell off because of an injury. It wasn't a good freshman year, but the people who wanted him to be good swore it was.

Maybe there are still managers who will buy into the hope that he'll develop into an elite tight end (he won't) or that THE BILLS HAVE Josh Allen AT QUARTERBACK, which means that Kincaid will start becoming a target hog (he won't). Neither of those things will happen. What Buffalo needs is another good pass-catcher to pair with Keon Coleman and Khalil Shakir as Allen's primary targets.

The scenario the Bills want is for Kincaid to be the fourth option in the passing game after Coleman, Shakir, and hopefully another good receiver. Then, the team's two tight ends can split a smattering of targets. He never cracked 15.0 PPR fantasy points, caught only two touchdowns, and didn't log a game with more than six catches. Sell.

WR Jayden Reed

Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jayden Reed is not paired with a head coach or quarterback that can make him a consistently startable player in fantasy football. And it's not like it's their fault that it happens to be this way. Reed simply isn't good against man coverage in the NFL, and while he had a great end to his 2023 season and an explosive start to 2024, it didn't last for long.

I've never seen a slot WR catch contested passes like Jayden Reed pic.twitter.com/XrJfaFr9uL

— Eli Berkovits (@BookOfEli_NFL) December 28, 2024

His highlight reel has some very impressive plays, but it's his lack of ability to separate from coverage that drags down his production. And it doesn't help that he has a coach who prefers to spread the ball around as much as possible. Packers head coach Matt LaFleur employed schemes that distributed targets between his pass-catchers more evenly than fantasy managers liked.

Reed, receivers Christian Watson, Romeo Doubs, and Droptayvion Bricks (excuse me, Dontayvion Wicks), tight end Tucker Kraft, and running back Josh Jacobs were all fed the ball often. And LaFleur's Shanascheme offense leaned as much as possible into the run when the team was ahead. Taking the ball out of quarterback Jordan Love's hands was a good idea, anyway.

JORDAN LOVE THROWS AN INTERCEPTION pic.twitter.com/zsekhaznrC

— NFL Retweet (@NFLRT) October 20, 2024

Love's accuracy is poor. He gets a lot of credit that should be given to LaFleur for scheming mediocre wideouts to get wide open, though. And Reed doesn't even see the field in 12 personnel -- he plays mostly in the slot, and isn't on the field unless there are three wideouts in the formation. This severely cut into his snaps, thus capping his routes and targets.

You can probably find someone who thinks he can develop into an elite, full-time player. The head coach who leads a productive offense and continually makes the playoffs doesn't believe he can, or else he'd have him on the field more. His blocking not being great doesn't help with that, either.

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