March 24, 2026
The Denver Broncos restructured wide receiver
Jaylen Waddle's contract on Tuesday to convert $15.416 million of an option bonus into a signing bonus for salary cap purposes, according to Aaron Wilson of KPRC 2 Sports. Waddle's new salary is at $1.215 million. The move frees up $7.961 million in cap space for this season. The Broncos might not be done yet after making a big move recently to acquire Waddle from the Dolphins in exchange for three draft picks, including their first-rounder next month. The 27-year-old former sixth overall pick by Miami in the 2021 draft out of Alabama immediately is a boost to Denver's passing attack, and he could lead the team in targets and production in 2026 as one of quarterback
Bo Nix's favorite targets over the short and middle areas of the field. Waddle produced 1,000-yard seasons in his first three years in the NFL and could get back to that mark if he stays healthy in his first year in Denver.
--Keith HernandezSource: KPRC 2 Sports - Aaron Wilson
March 24, 2026
Free-agent quarterback
Trevor Siemian is signing an undisclosed deal with the Atlanta Falcons on Tuesday, according to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN. Siemian will provide veteran depth at the QB position in Atlanta behind
Michael Penix Jr. (knee) and
Tua Tagovailoa heading into the 2026 season. The 34-year-old veteran was originally a seventh-round selection (250th overall) by the Denver Broncos in the 2015 NFL draft out of Northwestern. He spent the first three years of his career in Denver before bouncing around with the New York Jets, New Orleans Saints, and Chicago Bears. Siemian hasn't played in an NFL game since making five appearances (three starts) for the Jets in 2023 and throwing for 724 yards, two touchdowns, and four interceptions. In his seven NFL campaigns, Siemian has a 58.5% completion percentage, 7,751 passing yards, 44 touchdowns, and 32 interceptions in 40 games (33 starts). His best season came in his second year in Denver, when he threw for 3,401 yards, 18 TDs, and 10 interceptions in 14 starts.
--Keith HernandezSource: ESPN.com - Jeremy Fowler
March 24, 2026
Green Bay Packers tight end
Tucker Kraft (knee) was on pace for 1,039 receiving yards and 13 touchdowns, having put up two of the best tight end performances of the season before an ACL injury ended his 2025 campaign after eight games. While he may not return immediately to his do-everything (and do it well) form coming off the devastating injury, he'll still only be 25 at the start of the 2026 season and boasts too much talent to think he won't have a shot at working his way back to the top tier of dynasty tight ends. Green Bay allowed
Romeo Doubs and his team-leading 83 targets to walk in free agency.
Christian Watson comes into 2026 one more year removed from the ACL tear that ended his 2024 season, and the team is expecting more from their 2025 first-round pick,
Matthew Golden, but it should come as no surprise if Kraft is the one regularly leading the team in targets and red zone opportunities by season's end.
--Patrick McGrathSource: RotoBaller
March 24, 2026
After a mid-season trade sent wide receiver
Jakobi Meyers from the Raiders to the Jacksonville Jaguars, the seventh-year wideout played the final eight games of the year on a full-season pace of 83 receptions for 939 yards and six touchdowns, numbers that would have all led the team in 2025. With a full team offseason under his belt, Meyers will enter 2026 with a realistic shot of becoming the go-to receiver in one of the league's most ambiguous rooms. Following the trade, Jacksonville locked up Meyers with a three-year extension, and while the team has denied floating
Brian Thomas Jr.'s name in recent trade talks, rumors that he still might be moved refuse to go away. 2025 second overall pick
Travis Hunter is expected to spend more time on the defensive side of the ball in his second season, and while
Parker Washington offers more upside potential, Meyers is likely the safest bet to lead the team in targets in 2026.
--Patrick McGrathSource: RotoBaller
March 24, 2026
Houston Texans wide receiver
Jayden Higgins was the fifth receiver selected in the 2025 NFL Draft, and while he showed flashes in his rookie season, he was never able to consistently string together the games needed to make him a reliable weekly fantasy starter, finishing 13th among all first-year pass catchers with 41 receptions. Heading into his second season, the Texans are expecting the return of one of
C.J. Stroud's favorite targets in
Tank Dell, who missed all of the 2025 season following a devastating knee injury at the close of the 2024 season. Additionally, Stroud himself has fallen under scrutiny following a lackluster season punctuated by the worst game of his career in a Divisional Round loss to the Patriots. With
Nico Collins all but locked into his role on the boundary, Higgins and Dell will likely compete for time in two-receiver sets in an offense that will need to improve drastically in order to support multiple pass catchers. On pure potential, Higgins might have the second-highest ceiling in the Texans' receiver room, but in order to reach it in 2026, he'll need to clear some significant obstacles.
--Patrick McGrathSource: RotoBaller
March 24, 2026
Detroit Lions tight end
Sam LaPorta entered the league with a bang, finishing his 2023 rookie season as the TE1 and working his way to the top of most dynasty value charts. After a disappointing sophomore season and a 2025 campaign ended by a back injury after only nine games, his value sits as low as it has since he's taken a snap in the NFL. The Lions have made a change to their coaching staff for 2026, bringing Drew Petzing in from Arizona to serve as their new offensive coordinator. While the target competition in Detroit is much stiffer than what Petzing left behind in the desert, his tight end-friendly system was a not-insubstantial factor in
Trey McBride's breakout, spraying his dominant fourth-year player with 302 targets over the past two seasons, including 163 for a record-breaking TE1 finish in 2025. LaPorta has already proven his ability to feast off a high-volume attack, and with his value still suppressed by injury, he's a high-upside buy-low candidate heading into his fourth season.
--Patrick McGrathSource: RotoBaller
March 24, 2026
Since being drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of the 2021 NFL Draft, tight end
Noah Gray has been a popular dynasty stash in the hopes that he would one day assume at least part of
Travis Kelce's volume-rich role in Andy Reid and
Patrick Mahomes' offense. With Kelce and the Chiefs agreeing to a three-year, $54.7 million extension on Monday, it would appear that Gray is entering year six in relatively charted territory. Kelce will be almost 37 years old at the start of the 2026 season, so Gray still carries some value as the rare tight end handcuff, but the future Hall of Famer has been incredibly durable throughout his career, missing only six games over his past 11 seasons despite working through a handful of injuries. Gray has 1,255 receiving yards and nine touchdowns over his five-year career, but he has not cracked lineups as a weekly TE1 since Week 15 of 2024.
--Patrick McGrathSource: RotoBaller
March 23, 2026
The Cleveland Browns re-signed tight end
Blake Whiteheart to an undisclosed deal on Monday, according to Aaron Wilson of KPRC 2 Sports. The deal is most likely for just one season, bringing Whiteheart back for his third year in Cleveland. The 26-year-old has not been on the fantasy football radar in his three seasons in the NFL, catching just eight of 15 targets for 55 yards and one touchdown in 30 games (six starts). He went undrafted out of Wake Forest before debuting in the NFL in 2023 with the Arizona Cardinals. Whiteheart had a career-high six catches for 51 yards and his only touchdown in 11 games (two starts) in his first year in Cleveland in 2024. He will return to block on offense while also contributing on special teams.
David Njoku isn't going to return in free agency, but
Harold Fannin Jr. will be the Browns' unquestioned top pass-catching TE in 2026 after his impressive rookie campaign.
--Keith HernandezSource: KPRC 2 Sports - Aaron Wilson
March 23, 2026
ESPN's Adam Schefter said on the Pat McAfee Show on Monday that he can say confidently that Alabama quarterback
Ty Simpson "will be a first-round draft pick" next month. "Talking to front offices, that's what I believe," Schefter said. Indiana QB
Fernando Mendoza is expected to go first overall to the Las Vegas Raiders this year, but beyond him, it's unclear exactly where Simpson might go in the first round. Simpson's draft stock has been on the rise in recent weeks, and ESPN's Dan Orlovsky even went as far as to say that he thinks Simpson is the best QB prospect in this year's class. In his final year with the Crimson Tide in 2025, Simpson completed 305 of his 473 pass attempts for 3,567 passing yards, 28 touchdowns, and five interceptions in 15 games. He led the SEC in both completions and pass attempts. Simpson should be the second signal-caller taken at the end of April, but he might be more of a project at the position in the NFL, as he played in just 16 games in his first three collegiate seasons at Alabama.
--Keith HernandezSource: ESPN - Adam Schefter
March 23, 2026
The Seattle Seahawks are matching the Jacksonville Jaguars' multi-year offer to wide receiver
Jake Bobo, according to Field Yates of ESPN. The Jaguars signed Bobo to an offer sheet last week, but he will now return to the Super Bowl champions on a two-year, $5.5 million deal that includes $4.5 million guaranteed. The 27-year-old can continue to be ignored for fantasy football purposes, both in refraft and keeper/dynasty formats. In his third year in the NFL with Seattle in 2025, Bobo caught both of his targets for only 20 yards and no touchdowns in 11 regular-season games (zero starts). Overall, in his three years with the team, he has just 34 catches for 323 yards and three touchdowns on 44 targets through 45 games played (three starts). Bobo will return to serve in a depth role behind
Jaxon Smith-Njigba,
Cooper Kupp, and
Rashid Shaheed.
--Keith HernandezSource: ESPN.com - Field Yates
March 23, 2026
The New England Patriots released veteran quarterback
Joshua Dobbs on Monday, pushing
Tommy DeVito to the backup role behind starter
Drake Maye, according to Mike Reiss of ESPN. The Patriots initially didn't tender an offer to DeVito, but they eventually re-signed him to a two-year deal with a base value of $4.4 million. The deal includes incentives that could increase the value of the deal to $7.4 million. Reiss adds that a No. 3 QB is expected to be added later in the offseason, potentially via the NFL draft in April. DeVito, who went undrafted out of Illinois, made his NFL debut in 2023 with the New York Giants and ended up playing in nine games (six starts), completing 64% of his passes for 1,101 yards, eight touchdowns, and three interceptions. The 27-year-old did not appear in a game at all in 2025 while serving as the No. 3 behind Maye and Dobbs. If DeVito is making starts for the Pats in 2026, it will be bad news for the entire offense.
--Keith HernandezSource: ESPN Boston - Mike Reiss
March 23, 2026
The Los Angeles Chargers haven't publicly indicated that they are willing to part ways with wide receiver
Quentin Johnston, and internally, they "believe in him," according to Kris Rhim of ESPN. The former first-rounder in 2023 struggled with drops and looked like a potential bust when general manager Joe Hortiz and head coach Jim Harbaugh showed up in 2024. But instead of giving up on Johnston, they leaned into him and gave him a bigger role, which led to a breakout season with 55 catches, 711 yards, and eight touchdowns in 15 games played. He has led the team in touchdowns (eight) in each of the last two seasons and had a career-high 735 receiving yards in 2025. Even with
Keenan Allen being a free agent, the Chargers have a log-jam at receiver after drafting both
Tre' Harris and
Keandre Lambert-Smith last year. Johnston's fifth-year option is due on May 1, which is projected to be at $18 million. If Johnston stays in L.A., he could be the clear WR2 for the Chargers in 2026 if Allen doesn't return. Despite being boom or bust the last two years, Johnston has become a much more intriguing deep threat in fantasy.
--Keith HernandezSource: ESPN.com - Kris Rhim
March 23, 2026
Chicago Bears running back
D'Andre Swift posted another solid statistical season in 2025, recording 1,386 scrimmage yards and 10 touchdowns on 257 touches across 16 games. The 27-year-old may not offer incredible upside, but he's provided fantasy managers with extremely stable production in recent seasons. Dating back to 2023, Swift has played at least 16 games and recorded over 1,200 scrimmage yards with at least six touchdowns in three consecutive years. However, Swift may not be assured of the RB1 role in Chicago heading into 2026. Fellow Bears running back
Kyle Monangai emerged as a trusted contributor in the team's backfield over the course of 2025. Across the team's final seven games of the regular season, neither Swift nor Monangai played more than 59% or fewer than 41% of the team's offensive snaps. A seventh-round pick in 2025, Monangai could be the team's running back of the future, while Swift will hit free agency at the conclusion of the 2026 season. Swift could easily remain a low-end starting fantasy running back in 2026, but he now faces role and playing time questions that were not present in prior years of his career.
--Will BradySource: RotoBaller
March 23, 2026
Veteran tight end
Travis Kelce has officially signed his new contract with the Kansas City Chiefs and is locked in for the 2026 NFL season, per Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. There had been some speculation immediately following the conclusion of the 2025 season that Kelce was considering retirement, but the 36-year-old will be back in Kansas City for at least one more year. Rapoport reports that Kelce's new contract is worth over $54 million over three years and guarantees him $12 million in year one. While Kelce is no longer the player he was at his peak, he still recorded 76 receptions for 851 yards and five touchdowns across 17 games in 2025. Kelce has also played in at least 15 games in every season since 2014 and remains a featured piece in the Chiefs' offense, earning over six targets per game in 2025. He profiles as a lower-end fantasy TE1 in redraft formats for 2026.
--Will BradySource: NFL Network - Ian Rapoport
March 23, 2026
In his final collegiate season at the University of Washington in 2025, wide receiver
Denzel Boston recorded an impressive stat line of 62 receptions for 881 yards and 11 touchdowns across 12 games played. Boston showcased a nose for the end zone throughout his college career, collecting 20 touchdown catches over his final 25 contests for the Huskies. Boston opted out of testing in most drills at the Draft Combine in March, bringing about some questions about his top-end speed. Even still, Boston has profiles as an early-second round pick in the upcoming draft and may even have an outside chance at sneaking into the final few selections of the first round. RotoBaller currently ranks Boston as the 42nd-best wide receiver for dynasty formats.
--Will BradySource: RotoBaller
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