Dynasty Trade Advice: Cooper Kupp, Kimani Vidal, Brian Robinson Jr.

With NFL free agency looming, now is a great time to check in on your dynasty rosters and make some trades. Free agency is the start of the NFL calendar and a time when the values of our dynasty assets start to fluctuate in one way or another.

Getting ahead of the curve can help you get the best bang for your buck in 2025. Below are names to consider trading in dynasty leagues before free agency starts. Don’t forget to also use our dynasty trade calculator to gauge values.

Dynasty Trade Advice: Players to Move Before NFL Free Agency

Cooper Kupp (WR – LAR)

There seems to be an air of hope for Cooper Kupp with the news he’ll be moving on from the Rams imminently. The former 2021 Triple Crown winner will find himself on a new team for the first time in his eight-year NFL career, having failed to play more than 12 games in each of the last three seasons.

Kupp has been incredible when healthy, but on paper, he’s only had two great seasons — 2019 and 2021. Outside of those years, he’s never hit 1,000 yards or had more than six receiving touchdowns. Kupp is currently valued as a late second-round pick, which might be a solid reward for a player who averaged 2.4 catches per game from Week 13 onwards.

Perhaps Kupp can rekindle some magic with the right quarterback and offensive coordinator, but at age 31, the cliff edge comes fast for wide receivers. He’s never going to have more value than he currently does in dynasty leagues.

Cooper Kupp has been below 30
Yards in four of his last five games. pic.twitter.com/7Eto9dj5FJ

— Tom Strachan (@NFL_TStrack) January 14, 2025

Kimani Vidal (RB – LAC)

Speaking of players who may never see their value increase, now would be a good time to capitalize on anyone who still believes in Kimani Vidal. The Chargers are a team with the running offense ingrained in their mindset. Greg Roman will simply never move away from wanting to establish the run, no matter how good Justin Herbert is.

The run schemes set up everything else they want to do and having a good ground game is essential to that. Vidal had the best possible scenarios in 2024 to succeed, with both J.K. Dobbins and Gus Edwards spending time on injured reserve (IR) throughout the offseason, not to mention the fact both players weren’t the most dominant consistently either.

Vidal burst into the NFL with a touchdown on his first touch, but that would be his most memorable moment, averaging 5.3 touches per game, — 11th among rookie running backs. He rushed for a mediocre 3.6 yards per carry and forced a total of six missed tackles on 43 rush attempts.

The Chargers need better from their running game and a big move should follow either in free agency or the draft. Vidal’s value is hanging on a knife edge.

Brian Robinson Jr. (RB – WAS)

Last offseason felt like Brian Robinson’s breakout was nailed. He was healthy, had a dual-threat quarterback on his team to force defenders’ eyes elsewhere and the only competition they brought in was the aging and dusty Austin Ekeler.

Robinson, couldn’t capitalize, however, finishing as the RB26 in PPR points per game, below the likes of Rico Dowdle and Kareem Hunt. While Robinson has never been a pass-catching threat, he also failed to turn rushing attempts into significant yardage, averaging 60.7 yards per game.

Robinson was fine if you needed depth or had most of your significant value invested in other positions, but he didn’t win you weeks with only three games over 15 points last season. The ceiling simply isn’t there. With some interesting options coming up in the draft but a mediocre free-agency class of running backs, this might be the ideal time to sell Robinson. With Ekeler moving on, it could feel like Robinson has the backfield to himself.

The likelihood, however, is that the Commanders will look to add some significant juice to this backfield at some point this offseason.