The regular season, and therefore the fantasy football season, has just ended. Most managers are taking a step back from fantasy, not to return until the NFL Draft at the very earliest. If you’re a sicko like me, you’re probably feeling the urge to make a dynasty fantasy football trade right about now.
It’s never too early to start setting yourself up for 2026 and beyond. With this ethos in mind, here are three undervalued dynasty fantasy football players to buy right now.
Dynasty Fantasy Football Players To Buy
Harold Fannin Jr. (TE – CLE)
Harold Fannin Jr.’s dynasty stock is already pretty high for a third-round TE coming off his rookie season. It should be higher. According to KeepTradeCut’s (KTC) crowdsourced dynasty rankings, Fannin is the TE6 and 57th player overall.
That ranking lands him third in this rookie TE class, behind Tyler Warren (37th overall) and Colston Loveland (50th overall). I’m not necessarily going to say that Fannin should be above his first-round counterparts … but his gap to Warren, at the very least, should be much smaller.
The thing about Fannin is that it shouldn’t be surprising that he is an elite producer at the TE position. After all, he led the entire FBS with an absurd 1,555 receiving yards in his final season at Bowling Green. We knew even before he set foot on an NFL field that Fannin was an ideal fantasy TE, the only question was whether his game would translate.
So far, it seems to be translating. Even while splitting work with veteran TE David Njoku for most of the season, Fannin finished 2025 as the TE8 in half-PPR points per game and the TE6 in total points. That first number was ahead of both Warren and Loveland, for what it’s worth.
The advanced metrics are arguably even more encouraging for Fannin than his raw fantasy totals. Among 40 TEs with at least 200 routes run, he ranked first in targets per route (26%) and seventh in yards per route run (1.81). Despite being a rookie and starting the season in a genuine timeshare, Fannin accounted for 24% of the Browns’ receiving yards in his active games. The only tight ends above that number were Trey McBride, Brock Bowers, George Kittle, and Kyle Pitts — that’s not bad company.
Of course, these numbers (especially that last one) were likely inflated by the Browns’ complete lack of receiving talent elsewhere on the roster. But we also have to adjust for the fact that Cleveland’s offense was genuinely terrible. There’s room for this overall pie to grow, even if we expect Fannin’s share of it to come down as the Browns (in theory) add other weapons.
To cap it all off, Fannin is only 21 years old. He’s playing a position that traditionally comes with some growing pains in the transition from college to the pros. There’s a very real chance he’s just getting started. Especially in any sort of tight end premium format, I would happily send even a mid-first-round pick to acquire Fannin, who may already be on his way to being the next great fantasy TE.
Alec Pierce (WR – IND)
Fannin is a player I would happily buy at any point prior to the 2026 season, but the buy window on Pierce is right now. The 25-year-old receiver is a free agent right now, and I’m predicting that the contract he lands is going to shock a lot of people who weren’t paying attention and raise his dynasty stock.
Pierce is coming off a genuine career year. In the Colts’ revitalized offense with Daniel Jones under center, he set a new career high in catches with 47 and posted his first 1,000-yard season (albeit just barely at 1,003). Thanks to a couple of big weeks even with Philip Rivers and Riley Leonard under center, he finished Week 18 tied for the WR20 in half-PPR points per game
Once again, the underlying numbers are also exciting for Pierce. Among 76 wideouts with at least 50 targets, he ranked 16th in PFF Receiving Grade … one spot ahead of Tee Higgins and Justin Jefferson. Out of 109 WRs with at least 200 routes run, he ranked 16th in yards per route (according to Fantasy Points Data).
Pierce’s profile is a bit unique. With just a 17% target share in the Colts’ crowded offense, he earned fewer targets than most elite fantasy wideouts. But he made up for that with a 20-yard ADOT that was easily the highest of any high-volume WR: He ranked fourth in total air yards and 20th in WOPR (a stat that incorporates both targets and air yards).
However, I’m a little less considered by Pierce’s profile than I might otherwise be, given that he is heading into free agency. Whichever team signs him will certainly know what they’re getting into and have a plan to make the most of his deep-threat skill set. If he lands in an ideal situation — say as the WR1 for a certain big-armed QB in New England — Pierce’s dynasty value will skyrocket.
Even in a more average landing spot, this year showed that Pierce has the talent to produce solid fantasy numbers in a crowded offense. Buying him now while he is outside the top 100 players on KTC is a no-brainer.
Malik Willis (QB – GB)
If you set your volume thresholds low enough, Malik Willis looks like one of the best quarterbacks in the entire NFL. He ranks second to only potential MVP Matthew Stafford in PFF Offense Grade and first in EPA per play. This might say more about Matt LaFleur’s brilliance than Willis himself, but nearly two full games’ worth of highly effective snaps is not nothing.
This isn’t flying under the radar, either. People with far more connections to NFL decision-makers than I have (zero) are predicting that Willis has earned himself a massive contract with his play in Green Bay. Even if that doesn’t quite come true, some team should give the former third-rounder a shot to at least compete for a starting job heading into 2026. With this year’s class of rookie QBs looking weak, his chances of claiming an open spot are sneakily high.
And if Willis gets a starting spot, his value in dynasty Superflex leagues will skyrocket. Starting QBs are worth their weight in gold in this format. That goes double for high-upside dual-threat options, which Willis is. He scored 31.5 fantasy points in his only start this season, racking up 60 yards and two TDs on the ground.
Don’t get me wrong, this is a speculative move that could very easily result in nothing. But Willis was likely on waivers just a month ago — or still is on waivers — in plenty of dynasty leagues. He’s ranked just behind Jack Bech on KTC. You can probably get him as a negligible throw-in in any kind of bigger deal. That’s the kind of high-upside move that could win leagues if he ever starts even a handful of games.
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Ted Chmyz is a fantasy football contributor for FantasyPros.com. Find him on Twitter and Bluesky @Tchmyz for more fantasy content or to ask questions.