With the NFL draft (and therefore dynasty rookie drafts) just around the corner, we are officially in one of the most trade-heavy sections of the dynasty fantasy football calendar. Last week, I looked at three veteran free agency winners to buy in dynasty; today, I’m flipping the script to overvalued players to sell. Let’s get right into it.
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Dynasty Fantasy Football Players to Sell
Cam Skattebo (RB — NYG)
I was high on Skattebo heading into the NFL Draft last season. His lack of athleticism was a red flag, but his combination of size and receiving ability gave him excellent fantasy upside in the right situation. And we saw all these traits have an impact over the next several months: Skattebo fell to the fourth round of the draft, but he then quickly took over as the Giants’ workhorse and a weekly fantasy starter.
Beginning in Week 3, Skattebo finished as a top-24 half-PPR RB in five of six weeks, including two top-six outings. He saw volume both on the ground (18.8 carries per game in his four healthy starts) and through the air (4.3 targets in those same four games). His nose for the end zone (seven total TDs in eight games) was also key to his fantasy success. Unfortunately, the former Sun Devil’s rookie season ended early as he suffered a brutal ankle injury in Week 8, but it was still an exciting debut.
Clearly, dynasty managers were sold by Skattebo’s small sample of success as a rookie, as he is currently the RB21 in KeepTradeCut’s (KTC) crowdsourced dynasty rankings. Unfortunately, that price is a bit rich for me, as the sophomore RB’s current situation has a few glaring red flags.
The biggest elephant in the room for Skattebo’s dynasty value is the fact that the Giants clearly aren’t committed to the fourth-round pick as their workhorse of the future. Although they didn’t end up landing any big-name free agents, New York was reportedly active in the RB market, even offering a deal to eventual Chief Kenneth Walker III. There has also been smoke all offseason, indicating they will draft Jeremiyah Love with their fifth-overall pick if given the chance.
Chances are, the Giants don’t end up with Love, and Skattebo survives his first offseason relatively unscathed. But this is all a reminder that Day 3 running backs who aren’t immediate superstars have essentially no job security — just look at Skattebo’s teammate, fifth-round pick Tyrone Tracy Jr., whom the Giants quickly replaced despite a solid rookie season of his own. Given his lack of explosiveness, Skattebo needs volume to be a fantasy starter, so his value is entirely tied to the decisions of New York’s front office.
There’s also risk that Skattebo — who is old for a second-year player at 24 — might not be the same player coming off his significant injury. He both dislocated and broke his ankle; the resulting “tightrope” surgery is the same that saw Tony Pollard’s efficiency plummet for over a season. Especially given that Skattebo was already a fringe athlete by NFL standards, he might be unviable as an RB1 with even a slight loss of juice.
At the end of the day, especially right now with Love still looming, the second-year RB is a sell. If the Giants draft the Notre Dame stud, Skattbeo’s value will fall off a cliff. If they don’t, he’s not going to rise much, if at all — he’s still a volume-dependent back coming off a major injury. Moving on from Skattebo right now may feel like selling low after his impressive rookie season, but it’s a safe way to cash out on a fourth-round running back who could be a “remember that guy?” sooner rather than later.
Isaiah Likely (TE — NYG)
Maybe it’s just me, but it feels as though the idea of Isaiah Likely, the fantasy option, has always been better than the reality. Yes, he’s finally free of Mark Andrews’ shadow, having signed a three-year, $40 millon contract with the Giants this offseason. But that upgraded situation doesn’t justify his current dynasty pricetag as the TE11 and a top-125 player overall.
At the end of the day, Likely simply didn’t produce much in his four years in Baltimore. He has just three career games with six or more receptions, and only nine with over 50 yards. And this isn’t all because he was riding the bench behind Andrews. Likely has 22 career outings above a 60 percent snap share, half of which were above 70 percent. In those 11 games of full-time-ish work, he averaged a not-so-impressive three receptions for 37 yards. To be fair, he scored seven TDs in those 11 games, so his fantasy production (8.4 half-PPR PPG) wasn’t too terrible … but it still wasn’t great.
Things don’t look great for Likely on a per-route basis either. 40 tight ends ran at least 200 routes in 2025. Among them, Likely ranked 24th in yards per route and 35th in targets per route. He also ranked 42nd out of 47 qualified TEs in PFF Receiving Grade. This is all particularly unencouraging for a guy who is seen as more of a receiving weapon than an elite blocker.
To be fair, Likely’s metrics aren’t all bad. In that same sample of 40 TEs, he ranked 10th in ADOT and 11th in yards per target, meaning he was earning looks down the field. His 75 percent slot rate was second only to Mike Gesicki, who should really be listed as a WR if we’re being honest. These are the factors that tempt fantasy managers toward Likely — he has far more upside than a classic in-line TE whose only targets are five-yard checkdowns.
Late-career and/or second-team breakouts are also much more common at tight end than at other fantasy positions. There’s a non-zero chance that Likely explodes with the Giants, and this take ages very badly. But that chance isn’t very likely (pun intended).
At best, the Giants’ new signing is going to be their second target behind Malik Nabers on a non-elite offense. We have a limited — and not very encouraging — sample of Likely in anything close to a full-time role. Even if he claims one in New York (which isn’t guaranteed given his lack of blocking chops), his per-route metrics suggest he would settle in as a borderline TE1 rather than emerge as a difference-making fantasy option.
Given all this, I’d rather have a more proven backend TE1 type (Jake Ferguson, TE12 on KTC) or a genuinely elite fantasy TE, even with a shorter shelf life (George Kittle, TE13). Perhaps even more accurately, I’d rather sell high on Likely for a player at a different position. The next two players after him on KTC are new Texans RB1 David Montgomery and likely (no pun intended this time) first-round rookie WR Omar Cooper Jr. Those guys clearly provide far more production and upside, respectively, than Likely does at this point.
Marvin Harrison Jr. (WR — ARI)
If any Giants fans are still reading this article, I’m sorry for picking on you twice in a row — I didn’t even realize I was doing it until it was too late. Now, let’s head to the opposite coast, where I am going to pick on arguably the biggest dynasty bust of the last few years.
Right now, Marvin Harrison Jr. is the WR20 on KTC, just outside the top 50 players overall. At that price, the arguments for and against him are pretty obvious. The case for MHJ is that he was one of the best wide receiver prospects of the century and is still just 23 years old. The case against him is everything he’s done (or, more accurately, hasn’t done) so far in the NFL. Two years into his career, Harrison has to finish inside the top 36 wide receivers in half-PPR points per game.
Of course, Harrison’s situation hasn’t been great. The Cardinals just paid $37 million to get rid of the guy who was his quarterback for most of the last two seasons. But “Maserati Marv” himself hasn’t even really shown flashes of the game-changing talent dynasty managers were hoping he would provide. He ranked 60th out of 97 qualified receivers in PFF Receiving Grade last season, right in between Quentin Johnston and Jalen Nailor.
We also have to acknowledge that Michael Wilson, a former third-rounder who didn’t do much in the first two years of his NFL career, absolutely exploded when inserted into MHJ’s role in Arizona’s offense last season. That late-season sample with Jacoby Brissett chucking it around for the Cardinals should definitely be taken with multiple grains of salt, but it’s not a good thing that we aren’t sure if MHJ is even going to be his team’s WR1 in 2026. He’s certainly not going to be their top target, as Trey McBride is going nowhere.
Waiting for a bounce-back would be one thing if Harrison’s dynasty value had completely fallen off a cliff, but it hasn’t. Among WRs on KTC, he is currently right between Makai Lemon and Brian Thomas Jr. Lemon is an exciting prospect projected to go in the top half of the first round of this year’s draft. And BTJ may be coming off a hugely disappointing season of his own, but at least his rookie year was good (excellent, in fact). Giving up on a “generational” player always hurts, but this offseason may be the last chance to turn Harrison into another young player with genuinely elite upside — I recommend you take it.
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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.
