10 Dynasty Players to Buy Before the NFL Draft

Apr 20, 2026

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With the NFL draft right around the corner and the 2026 prospects about to find their landing spots, it's time for dynasty leagues to kick into full gear. Until the calendar flips to your rookie drafts, that means trading ... and the week of the draft is a hot spot for trade value. To help you capitalize on that value, I've curated 10 players to buy at their current price.

QB Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills

First, some transparency. You're going to have to send an arm, a leg, your house, and your firstborn child to pull this off. In Superflex, Josh Allen is the number one overall player, and it's not particularly close. But there's a reason for that. Over the last six seasons, he has outscored the next-best fantasy player, Patrick Mahomes, by 329 half-PPR points in total and 2.24 points per game. He's outscored a "league-average" fantasy QB like Brock Purdy by an absurd 6.03 points per game over that span. Combine an elite QB like Joe Burrow with an elite RB like Bijan Robinson, and you get 36.25 points per game — you could pair Allen with James Conner and still come out ahead. He finished as the QB1 or QB2 in each of those last six seasons.

Are you sitting down? No other QB has finished in the top two more than once over that span. Impossible as it may seem, Allen is often underrated as a dynasty asset ... and he just got DJ Moore and could get another early-round receiver this weekend. I would package Lamar Jackson or Jayden Daniels with a rookie first and second to get Allen and still feel like I won the trade. If you can pull off anything remotely similar, do it now.

RB Ashton Jeanty, Las Vegas Raiders

After a voluminous but inefficient rookie season on one of the worst offenses in living memory, Ashton Jeanty dropped from the overall top 10 in dynasty community consensus to somewhere outside the top 25 ... before slowly inching his way back inside the top 20 in recent months. Here's a bit of a history lesson. Around this time in 2024, following his rookie season, Bijan Robinson was valued almost exactly where Jeanty is currently. Robinson is now the RB1. It's a tried-and-true tale. Terrible team drafts running back with top-tier capital. Terrible team remains terrible the following season, but highly-drafted RB flashes potential. Terrible team gets better over time, and RB gains dynasty value ... and/or follows the Saquon Barkley/Christian McCaffrey path to post legendary seasons with a second team.

Las Vegas will head into 2026 much improved at QB, with Fernando Mendoza and/or Kirk Cousins helming the offense, much improved on the offensive interior after signing Tyler Linderbaum, and possibly even improved at wide receiver (particularly if they follow my rubric of trading into the first for Omar Cooper Jr.). All of this is great news for Jeanty, whose RB13 finish in 2025 could quickly improve to a top-three or -four finish in 2026 in a more efficient offense with more scoring opportunities. Like Allen, Jeanty is not cheap, but his current price might be the lowest we see for the next five years.