After a long offseason and over a month of hype out of training camp and the preseason slate, Week 1 of the 2026 NFL regular season has arrived. It’s about at this time that dynasty leagues really pick up steam as fantasy managers make last-minute moves to perfect their lineups before the full schedule kicks off on Sunday.
If you’ve been playing the format for a while, you know the drill. Whether buying, selling, or just playing the market, there are always transactions to be made in dynasty fantasy football. Without further ado, here are the best sell candidates to trade away at the tight end position in dynasty fantasy football as the new season begins.
Best tight end sells to trade away in dynasty fantasy football
Kyle Pitts, Atlanta Falcons (TE8)
It’s tough to make an argument that any tight end in the upper section of the dynasty rankings is a sell since there are more exciting names than ever you can feel comfortable starting on a weekly basis as a cornerstone of lineups. That’s particularly true in dynasty, but I tried to be brave and pick one anyways. I landed on Kyle Pitts, so I apologize in advance.
Pitts has long been a talent waiting to be unlocked – following a nice rookie year in which he posted 68 grabs for 1,026 receiving yards, he fell off pretty hard and failed to hit even 700 yards over the next three seasons. However, he sprung back to life in 2025 with the best fantasy output of his career, an average of 12.4 FPPG that made him the overall TE2 and per-game TE5. Pitts brought set new career-high marks with 118 targets, 88 catches and five touchdowns, racking up a total of 928 yards in the process. It was an excellent finish for the 25-year-old, but there’s a caveat here.
In Week 15, Pitts erupted for 45.6 PPR points in the best game of his career by far. He tallied 11 receptions for 166 yards and three scores, shredding the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ defense at all three levels of the field as a target hog. Was it a memorable outing to start the fantasy playoffs in many leagues? Absolutely, but it also means that 21.6% of the tight end’s total points on the year came via that single matchup. That’s more of a yellow flag than a red one. Typically, I don’t even like to do that kind of analysis since after all, the player still scored the points! For what it’s worth, Pitts finished eight other weeks with double-digit points, though he didn’t cross the 20+ threshold again.
If there’s any real knock on the profile for now, it’s that his quarterback play in Atlanta is going to be very ugly this year. Even that could improve in the long term, though. All things considered, I don’t like selling a player who comes in as the dynasty TE8 in KeepTradeCut’s crowdsourced rankings, but if someone is willing to pay up for Pitts, it’s worth considering at the moment.
Jake Ferguson, Dallas Cowboys (TE14)
The other name who finds himself on this list is Jake Ferguson, who’s coming off a career-best season. If you’re a contender, you can probably stop reading here. If you’re in the middle of the pack or rebuilding, though, the Cowboys’ top tight end is a name to consider pivoting from.
It’s not that Ferguson is a bad asset or a bad player. He caught a career-best 82 passes last season and set another new high mark with eight touchdowns, bouncing back in a big way after a poor 2024 campaign. He averaged 11.1 FPPG in PPR formats to finish as the per-game TE10 and the overall TE5, so if you bought low on him prior to the campaign, you were probably extremely happy with what you got. Plus, he’s under contract with Dallas until 2030, so he’s tied to an offense that should produce plenty of fantasy points for the foreseeable future.
So, what’s the problem with Ferguson, then? It’s that he’s what some managers may refer to as a PPR merchant. Despite catching 82 passes, he produced only 600 receiving yards – that left him with paltry averages of 5.9 yards per target and 7.3 yards per reception. His hands were extremely steady with an 80.39% catch rate, but he just wasn’t efficient with his opportunities in the slightest. What that means is that when he’s not seeing significant target share or scoring touchdowns, the avenue to fantasy points isn’t very clear.
Ferguson did see a 16.8% target share last season with the Cowboys, which increased to 24.7% in the red zone. However, he’s competing with a now-healthy CeeDee Lamb as well as George Pickens for looks, and as long as those two elite wideouts are healthy, the passing attack should primarily flow through them. With Ferguson’s numbers from last season slightly inflated due to Lamb’s multi-week absence, there may be no better time to sell semi-high on the dynasty TE14 if he’s not an essential piece of your lineup.
