Fantasy football is all about playing the market, but dynasty formats make that market even more complex as managers evaluate the long-term picture. Contenders and rebuilders have different priorities, and no matter where your team falls on the spectrum, tracking the ebbs and flows of player values becomes an integral part of participating in your league’s landscape. Just knowing when to buy low and sell high can be the difference between winning a ring and missing the playoffs outright.
All season long, I’ll be tracking some of the most notable risers and fallers in dynasty fantasy football on a weekly basis. All rankings provided are sourced from KeepTradeCut with recent performances, developing trends and more all playing factors in the analysis. Things change quickly in the NFL, so be sure to tune into this column for the latest updates throughout the 2026-27 campaign.
Here’s the latest edition of Dynasty Fantasy Football Stock Watch to recap some of the risers and fallers from Week 2.
Dynasty fantasy football risers from Week 2
QB Tyler Shough, New Orleans Saints (QB17)
I wrote before the season even began that Tyler Shough looked like a top candidate to buy in on. The flashes he showed over nine games as a starter down the stretch as a rookie were extremely impressive at times – he averaged 18.7 FPPG, completed an efficient 69.2% of his passes and posted four games of 270+ passing yards to end the year. Well, it seems that kind of production was no fluke. Shough is averaging a cool 22.8 FPPG and is fantasy football’s QB5 through the first two weeks of his second pro season. After an impressive second-half comeback in Week 1 that saw he and the Saints nearly beat the Lions on the road, the Louisville product finished the job in Week 2 as he led New Orleans to a win over the Ravens in Baltimore. He went 27-for-34 with 252 yards and one passing touchdown while adding 23 yards and a score with his legs. After posting 23.2 and 22.4 fantasy points in his first two games of 2026, he’s a name you should be looking to trade for moving forward thanks to his efficiency and dual-threat upside. The arrow is pointed firmly in the right direction but he’s still priced as the QB17 per KeepTradeCut’s crowdsourced rankings. Take advantage now before Jordyn Tyson gets healthy in this receiver room.
RB Chuba Hubbard, Carolina Panthers (RB27)
Jonathon Brooks got the drumbeat out of training camp in the Panthers’ backfield, but it turns out Chuba Hubbard was the right answer all along. The veteran out-snapped the younger back 48-13 in Week 1 and 43-20 in Week 2. While Brooks did suffer an injury in the second game and is expected to miss six weeks at a minimum, Hubbard still played 71% and 65% of snaps to begin the season and has 22 rush attempts with five receptions, good for 27 total touches. The next-closest player has 11. Hubbard is looking sneaky efficient at a clip of 4.6 yards per carry for 102 rushing yards overall, and he’s gotten into the end zone three times already. His 19.1 FPPG are inflated plenty by the touchdowns, but he had 23.7 and 14.4 PPR points across his first two games and has a clear grip on the lead job. This team is leaning more towards the pass with offensive coordinator Brad Idzik taking over play-calling duties to the tune of the third-highest PROE (4.3%) through two weeks, but the attack looks better than last year and Hubbard should maintain the pass-catching role, too. He’s spiked significantly to the dynasty RB27 after tumbling to RB39 before the season began.
WR Denzel Boston, Cleveland Browns (WR31)
After earning second-round draft capital with the No. 39 pick back in April, Denzel Boston became a clear-cut first-round pick in dynasty rookie drafts. The Washington product was a third-team All-Big Ten selection during his final collegiate season with 62 catches, 881 receiving yards and 11 receiving touchdowns in 12 games. The Browns were not the best landing spot by any means, especially sharing the field with the No. 24 selection, KC Concepcion, at the same position. However, there may be room for both of them here in Cleveland. So far, Boston is the one who’s stood out – he’s averaging a cool 17.2 FPPG over his first two NFL games. Week 1 saw him catch two of his four targets for 59 yards and a score, but Week 2 was a more impressive outing with five grabs for 95 yards and a tuddy on his seven targets. He’s broken a massive gain in both of his appearances thus far with a longest reception of 46 and 55 yards in those contests and has been a menace downfield with an aDOT of 15.82 yards. Moreover, Boston’s 21.15% target share is tied with Concepcion for the team lead, but his 2.48 YPRR are a team-best mark by far. Coming off outings of 13.9 and 20.5 PPR points, he’s the WR12 in fantasy right now. Obviously, people aren’t selling right now, but he’s jumped from the dynasty WR39 to WR31 since the season started..
WR Christian Watson, Green Bay Packers (WR25)
Lordy, Christian Watson is breaking out as a true top wideout. As someone who traded him away two years back in a larger package (for a then-rookie Marvin Harrison Jr., whom we’ll discuss shortly), I’m certainly regretting that I didn’t hold onto this guy for the long haul. Watson is the overall WR6 through two weeks, which is miles above the expectation that he’d be something of WR3/FLEX option this year. Of course, we all saw him explode in Week 1 for 32.7 points on a 6-147-2 receiving line, but he could’ve replicated that performance in Week 2 if he’d capitalized on his volume. He saw 11 targets – a new career best for a single game – but hauled in just four of them for 41 yards. A touchdown salvaged the day for him in fantasy to finish with 14.1 points, but the role and target volume stand out more than that output. Watson’s 27.5% target share leads the Packers and falls 13th among all players across the NFL, matching the same rang as names like CeeDee Lamb and Chris Olave. He’s in the midst of an ascension and has risen from the dynasty WR32 to WR25 in the latest crowdsourced rankings. With Josh Jacobs’ future uncertain while on the Commissioner’s Exempt list and Green Bay dead last in rushing production behind a shaky offensive line, Watson is the offense for this team right now. Could you sell high before Tucker Kraft starts getting more work? You could, but this guy has cemented his place as a weekly starter on good teams.
TE Dalton Kincaid, Buffalo Bills (TE8)
Last week, our final riser was Dalton Kincaid, who slotted in as the dynasty TE11. As of the start of Week 3, he’s now the TE8 in those same rankings after another leap. As I wrote last week: “We knew from past seasons that Kincaid can look elite on a per-route basis when it comes to efficiency – he ranked fourth among tight ends with 14.6 yards per reception and finished on the high side with an average of 6.6 yards after the catch. The thesis when the Bills drafted him was that if he could stay healthy and remain on the field, he could serve as a lethal mismatch for Josh Allen. Well, he played 72% of snaps in the season opener (spoiler, he was at 66% in Week 2, too), which was much higher than his typical snap rate in past campaigns. As long as he can stay healthy, he may emerge as a legitimate league-winner with this kind of usage.” Well, that’s exactly what we saw from him again after a stellar Week 1 of 18.0 PPR points with five grabs for 130 yards. In Week 2, Kincaid caught seven of his eight targets for 95 yards and a touchdown on Thursday Night Football, scoring 22.5 points. He’s currently the overall TE2 and is the No. 16 scorer among all FLEX players. He’s playing more snaps than ever, he’s running routes, and he’s seeing a team-best 25.0% target share while catching passes from Josh Allen. The buy window has probably slammed shut, but Kincaid is finally living up to his draft hype.
Dynasty fantasy football fallers from Week 2
Marvin Harrison Jr., Arizona Cardinals (WR37)
As the No. 4 pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, Marvin Harrison Jr. was supposed to be the chosen one. A Hall-of-Fame father, a big 6-foot-3 frame and elite collegiate production made him seem like a sure thing as the next superstar wideout. Perhaps he should serve as a case study on why even bust-proof prospects occasionally fall short – after peaking as the dynasty WR3 as a rookie, he’s nosedived to the WR37. It’s getting more and more difficult to justify his underperformance after he showed flashes but never strung it all together in past seasons. Now, the floor has entirely dropped out from under him. Among the 59 wideouts to run at least 50 routes so far this season, Harrison Jr. ranks 59th in TPRR (0.07), 58th in target share (6.35%) and 55th in YPRR (0.53). His stat line? One catch for 33 yards, placing him 59th in receptions and 53rd in receiving yards among that 59-player sample. His aDOT sits fourth highest at 18.50, so it seems he’s firmly planted in the category of the sacrificial X receiver. Things can’t get much worse for him. He’s seen only four targets, but the role clearly isn’t working for him and he’s not seeing the ball. One could argue he doesn’t look very engaged on the field, but I’m not going to speculate in that regard. The situation is dire, but if you have him, you might have to just go down with the ship because his 2.1 FPPG can’t get much worse.
Jameson Williams, Detroit Lions (WR30)
Don’t get it twisted. Jameson Williams is a very talented receiver and should bounce back in the near future. The issue is that his 2026 campaign has begun with 6.9 FPPG behind outings of 8.5 and 5.3 PPR points. The interesting part about his short season so far is that while target share was a frequent knock on his profile, he saw nine looks in Week 1 but failed to capitalize as he played one of the worst games of his career. In Week 2, he caught two of his four targets for 33 yards. Granted, he’s still producing 13.0 YDS/REC, but that’s also way down from the 17+ he posted over each of the last two seasons that made him a usable fantasy asset even when he wasn’t seeing many opportunities. At some point, Williams is bound to bounce back. He’ll connect with Jared Goff on a couple of deep balls and reach the end zone for something like 18 PPR points and his dynasty value will begin to tick back up. For now, though, I love him as a great buy low off a couple of frustrating weeks. He’s already dropped five spots in the dynasty rankings since before the start of the season, so toss out an offer of an early second with a little sweetener and see what happens.
Jaxson Dart, New York Giants (QB11)
After Week 1, dynasty managers with Jaxson Dart were riding high. The second-year quarterback was coming off a game of 26.6 fantasy points after going 23-for-29 with 230 passing yards and three touchdowns, plus 54 rushing yards in a win over the division-rival Cowboys on Sunday Night Football. The John Harbaugh era began in strong fashion, but the good vibes came to an abrupt end like someone lifted the needle off a spinning vinyl. In Week 2, Dart was injured after a hit on the first drive of the game and was ruled out for the remainder of the night soon thereafter. It was initially deemed an MCL sprain that would sideline him for a few weeks, but an MRI the next day revealed more severe damage to his MCL, PCL and meniscus. The 23-year-old will have surgery that will knock him out for the remainder of the season, ending his second pro campaign before he played even five full quarters. The irony is palpable after he was hurt in the pocket rather than on one of his wild scrambles; in any case, the injury is a brutal beat that dropped him from the dynasty QB9 to the QB11. It’s not a major change, but the news is still just over a day old and his value will likely continue to slope downward as the season progresses. If you’re rebuilding, you’re looking at a great chance to trade for Dart if he’s on a contender’s roster.
Makai Lemon, Philadelphia Eagles (WR32)
First-round wideouts generally vault up the dynasty rankings, especially with a positive landing spot. Makai Lemon saw the draft capital and destination land in his favor as the Eagles took him at No. 20 this past April, but the USC product has dropped pretty hard since entering the NFL. In August, he was the dynasty WR21 but has declined to WR32 in the crowdsourced rankings. The reasoning for that? He’s averaging only 2.2 FPPG over his first two contests with a grand total of nine receiving yards on four catches and five targets. A fun fact that may pop up in trivia one day – Lemon ended his first NFL game with -5 yards on three grabs. Remember the reference earlier in the MHJ blurb to the 59 wideouts with 50+ routes run? Lemon is last in receiving yards and YPRR (0.14), third-to-last in TPRR (0.08) and second-to-last in aDOT (2.60). He’s basically been a line-of-scrimmage target thus far, but it’s still a little bit hilarious to see a negative EPA of -2.74 next to his name. This doesn’t doom him to irrelevance, but it’s been a rough start to his pro career. If someone is looking to sell low in a panic, you should explore that option. He’s got plenty of better football ahead of him once he settles in.
Luther Burden/Colston Loveland/Rome Odunze, Chicago Bears
The Bears scored 59 points in Week 1 but didn’t get a single touchdown from their pass-catching trio of Colston Loveland, Luther Burden or Rome Odunze. In Week 2, Chicago scored just three points in a bad-weather game that saw Caleb Williams go down in dramatic fashion with a Grade 1 hamstring strain. After an offseason of hype, the early results from these three couldn’t be worse. Burden has looked the best of the three with 7.9 FPPG, but he hasn’t scored double-digit points yet with eight grabs for 95 yards on 12 targets, plus one rush attempt for two yards. Still, he’s the one to worry about the least since his first-read target share remains pretty high. Odunze falls second in production with 7.3 FPPG after catching five passes for 95 yards on seven targets – with the caveat that he was recovering from an injury in the season opener. Loveland managers know what they have, but he’s also averaging 0.7 FPPG with only one catch for three yards on his five total targets. Who would’ve thought? I’m not endorsing any of them as a sell, to be clear. Burden remains the dynasty WR19, Odunze is the WR26 and Loveland is the TE4. I’d simply be remiss to not mention the general panic from the fantasy community surrounding these guys, and if Williams doesn’t play in Week 3, it could reach a fever pitch and actually open up a buy window on a couple of top assets. Just monitor the trend and send out some feeler offers if you’re interested.
