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 8.
Dynasty fantasy football risers from Week 8
Bhayshul Tuten, Jacksonville Jaguars (RB8)
After back-to-back Europe games, the Jags were on a bye in Week 7 and had some time to rest up. While their Week 8 matchup was not a difficult one against a Colts team that started its rebuild by trading Quenton Nelson and DeForest Buckner away, they still handled business admirably with a 42-7 drubbing of an AFC South rival. Bhayshul Tuten was one of the stars of the show, logging an impressive 29.9 PPR points to finish as the RB2 on the week. It marked his second top-three finish in the last two games after he ended as the RB3 back in Week 6, and it was also his fourth top-12 result on the year. Tuten ran for 104 yards and a touchdown on 16 carries, also catching both of his targets for 55 yards and another score. His recent production has been awesome to see, finally getting into the end zone – and not having those trips across the goal line called back. With a little better discipline from his teammates and fewer penalties, he’d probably have an extra couple of touchdowns to inflate his 16.9 FPPG. Still, he’s looking like a real star and is at an all-time high as the dynasty RB8 in the crowdsourced rankings.
Braelon Allen, New York Jets (RB26)
There’s no better running back in football over the last five weeks than Braelon Allen. Incumbent starter Breece Hall – extended over the offseason – went down with an injury in Week 3 and hasn’t played since. While he’s nearing a potential return in Week 9, he may not return to the same backfield. Allen’s 504 rushing yards since taking over the lead job rank second across the league, and he’s doing it efficiently at a clip of 5.42 YPC. Last week, he toted the rock 21 times for a career-best 147 rushing yards with a touchdown to boot, scoring 23.3 PPR points when factoring in his two catches for six yards. It’s truly tough to overstate just how impressive he’s been. Allen grades at 13th or better among 47 qualifying RBs this season in YPC, EPA/attempt, success rate, stuff rate and explosive rush rate, as well as yards before and after contact per rush. He’s playing like the prospect we saw run for 1,268 yards and 12 touchdowns in the Big Ten as a teenage freshman with Wisconsin back in 2021. Will he cede work back to Hall when the veteran is healthy? Yes, but this backfield split should prove intriguing. Allen is up to the dynasty RB26, a giant leap from a floor of RB54 earlier this season.
Jonah Coleman, Denver Broncos (RB24)
Last week, Jonah Coleman earned his first nod on this risers column after jumping to RB29 in the dynasty rankings. Now, he’s up to RB24 and appears to have taken a firm hold on the Broncos’ backfield. He led their running backs in snap share and rush attempts in Week 7, taking nine carries as J.K. Dobbins saw six and RJ Harvey took three. The latter wound up placed on IR, turning this into a two-man show for at least four games. Coleman responded by showing why he deserves the top spot, rushing 11 times for 41 yards and a touchdown, also catching four-of-five targets for 63 yards. All in all, he totaled 20.4 PPR points behind his first game of 100+ scrimmage yards… in just his third career contest in which he actually saw a touch. He appeared briefly in the season opener but didn’t record a single opportunity, but across the other three games, he’s averaging 14.7 FPPG. The rookie fourth-round pick is running at a clip of 4.47 YPC with a ridiculous 21.7% explosive rush rate and an above-average success rate, so he’s playing quite well in this small sample. With Dobbins showing clear signs of regression amidst his efficiency woes and seeing fewer carries than Coleman in each of the last two games, this might be the newcomer’s backfield – barring a trade for Jonathan Taylor, whom Denver is reportedly interested in.
Makai Lemon, Philadelphia Eagles (WR32)
A performance of 11.7 PPR points isn’t much to get excited about on the surface. For the second straight week, though, Makai Lemon showed signs of life in an Eagles offense that’s taking a nosedive. There was concern about the first-round pick’s outlook through the first six or so weeks of his pro career, recording just one game of 40+ receiving yards or more than three catches despite the pass-catching group largely being wide open. However, he recorded double-digit fantasy points for the second straight game in Week 8, catching six of his nine targets for 57 yards. Over these last two games, he’s seen a total of 17 targets with 13 receptions for 124 yards and a touchdown – averaging 0.22 TPRR with 62.0 receiving yards per game. Those marks aren’t half bad given that Tanner McKee has been under center for Philadelphia. The immediate future feels somewhat murky for Lemon since the team is pivoting to Joe Milton at quarterback and DeVonta Smith may return from injury soon, but these flashes from the rookie are still the most positive thing we’ve seen in his brief career. He’s moved up just three spots in the dynasty rankings, but keep the light on for the rookie.
Dynasty fantasy football fallers from Week 8
Ashton Jeanty, Las Vegas Raiders (RB7)
We’re not actually knocking Ashton Jeanty down that far in the dynasty hierarchy for what happened in Week 8, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t at least touch on the subject. He dropped three spots in the rankings to RB7 following a game against the Jets in which he saw just two rush attempts for nine yards and played only 36.7% of the offensive snaps. No, he wasn’t injured – but he was seemingly benched by the coaching staff. The former first-rounder gave the opposition bulletin board material by talking poorly about the Jets’ tackling ability prior to the contest, which is seemingly the reason he may have seen so few carries. Granted, head coach Klint Kubiak said the split was just “the way the game went,” though the coincidence of his lack of rushing volume does look a smidge funny when you think about it. He did still play well when he was out there, which Kubiak noted by praising the running back’s pass protection and receiving production. He caught three of his four targets for 64 yards, so it wasn’t a totally lost week for fantasy purposes. Still, seeing a guy whom the Raiders invested heavy draft capital in get relegated to backup duties while Mike Washington Jr. handled 25 carries was stunning… and that’s not even mentioning the paltry 3.12 YPC Jeanty is producing in the run game.
Breece Hall, New York Jets (RB13)
We discussed the continued breakout of Braelon Allen in the Jets’ backfield earlier in the risers section. Well, with his newfound dominance comes a downside for his star teammate, whose role suddenly feels more uncertain than ever. Breece Hall has never been ranked lower than RB17 on KeepTradeCut, and he’s hovered somewhere between RB10 and RB12 over the last few months. He’s still very close to that valuation in the crowdsourced rankings, but the community perception of him based on social media chatter has very rapidly shifted. He entered the season as the team’s clear top option in the backfield and signed a three-year, $45.75 million extension back in May. He averaged 14.2 FPPG over his first three games, rushing 51 times for an inefficient 163 yards and one touchdown but catching all 10 of his targets for 102 more. However, Hall was injured in Week 3 and hasn’t played since while working his way back from that quad issue. He’s now nearing a return, but it’s tough to tell what this backfield will look like when he’s able to retake the field. Allen has been awesome and it’s tough to take work away from him given his recent play, but the franchise invested in Hall just a few months ago and he’s a more proven talent – especially in the receiving game. The staff has largely made it sound like this will be a split backfield, but one has to wonder if the veteran’s workload will be affected, in turn dampening his fantasy value. The Jets have also shut down trade speculation, but the deadline is looming and they’re clearly not competing, so perhaps a deal could materialize if another team strikes out on the Jonathan Taylor sweepstakes.
Bryce Young, Carolina Panthers (QB12)
The Panthers’ QB1 earned a couple of nods in this column as a riser earlier in the season, but after a rough couple of weeks, he now finds himself on the wrong end of the keyboard. Bryce Young played the best football of his career through the first five games, ranking seventh in EPA/dropback with 22.5 FPPG, fourth among 35 qualifying quarterbacks. In his last two appearances, though, he’s 29th in EPA/dropback with only 9.9 FPPG. In Week 8, the Panthers played in a pass-happy Thursday Night Football matchup against the Packers, but Young went just 23-for-41 with 209 yards and one touchdown to one interception. That was hardly what we wanted to see after a 14-for-27 day with 163 yards and one tuddy to two picks in the prior game. This is just a blip on the radar after looking like an entirely new player to start the season, but the blip is concerning nonetheless given the version of the former No. 1 pick we’ve seen throughout the majority of his career. Hopefully he can recapture his early-season form moving forward, but the situation is officially worth monitoring with risk of regression to the mean.
Derrick Henry, Baltimore Ravens (RB20)
No empire lasts forever, nor can any king reign forever. It’s been a Hall-of-Fame run, but Derrick Henry’s time with the crown may be coming to an end. An aging asset at 32 – particularly old for the running back position – the veteran entered the year around RB20 in the dynasty rankings but saw his value peak up to RB14 once he showed signs of his vintage self. He still looked like a very good player in a dynamic Ravens offense now called by Declan Doyle, who has very quickly made a name for himself. Henry has 632 rushing yards and eight rushing touchdowns on the season thus far, also catching one additional touchdown as a receiver. With an average of 17.1 FPPG, he’s produced quite well most weeks despite his usual limited role on passing downs. However, he’s showing subtle signs of a regression with a career-low 4.00 YPC and the 37th-ranked EPA/attempt this season, the latter of which is down from No. 1 over his prior two years in Baltimore among 51 qualifying players at the position. That isn’t to say he’ll fall off a cliff, but he did record no more than 58 rushing yards over the last three weeks. The big reason he lands on this list as a faller is because of the Week 8 injury to Lamar Jackson that may sideline his quarterback for the remainder of the campaign, limiting the ceiling of this offense significantly. We know that Henry’s reign will end eventually, but the value of an aging running back is only going to decline in dynasty formats.
