Dynasty Faceoff – Keep Trade Cut Dynasty 2025: Week 1
Welcome to the first edition of Dynasty Faceoff – Keep Trade Cut Dynasty 2025 for Week 1. Each week during the NFL regular season, we will analyze a position group from a strictly dynasty fantasy football perspective.
Using various dynasty rankings throughout the season, we’ll differentiate the value between three assets within that position group. The players discussed will be ranked consecutively and of similar age (within three years), providing a clear outlook on who to keep, trade, or cut in your dynasty leagues.
We’ll be taking a look at how each player’s dynasty value currently compares with the other two assets. The player who would be deemed the most valuable for the near and long term will be the “Keep”, while our player to “Trade” holds a tremendous near-term value. However, it may be prudent to maximize their trade value at that time.
Finally, the “Cut” is the asset that holds the least amount of current value in the trio, and is a player who may be seeing a diminishing role on his team or shows signs of value regression soon.
Keep Trade Cut Dynasty 2025: Week 1
During our Week 1 Keep, Trade, Cut outlook, we will be looking at three wide receivers who are no strangers to finishing top ten at the position. We will be taking a look at Stefon Diggs, Davante Adams, and Cooper Kupp, DraftSharks current WR35, WR36, and WR37, respectively.
Keep: WR36 Davante Adams
The Las Vegas Raider’s offense has struggled to produce key wins in the last two seasons, but Davante Adams clawed his way to top-12 finishes in both PPR and half-PPR during each campaign. Adams is the Raiders’ offensive stalwart with Josh Jacobs moving on to the Packers this past offseason. This year, the wide receiver’s offensive usage should reflect that.
Gardner Minshew may not be the most significant upgrade over Derek Carr or Jimmy Garoppolo in the year 2024. However, Minshew was able to hyper-target Michael Pittman Jr. last year.
During an eight-game stretch that was between Weeks 6 and Week 14, Minshew targeted Pittman 92 times, allowing Pittman Jr. multiple top-15 finishes in fantasy. That’s also with Minshew not coming into the regular season as the projected Colts starter last year.
After an entire offseason program integrating with high-end talent like Adams, expect Minshew to start throwing at him early. For the overall team to succeed and make a playoff appearance in 2024, Adams will have to return to that top 5 status at the position. He may not quite reach that high, but he’ll offer WR1 returns in Las Vegas by season’s end.
Check out where Adams is ranked in our latest dynasty fantasy football rankings.
Trade: WR37 Cooper Kupp
Cooper Kupp is a difference-maker when he steps on an NFL field or is started in a fantasy football matchup. His playstyle should age gracefully and still provide winning football results for the team that contracts him. But will the injuries catch up once again? It is maybe the largest question mark in fantasy football this season and one that will be answered for dynasty managers sooner rather than later. With the emergence of Puka Nacua in 2023 and the resurgence of the Los Angeles Ram’s long-term outlook, Kupp’s production needs to show up again early in the NFL season.
For 2024, Kupp is returning from injury. However, his dynasty value is currently insulated by an incredible period in which he finished as the top fantasy player in 2022. Not to mention, when he played as a top wide receiver for most of the 2020s.
Perhaps Kupp being ranked so low, or each of these three players being ranked so low is not accurate to what these players can provide in 2024. On the other hand, it could be the dynasty football community looking to youth and wisening up to consider whose value is higher long term. Kupp is a great fantasy start for the best of contenders. However, the surrounding players in Los Angeles are nearly equally as talented as he is.
Kupp will remain in the Rams’ plans as long as he stays. However, with additions to the running back and wide receiver rooms, the Rams are looking at not only youth but also prioritizing fresh talent come playoff time. An older star like Kupp is the exact player you want for the NFL playoffs.
Be advised, that may mean he misses a couple of key fantasy matchups during the year. Not sure what to do with Kupp as far as Keep Trade Cut goes? I believe he’s a wait-and-see in the early season. Don’t wait too long if you can get a boom price after a few boom games from Kupp.
Cut: WR35 Stefon Diggs
When the Texans traded for Stefon Diggs this offseason, they greatly improved the high-end level of their offensive potential. Along with Diggs, the Texans added former Bengals rusher Joe Mixon. They made those moves after a season in which Tank Dell and Nico Collins both looked to be bonafide fantasy stars in the making.
The offense surrounding CJ Stroud in Houston greatly enhances the team’s ability to make a deep playoff run. However, all that talent around Diggs does not bode well for the former WR1’s fantasy outlook. Notably, Robert Woods and Noah Brown were able to put up formidable fantasy scorelines in this offense last season.
Altogether, the addition of Mixon, plus the consistency Stroud established with the incumbent wide receivers, should not be understated in this fantasy equation. Diggs also began showing more fantasy football consistency as 2023 wore on, scoring 6.8 or fewer fantasy points in half PPR, during the final 8 games of the season. Diggs will surely look to bounce back in 2024 and prove doubters wrong.
Ultimately, he should still provide a Flex-worthy season all year. However, this is a player who may begin offering more WR3 value as he embarks on the back end of his NFL career. A far cry from his output in previous seasons.
Keep Trade Cut Dynasty 2025: Week 1 – Final Thoughts
As dynasty managers, knowing how to Keep Trade Cut is vital. You need to understand when the iron is hot to strike a trade, whether that be selling or acquiring. Looking at these wide receivers and how low they are on this ranking, it may have been surprising even just last year. But as we’ve seen with an NFL landscape, things change quickly… The emergence of teammates at the same position, swapping your team altogether, or even a new quarterback who also happens to wear a mustache.
These three wide receivers are looking at different outlooks from just a year ago. Hopefully, at least one of these three can return some value to your team in one way or another. Whether that means they’re chasing WR1 seasons on your team, or chasing down the value chart in the dynasty circles this time next year. We’ll be back with another Keep, Trade, Cut outlook next week. Be sure to follow along all season for discussion on 2024 dynasty trade markets!
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