The entire NFL world seems to be counting down to the start of the month of June, when AJ Brown can finally be traded to a new team. All signs are pointing to a done deal between the Patriots and the Eagles that will officially go through on June first or second. But, if there’s one thing we’ve learned this off-season, it’s that no trade is official until it is officially official and all of the medicals are cleared (remember when Maxx Crosby was traded to the Ravens?). The Jaguars, Rams, and Chiefs all have been mentioned as potential suitors for AJ Brown, but there’s been nothing definitive. No report has been as loud or as definitive as Adam Schefter’s initial report linking the Patriots to the star receiver. He’s the WR30 right now in the DLF expert rankings, 61st player overall in one-quarterback leagues. We’ll have to wait and see how that changes after a deal finally becomes official, hopefully early next week. 

Off-field woes continue for NFL teams and dynasty fantasy football managers. After last week’s Rashee Rice news, Josh Jacobs finds himself in major legal trouble this week. He was arrested on several domestic abuse charges, including felony strangulation and suffocation in Wisconsin’s Brown County. It’s way too early to say this is going to have an impact on his dynasty fantasy football value. This could linger for months, or even years, before he sees any discipline for this situation, if he receives any at all. For now, Chris Brooks and MarShawn Lloyd are worth a pickup and a stash. At 28 years old, Jacobs’s career value was on the downswing anyway, so even without any discipline, it’s tough to see much value for him beyond this season. He is under contract with Green Bay through the 2027 season, but he can be cut with minimal dead cap after 2026. 

On the field, it’s been quiet in the NFL news cycle. No news is probably good news, as players are participating in OTAs and there have been no major injuries. The biggest player remaining sidelined for the off-season activities continues to be Cardinals QB Jacoby Brissett. Josh Weinfuss of ESPN reports the Cardinals and Brissett are “significantly” far apart on a reworked deal for this season. The quarterback wants to be paid like a starter, but Arizona has only guaranteed him $1.5 million for the season (he can make up to $5.39 million). Brissett wasn’t the best quarterback in the league last year, but he did turn Trey McBride and Michael Wilson into fantasy football superstars. If the two sides can’t get something figured out, the values of those two, along with Marvin Harrison and Jeremiyah Love, have to take a significant hit for this season. 

At the amateur levels, the Brendan Sorsby situation continues to develop. Sorsby was deemed permanently ineligible as a result of an investigation into his gambling violations. On Tuesday, the NCAA denied the Texas Tech quarterback’s request for reinstatement of eligibility for the 2026 season, meaning this decision goes to the courts. An injunction hearing is scheduled for Monday, and Albert Breer reports “the supplemental draft option becomes very real” if that injunction is denied. Sorsby would be the most high-profile fantasy player to be selected in the supplemental draft since Josh Gordon in 2012 and could create a bit of a headache for dynasty fantasy football commissioners. If your rookie draft is in the rearview mirror, you’ll have to figure out who gets to take a shot on Sorsby in your league once he officially becomes a member of an NFL team. The draft will not take place until mid-to-late July, so you’ll have some time to brainstorm. 

Dynasty League Football continues to be the place you need to go for all of the latest news, headlines, and information to win your dynasty fantasy football leagues. When you go to the site, the first thing you need to check out is the new and improved Dynasty Trade Analyzer! It has a much sleeker, smoother design and implements league sync better than ever before. You’re also able to see who the biggest risers and fallers in trade value are, and who the most traded players are in recent history (more on that soon). The NFL off-season is when DLF gets the busiest, so you should absolutely be following along closely in the following weeks and be ready to use the trade analyzer to improve your own team at the drop of a hat!

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Using the new and improved Dynasty Trade Analyzer, we can see that Josh Downs is currently the most traded player in the past thirty days.

In that time, he’s been traded 123 times, with Brian Thomas Jr. (98 times), Malik Willis (96), Tyler Shough (91), and Bhayshul Tuten (82) joining him at the top of the list. Let’s analyze his value and see if now is truly the time to pounce on one of the most popular fantasy football sleepers of the off-season. 

Josh Downs? Why don’t they call him “Josh Ups” based on the value spike over the last month (I’m sorry I had to do it). Downs jumped from the 109th overall player (WR55) in the month of April all the way up to the 79th overall player (WR39) in the month of May. The Colts got rid of Michael Pittman earlier this off-season, and didn’t address the position at all until the seventh round when they took Deion Burks (at a great value, I might add). Downs was a slot-only player for the Colts in years past, coming off the field in two-receiver sets. Now, with only Alec Pierce ahead of him on the depth chart, Downs is likely going to see a major spike in usage this season, causing a major spike in his dynasty fantasy football value. The Dynasty League Football rankings split the difference between the April and May ADP values, ranking him at 98th overall as the WR48. 

It’s getting close to the point where Josh Downs is such an obvious fantasy football sleeper, that he isn’t a sleeper anymore. Despite that, I still think he’s a really good value in trades. Using the DLF Trade Finder tool, I see trades for him for future second-round picks, the 1.07 this year, Jaylen Warren, and a package of Dylan Sampson and Pat Bryant. I love the Downs side of all of those deals, so the buy window still appears to be open for the 24-year-old Colts receiver.

Rookie season. Dynasty managers spend months researching, speculating, and even mock-drafting the incoming prospects, all the way up until the NFL Draft. Once the Draft has come and gone, it’s time to get to our favorite part of the dynasty calendar, yet the dream scenarios we build in our heads can quickly turn into a nightmare for managers who are ill-prepared or forget the most important rules of rookie drafts.

Each year in those drafts, there are teams that set themselves up for success for years to come and others who doom their team to years of mediocrity and toilet bowls. By the end of the season, hindsight will replace projections, and most dynasty managers will “forget” that they ever liked the bust players or were out on the new shiny stud, but the truth is there are strategies and rules that help managers grab more studs and miss the busts.

Whether you do your own evaluation of prospects or utilize DLF and our experts’ prowess to create your rookie ranks, you should always break the players into tiers. This is easily one of the best ways to avoid overdrafting players and ending up with potential busts just because of a nice landing spot. The obvious example that everyone makes is CEH, but there are players that get pushed up every year solely because of a good scheme fit or landing spot, and it’s usually a bad idea. RJ Harvey is a more recent example of a player who wasn’t highly thought of until getting earlier-than-expected draft capital and ending up in an ambiguous backfield. In April 2025 DLF Rookie ADP, Harvey was RB9 and 21st overall. By May 2025, Harvey moved all the way up to RB5 and 7th overall!

That kind of overreaction is one of the easiest to avoid, by sticking to the tiers in your rankings. I have no problem moving a player from the bottom to the top of a tier based on landing spot or a lack of competition, but I rarely allow a landing spot or scheme fit to move a player up to a new tier. This may be easier to do if you have your own process for ranking prospects, but even if you use expert rankings or consensus ADP to create your ranks, look out for the players who have skyrocketed up boards from pre to post-NFL draft.

One of the easiest rules to follow also lowers your chances of your rookie pick ending up as a bust. In the early rounds of the draft, just draft the next best player available in your rankings, regardless of team need. There is a time and a place to focus on the strengths and weaknesses of your dynasty squad, but the beginning of a rookie draft isn’t one of those times.

The goal of rookie drafts should always be to add as many quality players to your team as possible, whether you need another player at that position or not. There are months after you’ve added these prospects when you can make trades to fill any holes or to balance the team out, but those trades can only happen if you take the players that other managers covet. As you get into the third round of the draft, and later, you can turn your focus on team needs, as the player values plateau.