2025 NFL Free Agency and Trades Tracker: Fantasy Football Impact

The 2025 NFL offseason is well underway, with free agency and trades already shaking things up for fantasy football. FTN Fantasy is here to analyze every move from a fantasy angle to get you ahead of the competition.

Below, we’re offering our thoughts on every fantasy-relevant offseason move. Smaller moves will get analyzed here, and we’ll link to our full writeups and mini-podcasts from Jeff Ratcliffe for the bigger moves. Bookmark this page, as it will be updated all offseason.

2024 NFL Transaction Tracker – Free Agent Moves and Trades

Jimmy Garoppolo Returns to Rams (March 10)

Veteran QB Jimmy Garoppolo agreed to return to the Rams on a one-year deal on the first day of free agency. Garoppolo played only one game in 2024 in relief of Matthew Stafford, starting Week 18 and throwing for 334 yards and 2 touchdowns against 1 interception. Garoppolo has zero value in fantasy of course, but if anything were to happen to Stafford, he would immediately become an interesting streamer given the presence of Puka Nacua and Davante Adams.

Elijah Mitchell Leaves San Francisco for Kansas City (March 10)

After four seasons in San Francisco, including a missed 2024 thanks to injury, Elijah Mitchell left the 49ers on the first day of free agency for Kansas City. Mitchell’s lone big season came as a sixth-round rookie in 2021, when he got 207 carries for 963 yards and 5 touchdowns. Since then, he’s had 560 rushing yards in 16 games. This signing is a depth move for the Chiefs as insurance for starter Isiah Pacheco.

Braxton Berrios Leaves Miami for Houston (March 10)

Free agent WR/returner Braxton Berrios signed with the Houston Texans on the first day of free agency. The 29-year-old Berrios is recovering from an October torn ACL and had no offensive touches in 2024, but he’s a former first-team All-Pro as a returner. The chances of this move having any fantasy impact are basically nil.

Slew of Re-Signings Sunday Before Free Agency Begins (March 9)

A handful of notable names re-signed with their 2024 teams before the legal tampering period begins Monday:

The Bengals agreed to a three-year deal to keep TE Mike Gesicki around. Gesicki had 65 receptions for 665 yards in 2024, doing especially well when Tee Higgins was out of the lineup. He’s not a guy who needs to be on a season-long fantasy roster, but he’s an interesting weekly streamer in the right situation.
Kansas City signed WR Marquise Brown for one more year. Brown was expected to help the Chiefs in a big way in 2024, but a preseason injury limited him to two regular-season games and the postseason. He totaled 141 yards and no scores on 14 receptions (28 targets) across his five games. Brown gets a chance to rebuild his value in 2025.
The Panthers gave TE Tommy Tremble a two-year deal. The 24-year-old has never topped 234 yards or 23 receptions in any of his four seasons, so he’s not a fantasy factor, but the team keeping him around might mean bad news for 2024 fourth-rounder Ja’Tavion Sanders.
The Saints restructured QB Derek Carr’s contract to pay most of his money as a signing bonus. That wasn’t a re-signing, but it does more or less guarantee Carr will be around New Orleans in 2025.
The Commanders gave TE Zach Ertz a one-year deal to stick around. Ertz will be 35 in November, so he’s certainly year-to-year at this point, but he had a resurgence in 2024, with 91 targets, 66 receptions and 654 yards (all his best since 2021) and 7 touchdowns (best since 2018). With Deebo Samuel Sr. in town and 2024 rookie Ben Sinnott having a year of growth at TE, the Commanders won’t have to lean on Ertz as much in 2025, but he can still be productive in limited use.
The Browns and EDGE Myles Garrett agreed to a four-year extension that made him the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history. Obviously, Garrett isn’t a fantasy piece outside of IDP leagues, but given the potential of a huge trade return if he had gotten moved, there were fantasy considerations in any Garrett trade that are now off the table.
The Vikings kept Aaron Jones Sr. around on a two-year deal. The 30-year-old had a career-high 1,138 rushing yards in Minnesota in 2024 to go along with 408 receiving yards (second best of his career). He’ll turn 31 before the season ends, so the days of Jones being even a potential bell cow are over, but he can be perfectly productive on 14-18 touches a game.
The Patriots re-signed TE Austin Hooper for one more year. Hooper had 476 yards in New England in 2024, his most since 2019. Hooper was the TE6 in fantasy that year, but at this point in his career, he’s just roster depth with very marginal TE upside.
Denver and QB Jarrett Stidham agreed to terms on a two-year deal to keep him around as the backup to 2024 rookie Bo Nix. Stidham is seen as one of the better backups in the league, so having a veteran behind Nix works in Denver.