Buy This Star Receiver (and More) in Dynasty Right Now

Looking for a last-ditch effort at “spring cleaning” your dynasty roster? As we move through the heart of rookie fantasy football draft season and into the first tastes of camp hype, I’ve got four more names to buy or sell in your ongoing pursuit of roster perfection!

And this week it’s a special Buy-Buy-Buy edition, with three players to acquire and one big one to sell.

Dynasty Moves to Make: Buys

CeeDee Lamb, WR, Dallas Cowboys

CeeDee Lamb is not cheap in dynasty by any means. He’s the WR4 in community consensus and is going third overall in 1QB startup ADP and 10th overall in superflex startup ADP (per DLF). At the same time, I think this might be the best buy window you’ll have on Lamb, perhaps in the entirety of the 2020s. A little less than a year ago, he was valued by many as the most valuable asset in dynasty, right alongside Ja’Marr Chase and Justin Jefferson. Then he had a down (ish) season in 2024, with “just” 101 catches for 1,194 yards and six touchdowns. He finished as the WR8 with 263.4 PPR points, nearly a full 140 points behind Chase’s 403.0. But before we overreact too strongly, take a look one year prior. In 2023, Chase scored 263 fantasy points … and Lamb scored 403. An eerily perfect flip-flop (it was actually 403.2 to 262.7, but look at the parallels!). Recency bias can be a heckuva drug, and I wonder we’ve swung the pendulum a little too far on the Cowboys receiver.

And of course, Lamb was missing his starting QB for half of last season. Before Dak Prescott‘s season-ending hamstring injury in Week 9, Lamb was just a point per game behind Chase and was keeping pace with Jefferson. He’s still just 26 years old. He signed a massive extension with Dallas last August. The team acquired George Pickens to play on the outside, who will not hog targets but will draw defensive attention. And the run game in Arlington is … sparse. All signs point to a big bounceback for Lamb in 2025, and I think that by this time next year, we may be talking about him the same way we’re talking about Chase now. Despite that, you could potentially sell Chase to acquire Lamb and a first right now, or sell Brian Thomas Jr. for him straight up. In either scenario, or any number of others available right now, I’m buying.

Assets I’d trade for Lamb: Any Round 1 rookie pick (including 1.01), Ja’Marr Chase with an additional first in return, Brian Thomas Jr., Garrett Wilson (see below) with a late Round 1 rookie pick