The NFL granted us a quick reprieve from bye weeks in week 13, before hitting us with another gauntlet in week 14. Six teams are once again on bye in this critical fantasy football week, often the final week of the fantasy football regular season. So while fantasy teams are jockeying for playoff spots and seeding, they’ll be without players like Lamar Jackson, Jayden Daniels, Courtland Sutton, Joe Mixon, Jonathan Taylor and Drake Maye.
It’s a great opportunity for an eliminated team to target teams on the bubble and go after their pieces for the future. Jonathon Brooks, Trey Benson or Ricky Pearsall aren’t going to help these teams earn a playoff spot. You can even target injured players, such as Brandon Aiyuk, Chris Olave or Rashee Rice. Teams are desperate right now to make the playoffs, so now is the time to strike!
Disclaimer! As you’re well aware by the fact you’ve come to a website entitled dynastyleaguefootball.com, we’re still taking a long view into account in addition to each player’s weekly (and year-to-date) output. Guidance will continue to take into account a player’s current stature in tools such as DLF’s ADP and rankings, in addition to how he’s performed.
One last note: as I’m referencing DLF ADP and rankings, advice herein is for a 12-team, non-superflex setting with full PPR scoring. Divergent league settings (both for starting positions and scoring) hopefully shouldn’t render this advice as not actionable, but it’s an important disclaimer nonetheless.
With that preamble in hand, here are the tactical transactions you should consider before week 14:
Sell (Contending Teams)
Week 13 Line: 26/46 298 Yds 1TD; 1/17 1TD Rushing
The dynasty narrative surrounding Bryce Young has completely flipped since he has returned from his benching. In four-point passing touchdown leagues, he’s been over 12 points in all but one week since returning. He hasn’t thrown an interception since week nine and he had his best fantasy performance of the season in week 13, scoring 23.62 points.
