Dynasty Trade Value Rankings 2026: Top 10 QB, RB, WR, TE

This is the companion to our 2026 season projections. That list ranks who scores the most points next year. This one ranks who's worth the most in a trade: Dynasty Value Score (DVS), which blends past production, age, draft capital, and next year's projection into one number. The two lists disagree in places, and those gaps are the most useful part of this post.

Top 10 QB

Hurts jumps from eighth in the projections list to first here—this is what a full dynasty profile looks like once you stop grading on one season. He's 27 and has produced at a top-QB level for three straight years. His rushing floor won't fade the way a pocket passer's arm eventually does.

Matthew Stafford is the opposite story. He projects as the second-best passer in football for 2026, yet he's not on this list. He's 38. A great 2026 doesn't add years to his career, and DVS discounts him hard for that.

Burrow, Purdy, Herbert, and Goff all show up here despite missing the projections top 10. None had a big enough 2026 projection to make that list, but each has enough production behind him to rate as a strong long-term hold—Purdy included, even with almost no draft-capital score to lean on.

Top 10 RB

This is the biggest swing on the board. Christian McCaffrey was the top-projected running back in football for 2026, and he's not on this list. Neither is Saquon Barkley. Running back value falls off faster than any other position, and both are past that point, even with a big year still ahead.

Jeanty is a good look at how much a real rookie season changes a player's number. He drops to seventh here, well behind Gibbs and Robinson at the top of the position, because his actual 2025 production—limited by the same offensive line trouble that held down his counting stats—now counts for more than his draft slot alone. Omarion Hampton, who ranked eighth on this board before, drops off entirely for the same reason: his real rookie output pulled his score down once it replaced a placeholder value. James Cook cracks the list new at ninth, on the strength of steady, proven production over four seasons—a much plainer path to a top-10 spot than either rookie took.

Jeremiyah Love shows how DVS treats a player with next to no NFL snaps yet. His production score is barely off the floor, and he's still fourth at the position, because his draft capital and age scores are maxed out. At 22, his ceiling matters more to the model than his sample size—for now.

Top 10 WR

CeeDee Lamb led the projections list and lands ninth here—still a top asset, just no longer the clear No. 1 with several receivers 23 to 26 years old ranked above him. A.J. Brown misses this list entirely. He projects as a top-10 receiver in his new offense, but at 29, that projection counts for less in trade value than it does in season points—the same gap that hit Stafford at quarterback.

Garrett Wilson, Brian Thomas Jr., and Malik Nabers all crack this top 10 without appearing in the projections list, and all three are 25 or younger—the single biggest theme on this whole board. Puka Nacua is the one name that shows up strong on both lists, which is its own signal: real 2026 upside and real long-term value rarely line up this cleanly.

Top 10 TE

Every other position on this board rewards youth. Tight end doesn't—not the same way. Six of these 10 are 26 or older, and two of them, Kittle and Henry, are in their thirties. Compare that to the projections list, where three rookie-contract tight ends (Warren, Harold Fannin Jr., Colston Loveland) all cracked the top seven on pure 2026 scoring. Only Warren survives here.

That gap says something real about the position. Tight end takes longer to learn than receiver or running back—reading pass protection, working the middle of the field against different coverages—so a rookie's fast start on the projections board doesn't automatically translate to long-term trade value yet. Kittle at 32 and Henry at 31 are still producing enough, right now, to outrank tight ends nine and ten years younger. At most other positions on this board, that wouldn't happen.

McBride is the one name worth a second look. He led the projections list and lands third here—still a clear top-three asset, just behind Bowers and LaPorta, both first-round picks with a full season of top-end production already banked. McBride was a Day 2 pick, and draft capital is one of four inputs that add up over a career.

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