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Hello, everybody.

Welcome into the Fantasy Pro's Dynasty Football Podcast.

I'm Ryan warmly joined, as always, by Pat Fitzmores and by Scott Bogman.

We are talking players to avoid in Dynasty.

We'll have some more positive content coming up in the next couple of weeks.

I'll have some sleepers who like to target. Guys we want to be trading for, this is more on the pessimistic then. These are the guys to avoid in startup drafts or if you're thinking about trades, just the guys that we think are overvalued right now. And if you want to check out where we have these guys actually ranked, our consensus tiers for 2026 and for Dynasty

can be found at fantasypros.com slash rankings.

You can navigate between redraft and dynasty and rookie rankings all there as well.

We're talking veterans today, though, not the rookies.

But yeah, just the players that we're avoiding in whatever that means to you,

whether to start up or trades or any of that fun stuff. We've got players at all the different positions here. Not in any particular order. Sometimes we go in order of like, oh, this is like the last guy we mentioned is the guy we are most avoiding. This is more just like I kind of ordered them by position. It's not saying that the last guys we talk about are the guys that we most want to avoid.

I think that's enough of the pre-Able. We'll go ahead and dive right in because we've got a lot of names to get to. Fitz, let's start with you. Who is the quarterback that you're avoiding a dynasty? It's Baker Mayfield. Kind of a guy I would not take in a startup draft right now. It seems like this might be kind of a crossroads year for Baker Mayfield. After a pretty disappointing 2025, his completion percentage dropped from 71.4% in

2024, which granted is really good, to 63.2% in 2025. It went from a very good 7.9 yards per

attempt in 2024 to a mediocre 6.8 yards per attempt last year. And

interceptions are kind of always part of the deal with Baker Mayfield. He's thrown double-digit

INTs in three straight seasons. There are some valid excuses for the slippage. Like Mike, Mike Evans

missed about half the season. Chris Godwin missed

about half the season. Emeka Buka started fast and then hurt his hamstring and really fell off.

And Baker himself had some injury issues. Well, he had an AC joint injury to his non-throwing

shoulder. I don't know how much of an excuse we can use that as when it was his non-throwing shoulder, but don't know how much an excuse we can use that as when it was his

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