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

Josh Allen is the clear No. 1 by trade value—30 years old and still the position's highest score, on the strength of a rushing floor and a production track record no one else at the position matches. Jalen Hurts sits third, behind Lamar Jackson — this is what a full dynasty profile looks like once you stop grading on one season. His rushing floor won't fade the way a pocket passer's arm eventually does.

Matthew Stafford is the opposite story. He projects as one of the better passers 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.

Joe Burrow, Brock Purdy, Jordan Love, and Jared Goff round out the middle of this list on the strength of production behind them rather than a single big 2026 season projection—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.

Ashton Jeanty sits third, right behind Bijan Robinson and Jahmyr Gibbs at the top of the position—a real vote of confidence given his rookie season came behind one of the league's worst offensive lines. Omarion Hampton doesn't crack this top 10, but he's not far off it either, now that his cleared depth chart and healthier line are in the model. James Cook holds down seventh on the strength of steady, proven production over four seasons—a much plainer path to a top-10 spot than the rookies above him 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 eighth at the position, because his draft capital and age scores are maxed out. At 21, his ceiling matters more to the model than his sample size—for now.

Top 10 WR

CeeDee Lamb lands third here, just behind Ja'Marr Chase and Amon-Ra St. Brown — still a top asset even after a down, injury-shortened 2025. 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.

Marvin Harrison Jr. and Nico Collins round out the bottom of this top 10, and Malik Nabers holds a spot at 10th even coming off a season cut short by injury—all three are 27 or younger, the single biggest theme on this whole board. Puka Nacua is the one name that shows up strong on both trade value and season-points lists, which is its own signal: real 2026 upside and real long-term value rarely line up this cleanly.

Top 10 TE

Tight end now rewards youth as much as any position on this board. Eight of these 10 are 26 or younger, and three rookie-contract names— Colston Loveland, Tyler Warren, and Harold Fannin Jr. — all made this list, not just the season-projections board. Only George Kittle, at 32, and T.J. Hockenson, at 29, are outside that younger group, and both are there on production and role, not draft capital.

Trey McBride is the headline. He leads the position outright now, ahead of Brock Bowers and Sam LaPorta, both first-round picks with a full season of top-end production already banked. McBride was a Day 2 pick, and a full, productive season has caught his score up to and past the higher-drafted names above him.

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