🛒 Needs for All 32 NFL Teams

In today’s newsletter, I chat a little franchise tagging and go over some NFL offseason needs, plus we’ll hear from Ryan McDowell at DLF with some pertinent dynasty info.

The franchise tag window began yesterday, February 18th at 4:00 PM ET and will remain open until 4:00 PM ET on March 4th. There isn’t usually a rush of activity in this area as teams will likely see how things go at the upcoming combine and use that opportunity to get deals done.

When a tag is given to a player, both sides have until mid-July to agree on a multi-year extension. If no agreement is reached by the deadline, the player then will have to play on a one-year tender. As we’ve seen in the past sides can negotiate other terms after the deadline within a one-year time frame.

There are three tender options:

1. Non-Exclusive Franchise Tag - This is the most common tag and the one most are likely referring to when talking about franchise tags. It’s a one-year tender that’s the average of the top five salaries at the player's position over the last five years, or 120% of his previous salary, whichever is higher.

2. Exclusive Franchise Tag - This one is pretty rare since the exclusivity raises the pay scale. Unlike the non-exclusive, the teams here retain the sole rights to negotiate with a player. It is also a one-year tender that’s the average of the top five salaries at the player's position over the last five years, or 120% of his previous salary, whichever is higher.

3. Transition Tag - This one-year tender takes the average of the top-10 salaries at the position as opposed to the top five with the franchise tag. The original team gets the right of first refusal to match any offer a player might receive from another team. Each NFL team gets only one tag in a year. An NFL player can be tagged up to three times by his team, with a spike in pay for each one.

This is what the market is projecting courtesy of Overthecap.com 

Some players of note who could be tagged in 2025: Tee Higgins, WR (Bengals), Stefon Diggs, WR (Texans), Sam Darnold, QB (Vikings)

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I’ll get much deeper into this as the NFL Draft and free agency approaches, but here’s a list of all 32 teams and their top offseason needs.

🪺 Arizona Cardinals - EDGE, O-line, Linebacker

🪺 Atlanta Falcons - EDGE

🪺 Baltimore Ravens - Offensive Line

🦬 Buffalo Bills - EDGE, WR, Secondary

🐈‍⬛ Carolina Panthers - EDGE, Linebacker

🐻 Chicago Bears - O-Line, D-Line

🐯 Cincinnati Bengals - D-Line, Safety

🐶 Cleveland Browns - QB, O-Line, WR

🤠 Dallas Cowboys - O-Line, D-Line, RB

🐴 Denver Broncos - WR, RB, TE, Safety

🦁 Detroit Lions - EDGE, Corner

🧀 Green Bay Packers - EDGE, Corner

🐂 Houston Texans - O-Line, Safety

🧲 Indianapolis Colts - Safety, TE, Corner

🐆 Jacksonville Jaguars - O-Line, Secondary

↠ Kansas City Chiefs - O-Line

🏴‍☠️ Las Vegas Raiders - QB, RB, O-Line

⚡️ Los Angeles Chargers - O-Line, WR, TE

🐏 Los Angeles Rams - Corner, O-Line

 🐬 Miami Dolphins - O-Line

😈 Minnesota Vikings - QB, O-Line, RB

🎖️ New England Patriots - O-Line, WR, EDGE

⚜️ New Orleans Saints - WR, D-Line

🧢 New York Giants - QB, O-Line, Corner

🛩️ New York Jets - QB, TE, O-Line

🦅 Philadelphia Eagles - EDGE, LB

⚫️🟡 Pittsburgh Steelers - QB, WR, Corner

⛏️ San Francisco 49ers - DT, O-Line

 🌊 Seattle Seahawks - O-Line, DT

🏴‍☠️ Tampa Bay Buccaneers - EDGE, Corner

🛡️ Tennessee Titans - QB, WR

🪖 Washington Commanders - WR, EDGE

Welcome to DLF Roundup. Each week, Ryan McDowell brings you a quick look at some of the dynasty happenings taking place over at Dynasty League Football.

Dynasty managers should always be looking ahead, especially when considering potential moves to make to improve their respective rosters. That’s exactly what new Dynasty League Football writer Andrew Scherber is doing in his latest article, Four Dynasty Moves to Make: But Wait…

Andrew shares four potential dynasty buys and sells and even offers a suggestion for exactly when dynasty managers should be making these moves. Here are his surprising thoughts on Raiders tight end Brock Bowers…

Sell Brock Bowers, TE LV – But Wait Until The Raiders Add A QB

Bowers, in my opinion, is one of the biggest “sell” candidates in dynasty right now.

He is a special talent and is coming off an incredible rookie season. It had nothing to do with him as a player. He is the goods. But Bowers’ dynasty value is so insanely high right now that you almost have to bet that it has reached its peak.

Currently, Bowers sits sixth in KTC’s superflex dynasty rankings (TE premium). That’s sixth overall, regardless of position. Only Josh Allen, Jayden Daniels, Lamar Jackson, Ja’Marr Chase, and Justin Jefferson rank ahead of Bowers.

And so, again, while I love Bowers’ real-life ability, if I can swap him for any of the cornerstone dynasty assets ranked in that range such as Joe Burrow, Malik Nabers or some sort of package equal to their value, I am happily taking that deal and running.

True supremacy at the tight end position in fantasy football takes more than talent, as we know. It takes target share dominance, which Bowers certainly displayed in 2024. He accounted for 153 of the Raiders’ 592 targets last season, good for a 25.8% target share.

Is this level of target dominance sustainable from Bowers in 2025 and beyond? Maybe. Maybe not. Lions TE Sam Laporta had a similar if not quite as dominant rookie season in 2023, earning a 21% target share. Then, as the Lions offense evolved, LaPorta dropped to a 15.9% target share in 2024, with his counting stats also down across the board as well. This all came after the community similarly crowned LaPorta as an elite dynasty asset after his rookie year. TE Kyle Pitts and TE Dalton Kincaid also put up “disappointing” sophomore seasons in recent memory.

Whether or not Bowers remains a truly elite dynasty asset depends greatly on what the Raiders do during free agency and the NFL Draft. No disrespect to Jakobi Meyers and Tre Tucker, but the Raiders will want to improve on their offensive firepower. Bowers will remain a huge part of Las Vegas’ offense regardless, but it remains to be seen if he can remain the sole centerpiece to the degree he was in 2024.

The elephant in the room for Las Vegas this off-season is obviously the quarterback position. The Raiders cannot trot out QB Aidan O’Connell again in 2025. If new Raiders GM John Spytek makes a splash at quarterback, you may be able to ride that wave of optimism to an even greater return for Bowers if you choose to trade him.Stick with DLF for the next few weeks and months and we’ll continue to churn out rookie content to help you crush your dynasty drafts.

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