Diagnosing the "Roster Clogger": Five Dead-Weight Assets Sinking Your Dynasty Team

We need to talk about the emotional hoarding happening on your rosters. Every league has a manager who keeps a player like a souvenir instead of a weapon. You hold onto guys because your heart remembers their prime, while the numbers are practically screaming at you to cut them loose to make room for other potential diamonds in the rough or breakout candidates!

This isn't an investment strategy. It's a refusal to face reality.

If you want to win a championship, you have to make grown-up decisions. Our projection engine looked closely at five massive name-brand players who are doing nothing but holding your bench hostage. It's time to run them through the data test and expose the frauds.

Alvin Kamara: The Legend is Dead

Your brain remembers the five-touchdown games and the elite target floor. Your roster is paying for a ghost.

The efficiency is completely cooked. Kamara’s season expected points added (EPA) has cratered to a horrific negative 40.45. He averaged barely over nine PPR points per game last year. Holding onto him because he used to save your week in 2020 is a fast track to the consolation bracket. He is a volume-dependent asset on an offense that has moved on, yet managers are still treating him like a foundational piece. Stop doing it.

Dameon Pierce: Occupying Empty Space

Some of you are still holding out hope because of what Pierce did during his rookie year. Let it go. His current role is a literal ghost town.

Last year, Pierce averaged 0.72 PPR points per game. That is not a typo. His yards per carry collapsed to a nightmarish 2.57. Over his last three active weeks of the season, he recorded exactly zero targets and four total carries. His season WOPR sits at a microscopic 0.007. He is taking up a valuable roster spot that could be used on an unheralded rookie with actual upside. Keeping him is pure stubbornness.

Jerry Jeudy: The Ultimate Vibe Merchant

Jeudy is heavily rostered based on nothing but draft pedigree and unearned hope. The reality is far uglier.

He averaged a dismal 7.22 PPR points per game last year on an atrocious 47.2% catch rate. His season receiving EPA was a nightmarish negative 29.57. In Week 14, he logged a massive fraud score because a thin, highly fragile role produced a loud, lucky box score. His weekly target base is completely unreliable. If you are starting Jeudy, you are gambling on vibes, not talent.

Tony Pollard: The Volume Trap

Managers look at their roster, see Pollard’s name, and convince themselves they have a starting running back. The data exposes a brutal truth.

Pollord generated a historically bad negative 33.52 season rushing EPA. He is an inefficient, volume-dependent back who will actively sink your matchups while clogging your bench. He requires an absurd amount of touches just to give you a mediocre fantasy week. He is an anchor on your roster flexibility.

Mark Andrews: Paying the Nostalgia Tax

This one is going to hurt some feelings, but we don't care. Andrews is no longer a locked-in, elite asset at the position.

He averaged a highly disappointing 7.71 PPR points per game in 2025. That decline was driven by a thoroughly uninspiring 0.083 expected points added per opportunity. He is no longer the focal point in Baltimore's passing hierarchy. Dynasty managers are still treating him like a top-tier weapon based on past production, but the elite floor is officially gone.