4 QBs to watch in dynasty leagues ahead of NFL free agency

The 2024 NFL league year will officially open on March 13, meaning the free-agent signing period begins in less than two weeks. Though there are no fantasy football games to be played right now, dynasty league managers should be carefully evaluating their rosters.

Free agency and the draft are the two offseason events that can drastically change the way your roster looks. If you have a player about to hit free agency, the "fit" or team that he ends up signing with is crucial to how he still fits on your roster.

Starting with quarterbacks, Fantasy CPR is going to begin a position-by-position look at the top players for dynasty managers to be keeping tabs on ahead of free agency. Perhaps you have one of these players on your team or, you could be thinking of making a trade offer for one of them.

Where that player lands will help determine whether you should make that offer before free agency or after.

Kirk Cousins

Even at 35 years old, Kirk Cousins is the biggest name on a fairly thin quarterback market this offseason. And like he did when he originally signed with the Minnesota Vikings, he's in line for another huge pay day.

The Vikings reportedly want Cousins back, but he is not going to do that for pennies on the dollar and there will be other teams, namely the Atlanta Falcons, who are going to be interested in what happens with him.

Cousins was having a terrific 2023 season statistically and was among the top quarterbacks in fantasy football before a torn Achilles in Week 8 shut him down for the rest of the season. He will be ready to take the field when the 2024 season opens but it remains to be seen which team he will be doing that for.

Cousins is still one of the better starting quarterbacks in the league and fantasy football players can always find him in the middle rounds of redraft leagues and get tremendous value. If you have him in dynasty, hold tight to see where he signs. A return to Minnesota would be ideal but if he signed with the Falcons for instance, where he would still get to play his home games indoors and throw the ball to Drake London and Kyle Pitts, that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.