I’ve been including dynasty rankings in the product every Thursday. That’s a permanent fixture in the process now – audit and adjust those in the middle of each week. But they don’t include kickers, which are kind of different animal.
With kickers, most fantasy teams tend to carry just one and maybe a backup, and there are always guys showing up off the street who are pretty productive, so it doesn’t make too much sense to care whether a player is 24, 29, 34 or 39. At this position, dynasty rankings tend to be pretty similar to 2017 season rankings. Nobody is selecting a young kicker because they feel he’ll be their guys for 12 years (rather than 8 years or whatever).
But I’ll take a stab at throwing a list together. On this one, I’m moving guys up some if it looks like their team is well situated for the next 3-4 years. And age and job security are factors. But 42-year-old kickers like Matt Bryant and Phil Dawson look like they’ll be fine for 2017 – nothing wrong with choosing them, putting the 2018 season on the back burner.
With typical lists of this sort, I put a black dot next to rookies. For this one, I’m instead putting the black dots next to the guys whose rankings definitely should change when the final cuts are made next week. Graham Gano, for example, could be a top-10 kicker this year if the Panthers keep him. If they instead go with rookie Harrison Butker, then Gano will be waiting by the phone, hoping to latch on with another team.
KICKERS: DYNASTY RANKINGS | |||
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Rk | Team | Player | Age |
1. | NE | Stephen Gostkowski | 33 |
2. | BAL | Justin Tucker | 27 |
3. | DAL | Dan Bailey | 29 |
4. | KC | Cairo Santos | 25 |
5. | PHI | Caleb Sturgis | 28 |
6. | DET | Matt Prater | 33 |
7. | PIT | Chris Boswell | 26 |
8. | NO | Wil Lutz | 23 |
9. | GB | Mason Crosby | 32 |
10. | SEA | Blair Walsh | 27 |
11. | ATL | Matt Bryant | 42 |
12. | TEN | Ryan Succop | 30 |
13. | WAS | Dustin Hopkins | 26 |
14. | DEN | Brandon McManus | 26 |
15. | OAK | Sebastian Janikowski | 39 |
16. | ARI | Phil Dawson | 42 |
17. | HOU | • Nick Novak | 36 |
18. | LAC | Josh Lambo | 26 |
19. | CAR | • Graham Gano | 30 |
20. | BUF | Stephen Hauschka | 32 |
21. | LAR | Greg Zuerlein | 29 |
22. | IND | Adam Vinatieri | 44 |
23. | CLE | • Zane Gonzalez | 22 |
24. | SF | Robbie Gould | 35 |
25. | MIN | • Kai Forbath | 29 |
26. | MIA | Andrew Franks | 24 |
27. | TB | Nick Folk | 32 |
28. | CIN | • Randy Bullock | 27 |
29. | JAC | Jason Myers | 26 |
30. | CAR | • Harrison Butker | 22 |
31. | CHI | • Connor Barth | 31 |
32. | CLE | • Cody Parkey | 25 |
33. | NYG | • Aldrick Rosas | 22 |
34. | CIN | • Jake Elliott | 22 |
35. | MIN | • Marshall Koehn | 25 |
36. | NYG | • Mike Nugent | 35 |
37. | NYJ | • Chandler Catanzaro | 26 |
38. | NYJ | • Ross Martin | 24 |
39. | HOU | • Ka'imi Fairbairn | 23 |
40. | KC | Sam Ficken | 24 |
—Ian Allan