Consistent success in dynasty requires persistent replenishment of value. In this series, Jesse Cohen spotlights unique opportunities and trade ideas for RV-influenced dynasty managers aiming to keep their Permanent Championship Windows open.

Shake, Rattle and Roll

One of the reasons Perpetual Reloading works as a strategy is that we bet on career arcs — in the chaotically interdependent world of football, it’s a sample-size thing.

We don’t look much at high school profiles, which seem so far away. But sometimes talent is talent. For example:

• Puka Nacua was a five-star recruit who fell in the NFL draft after he transferred from Washington and got banged up at BYU.
• Amon-Ra St. Brown and Jarvis Landry were five-star recruits who fell in the NFL draft after much of the NFL deemed them “too slow.”
• Bo Nix was a five-star recruit who looked like a total dud after his junior season at Auburn. If he didn’t land with Dan Lanning, Bucky Irving, and Troy Franklin at Oregon, he would have fallen in the NFL draft, too.

Unlike Nix, Spencer (Shake) Rattler rolled to the fifth round of the draft (Sam Howell territory) and will probably get benched after the Saints lose to the lowly Giants this week. He was also a five-star recruit who already looked like the future of the NFL after his first start at Oklahoma — and, even despite the turmoil of his college career, the most accurate QB in his rookie class.

I know, Rattler is #BadAtFootball. So was Daniel Jones, Baker Mayfield, Brock Purdy, Geno Smith, Mark Brunell, Matt Hasselbeck, Rich Gannon — the list goes on. If you follow Shawn’s approach to Superflex Dynasty (and in any event), these “Zero-QB” options can be worth their weight in gold.