Jazz Nostalgia Aside, Kris Dunn's Fantasy Value Is Sinking Fast
A trip through forgotten Jazz role players is fun, but the one name still relevant to your roster — Kris Dunn — sits at just #201 after a quiet 20.7 FPTS/G season.
A #201 overall rank and cooling form make him roster filler in most leagues.
- Kris Dunn ranks #201 overall (#94 at position)
- Dunn: 7.3 pts, 3.3 reb, 3.6 ast across 82 games in 2025-26
- Dunn averaged 20.7 fantasy pts/game last season (2025-26)
- Dunn down 2.9 FPTS vs season avg over his last 5 games
- Gobert posted 33.1 FPTS/G in 76 games in 2025-26
A nostalgia lap through Utah Jazz cult heroes — Kyrylo Fesenko, Jeff Withey, Miye Oni, Juwan Morgan — is a delight for Salt Lake diehards, but only one name in that whole conversation still matters for your 2026-27 roster: Kris Dunn. The current Clippers guard, floated as a candidate for the Jazz 'ball knowledge' hall of fame, is the rare survivor from that era still logging real NBA minutes. And the numbers say his fantasy relevance is fading.
Dunn suited up for all 82 games in 2025-26, yet the box score was thin: 7.3 points, 3.3 rebounds and 3.6 assists per night, good for just 20.7 fantasy points per game. That lands him at #201 overall in our rankings (#94 at his position). Availability is his best trait right now — the production behind it is barely startable in standard formats.
Why the Jazz Roll Call Doesn't Move Your Roster
The rest of that Utah roll call is fantasy trivia at this point. Fesenko, the 7'1" Ukrainian backup center from the Jerry Sloan years, torn-meniscus'd his way out of the league. Withey — a two-time Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year and NCAA tournament shot-block record holder at Kansas — got squeezed out by pace-and-space and now thrives overseas. Oni is in the Puerto Rican league. Morgan logged all of 134 minutes with Utah, mostly garbage time. Fun to remember, irrelevant to your waiver wire.
The one thread connecting that era to today's fantasy game is Rudy Gobert, who sat above all those buried backup bigs on Utah's depth chart and is still the anchor Minnesota builds around. Gobert put up 10.9 points, 11.5 rebounds and 1.7 assists across 76 games in 2025-26, worth 33.1 fantasy points per game and a #67 overall rank (#12 among centers). His last five games ran 5.5 FPTS below his season average, but that's a blip on an otherwise reliable center-eligible workhorse.
The Fantasy Fallout
Here's the honest read: Dunn is a defensive specialist whose steals and low turnovers keep him marginally useful in deep or category leagues, but his -2.9 FPTS dip over his last five games points the wrong way. In 12-team standard formats, he's droppable filler. Gobert, by contrast, remains a solid mid-tier center you can start with confidence despite the recent cooldown. Cut Dunn for a hotter streamer, hold Gobert, and leave the rest of the Jazz nostalgia team where it belongs — in the memory banks.
