Keeper Rules

Keeper Overview

The 2014 prices of each keeper is listed on the Keeper Values page.

Keeper prices (including "unkeepable") apply to that player no matter what team they are on or how they were acquired.

Any player drafted in Round 6 through 16 of the preseason draft is eligible to be a keeper.
Any free agents who were undrafted in the preseason draft are eligible to be a keeper.

Any player drafted in Round 1 through 5 of the preseason draft is not eligible to be a keeper.
Any free agents who were drafted in rounds 1 through 5 of the preseason draft is not eligible to be a keeper. (This applies to players who were drafted but then released after the season).

Each team is limited to no more than 2 keepers at the beginning of the season.
A team cannot keep 2 players who play the same position (QB, RB, WR, TE, K, DST).
- For keeper purposes, Defense/Special Teams counts as a position and any Team Defense (e.g., Green Bay Packers defense) counts as a player.
Keepers are limited to a 3-season keeper term.
- They must reenter the preseason draft at least every fourth season.
- Being on a roster for any part of a season counts as 1 full season.
- The 3-season keeper term transfers to other teams through trades or free agency.
Any player drafted or signed as a free agent in the 2013 season must be eligible to be selected in the 2016 preseason draft at the latest, regardless of the roster he appears on.
Any player eligible to be drafted in 2014 must be eligible to be selected in the 2017 preseason draft at the latest, regardless of the roster he appears on.
The only thing that resets a player’s cost and keepable time limit is if the player is eligible to be drafted in the preseason draft.

The cost for keeping a player is you sacrifice the round that the player was drafted in.
- A player drafted in the 6th round of 2013 will cost a 6th round pick in 2014, no matter which team drafted him and which team is keeping him. The cost to keep this player in 2015 would also be a 6th round pick, and in 2016 he must reenter the draft.
An undrafted free agent will cost an 16th round pick for each of the following seasons he is kept.
- An undrafted free agent who is picked up during the 2013 season can be kept in 2014 and 2015 for the cost of an 16th round pick.
- A drafted player who is released and then picked up as a free agent will still cost the round in which he was drafted.
You must own the pick that you will sacrifice in order to keep a player.
- If the cost of keeping a player is a 6th round pick, then you must own a 6th round pick to sacrifice for that player.
- If you intend to keep two players for whom the cost of keeping them is a 6th round pick, then you must own two 6th round picks to sacrifice for those players.
- The trading of draft picks is permitted.
The only thing that resets a player’s cost and keepable time limit is if the player is eligible to be drafted in the preseason draft.

All players listed below were drafted in 2013. They can be kept in 2014 and 2015, but must reenter the draft prior to the 2016 season