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FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

12 Fantasy Football DRAFT VALUES | Early-Round Studs, Mid-Round Favorites & Late League Winners (Ep. 2060)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.710.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Not every league winner comes from the first round. Joe Pisapia, Jake Ciely, and Pat Fitzmaurice reveal 12 fantasy football draft values for 2026 — targeting the gap between current ADP and true ceiling across every stage of your draft.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:05.1

Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros.

0:07.1

This is the Fantasy Football Podcast.

0:09.2

It is me, Joey P.

0:10.1

Joe Pee, Zipia.

0:10.9

And today, it's all about value.

0:13.4

That's right.

0:14.0

You don't need to shop at the whole foods necessarily to win a fantasy championship.

0:18.9

No, no.

0:19.3

We can find some guys with some really good, great values for you. And of course, we're going to talk about those players in the early rounds, the mid, the late, all that stuff with two of my favorite people, Jake Sealy from the athletic, Pat Fitzmore's, my Patty Cakes. And of course, subscribe here to the YouTube channel, Fantasy Pros, because this is what we do here. We talk fantasy football 12 months out of the year, 365 days, and it feels like 365 days. Sometimes I can tell you that. I feel like every day is just a gift when I get to hang out with these two and talk ball. So today, gentlemen, value is always a difficult thing because you struggle with it, even at the grocery store, right? You go to the grocery store and you find something that looks like a good value. You take home that frozen pizza. Next thing you know, it's not exactly what you thought it was going to be. The cardboard's a little, you know, kind of a feeling of taste and the crust. It's not what you wanted to be. The cheese maybe, not quite as melty.

1:11.9

The sauce is not what you expected it to be, maybe a little bland.

1:16.3

So, Jake, what is it about values that really stick out to you when you're looking for the fantasy equivalent?

1:22.0

Because sometimes values present themselves, but sometimes they leave a bad taste in your mouth.

1:26.1

And this was the longest I could

1:27.6

possibly go for a bad metaphor. I know, you're really stretching that one there. I did. And I feel like

1:33.3

I saved it at the end. It was really bad, but saved it in the last minute there. Pulled it around a

1:37.8

little bit there. So I will say it's trying to find, it's easy, the players that have ceilings,

1:43.8

that there's a gap from where they are

1:46.0

being drafted to where that gap is where that ceiling can hit obviously the risk comes with a lot

1:50.5

of these players because we're not talking about first second third rounders a lot because their ceiling

1:55.1

to gaps you know are very small you know like okay maybe somebody can finish his RB2 but if he's being

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