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FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

Are These 5 Second-Year Wide Receivers Primed to Explode? | Fantasy Football Breakouts & Sleepers to Draft! (Ep. 2049)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

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Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.710.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Join Joe Pisapia, Derek Brown, and Jake Ciely as they break down five sophomore wide receivers who are ready to take a big step forward in 2026!

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:57.4

Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Football Podcast. This is me, Joey P. Joe Pee, Zapia. And today we're going to take a quick look at some of the second year wide receiver. Now, a lot of times you get the sophomore slump, but sometimes you get these guys in the second year who take their game to the next level. And there were some good rookie wide receivers last year that already established themselves at a new level. And speaking of established guys here, let's talking about Jake Sealy from the Athletic. Let's talk about Derek Brown, D. Bro, the King of Bros. Here as we hang out and have this discussion. And gentlemen, let's start with last year's big rookie, Tedroa McMillan, already being drafted as wide receiver 14, the 30th player off the board. Obviously, a rookie of the year season for Tet. It was an incredible first year with Bryce Young, and a lot of people were a little worried, including me, how that might go. Touchdowns didn't come right away, but eventually they started to fall in place. So Jake, I want to talk about Ted Rowan Mcmillan right now because he's being drafted outside the wide receiver one grouping.

0:59.5

In year two, could we see Tet rise to the occasion to become a true number one in fantasy?

1:06.8

It depends on your definition, a true number one.

1:09.1

Like, Kenny, he finishes a wide receiver one. I think that's obviously on the table. And it all comes back to Bryce Young and whether or not Bryce Young can put any kind of consistency over 17 games. Because we saw flashes last year, as you mentioned, it took some time for the touchdowns to come around. And we've seen that if we got the best of Bryce Young over the course of a 17 game season, I mean, we would talk about that Tederoa McBillan could possibly be pushing top five of 1,400 yards, 10 touchdowns on the table, but it really comes down to we haven't seen that from Bryce.

1:37.6

We've also seen some very poor play mixed in weeks at a time.

1:41.7

So if he can take the step forward, but anybody's talking about putting the pieces around him and more of Canales and all that type of stuff, but it really just still comes down to the quarterback. McMillan and a lot of other teams, we would be saying would be a lock for the top 10. We put them alongside the Cowboys Boys and Drake London and stuff like that. But my projections spat him out at 12. I ranked them at 14 right in line with consensus. And I think that's a fair spot because there's such a large group of names. And I think that's the biggest part we need to talk about. There's a large group of names with Teddira McMillan like Zayflowers and Higgins and Collins and even Waddle with Denver, Devante Smith now with A.J. Brown gone where all of these guys are going to be separated by maybe 10 to 15 points at the end of the season, and one

2:21.0

of them will finish his. Denver, Devante Smith now with A.J. Brown gone where all these guys are going to be separated

2:18.4

by maybe 10 to 15 points at the end of the season. And one of them will finish as a wide receiver

2:22.0

1 and one of them will finish as wide receiver 18. But the gap's not too important for us to get

2:27.2

all hung up over. Debrough, uh, Jake mentioned the best of Bryce Young, not exactly the most popular greatest hits album, I think, that we all agree on. So let's talk about Terrell and McMillan, too, because as good as the second half was for him, and if you take it's like the best of semi-sonic. It's just closing time, seven times in a row. Hey man, closing time is a banger. Don't you dare. Sorry.

2:51.9

I was too busy laughing.

2:52.1

Like,

2:53.0

I wanted to say it earlier, but that's the first thing that just popped in my mind because I remember seeing a best of semi-sonic album. I'm like, what is even on this disc? But anyway, I wish I should have a, the smash mouth of quarterbacks. No, man. They had a couple of tunes.

3:05.6

Yeah, they had more hits than that.

3:07.3

Yeah, come on.

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All right.

3:09.4

All right.

3:09.7

So, Rockstar, talk to me about. quarterbacks? No, man, they had a couple of two. Yeah, they had more hits than that. Yeah,

3:07.5

that's a, yeah, come on. All right. All right. So, Rockstar, talk to me about Ted McMillan,

3:12.4

because as good as it was towards the stretch run from week 11 on where he really started to pop,

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