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FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

Fantasy Football League Winners You MUST Draft in 2026: Brock Bowers, AJ Brown, Omarion Hampton & More (Ep. 2061)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

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Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.710.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Joe Pisapia, Derek Brown, and Pat Fitzmaurice break down their favorite fantasy football league winners to target in 2026 drafts. The guys dive into early-round difference-makers, mid-round breakout candidates, and late-round upside picks who could dramatically outperform ADP. Will Brock Bowers give fantasy managers a vintage Travis Kelce-level edge at tight end? Can Colston Loveland become Chicago’s true No. 1 option? Is Omarion Hampton ready to smash in a revamped Chargers offense? Plus, the crew debates AJ Brown’s upside with the Patriots, Jaylen Waddle’s new opportunity in Denver, Christian Watson’s breakout potential, Jonathan Brooks’ path to taking over the Panthers backfield, and much more. Use Draft Wizard to test out these strategies, build your draft plan, and dominate your fantasy football league. Timestamps: (May be

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0:00.0

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0:02.6

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0:37.8

Welcome and everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Football Podcast. It is me, Joey P. Joe P. Zapia. And today, you know what it's about. It's about winning your league. Why else we playing fantasy football? We're not trying to win our leagues, for God's sakes. That's what we're trying to do here. and to help us win every single league this year with some names that you're going to have to draft this year, whether you like it or not. D-Bro, Derek Brown, the King of Bros. And Pat Fitzmorest, all three of the dads of fantasy pros here are back after a nice Father's Day weekend. Pat, I know you got to spend some time with the college kiddos, right? because they're not home anymore. They come home from college. They each out of house and home, right? And then they

0:42.1

go off and hang out with their friends, but you got to spend some barbecue time with them. And

0:45.6

Debrough, I hear that you're a celebrity in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Tell everybody how you got

0:52.4

recognized in all the strangest places. I go to the bathroom of my

0:59.0

favorite pizza place and I'm standing there like at the facilities and then I'm like,

1:05.3

I go wash my hands and I'll look up into the mirror and some guy walks into the bathroom and he

1:09.0

like does the double take. He's like staring at me for a second. I like oh dear lord here it comes and he's like so i know this is the most awkward thing possible and i know this is weird but are you derrick from fantasy pros and i was like i just started cackling and we're laughing our butts off and he's, he's like, I saw you sitting over there with your family.

1:27.9

I didn't want to bug you and stuff.

2:19.7

And it's not that I stalked you to the bathroom. That was my next question. Did he stalking to the bathroom? But we ended up in here and we were laughing and met his family, told him happy Father's Day. It was a good time. But yes, awkward beginnings to a really fun story, guys. Well, Pat, it was relieving to me to hear that he was recognized because of fantasy pros and not his earlier work in the internet film industry, don't you think? I was like, where are you going with this? Right, Pat, that's kind of a relief, is it? Very nice. Yeah, you want to be recognized for your, the PG stuff. Yeah, that's good. All right. Well, today, I't know what rating we're going to get. Just A plus. That's the rating of today's show. Make sure you subscribe if you have not already. Drop your comments. Ring the bell to the goes ding. So you never miss a piece of content here on Fantasy Pros. And let's start here with some guys early on in rounds, you know, two, three that we think are really going to take it to the next level.

2:20.4

And, and look, they say you don't, you know, necessarily win or lose your draft in the first

2:24.3

round or two, but there's certainly some chances you can take and I think some targets

2:29.7

that you can make that are there specifically, Pat, to take you over the hump between being just a

2:36.6

good team to a great team. And I want to start with Brock Bowers, because obviously tight end this

2:41.7

year, there's a lot of quality guys. And I know you've singled out Brock Bowers. Let's talk about

2:46.2

why you think he's a potential league winner and why people should be aggressive on him, despite

2:50.6

the fact that he even does already have a pretty early ADP.

2:54.9

Pretty early, but we used to debate whether Travis Kelsey was worthy of the first round.

3:00.0

And I don't think there was definitely a big contingent of people who did think he was worth a first round pick.

3:06.3

And I think Bowers has the chance

3:08.5

to give you the same sort of leg up at the position that Travis Kelsey did in his heyday. As a rookie in

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