Identifying Every Critical Tier Break in 2026 Fantasy Football Drafts (Ep. 2094)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

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🗓️ 20 July 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Fantasy football drafts are won by understanding where the tiers break Chris Welsh, Tara Roberts, and Pat Fitzmaurice break down the biggest cliffs at every position and reveal the players they are unwilling to draft beyond. The crew analyzes the most important fantasy football draft decisions for 2026, including the last running backs they trust as RB1s and RB2s, where wide receiver tiers fall apart, how long you can wait on quarterbacks, and which tight ends provide a true positional advantage.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.9	Which positional tiers are going to mess you up?
0:08.8	If you get out of the RB1 range, can you bring it back?
0:12.6	Can you make your team whole?
0:14.8	Do the wide receivers have a way, way bigger process where you can mess around with the
0:19.9	tier 2s of those whiteouts,
0:21.9	quarterbacks, tight ends, that's what we're talking about.
0:24.4	What are the tier breaks that you can't screw up?
0:27.5	Welcome into Fantasy Pros.
0:28.7	I am Chris Welsh, and I have got Terrell Roberts and Pat Fitzmorest.
0:33.5	Maybe the two most beloved group I could have here.
0:35.9	I've been thinking about this too, by the way.
0:37.8	It's hard to be beloved in the space by many. You two do an incredible job with it. And that is why this
0:45.1	is going to be phenomenal because a little controversy in tears. You're talking about the ECR.
0:50.9	We're going to be comparing this on Fantasy Pro's ECR, where we have tiers.
0:55.1	And you start to look at it and people are going to look and they're going to disagree. Nope, this guy should be here. This guy should be here. But we're going to get your guys' opinions on where you can't screw it up. Whether ECR says it or not, where is Pat's tier? Where is terrorist tier? So we're going to do that and you guys can face all the wrath of it.
1:12.3	But Pat, I know you'll do fantastic with it, my friend. Oh, thanks. I hope so. But as far as beloved, I don't know about that. Check the YouTube comments, Welsh. I've got the haters. I can. No, I'm telling you, in the world of being beloved, Tara, you do as well.
1:27.6	You guys do such a great job.
1:29.3	And this is a really interesting exercise that we're going to be jumping into where you have to start asking yourself.
1:34.7	I mean, I really like tiers.
1:36.3	Maybe this is a question I can ask.
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