11 Players With the Upside To Win Fantasy Championships

**Josh** (0:00)
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Upside, ceilings. In the end, that is what wins Fantasy Football Championships. I know that small gains feel great when you draft the wide receiver 33 and he finishes as the wide receiver 26 You do that three, four, five times in your draft and you think you're an absolute genius. But in the end, when you sit back and reflect on a singular Fantasy Football season, it's all about the players who overperformed by, I don't know, 10, 20, 30 spots at their position. Hayden, that's what we're going to do today. Outline 10 players, at least, that we think could be big, massive hits and be the one or ones that you need in FACY Football this season.

**Hayden** (2:08)
Couple things from this. I think there's a difference between a sleeper who's now in your starting lineup versus I think this tier that we're talking about today is, we know they're starting, but they can actually be the reason why you come in 1st or 2nd place in your Fantasy Leagues. I did notice, looking at our list, every single player is between their 2nd season and the 5th season, except for who's in his 6th season. So this is all about the primes and not necessarily the rookies because, you know, a pretty bad rookie class, but we're not talking about older guys. This is like the true taking the leap, the JSN types from last season.

**Josh** (2:40)
Producer, please beep out that name.
We don't want any foreshadowing here of who the names might be. We want people to pay attention to the rest of this episode. We've done the show actually for three or four seasons at this point. I went back and watched last year's episode, which was with Ron Stewart. We talked about Devon Aitchin, Chris Olave, Trevor Lawrence were always mentioned in this episode. And I mean, a lot of those players were really pushed people to the playoffs or even won the entire thing. So let's outline it again. And I always want to talk about this too, Hayden. Often when you hear the term upside, that's often linked to best ball because people believe that that is the format to just take swings and home run shots. I think it's the exact opposite because in your redraft leagues, you can afford to have misses. Like the turnover is so gigantic when looking at your roster from the start of the season to the end of the season that that allows for the big swings, that allows for the misses because they don't hurt you as much because you can get rid of them. Fair?

**Hayden** (3:39)
I think that's fair. And then also the cutoff is you typically were talking about 12 team leagues, like 6 teams make the playoff, so you can kind of like afford to take a little bit of an L, but then later on swing for the fences. So I think in both formats you want to swing for the fences.
And I think for this discussion, I think we're talking a lot about the guys and the primes of their career. Like we know these guys are good at football and for whatever reason, maybe they're a little bit underpriced versus where the ceiling could be. And that might be for environmental reasons. That just might be because we like these guys a lot on tape. But I feel pretty good about this list.