5 Late Round Breakout Stars In Fantasy Football Drafts

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**Colm Kelly** (0:44)
Revealing our favorite lit round picks for 2026 That is what we're doing today on RotoViz OT. My name is Colm Kelly. You can follow me on socials at Overtime Ireland. Of course, I'm joined by Shawn Siegel, who you can check up all his work on rotobiz.com. If you're signing up over at RotoViz, you can use the code RVRADIO2026 at checkout to get yourself a 10% discount off a RotoViz NFL pass. Gets you access to all of the content and tools up on rotoviz.com. All the great content throughout the preseason, end season, all that good stuff. So RVRADIO2026.
Shawn, we did a show earlier this week. We talked a little bit about our favorite picks in the early rounds. We're going to continue that theme, talk about some of the lit round picks. We also did a show where we talked about the general overview of the fantasy football landscape for 2026, what that means for redraft. So a lot of good stuff on our RotoViz Overtime redraft week. Excited to see what we talked through today.
When we look, Shawn, at these litter rounds and dive our way down, I don't know if you want to start from the not so lit, let's say round 10, if you want to go all the way and dive down deep to round 20 What's your preference? And after what we've talked about this week so far, are you still enthusiastic about, you know, optimistic about playing these litter rounds and what it can help you achieve in 2026 versus maybe some of the previous years where, you know, we have a real high optimism about the guys at the back and how much they can help turn your team into a winner when it comes to the end of the season.

**Shawn Siegele** (2:20)
No, I mean, obviously the hit rate is going to be very low, but that doesn't mean it's nonexistent and those end up being the most valuable picks because of what the price was. And even though you know these are going to mostly be misses, you then even more want to structure everything such that you hit on the guys who could potentially make a difference for you at those prices, that you're taking a little bit of a long view of how this will work.
In some cases that you're ignoring camp news, but Colm, there are a lot of fun guys really late. I think we should do this as a back to front draft. Let's start in round 20

**Colm Kelly** (2:59)
Let's jump in. So you say round 20 Round 20, there is a couple of names. I don't think anything that's going to... And I say Shawn, start with round 20
Obviously, we're looking at tight end premium ADP here, Shawn. Just get it out of our system here.
Say what you want about Eli Stowers. Is that we're starting round 25?

**Shawn Siegele** (3:21)
Yeah, so you have a lot of the reporting suggest that he's been quiet slash terrible and doesn't know how to play tight end.
I think that that's pretty good for drafters in that now he is completely free. If you don't take advantage of him at completely free, I just I don't know what to say. Probably it won't work out. And you have to be willing to churn your roster as things go along. And if you draft someone who's likely hit is for, you know, week seven or eight, maybe they're going to be a playoff all-star.
You have to understand what your individual roster can do. And if you need to cut him and then pick him back up, then cut him and pick him back up.
One of the things that we do know though, is that for the extremely talented players, that the buzz can shift pretty quickly. We have all of these things where it's like, oh, this person has been quiet, this person hasn't been good, they're not playing well. And so they fall, especially if they're players with, again, a lot of different scenarios that range from huge impact player to doesn't play at all. For those guys, they move around a ton in ADP. But when you're thinking about the late rounds and what the hit rates are like and where Eli Stowers' ADP will be, if he scores a couple of touchdowns throughout the preseason, if he has a long run, if the team is like, oh, the light bulb has come on, and you're talking about back in round 13 So when you have an opportunity to draft him, draft him, if you need to cut him, cut him, pay attention to him during the regular season. The other names in the same area here have virtually no relevance for the 2026 season.