The Best Bad-Team Sleepers for 2026 Fantasy Football

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**Ben Gretch** (0:41)
So more early drafting. That's what we're doing today on Stealing Bananas. I'm Ben Gretch. You can find the Stealing Signals newsletter at bengretch.substack.com. With me as always, A. Shawn Siegel. You can find all of his great work over at RotoViz. If you want more of me, you can also find another new podcast I launched called The Long View with Jacob Sanderson. But today, Shawn, we are doing another SuperFlex draft. I got some feedback that the SuperFlex stuff isn't everyone's favorite. We'll be doing all the other stuff. I'm getting the questions about the first and second rounds for 2027
I mean, it's like mid-July. We're turning toward late July, but we've typically done that in mid-August, but people are excited. We are doing another SuperFlex draft here today. We're tight on time this week. I just got back from a little trip this past weekend. I'm going away again next weekend. This was one that was about to fill. We jumped in. We're recording. We'll obviously talk to players. We're heading into the end of the third round. We got into this, so last minute, you weren't even home yet. You just gave me a call. You said, hey, I just jumped in a draft. We're going live. We're doing it live. I grabbed us Brock Bowers at 10 in this FFPC Titan Premium Superflex format. We were thrilled about that. It wrapped around on the turn. Gentie, Jayden Daniels, Jonathan Taylor, Amon Ross St. Brown, all some solid picks before we got to pick again at 203 You and I hopped in together at that time and you threw out the fun idea of, let's do a Brock Bowers, Trey McBride team. And so that's where we are as we approach our 310 We have Brock Bowers, we have Trey McBride. We have no quarterbacks in this Superflex format because who needs them? Colson Loveland's on the board. I mean, there's been worse ideas. I do see that he's one of the guys you have not put in the queue yet as you've put many others into the queue.
We are up. Jackson Dart just went as, well, I made the screen difficult to see, but it looks like the QB 12 You have Mahomes at the top of the queue. I mean, I think he's a very solid pick at this point, QB 13
AJ Brown is still there. A fun one, Jeremiah Love is still there. Running back, Breece Hall.
Colson Loveland, if you want to go three tight end. What are you thinking?

**Shawn Siegele** (3:14)
Well, it's a good spot for Mahomes. Obviously, you have that week 17 with the Chargers, which is a team we like to play, us and many, many other people.
That's a good price here. It's a good pick in this format. I do think that taking another Cardinal and going to Jeremiah Love and then Breece Hall is the other fun way to play it. We've got 10 seconds. Do you have a preference?

**Ben Gretch** (3:37)
Let's do Mahomes. I don't know that I want to just be like hammering the Cardinal stacks. I do think Jeremiah Love is very interesting.
I did a show today with Ron Stewart, and we went over my Running Back Aeryards piece that I wrote over at Substack the other day. He made a really good case for how Jeremiah Love could be a guy who could benefit from that, that I had not thought through. We are quickly back up Colson Love, AJ Brown, Bo Nix, Rishi Rice go off the board.
So Love made it back and so did Breece Hall. I was going to make the case for AJ Brown if we didn't do Patrick Mahomes, who I'm going to have to pull your teeth to get you to take some AJ Brown with me this year, because I think he's going to go nuclear. But he goes, Rishi Rice goes before we have a chance to stack that up. I think it's one of the two running backs. Who do you prefer? I mean, do you prefer the stack element with McBride? I'm okay with the stack element to be clear. I wasn't trying to say I was out on it. Do you prefer that element with McBride or do you prefer to go Breece in a vacuum?