Are These 5 Second-Year Wide Receivers Primed to Explode? | Fantasy Football Breakouts & Sleepers to Draft! (Ep. 2049)
6/10/202623 min
Join Joe Pisapia, Derek Brown, and Jake Ciely as they break down five sophomore wide receivers who are ready to take a big step forward in 2026!
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Outro - 0:22:14
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Joe Pisapia· Host0:33
[upbeat music] Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Football podcast. It is me, Joey P, Joe Pezzapria. And today we're gonna take a quick look at some of the second year wide receivers. Now a lot of times you get the sophomore slump, but sometimes you get these guys in the second year who take their game to the next level. And there were some good rookie wide receivers last year that already established themselves at a new level. And speaking of established, uh, guys here, let's talk about Jake Ciely from The Athletic, let's talk about Derek Brown, D-Bro, the King of Bros here, as we hang out and have this discussion. And gentlemen, let's start with last year's big rookie, Tedarrell McMillan. Uh, already being drafted as wide receiver 14, the 30th player off the board. Obviously a Rookie of the Year season for Ted. It was an incredible first year with Bryce Young, and a lot of people were a little worried, including me, how that might go. Touchdowns didn't come right away, but eventually they started to fall in place. So Jake, I wanna talk about Tedarrell McMillan right now because he's being drafted outside the wide receiver 1 grouping. In