Pat Fitzmaurice#8 of 87 NFL pundits · Aug 28, 2026
Fitzmaurice names four tight ends they love to target in 2026 fantasy drafts — Brock Bowers, Colston Loveland, Tucker Kraft and Kyle Pitts — expecting Bowers to be the Raiders' top pass catcher and Pitts to be Atlanta's No. 2 target earner.
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What Pat Fitzmaurice said
our reading, beside the words we read it fromBowers is worth a look in the back half of the second round or early in the third round of 12-team fantasy drafts.
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- Fantasy Football: 4 Must-Have Tight Ends to Draft (2026)
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- 1Colston Loveland to outplay his draft cost (the consensus TE3 for 2026 fantasy drafts)“Here are four tight ends Pat Fitzmaurice loves to target in 2026 fantasy football drafts. ... Loveland is the consensus TE3 for 2026 fantasy drafts behind only Brock Bowers and Trey McBride.”
- 2Kyle Pitts to be 2nd on the depth chart“The Falcons don't have a lot of firepower at wide receiver beyond Drake London, so Pitts could very well be Atlanta's No. 2 target earner this season.”
- 3Brock Bowers to be 1st on the depth chart“The Raiders are talent-starved at wide receiver, so Bowers is poised to be their alpha pass catcher.”
- 4Brock Bowers to outplay his draft cost (the back half of the second round or early in the third round of 12-team fantasy drafts)“Here are four tight ends Pat Fitzmaurice loves to target in 2026 fantasy football drafts. Brock Bowers (LV) ... Bowers is worth a look in the back half of the second round or early in the third round of 12-team fantasy drafts.”
Box score
HitCloseMissWaiting| Verdict | Call | Kind | What happened | Score | Naive | Skill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colston Loveland to outplay his draft cost (the consensus TE3 for 2026 fantasy drafts)1 | Sleeper Calls | — | — | — | — | |
| Kyle Pitts to be 2nd on the depth chart2 | Depth Chart Calls | — | — | — | — | |
| Brock Bowers to be 1st on the depth chart3 | Depth Chart Calls | — | — | — | — | |
| Brock Bowers to outplay his draft cost (the back half of the second round or early in the third round of 12-team fantasy drafts)4 | Sleeper Calls | — | — | — | — | |
| 4 calls · 4 waiting | — | — | ||||
How each call scored
4 checkable claims — 2 depth chart calls and 2 sleeper calls — each graded on its own rather than as one all-or-nothing call.
It names 6 players and teams, each linked to their own record.
None of them have settled yet — they grade once their results are in.
Of the 2 unsettled calls enough other pundits have weighed in on, this one lands above the room on 1 and below it on 1.
Each call is scored 0 to 100 against what happened, on its own, by the published methodology. The naive guess is what knowing nothing would have scored on the same calls; the gap, weighted by how hard the call was, is the skill.
Where this call stands in the room
Brock Bowers · 2026 season4 calls from 4 pundits between 1 and 1. Pat Fitzmaurice said 1. the room's median is 1. not settled yet
Every dot is a call somebody published on the same question. Where the dots land says where this take sits, not whether it is right — nothing here is settled yet. Hover a dot for the name and number; click it to read that take.
1Sleeper CallsColston LovelandChicago Bears
Colston Loveland to outplay his draft cost (the consensus TE3 for 2026 fantasy drafts)
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
2Depth Chart CallsKyle PittsAtlanta Falcons
Kyle Pitts to be 2nd on the depth chart
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
3Depth Chart CallsBrock BowersLas Vegas Raiders
Brock Bowers to be 1st on the depth chart
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
4Sleeper CallsBrock BowersLas Vegas Raiders
Brock Bowers to outplay his draft cost (the back half of the second round or early in the third round of 12-team fantasy drafts)
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
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